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by defen 7y ago
You can post as many examples as you want, there's still no way I'd participate in an activity like this.
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by defen 7y ago
> I found a reliable method for predicting exactly how many Model X and Model S vehicles Tesla sold well before earnings each quarter of 2017 Were they leaking VINs somehow?
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by defen 7y ago
> from an SDR to an SDR directly That wasn't actually stated. Maybe OP has a bunch of laptops with WiFi cards and no access point and wants to broadcast data to them with the laptops listening in monitor mode. Or maybe OP has a bunc
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by defen 7y ago
How about having the student’s score decay as some function of how late they turn it in? If they turn it in before the deadline, they get 100% of their marked grade, if it’s an hour late 90%, a day late 50%, etc (use whatever function you w
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by defen 7y ago
The question was too underspecified to give a good answer. It's the equivalent to asking "can I send data over the internet"? The answer to the question as-asked is "yes", but the details will be substantially diffe
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by defen 7y ago
A good friend of mine from high school is a Navy SEAL. He was shot in the leg in combat (similar to the guy from this story, though not quite as bad; but still multiple surgeries and over a year of recovery). He said he'd rather get sh
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by defen 7y ago
https://www.stripes.com/news/navy-seal-dog-handler-how-a-fai...
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by defen 7y ago
> Even early calc instruction tends to be broken-- we make things complicated over various historical analytic crises, but then we take enough shortcuts in explanation that we still need to relearn half of everything when we take an actu
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by defen 7y ago
What does "broadcast UDP packets" mean? They'll need some sort of physical encoding; if wifi, why not use a wifi card? If not wifi...what are you trying to do by broadcasting UDP packets?
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by defen 7y ago
The current societal standard seems to be "freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences". I don't think it's possible to give a principled reason why "Peter Thiel funding a lawsuit" (which he won)
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by defen 7y ago
Foist them off on their grandparents. Not what I would do, but I know people who have. Works best if the grandparents are mid 50s or younger.
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by defen 7y ago
Fantasy sports is when you pick a fake roster of players, subject to certain rules. You get points based on how well your chosen players do. Carlsen is the best in the world at this. And at chess.
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by defen 7y ago
Reminds me of one of my favorite quotes from East of Eden > You have not bought these boys, nor stolen them, nor passed any bit for them. You have them by some strange and lovely dispensation.
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by defen 7y ago
The case for MGS2 being avant-garde: Metal Gear Solid 2 was the sequel to Metal Gear Solid, one of the most celebrated action games of all time. In MGS you play as Solid Snake, a badass special forces operator. It would have been very easy
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by defen 7y ago
Kojima is the only game designer who has been referred to as "God" in a Thomas Pynchon novel, so he wins.
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by defen 7y ago
> However, working in tech in a crowded cubical farm in a massive company, for years, on a topic most people don't care about That's not the only way to have a tech career, though. Maybe that's the highest-paying option fo
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by defen 7y ago
Probably because they wouldn't have been able to prove intent to murder? If the victim had actually been killed, "Polo" probably would have been charged under the felony murder rule.
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by defen 7y ago
> 23/hr for 30 hours per week (~35k/yr) Don't forget about the "nanny tax" (Household employer tax). You might not have to pay it this year if you're under the threshold but you probably will next year: htt
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by defen 7y ago
In my experience the difference for hotels isn't too much - $20 - $30 / night, so that shouldn't be a problem. For flights, you have a couple options. Either make the client buy your tickets, or tell them about your policy of
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by defen 7y ago
> Travel like a professional and bill the client. One additional tip here is to purchase cancellable / refundable airline tickets and hotel reservations. You don't want to get stuck with the bill if your client cancels a meetin
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by defen 7y ago
A kickback is when you personally get reimbursed for your decision, which isn’t the case here. A government office is being funded by a fee on services rendered.
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by defen 7y ago
"Everyone is conservative about what he knows best." - Robert Conquest, apocryphal. I would guess that the overwhelming majority of SF homeowners would self-identify as liberal / Democrat voters. But on the topic of local hou
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by defen 7y ago
That exists too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_absolute_deviation Standard deviation is mathematically easier to work with though and has nice properties e.g. you can compute the standard deviation of combining
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by defen 7y ago
If it's not on the network why would you need firmware updates? (serious question)
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by defen 7y ago
I didn't say anything about how anyone should have fewer kids. However, intelligence and political attitudes are highly heritable, so when smart educated middle class people (regardless of race or country) decide not to have children s
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by defen 7y ago
> Pointing out the environmental impact of having biological children is always unpopular here. 1) Because you're treating an idealized version of "the environment" as a terminal goal. 2) The people most likely to agree wi
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by defen 7y ago
Craziest thing you saw happen at one of the parties?
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by defen 7y ago
> He constantly makes comparisons about his comedy and how much more of an experiment it was to showcase the "hidden prejudice" of people Was that his original intent or is that a retcon? Maybe I was too young to "get it&q
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by defen 7y ago
China had moveable type but not a mechanical press.
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by defen 7y ago
> Google also has a clause in their employment agreement that says you agree to them putting surveillance software on your devices, company supplied and personal, as a condition of your employment. How would Google even know about your p

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