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by cryptoz 6y ago
> Even 100% remote teams can greatly benefit from getting together sometimes. I guess my take is the hot one, but if a remote team is routinely travelling to meet, I do not think that is 100% remote! It's just mostly remote. I recen
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by cryptoz 6y ago
Where did you read that this is mandatory? It sounds optional to me from the opening sentence of the article.
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by cryptoz 6y ago
Is any of this forced? I can't read the article (paywall) but it sounds like work-from-home at Shopify will be optional right? The employer is 'letting' it happen, not forcing it, correct? Why would this make so many people s
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by cryptoz 6y ago
I have played many games, but only won one- the first one I played. I was Italy, I made deals with everyone, backstabbed with multiple written orders to show different alliances to players, and won. But then nobody ever trusted me in Diplom
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by cryptoz 6y ago
I was just thinking about this trick recently. I remember the old 200ways.pdf file that outlined 200 ways to revive a head hard drive.
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by cryptoz 7y ago
I think the Weather Channel does / did have an Instant App
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by cryptoz 7y ago
A related (but distinct) concept I've heard is "0, 1, n" rule: there are rarely actually 2 or 3 or 10 of a "thing". But often there are 0 of a thing, or 1 of a thing. If it's not 0 or 1 thing, it's probabl
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by cryptoz 7y ago
The barometer data that comes from phones (both Android and iOS) is extremely resilient and there is a lot of value to be derived from it. Ongoing research by Cliff Mass and team (at UW) shows that machine learning can help bias-correct and
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by cryptoz 7y ago
Dark Sky claimed to do significant weather data collection themselves, via barometers in phones. I don't know if that data was ever used or available in their API, but definitely, the data Dark Sky had was all not public data.
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by cryptoz 7y ago
I wonder if they ever used their barometer data. After announcing collection of barometric pressure from devices years ago, there was never an update. FWIW I do this on Android in the US, expanding to iOS and internationally soon: https:&#
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by cryptoz 7y ago
I don't think Android allows coronavirus apps either. If this were for Android it would be likely barred from the play store. https://play.google.com/store/search?q=covid-19&c=apps https://play.goog
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by cryptoz 7y ago
Interesting question! Not yet as that feature is a UI button with no automation, but I will certainly consider adding something like that. Fascinating. Cheers!
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by cryptoz 7y ago
The official line is that they use it mostly for improving elevation estimates for Maps. But that info is _old_ - maybe they're using it for more than that now! Some researchers (Cliff Mass?) attempted to get Google (and Apple) interes
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by cryptoz 7y ago
Using the barometers inside phones to improve weather forecasting All Clear Weather: https://www.allclearweather.com/ I'm also hoping to use raw photos of the sky as weather data: after building a large training datase
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by cryptoz 7y ago
Multiple GameStop employees at different locations across the bay area openly mocked me / laughed at me for trying to buy a used GameCube in ~2016. Haven't set foot in a store since. Good riddance.
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by cryptoz 7y ago
I've been a fan of Rocket Lab since they started, but desperately wanted them to build a reusable rocket. A quick check on Wikipedia shows that they are in fact working on this! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket
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by cryptoz 7y ago
Application deadline tomorrow 8pm PT btw. I'll apply with phone-based weather forecasting (as I always do, ha), and in the other ideas section I will add my ideas for remote work. I wonder if there will be a surge of last-minute applic
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by cryptoz 7y ago
Is NOAA allowed to develop US weather apps? I vaguely recall that Accuweather or others lobbied to prevent official US NWS weather apps from existing.
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by cryptoz 7y ago
I've interacted with 4-5 potential voters (people) in the US in the last 2 days, talking about this topic. 100% of them think the virus is a hoax, since the president and media said so, and that it's meant to "distract"
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by cryptoz 7y ago
I just googled that to inform myself. > The efficient market hypothesis in financial economics that states that asset prices reflect all available information https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient-market_hypothesis
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by cryptoz 7y ago
You see HN comments all the time telling startups to put up a page before their product is ready. It's super common advice. Here are a few offhand reasons I can suggest it's not a waste even if the product is not for sale. Marketi
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by cryptoz 7y ago
Having bottled water on hand seems like a super useful thing right now, to me anyway. It makes it easier for families to not share water sources, reduce the spread of disease at offices if you bring a bottle vs using a communal tap, and a t
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by cryptoz 7y ago
I think the CDC comes off looking like the victim here. Years ago, Trump fired the pandemic response team [1] with a cited reason to 'cut costs'. Clearly there must have been some other reason, because firing a pandemic response t
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by cryptoz 7y ago
That is incorrect. At least some of the people were tested for coronavirus and the tests showed positive.
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by cryptoz 7y ago
A third option is that the statement simply isn't true / that it was said to attempt to reduce panic. I think pretty much everyone expects additional positive cases. The statement is so vague, with no definitions of when, where o
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by cryptoz 7y ago
> I have been to Greenland a year ago and saw it for myself. And that’s where the warming is most extreme. And it’s spectacular, no doubt about it. And glaciers are shrinking and so on. > But, there are all sorts of things that are no
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by cryptoz 7y ago
Ah, I see, that 503s for me at the moment so I was unable to read that.
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by cryptoz 7y ago
No word on the reason for postponing? It seems odd to dance around the issue like that. I mean, I get it, we all know why its being postponed, but it seems weird to not say something about coronavirus risk.
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by cryptoz 7y ago
It's a good article I guess, but a bit over-optimistic about execution. > You can build anything. Not really, though. The article suggests that there are no constraints to what can be built, but there on constraints to what people w
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by cryptoz 7y ago
Why would Twitter want to verify someone who is problematic? Sounds like a recipe for disaster. Their definition of verification includes public interest, and if the public is not interested in someone problematic, why would Twitter verify

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