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by chroem- 9y ago
Come to Washington State. The University of Washington's preference to international students over in-state has become so lopsided that the state legislature has been threatening to cut off funding and force the school to change its n
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by chroem- 9y ago
For future reference, there is no legal requirement that says you need to formally announce you're not a lawyer on internet forums.
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by chroem- 9y ago
For what it's worth, this is the first time I've seen it. Not sure it's fair to call it a strawman though.
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by chroem- 9y ago
It's been amusing to watch HN's overwhelmingly negative reaction to cryptocurrencies. Yes, there are absolutely some shady things going on with cryptocoins, but the response to them here seems pretty overblown. What I suspect i
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by chroem- 9y ago
It's much harder to make false accusations in a court of law.
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by chroem- 9y ago
Honestly it's beginning to become a parody of itself how people in the bay area can't imagine life outside of a hypercrowded cityscape that has temperate weather year round.
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by chroem- 9y ago
If you look up the budget numbers for how these pharma companies operate, very little money goes into R&D as a fraction of revenue. The supposedly high cost of bringing a drug to market is a talking point used to justify high prices, n
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by chroem- 9y ago
This is a separate issue from large emergency medical bills. You can get a drug prescribed for a chronic condition just about anywhere, but if it's produced by a monopolist then you're forced to pay whatever absurd price the manu
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by chroem- 9y ago
While I can't speak as much to the case in article, my problem is due to IP restrictions. Though companies buying the rights to daranide sounds an awful lot like IP too.
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by chroem- 9y ago
That doesn't even make sense.
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by chroem- 9y ago
This kind of insanity makes me wish we would just abolish the legal notion of intellectual property already. It flies in the face of everything that the free market stands for by actively blocking competition. Yes, you can come up with al
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by chroem- 9y ago
This article falls back on the "I was just following orders" excuse. It doesn't matter if there was no intent of fraud: the issue at hand is that there is currently no downside risk for engaging in these profitable but destr
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by chroem- 9y ago
Because renewables, like wind and solar, and thermal power generation are completely different technologies. There is very little in the way of transferrable knowledge and manufacturing tooling between the two.
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by chroem- 9y ago
The thing is, it's a common misconception that neural networks are somehow intrinsically related to linear algebra. Matrix multiplications are just a convenient way to build functions with lots of tuneable degrees of freedom. Just li
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by chroem- 9y ago
I would also like to know more about this. Could anyone with experience in the area please explain?
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by chroem- 9y ago
Yes, that would correspond to multiple missile strikes which is entirely reasonable.
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by chroem- 9y ago
Good old Dianne Feinstein, always protecting me from the scary terrorists.
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by chroem- 9y ago
What a strange world this is where living in a shanty for over half your annual income is considered cool.
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by chroem- 9y ago
Whether you agree with their content or not, it's a losing proposition to fight a war against memes.
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by chroem- 9y ago
But why would the difference between populism/democracy even be a useful distinction to make if both served the interests of "the commom man" equally?
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by chroem- 9y ago
Please elaborate on how populism and democracy are two separate entities, when, by definition, both are characterized by majority rule. Are you sure you aren't confusing democracy with republicanism?
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by chroem- 9y ago
I think the whole idea behind using Julia in this situation would be that you get good enough performance "out of the box" so that you don't have to resort to using an FFI in the first place.
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by chroem- 9y ago
What are these estimates based on? They seem to be the exact opposite of all the major trends that are beginning to affect Facebook.
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by chroem- 9y ago
And to think that posting about Intel ME on HN only a couple years ago would have commenters swarm you with accusations of being a deluded conspiracy theorist. Neat. It's good that people are finally becoming aware of the problems th
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by chroem- 9y ago
Seattle's culture has been absolutely ruined by the huge influx of bay area types. Colonizing us and making Seattle more like SF is not a contribution. There was a time in recent memory when the city didn't cater to flamboyant
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by chroem- 9y ago
"Contribution" is pretty subjective. Seattle has historically had quite a bit of industry and R&D that employed lots of regular people, but the current software bubble is now crowding it out of the city, while also inflating
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by chroem- 9y ago
Is that necessarily a bad thing? I feel like social media has destroyed an enormous amount of value by making it harder to have authentic relationships.
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by chroem- 9y ago
Before someone inevitably mocks these people as being less enlightened, this isn't that surprising. Labor isn't fungible: retraining would involve abandoning a career and all the seniority it entails, going back to school and los
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by chroem- 9y ago
Most alts are traded in terms of BTC. Bancor's dollar value has only ever gone up because increases in the price of bitcoin have occasionally offset Bancor's losses relative to BTC. Bancor's value relative to BTC has been m
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by chroem- 9y ago
It's a shame they sold it. It still has the highest modelling capability / difficulty ratio of any 3D software I've seen. Also the 3D Warehouse was a load of fun.

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