cat199

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by cat199 7y ago
not sure about the inventory taxes here, but property tax in general basically serves as the 'income tax' of texas from a state revenue perspective. which is, 'interesting' for a variety of reasons.
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by cat199 7y ago
> we use an algorithm to combine Reuters real-time match photography and reporting with a minute-by-minute data feed of what has happened in the game .. so that they can create 'presenter led' summaries at 'greater scale&#
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by cat199 7y ago
Every time I think about Amish & technology I'm reminded of the Capability Maturity Model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability_Maturity_Model#Leve... 1) Initial (chaotic, ad hoc, individual heroics) - the
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by cat199 7y ago
Not to forget the geocitiesizer: https://www.wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/ "Make Any Webpage Look Like It Was Made By A 13 Year-Old In 1996"
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by cat199 7y ago
many interesting usenet groups were long dead before that due to spam... the things you mention are more like pulling life support than the cause of death
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by cat199 7y ago
> That gave me the gut feeling that most people doing the research were lacking the necessary mathematical background. AI is stochastical gradient descent optimization, after all. ML is only one part of 'AI'
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by cat199 7y ago
OT side note I haven't been able to vent elsewhere: who decided to remove failed commands from ubuntu shell history.. grr
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by cat199 7y ago
> Each mission at JPL is like its own semi-independent startup. We as people used to call these 'projects'.. I fail to see how a funded mission within a gov't organization which will never sell anything is anything at all
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by cat199 7y ago
Can't really blame them though - alot of these 'high tech features' (bluetooth, led lights in the floor, yadda) cost the manufacturer like $5 and can either be sold as $2000 packages or used to 'keep up with the jones&#x
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by cat199 7y ago
Is this true? My understanding is that they drop it off for you to inspect before final agreement, and if desired you can arrange for this to happen at a service location of your choosing...
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by cat199 7y ago
This is better than the old days of getting it 'free' but being locked into a contract that requires you to pay the full cost of the phone if you leave..
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by cat199 7y ago
> Anyone that signs up, of their own free will, for a seven year loan on a depreciating asset has rocks in their head. For fucks sake. Whether this is good or not is completely dependent on the loan interest rate, a person's cash fl
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by cat199 7y ago
> Bloomberg is quickly becoming BuzzFeed for financial news. "Bloomberg News Pays Reporters More If Their Stories Move Markets" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18162440
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by cat199 7y ago
> It amazes me mostly because this is not the sort of tasks our brains were specialized in doing, by estimating our development path in nature as mammals. concievably this might be similar to spatial navigation, which would be something
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by cat199 7y ago
> How does the support and ecosystem compare to FreeBSD Haven't used NetBSD much directly, but used pkgsrc (NetBSD ports) on dragonfly for several years before dragonfly switched back to running their own ports system. The netbsd po
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by cat199 7y ago
> The latency kills all the fun. I've found that while it changes the constraints on what is fun, some fun is still possible, and the ability to preserve state across devices/locations sometimes offsets the 'loss of fun&#x
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by cat199 7y ago
> The title seems like clickbait Not to diverge, but I'd be extremely wary of editorial bias/spin from this particular publication until November or so.. which is not to say that the topic itself is suspect - as you point out,
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by cat199 7y ago
not in medicine / physics, but wouldn't they still reduce airflow and so, while not entirely blocking things, still reduce dispersal / inhalation range? agree people should not deceive themselves, however.
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by cat199 7y ago
> LOTH emerged gradually through the writings of Augustine, Boethius, Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, and many others. William of Ockham Based on the people mentioned, this theory sounds hugely and heavily influenced by western-christi
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by cat199 7y ago
> I'd be interested to know if anyone else had gone down this path? this is at least one use case for 'docker-machine'
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by cat199 7y ago
realizing this is a bit tongue in cheek, but technically one can make a pretty solid argument that a true buddhist shouldn't own anything either..
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by cat199 7y ago
> The trip from DC to New York on Amtrak is slower today than it was in 1960. serious question - does a profitable private passenger railroad company that actually owns/maintains tracks, stations, etc exist without subsidies anywher
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by cat199 7y ago
so, in effect, subsidize pharma via selling placebo effect?
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by cat199 7y ago
old navy is owned by gap - not sure if this counts..
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by cat199 7y ago
the comment says 'underpay ... relative to say Investment Bankers, VCs or mgmt consultants.' the point as I see it is that if scientists are of strategic importance, they should be compensated accordingly to prevent the risk of br
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by cat199 7y ago
> In 2012, he agreed to accept what he likely considered prize money and renting his name as an endorsement. If you are a tenured/tenure-track professor at a tier-1 research university, your name is literally your career - you don&#
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by cat199 7y ago
I would be willing to bet money that there are literally 0 tier-1 tenured research professors that didn't make significant contributions 'on their own' before becoming PI's in the US. (although 'on their own' i
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by cat199 7y ago
feeding the trolls, but: > pseudo-anarchic libertarian a feudal warlord system is neither 'anarchic' nor 'libertarian'
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by cat199 7y ago
can anyone with any insight into indian governance comment on why this wouldn't somehow be a massive legal liability? I realize states typically have full autonomy w/r/t 'fighting terror', but the economic implicati
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by cat199 7y ago
my wm setup has: - keyboard shortcut for (horiz|vert|global)-maximizing - keyboard shortcut for hide app, miniwindow window - window shading (huge feature) - middle-click select and alt-move of multiple windows at once (so I can 'cli

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