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by choxi 9y ago
Not the op, but the big thing is that the styles are just strings instead of a JS object so you lose a lot of the modularity and composability benefits of writing it "in" JavaScript. The syntax was also awkward to me at first:
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> The tendency for friends to have similar genomes might result from people befriending those of similar ancestry, but the duo are confident that isn't the case. Not only did they control for the effect of population structure and a
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If 100% of cars on the road (globally) were electric, how much would that impact global warming?
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Sure, I should have stated my assumption: there will always be inequality in a capitalist economy. But you can have varying levels of inequality and the extremes are probably not healthy. My suggestion above wouldn't create perfect equ
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We should tax wealth, not income. [1] The majority of income the top 0.1% make is from investments and gets taxed as capital gains, only about 15% of their income is taxed as ordinary income. [2][3] We have an economic system where it'
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From my understanding many years ago, solving the heat dissipation problem is the real problem behind higher transistor density. Is that still the case?
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Facebook changed theirs in 2014 from "Move Fast and Break Things" to "Move Fast with Stable Infrastructure". It's funny how they predictably become vaguer and less controversial.
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A good place to start would be understanding the holocracy model and why it hasn't become more mainstream yet. Companies like Valve and Medium have experimented with flat organizations to varying degrees of success (I believe Medium en
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What are the implications of solving the P versus NP problem? What practical effects would that have? Not trying to belittle the problem, just curious as an outsider.
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I think the subtitle sets expectations pretty clearly: > No one knows for sure, but there are indicators that can help us guess. We can chart these indicators to give us the illusion of foresight.
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Why is it a problem, or what problems has it been causing in NYC? I understand the legality is questionable but I don't know why the laws exist in the first place.
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Could you elaborate?
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There's a Radiolab podcast about a pill that supposedly cures alcohol addiction: http://www.radiolab.org/story/addiction/ The pill they mention is called "Baclofen", and the podcast goes into how ef
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Is there anything like this for health insurance? I have to get my own insurance but working through the marketplaces is such a pain. If there was a health insurance provider that literally just had a nice web interface I would be very like
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> As you read, write down every single word that you don’t understand. You’re going to have to look them all up (yes, every one. I know it’s a total pain. But you won’t understand the paper if you don’t understand the vocabulary. Scienti
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I have a shaky understanding of "non-shared environment", I get the sense that it is based on the context of the study. e.g. If I do a study on genetically identical mice and control their sugar intake, "sugar intake" wo
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by choxi 9y ago
Are S1 filings required to look awful? More seriously, are there certain formatting rules/requirements? They always look like some intern slapped together copy and corporate stock images into a Word doc and then shipped it.
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Here are the slides from 2011: https://www.slideshare.net/kleinerperkins/kpcb-internet-tren... I just went through them, the trouble is that most of the trends are so vague (e.g. "Advertising - Lookin' Good&q
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I'm not a social-justice type, but I did choose to not see this movie for casting a caucasian actress as the lead. It's not quite as egregious as the Bruce Lee biopic where the protagonist isn't Bruce Lee [1], but I still bel
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by choxi 9y ago
If anyone's curious to try out functional programming, I would highly recommend Elm. I haven't been so excited about a language since I went from C to Ruby ten years ago, and Pragmatic Studios has a great course on it (I have no a
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I got one from "DocuSign": https://twitter.com/choxi/status/844949531896655872 The link went to a page that looked like Google Docs and asked for my Google login, but I noticed the domain was wrong so I
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I've raised a $2M Seed and $6M Series A, used Google Sheets for prospect tracking both times. The process was pretty simple: we'd add investors to the list, stack rank them in order of preference, contact them, and then use color
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> We will make the code to reproduce these results publicly available I'm excited about this trend, it makes it easier for everyday software engineers to tinker around with cutting edge tools. I think of innovation as a pipeline sta
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I'm working on a minimalist "cloud IDE" for machine learning projects, so you essentially code on EC2 instances. If it looks interesting feel free to reach out: http://www.haikuapp.io/ It doesn't have an
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Haiku – A Minimalist, Desktop, Cloud IDE(haikuapp.io)
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I've been trying to read more primary source information, sort of as my own way of combatting "fake news" but before that term was coined. There's a learning curve to it, but I've found that reading S1 filings and Q
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Does "proven" here mean the same thing as "no runtime errors"? I've recently tried out Elm [1] and have come away with a similar perspective on functional programming and static typing. The benefits I noticed are: -
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I always assumed there was only one mechanism for memory in the brain, but it's interesting how multiple Deep Learning architectures have different mechanisms that could all be described as memory: RNNs and LSTMs can selectively save s
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Thank you :)
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Could someone explain what a Bitcoin ETF is? My understanding is that ETFs are like index funds, which group other stocks into one basket. There's only one Bitcoin though, so what would a Bitcoin ETF collate? The "Description of t

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