danielharan

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by danielharan 11y ago
There are 1800 medallions for all of SF ( https://www.sfmta.com/services/taxi-industry/medallions/meda... ) At 250k, buying them back would cost $450 million. The city could tax the new cabbies on a percentag
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by danielharan 11y ago
I have this dream that we could throw a huge party that day.
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by danielharan 11y ago
I don't think you know the numbers even after the fact. Knowing what worked doesn't tell you what probabilities you should have assigned.
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by danielharan 11y ago
Has anyone used this to get inferred stats on a database of people's names? I'd be especially interested in applications for e-commerce analytics.
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by danielharan 11y ago
So, you're assuming Chimpanzees are acting on instinct, rather than culture?
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by danielharan 12y ago
An ideal tool for stalkers. I am sympathetic that this data could be useful for law enforcement - however this data must not be released wholesale to the public and there should be limits to how long it is stored.
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by danielharan 12y ago
Why do you think prices will go down? That's not at all what's been happening lately or the consensus estimate by analysts.
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by danielharan 12y ago
By grid parity, I meant people would be able to save money by installing it on their rooftops. As for utility-scale, it's also smashing records, but that's a different discussion. $6c/kWh in UAE was a figure that surprised a
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by danielharan 12y ago
Not only would that be very difficult to do, nuclear and coal have had decades of subsidies, giving them quite an unfair head-start. In any case, by 2017 solar will be at grid parity in most of the US. By 2020 this won't even be a topi
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by danielharan 12y ago
Companies need to make money to keep existing, the same way we need to breathe. If you've ever had a tyrannical boss, you'll see sometimes the company is just their fiefdom. Feeding their ego is their prime motivation and organizi
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by danielharan 12y ago
"The windows are one of the most expensive features," The obvious follow-up is what the 80/20 might be on these features. If going with readily available double-pane windows shaves $10,000 off the cost, it may be a decent tra
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by danielharan 12y ago
One way might just be to find a more cost-effective way to make that same salt, and put those farmers out of business. A hack might be to use drones to run surveillance on those places. The longer-term and stable solution is to have governm
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Volcanic sand has been credited with the longevity of Rome’s ancient monuments(washingtonpost.com)
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by danielharan 12y ago
As one noted in the article ""almost certainly an underestimate", because a number of climate-health relationships are not measurable due to lack of adequate data". Milder winters expand the range of disease-carrying ins
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by danielharan 12y ago
(You mean elicit, not illicit) Placebo might be a fair critique if we were talking about people's self-reported stress or well-being. Here we're talking about physical changes in the amygdala .
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by danielharan 12y ago
That has to be some of the best advertising possible for Shapeways. Not complaining, just noticing.
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by danielharan 12y ago
65C sounds like plenty enough heat over an hour. Such temperatures are common in sous-vide (see e.g. http://www.douglasbaldwin.com/sous-vide.html - interesting headings to grep include "Pasteurized in Shell Egg" a
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by danielharan 12y ago
I'd love to use these to detect bike thefts.
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by danielharan 12y ago
For help selling the company? I'm sure there are a few VCs that know all the corp dev people and could more than double the final price.
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by danielharan 12y ago
Humiliating leaders and nations is not a valid reason to kill under most ethical systems. It certainly does not fall under the precepts for a "just war".
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by danielharan 12y ago
Hiroshima was only necessary if it was the only way to get Japan to capitulate. This ignores rumours of back-channel diplomatic dealing that could have seen through a less humiliating exit for Japan.
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by danielharan 12y ago
They don't need to transcribe. So-called "metadata" is what you'd be analyzing even if you had transcripts.
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by danielharan 12y ago
Running the same command on models... just crashes. Our God object (not User) weighs in at 1647.3. Yep, just one single model.
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by danielharan 12y ago
"For the controllers directory, expect higher scores; good scores are less than 20." Ahem, anyone else run that and get scores like these? $ flog app/controllers/ 7658.1: flog total 17.4: flog/method average
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by danielharan 12y ago
Make sure you add all the extra dirs where code might be hiding ::STATS_DIRECTORIES << ["Admin", "app/admin"] ::STATS_DIRECTORIES << ["Cells", "app/cells"] ...
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by danielharan 12y ago
Were they actual attendees, or is that an assumption?
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by danielharan 12y ago
It seems like a minor distinction, however asking people: "6 months from now, we end up failing. What went wrong?" gets much better answers than: "what are the biggest risks?"
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by danielharan 12y ago
It's not sharing: it's renting.
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by danielharan 12y ago
VC without having to pay for partners management fees to do due diligence, which is outsourced to high-performing angels.
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by danielharan 13y ago
"Polar vortex" has been in the lexicon of meteorologist for decades now.

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