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by carleverett 10y ago
The car seems to have a bad habit of turning its steering wheel at stop signs before making its turn. This isn't really a problem at stop signs, but would definitely be dangerous if turning left on a green while waiting for oncoming tr
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by carleverett 10y ago
http://alaskabunch.com A polling tool for quickly getting opinions on logo designs, product ideas, etc. I thought other people might like it too, but 5 months after publishing it I'm still making about 95% of the polls. Th
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by carleverett 10y ago
Yep. This same phishing attack reached our office a few months back - it was a good motivating force for the whole office to enable 2FA. Probably an overall net positive for the company :)
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by carleverett 10y ago
This is the best article I've ever read of the subject of how you can improve intelligence: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/you-can-incr... Kind of like how people have to be reminded that the bes
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by carleverett 10y ago
By definition a barycenter is a center of mass, so since a barycenter itself has no mass, it would not have it's own barycenter. It could have a "mean location" though!
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by carleverett 10y ago
> The choice is a two-planet species versus a more prepared one-planet species. That's not the choice. Those two options are not mutually exclusive.
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by carleverett 10y ago
A few of the more significant American innovations in the last 15-20 years: -CRISPR, gene editing -iTunes, iPod, iPhone, iPad, etc. -re-usable space rockets (Spacex and Blue Origin) -IBM's Watson and Deep Blue, Google's
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by carleverett 10y ago
Very interesting theory - I think I agree. I would add though that a good portion of the causality is going the other way, where people who find work fun and stimulating become more successful, and those who are bored by it stay poor. Thes
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by carleverett 10y ago
Also seems very smart of them to have partners like Mercedes. They're likely offsetting a huge portion of the cost for the program, and it's all from taking advantage of the climate where everyone is dying to get a head start in
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by carleverett 10y ago
Hi HN, A friend and I made this tool as a way to help logo designers pick between their design iterations, but it happens to be a pretty cheap polling tool that collects good data for lots of purposes. Try it out and let me know what you th
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Show HN: Alaska Bunch – create a poll, pick an audience, collect response data(alaskabunch.com)
4 points by carleverett 10y ago|1 comments
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Using data to measure the current international state of banana-peeling(alaskabunch.com)
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by carleverett 10y ago
Humans were busy fighting wars, improving its advertising technology, and just generally slacking around when the internet was being born as well. It only takes a very tiny portion of this world's 7 billion people to be smart and motiv
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by carleverett 10y ago
Will it though? Uber's Pittsburgh fleet alone will be collecting enough data that even .000001% likelihood errors will be coming up in a matter of weeks. And as people always like to point out in this debate, the minimum bar for safet
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by carleverett 10y ago
I was wondering the same thing, but Google street view (taken in 2014) doesn't show any evidence of such a big dip. How is that possible?? The only thing I can think of is that it's more of a "sag," where the middle ha
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by carleverett 10y ago
Some quick napkin math: 3 million miles a day gets you 6 billion miles in 5 and a half years (not counting the ~100mm miles they already have). Since the daily mileage rate will only be growing exponentially, it's not unreasonable to
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by carleverett 10y ago
I lived in Utah for three years and also loved the national parks and outdoor activities, but the culture (i.e. heavy Mormon influence) was pretty unbearable.
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by carleverett 10y ago
Yeah this argument holds a lot less water in a post-Theranos world. Just because something is proprietary does not mean it's effective. And just like with Theranos, the stakes are too high for people to just assume these people know w
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by carleverett 10y ago
Given the context, the $59m revenue isn't that bad. They clearly just started trying to monetize in 2015, and averaged double revenue growth each quarter, finishing with over $120m run rate. The $250-$350m forecast for 2016 is complet
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by carleverett 10y ago
This is a great question (and I don't have an answer). I was hoping to see more people talking about this here. There is a ton of grey area about public not equaling consent, where it seems like usually the argument is about something
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by carleverett 10y ago
Smaller middle class = higher income inequality. Generally this means a larger population of unhappy, uneducated, and unhealthy people.
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by carleverett 11y ago
But in the actual game, you are always given the chance to switch. Here are the possible outcomes of the game, with the third column being what the contestant should do to win: You Pick Car Switch? ------- ----- ------ 1
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by carleverett 11y ago
> In fact, most people wouldn't provide value anymore. History has shown this not to be true. The labor force has evolved several times in the relatively short history of the US. Markets are able to adjust these changes pretty eff
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by carleverett 11y ago
I don't know if it would be that bizarre. Once AlphaGo can beat the best humans on Earth, what motivation is there to keep improving it? Wasn't that the goal of the project?
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by carleverett 11y ago
I was surprised to see that Google Capital is an investor in SurveyMonkey - Google Consumer Surveys is a direct competitor: March 2012 - Google launches GCS January 2013 - Google invests in SurveyMonkey Is it common for Google to invest in
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by carleverett 11y ago
I think you're right. Also, I think they understated the impact that the stress of the high intensity interval training simulation would have. Imagine being stuck in a room where the floor below you was moving, at random intervals of
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by carleverett 11y ago
Think about how many people and resources are already devoted to those Earthly problems though. I'm not saying that they're not still huge problems, but Elon seems to be one of the only people that's seriously and realistica
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by carleverett 11y ago
At the risk of being too ambitious, I would absolutely love to see YCR fund research on terraforming Mars. Based on the recent climate change data here Earth[1], this is important for 2 reasons: 1) We might be in a position of needing a ne
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by carleverett 11y ago
Admittedly my doubts are solely based on the fact that I see the 5-HTP next to the fish oil pills and other non-FDA approved supplements at the pharmacy. It fits into the profiled of what I consider "alternative medicine," and ge
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by carleverett 11y ago
Relevant part of this comment: "I am no brain scientist." You probably could have had the same effect from a sugar pill.

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