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by chis 9y ago
Why would an ordinary consumer ever want to pay for retail goods in a currency other than the one that their salary comes in? Amazon is happy to eat credit card fees, and if they really wanted to avoid that they could let customers link th
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by chis 9y ago
I was pretty impressed by the Falcon AI earlier this year. He actually used modern reinforcement learning to train from 0 instead of the crappy built in AI. Also, his AI was limited to near-human reaction time (10 frames) which led to a m
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by chis 9y ago
Can anyone link to more pieces like this? I love reading about communities living in foreign or extreme environments like this. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2139914/A-rare-insig... Kowloon is another g
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by chis 9y ago
This is a really cool idea. You could totally get on shark tank, they love stuff like this.
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Why was this only worth 100K? How did they verify info was deleted? And how does this show up on an expense report at the end of the year?
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by chis 9y ago
It is interesting just how ahead of their time these laptops were. I wonder if it's even possible to make such an innovative laptop in 2017; it seems like all the easy wins have been claimed. Also notable: they hold their value except
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by chis 9y ago
It seems like there's value in rote practice of tasks for improving focus and discipline. I'd argue that's part of why learning piano helps kids so much. I can't name any specific reason to practice cursive though.
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by chis 9y ago
It's weird to see articles like this not even mention the massive sampling bias. Most Seattle devs work for Amazon or Microsoft, whereas SF is a tech hub filled with startups and other low-paying opportunities.
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by chis 9y ago
Solid description of the important part of this essay. The automated generation of content that perfectly matches to humanity's unconscious desires is terrifying to watch. I also worry that it's inevitable. Even if YouTube or Po
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by chis 9y ago
Why not just fork the repo? I’d be annoyed if software I depended on was taken over by new management and messed with with.
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by chis 9y ago
This is a great idea. Got me imagining living all these other people's lives. https://www.reddit.com/r/windowshots/comments/2v53wb/1_am_th...
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by chis 9y ago
This is excellent. I can't believe I've never heard of Texas Monthly before. Here's an interesting interview on the writing of this story http://www.themayborn.com/article/odd-couple
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by chis 9y ago
Facebook obviously doesn't do this, but I wonder how this will end. Lots of people wanting to regulate Facebook right now, maybe some ineffective laws will get passed.
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Hardwareswap is a catch-all, and also smaller ones like appleswap and steamgameswap
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I just sell things on reddit. Something about having access to the other’s post history keeps things honest.
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Is it worthwhile to work there for a few years as a 20-year old though? I'm thinking it's a unique experience even if monetarily it's a poor choice.
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I imagine it's a huge upgrade being able to design with computer modeling. I honestly can't fathom how they calculated supersonic airflow when designing the Concore.
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by chis 9y ago
Urban employees live in tall apartments and use public transit. Suburban employees live in houses and drive cars to work.
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by chis 9y ago
I dunno, I go to Penn State and I made my choice partly based on the research opportunities here. If these big schools start bleeding research and faculty I could see some dark times ahead.
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by chis 9y ago
This is only semi-related, but it seems like the subtext behind a lot of these articles is that America was better in the 20th century, when elites made all the decisions, and the internet has resulted in too much democracy. This is another
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by chis 9y ago
Ready Player One is probably the peak of this genre
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It's crazy how the first iPhone is just ten ICs crammed together, vs now when they fab their own parts on one tiny board. Really shows how ahead of its time the first iPhone was.
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Facebook doesn't do this anymore. http://money.cnn.com/2015/06/04/technology/facebook-messenge...
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by chis 9y ago
The linked anti-union article is more interesting than the original article IMO. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/07/silicon-valleys... I would tend to agree with the tech-ie opinion that unions
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by chis 9y ago
Are there any magazines that recreate the snobbishness of old New Yorker?
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Does anyone work in the field of formal verification? I’m a senior in school and always enjoyed the actual “computer science” more than coding itself. I’m gonna end up at a google/Microsoft type place programming webapps unless I find
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by chis 9y ago
Yeah it is surprising to see such a hacky design when they literally only had one use case. I also don’t understand why all browsers are adding css properties just to support the new iPhone, but maybe I don’t understand how this committee w
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by chis 9y ago
Using this title as my new tinder bio
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The government, mostly. I guess the investors would sue and a judge would order them to pay or go to jail. Your implied point is true though. I'd trust YCombinator to pay out their tokens as long as they don't go bankrupt.
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by chis 9y ago
If you're ordering 500 petabytes you probably sign a contract with Amazon, and have to let them know in advance if you want out.

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