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by cbr 9y ago
"similar or better nutrient profiles than Soylent in most grocery stores" Really? Slimfast and Ensure have much higher amounts of sugar; what are you thinking of?
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by cbr 9y ago
Ensure, like Slimfast, has much more sugar than Soylent. Per 2000 calories, Ensure has 135g sugar to Soylent's 45g. https://ensure.com/nutrition-products/ensure-original#vanill... http://files.soylent.c
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by cbr 9y ago
I was responding to "There should be no more shame in choosing to default as there would be for choosing to exercise a stock option that causes your counterparty lose all his money." The idea is, if "default" were just
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by cbr 9y ago
I'm pretty sure taking out a loan that you intend to default on is fraud, but making a contract with someone that you expect to be very profitable to you is not.
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by cbr 9y ago
I've been pretty happy with an Anker 60W for charging my 15" MBP; it doesn't charge as fast as the stock charger, but it's good enough and it's $40 shipped: amazon.com/Anker-Premium-Charger-PowerPort-Delivery&#
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by cbr 9y ago
If a student claims to know what the class would teach, you don't have to take their word for it: you can talk to them, or you can give them a test. (I skipped the first two intro CS classes in college after talking to the professors a
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by cbr 9y ago
If they're smart they have a model of how they expect a post to behave given who they've shown it to, and show posts more/less widely based on whether it's over/underperforming their prediction.
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by cbr 9y ago
It sounds like FB is taking the posts that are getting low engagement and cutting them off quicker. This makes a lot of sense!
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by cbr 9y ago
Link: http://stackoverflow.com/a/3692882
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by cbr 9y ago
Aren't generation and consumption very close to equal?
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by cbr 10y ago
That's what "own" means with houses. You're a "homeowner" after closing, and you are the legal owner of the property, even though you still owe thousands to your bank.
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by cbr 10y ago
in 2014 Tokyo built 140,000 homes This isn't a net gain of 140k homes, but instead 140k "housing starts". In the US this would translate into about 140k new homes, because we normally reuse houses, but in Japan the
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by cbr 10y ago
I remember when this was happening: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaster_(computer_worm)
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by cbr 10y ago
https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/12/17/should-ai-be-open/
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by cbr 10y ago
Let's say you have: OpenSSL: foo1(): bar() foo2(): bar() LibreSSL: foo1(): bar() Then someone realizes foo2 needs to call baz: foo2(): bar() + baz()
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by cbr 10y ago
How are you going to deal with zoning? Generally the big problem with tiny houses is that while they're relatively cheap to make they're not allowed by existing zoning.
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by cbr 10y ago
Generally people build BSD packages from source instead of installing binaries. (I think; I've not used BSD.)
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by cbr 10y ago
When I used to work at Google, making sure things people deleted were completely removed was something people took very seriously. With caches and backups deletions wouldn't be immediately effective everywhere, but it was very importa
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by cbr 10y ago
single tax receipt (donating to one org instead of 3-4) GiveWell offers this as well: https://secure.givewell.org/ You can donate to GiveWell for distribution to their to charities, and you can either choose the b
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by cbr 10y ago
At least with "blaming the proxy owners (such as google) for not cleaning up their mess quickly enough" I think tedivim is probably referring to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13721644
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by cbr 10y ago
Maybe Greyball was approved by Uber legal when it was envisioned as a system for excluding bad users (rival companies etc) and then without additional legal review they started using it to exclude suspected law enforcement?
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Diving into a floating point bug(jefftk.com)
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by cbr 10y ago
I often run into git hashes places where a programming font wouldn't apply, like URLs and web pages.
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by cbr 10y ago
How would you rewrite websites to optimize them without parsing untrusted input in the same memory space as sensitive information? The thing you're trying to change (the HTML) can have PII or be otherwise sensitive. (I used to work on
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by cbr 10y ago
Still, you could ask employees to specify cut+size instead of just size (inferring cut from their gender). So I'd put down "men's small" or whatever.
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by cbr 10y ago
What you choose to order at the restaurant is very different from what size or shape you happen to be.
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by cbr 10y ago
If labor wasn't needed for many manufacturing jobs, then labor wouldn't be used overseas. For most manufacturing you can either use X hours of human time or $Y of machine time. In many cases, at low overseas wages t
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by cbr 10y ago
red, yellow, green, flashing red, flashing yellow, no-turn-left red arrow, no-turn-right red arrow You forgot flashing green, which does actually exist, at least in MA. You treat it like a green light, but it could go yellow a
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by cbr 10y ago
If you introduce another pipe, that pipe will immediately get saturated. Not if you price it high enough, which is what makes this all potentially profitable.
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by cbr 10y ago
If NYC, Boston, DC, SF, Philly, all have subways, why not LA? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Line_(Los_Angeles_Metro) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Line_(Los_Angeles_Metro...

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