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by dmazin 13y ago
I'm very excited at HN's discovery of gwern.
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by dmazin 13y ago
That's true. This is exciting news for the solar panel research and industry world but not the world at large. This is a little like infinitesimally improving the efficiency of matrix manipulation. A giant leap for a microbe. However,
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by dmazin 13y ago
Well now you have it. Even the company's CEO couldn't care about something called "Cloud Marketplace" and the "Oracle Cloud Database Service."
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by dmazin 13y ago
Well, that's why the author said it's why they're not _pleased_ with the way it was used - because they linked to it in the manner least beneficial to the creator.
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by dmazin 13y ago
Because land and presumably electricity are cheap there?
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by dmazin 13y ago
Though strongly informed by satellite and Street View data, Google Maps are heavily modified by hand.
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by dmazin 13y ago
Here's what the non-car-mounted camera machines look like, if anyone's wondering: http://i.imgur.com/BjHLoPh.jpg
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by dmazin 13y ago
Oh, I thought there were going be 30 days of actual change at Yahoo.
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by dmazin 13y ago
This is a very believable explanation.
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by dmazin 13y ago
This is pretty much how the future of photojournalism was imagined. The only difference is that it's not on magical video paper, which isn't that far away anyway.
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by dmazin 13y ago
One of the pictures has a clear visual date stamp with a "/90." Maybe this means nothing. But I wonder if they are misleadingly posting these as if they were just discovered, rather than over what appears to be at least 23 ye
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by dmazin 13y ago
I hope this comment is seen as observational rather than the sort of blind criticism that Monocle dreams to avoid. The article discusses the design and performance of Monocle, which are definitely pleasant. However, the aspects of the commu
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by dmazin 13y ago
By the way, at least in California, $500,000 is the recommended bail for... perjury? Threat of violence? Assault of a police officer? No: that's the recommended bail for an attempted assassination of a public official using a machine g
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by dmazin 13y ago
By the way the Euro isn't that strong against USD anymore; €300 is $390.
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by dmazin 13y ago
Yeah, I received spam from you twice. It was really annoying.
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by dmazin 13y ago
In this blog post the author corroborates most of the points made by Bloomberg. That is not a takedown.
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by dmazin 13y ago
Not that these people care, but marketers' inability to see how vulgar they come off is highly entertaining. Who volunteers to be compared to a cult?
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by dmazin 13y ago
Well that's my whole point; half a percent of the population, which is what I also calculated when writing my original comment and consider a fraction, being wrongly incarcerated is an atrocity so Facebook's "fraction of a pe
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by dmazin 13y ago
When Woz talks about being proud that American soldiers didn't torture, I feel like I'm listening to a simpleton who happens to be utterly genius but was still brainwashed into seeing any agressive war as commendable. But then he
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by dmazin 13y ago
A fraction of a percent of US citizens are wrongly incarcerated. I'm not sure what relative numbers even mean here. 19,000 people under scrutiny is still scary to me.
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by dmazin 13y ago
I imagine they're all getting the go-ahead.
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by dmazin 13y ago
No, see https://twitter.com/paulg/status/338702876744482816 . The fact that the page itself says 2009 is even worse.
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by dmazin 13y ago
It's not a repost, pg didn't publish this until now.
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by dmazin 13y ago
It is intellectually weak to post a predictive piece that you wrote in 2009 after it's come true.
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by dmazin 13y ago
Dwolla isn't a bank, it's a payments processor.
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by dmazin 13y ago
The goal is for the abuser to not know the child saw the information; it's irrelevant whether the child knows whether the abuser saw or not.
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by dmazin 13y ago
This is great stuff but does it really need to render well on mobile?
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by dmazin 14y ago
Speaking of, has anyone else noticed that captchas (especially recaptcha) have gotten a lot harder over the last year?
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by dmazin 14y ago
It makes me pretty happy to see that this event is already full.
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by dmazin 14y ago
discourse's design entirely misses the charm and feeling of community that "ugly" forums like phpbb offer. This just looks bland. Maybe it can work for technical or support forums but not real communities. In general it seems like a lot of

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