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by blei 7y ago
lol, for the few comments that did this, that's most likely just standard internet posting. The "location [X] is in the title, thus I'll make a comment about location [X]" is particularly common. With little relation t
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by blei 9y ago
Holy shit is that reblog of a blog post facetious. Have you looked at the original research cited? Curiously enough, that blog post doesn't bother to post the charts of the immensely high market income gap and consumption gap between
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by blei 11y ago
This was a good comment, and I'm sad that no one was able to chime in. =/
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by blei 11y ago
It's still a serious problem, but it seems like the $1 trillion outflow number is the authors' projection for the next year, based on their estimate of accelerating Q2 outflows. Regarding the past year, the article simply says tha
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by blei 13y ago
While the above parent tree of comments is mostly correct, I can't help but feel like the commenters are just regurgitating sound-bite memes. I wish there were less of an echo chamber around here.
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by blei 13y ago
Tangential comment: News is bad because it focuses on the sensational and misses the actionable. That's actually what frustrates me most about this article. For people who do plan to continue following news (likely including most
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by blei 13y ago
I remember from intro bio that there is a category of plants (ones using the CAM metabolism pathway) that close their stomata (openings in the leaves) during the day to save water. So all the oxygen release and CO2 intake occurs at night, a
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by blei 13y ago
Anyone have statistics for admittance/denials for different categories of travelers? I keep seeing these anecdotes get lots of attention on Hacker News, and all the comments just respond with more horror story anecdotes. But I worry t
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by blei 13y ago
...that's irrelevant to what he was saying.
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by blei 13y ago
Just curious: which aspects of this elementary math education would you say could be taught by automated high-quality means, such as the combination of interactive games and questions that many people are working on right now? I assume tha
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Microsoft’s voice translator captures user's tone and cadence; audio included(technologyreview.com)
2 points by blei 15y ago|0 comments
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by blei 15y ago
http://books.google.com/books?id=IU7U7hDpr5cC&lpg=PR7&#3... I highly recommend this excerpt as food for thought, bottom of page 4 - page 5: "Political candidates' campaign discourse provides more information about issues than print or
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"2bon2btitq" is not a strong password(lightbluetouchpaper.org)
1 points by blei 15y ago|0 comments