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by cmsmith 12y ago
To me this idea conflicts with the fact that they are minority shareholders in the two international components. I'm not sure exactly what the management structure is, but if Alibaba really thought it might be run into the ground by Ya
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by cmsmith 12y ago
>While there is often little difference in foreign policy, their approach to social issues is vastly different. I think that this is a fiction put forth by the parties to inspire their more extreme members, but is false when you consider
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by cmsmith 13y ago
I didn't read the original study, but based on your quotes it seems like you could append (p>0.95) to any of those headlines and have a meaningful statement which is supported by the data.
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by cmsmith 13y ago
The text of the warning says: "Certain files in this folder cannot be shared due to a takedown request with the DMCA" I interpret that as he has some copyrighted files in his private folder which he is trying to make shared/p
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by cmsmith 13y ago
Is diagnosis really a problem for health care in the developing world? I would imagine that in places like sub-Saharan Africa, they have a pretty good idea of what the symptoms of malaria look like, and they don't need microscopes so m
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by cmsmith 13y ago
Traditionally the technological singularity represents the point at which we develop AI which can improve upon itself, beginning a phase of exponential AI growth which occurs pretty much instantaneously from a human perspective. I was using
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by cmsmith 13y ago
Yes, the Gates foundation is literally trying to cure disease, but alternatively consider malaria in sub-Saharan Africa to be caused by the relative poverty there (after all, they have the same vaccine and prevention technology available as
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by cmsmith 13y ago
AirBNB's entire business model is based on people NOT thinking that.
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by cmsmith 13y ago
It doesn't, and you know that.
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by cmsmith 13y ago
The 1,000 mile rule is pretty widely quoted and is not too controversial. Reasons for it are: 1. Speed (physical limitation). Due to reduced overhead (time getting to and at airport), trains are faster or equivalent to air travel for short
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by cmsmith 13y ago
The entire nature of the social contract is based on the idea that punishing you to make the world better is OK. You are punished in the form of taxes so that the government can provide social security and foreign aid and military intervent
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by cmsmith 13y ago
I like the idea of introducing everyday decisions to a market economy and the idea of beeminder. Re:beeminder, I know that you address this on your FAQ, but my conscience would have little problem lying to your website to keep from paying y
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by cmsmith 13y ago
>Edit2: we'll push through the bitcoin credit at today's price instead of the original buy price (which should be in your favor) since the mistake was on our part. Sorry again for the trouble! Is this an actual policy of Coinba
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by cmsmith 13y ago
Without getting into the general argument here, I'm just going to dispel a few misconceptions about earthquake engineering: No one (basically) who is involved in earthquake engineering would ever use the term 'earthquake-proof&#x2
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by cmsmith 13y ago
This is an important point that everyone really misses. Cable companies make (50M subscribers * $100 /month * 12 mo/yr)=60B dollars per year. TV advertising is another $80B /year. Overhead and profit might eat up 20-50% of th
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by cmsmith 13y ago
Popularity does not define importance. Unless we want to add 'Toddlers and Tiaras' and the pet rock to the list of 'important' things.
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by cmsmith 13y ago
There is no point in having the ability to store energy in the battery faster than your solar panels can generate it, or to discharge energy from the battery faster than your house is using it. So it seems that you would be interested in th
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by cmsmith 13y ago
>That’s a double-edged sword for utilities, depriving them of demand charges that help finance improvements to the transmission system but also helping them keep balance the grid and avoid blackouts or having to fire up a carbon-spewing
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by cmsmith 13y ago
The theoretical advantage of biopolymers isn't just that they biodegrade, it's that they biodegrade into materials (like methane) which can form the feedstock for bacteria which in turn produce the biopolymers. This is better th
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by cmsmith 13y ago
It seems possible that the police realized they were in trouble and were attempting a last-ditch effort to get out of it. The incremental civil rights violation from the 6th unnecessary cavity search might be relatively low compared to the
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by cmsmith 13y ago
It's useful to know the relative magnitude of risk factors which you can and cannot control.
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by cmsmith 13y ago
I'm not sure that this is an issue, especially if the conversion rate is in the 70% range quoted in the article. You're getting double-paid for the trial week (from old job and new job), so just take a week of 'vacation'
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by cmsmith 13y ago
Spend the fuel tax on a rebate given equally to every American. People can use it for gas money or, if they take the bus, to buy a sandwich.
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by cmsmith 13y ago
The facts in this article are somewhat incongruous: Radiation levels due to nuclear testing were elevated 7% over normal The major source of radioactivity in steel is cobalt 60, which has a half life of 5.27 years In which case one could ju
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by cmsmith 13y ago
And how much energy is lost charging batteries? Because there are no native sources for charged Tesla battery packs. You're either using electricity to charge them at your house (with 60% lost in transmission) or charging them closer t
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by cmsmith 13y ago
Careful with that : http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/10/how-the-bible-and-yo...
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by cmsmith 13y ago
I'm just going to add that I think it's silly to get paid your last salary for vacation time you earned when you were 25. While I don't care for caps on the accrued time, I see nothing unfair about scaling the time by your sa
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by cmsmith 13y ago
Perhaps she retired and was awarded the value of her accrued vacation time?
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by cmsmith 13y ago
We should know where our tax dollars are going, but I don't really see the problem with anonomizing the data - at least for the bottom 95% of earners. There are also aspects of government spending which would be way more interesting to
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by cmsmith 13y ago
This is interesting, because it appears that they just took a 15 Tbps technology and used 7 of them at once to get 100 Tbps. As in, they could have used 70 of them at once and achieved 1 petabit per second. I imagine that in either case, th

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