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by cbr 13y ago
Note: that's not a real lawnmower, and in fact is designed to have a good bit of lift.
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by cbr 13y ago
For getting an idea of the impact: this is one person in a small town, not something at the level of a state. It's news because it's rare.
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by cbr 13y ago
a Kentucky police chief
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by cbr 13y ago
I quit my job ... forget about unemployment checks, even though I paid for Social Security like everyone else If you quit a job in the US you're not generally eligible for unemployment. https://www.nolo.com&#x2
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by cbr 13y ago
When you can only build a small number of apartments you make the most money building luxury ones. But: (1) If we allow more building we end up with as many luxury apartments as there's demand for and developers switch to building mor
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by cbr 13y ago
The most dystopic uses of data are the ones where you'll never really know it was sold on. Get turned down for a job in five years because the owner paid to run a search in a private database that has something about your illicit past
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by cbr 13y ago
This would require keeping logs of searches. You could anonymize the logs, but a lot of people like that DDG keeps as little as possible.
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by cbr 13y ago
The solution is to stop centralized data collection. Centralized data collection gives me good auto-complete in search. It means when I start sending an email to John Smith and Jane Doe it can ask me if I might have meant Jane Ro
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by cbr 13y ago
If that's the issue the options could vest monthly but just prohibit you from exercising them for a year. (not a lawyer) The standard reason for the cliff is that at first an employee slows everyone else down as they come up to speed,
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by cbr 13y ago
pushing 'http://www.theguardian.com' out for every link adds to a lot of bytes up for a busy site Fewer than you'd think after gzip compression: $ curl -s http://www.theguardian.com&#x2
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by cbr 13y ago
I'd rather rate my happiness on a 1-10 scale rather than compare with yesterday, and also maybe be asked 3-4 times a day. I use TagTime for this on Android: http://www.jefftk.com/p/happiness-loggi
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by cbr 13y ago
Do you give all your disposable income to poor kids? So, I mostly do this. And the cost of saving a child's life in the developing world is around $3k, 1/300th of what AOL's insurance paid for those two babies. Lo
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by cbr 13y ago
You can use gmail offline in the browser now. I do this most mornings on the subway. It's read/write and very similar to having a desktop app.
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by cbr 13y ago
I don't have any reason to believe the market has "priced in" the value of Google's future growth Why don't you think people deciding how much to pay for Google stock are considering Google's expe
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by cbr 13y ago
By all means sell Google and buy Exxon. Check back with us in 10 years about how that went. Note that the expected growth of Google relative to Exxon is already priced into their market caps.
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by cbr 13y ago
How does this square with tech companies generally not paying dividends?
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by cbr 13y ago
"in terms of revenue"
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by cbr 13y ago
Solar thermal is much more efficient but it's expensive and no one seems to be doing it in scale. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Energy_Generating_System... or https://en.wikiped
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by cbr 13y ago
Pretty much every drop of the Colorado River is owned by someone. The river is actually overcommitted: When the Colorado River Compact was drafted in the 1920s, it was based on barely 30 years of streamflow recor
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by cbr 13y ago
You're calculating as if these are independent.
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by cbr 13y ago
The interesting thing about Benford's law is how widely applicable it is. Most sets of numbers you come across in your life are likely to follow it, or at least have leading 1s be more common than leading 9s. As such we should defini
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by cbr 13y ago
CyanogenMod is the equivalent of installing a fresh copy.
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by cbr 13y ago
It was $820M to send the rovers to Mars, and $128M to extend that by 10+ years; the main cost was in getting them there intact. Yes this money displaces spending on other missions, and there are diminishing returns for applying the same to
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by cbr 13y ago
Google gets access to the restricted Twitter firehose This went away in mid 2011: http://searchengineland.com/as-deal-with-twitter-expires-goo...
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by cbr 13y ago
it is unlikely that QWERTY is optimal for this use case since it certainly was never designed for this QWERTY was designed to minimize jams on manual typewriters. You get a jam when you press two nearby keys in quick successi
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by cbr 13y ago
Are you saying you think Boston Dynamics will go for more defense contracts, despite Google's claims that they won't?
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by cbr 13y ago
"Google executives said the company would honor existing military contracts, but that it did not plan to move toward becoming a military contractor on its own." http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/14/tech
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by cbr 13y ago
For example, we can charge black people more (based on zip-code demographics) to discourage them from flying first class. A middleman like Kayak has no incentive to keep black people out of first-class. They do have an in
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by cbr 13y ago
When a stock isn't publicly traded yet thinking of grants in terms of "percentage of the company" is helpful to get around this bias.
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by cbr 13y ago
Translation: buy the stock. (They would like to bet against the claim that Facebook will lose most of their users. That's a bet on Facebook's long-term value, and maps to buying their stock.)

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