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by desdiv 8y ago
IPA: /kwɛ̃.kwɛ̃/ Here's a French speaker pronouncing it: https://youtu.be/Dtta-mW6Pro?t=15
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Going by this graph[0], what they meant was: we had a precision of 93% and a recall of 90%. [0] http://web.stanford.edu/group/deepsolar/assets2/img/roc.jpg
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Different fields have different definitions for the same terms. In the context of kill-to-loss ratios, the military defines a positive ratio as > 1.
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Here's what the SEC thinks: https://www.sec.gov/oiea/investor-alerts-and-bulletins/ib_sa...
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My guess is that they want to preemptively dispel cynical low-brow dismissals such as: "that's effectively $0 because startups burning VC cash won't show a profit for years, if ever".
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by desdiv 8y ago
Fascinating stuff! A 2015 article from the horse's mouth[0] shows 485 horses for ceremonial purposes vs 227 Challenger 2 Main Battle Tanks. [0] https://www.forces.net/services/tri-service/leading-charge-t...
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by desdiv 8y ago
>Just need Wireguard on Windows now! There is a third party Wireguard implementation for Windows: https://tunsafe.com/ However the Wireguard creator has some reservations about this third party client: https:/&#x2F
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VIIIX's[0] Institutional Plus Shares (with a $100 million requirement) has an expanse ratio of 0.02%, so that's $200k. It would be hard to find someone at this salary level who can match the tracking performance of Vanguard. If th
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A ternary plot only works if the three variables add up to the same constant. There's no way to fit salad (0,1,0), soup (1,0,0), and steak (0, 0.5, 0) on the same ternary plot because the first two points add up to 1 and the last one a
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by desdiv 8y ago
My apologies, I misread.
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Here's another bug: SVG of the Pitcairn Islands flag renders incorrectly on Firefox 63.0.3: https://i.imgur.com/Xoh51Ui.png
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Sorry, but this is incorrect. The European Travel Information and Authorisation System has not even been developed yet, much less deployed. It will only come online in 2021. Until then, Schengen is visa-free for Canadians and Americans. &gt
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They issued a correction: >Update: A previous version of this article said the Zen blanket raised $1,2 millions, the amount they did raise was $800.000.
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>Why do we connect medical benefits to employers? It could arguably be traced back to the war time rationing of WWII: >To combat inflation, the 1942 Stabilization Act was passed. Designed to limit employers' freedom to raise wage
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Out of those 6: - 4 have already been transferred, so it's only free if you have a time machine - the other 2 are dead links
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Unlike most spam websites, this one actually provides a useful and helpful function. The next time I 404 on a PDF I'll be sure to search for it on this site.
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"Muslim homes" is quite a nice sounding euphemism for what I would consider concentration camps.
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>China is responding by opening factories in places like Ethiopia. As well as places like Little Rock, Arkansas[0]. https://www.innovationintextiles.com/automated-sewbot-to-mak...
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Believe it or not, this topic of "where do Jews eat on Christmas" actually came up in a light-hearted way during a Supreme Court nominee hearing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tku61sKhPGo
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Yes, just like how the federal government prohibited marijuana and therefore no one in the United States of America consumes marijuana. Someone up thread made a claim and the burden of proof was on them. Now multiple reliable sources have b
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>Draw a small circle around yourself on the ocean floor. That circle encloses two areas. One roughly a square metre, and the other one roughly 5e8 km². In geology only the smaller area is used, and the smaller area does not contain the p
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by desdiv 8y ago
FYI what you are describing is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disapproval_voting
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Zammad is a good example: it's open source[0] and packaged binaries are available if you want to self-host[1]. Corporations can: 1. Self-host for free but hire their own engineers/sysadmins to maintain it 2. Pay for a per-seat hos
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by desdiv 8y ago
How do you compare to opentimestamps.org? (other than ETH instead of BTC)
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You are assuming that the white hat security researcher was the first to discover the flaw. That is a perfectly reasonable assumption, and your position is perfectly reasonable given that assumption. GP was assuming that the white hat secur
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I apologize if my suggestion was stupid. I'm just trying to get a discussion started here, that's all. It would cost the company next to nothing, in my view, because the steps the company has to take is almost exactly the same: 1.
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What do you guys think of the idea of companies giving their employees the option of taking (up to) one year long unpaid sabbaticals? It would cost the company next to nothing, and it would be a preferable alternative to the employee quitt
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>Dialog says post the acquisition, the remaining part of the business will focus more on IoT, as well as mobile, automotive, computing and storage markets, specifically as a provider of custom and configurable mixed-signal integrated cir
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Yes, the company keeps an open repo: >...their product (whose source is also publicly available) ...
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Two more Amazon comments popped up minutes after your comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18193697 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18193670 The reason why ex-Googler responses dominated for t

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