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by dzdt 10y ago
Subpixel crap was always a workaround for not having enough pixels to begin with. Now that that logjam is finally broken, this kind of argument is increasingly moot.
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by dzdt 10y ago
For anyone confused like I was, the "Elm" here is a newish in-browser functional language [1], not an old and venerable unix email client [2]. [1] http://elm-lang.org [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by dzdt 10y ago
Actual article headline: "Genève Aéroport Cuts Wait Times by Half".
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by dzdt 10y ago
This reminds me of the "your data fits in ram" website which was on HN last year. Basically that site asked you your data size, then answered "yes" for any size up to a few TB. The website is down, but the HN discussion
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by dzdt 10y ago
I think that would be a stastical question. Theranos recalled 10's of thousands of potentially inaccurate blood tests. Some of these were presumably the deciding factor in a treatment decision. Wild guess : 10% of the time a single
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by dzdt 10y ago
Matt Levine at Bloomberg has some insightful commentary on the DAO from a legal/finance perspective: * https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-05-17/blockchai... * https://www.bloomberg.c
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by dzdt 10y ago
Surviving a week in the wilderness isn't a big trick. You need water, and someplace warm enough not to freeze. He wasn't in a desert or a frozen wasteland. With the headline you wonder if people expect to die if they are out of
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by dzdt 10y ago
Yes. Send it!
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by dzdt 10y ago
"Fastest" is an incorrect superlative, though the error is in the HN title, not in the linked article. The correct superlative is "highest capacity" -- 160 Tb/sec.
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The Race for the Wood Skyscraper Starts Here(bloomberg.com)
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by dzdt 10y ago
Suppose 10% of the total is budgeted to pay for insider help covering up. 96 million of bribe money could go a long way.
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by dzdt 10y ago
Here's what the NY Times was saying 9 years ago : "The Central States pension plan ... was notorious for corruption in the 1960s and 1970s, but is now known for being underfunded." http://nytimes.com/2007&#x2F
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by dzdt 10y ago
This is just the tip of the iceberg. Many state, municipal, and private pension funds are badly underfunded according to the accounting formulas. In negotiations with workers, particularly unions, it has always been easier for managers to
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by dzdt 10y ago
Such old trees growing in marginal environments like the rocky cliffs are valuable records of the past environment. Their annual growth is constrained by twmperature and rainfall. By measuring the rings produced in past years, we get info
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by dzdt 10y ago
Joel Spoelsky : "commoditize your complements." Steve Ballmer : "developers! developers! developers!" Developers are a complement to hardware, software, and data based businesses. Google probably spends more on employe
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by dzdt 10y ago
Hopefully someone will run the numbers from this. Effectively it is a large scale test of outcomes for patients with equal risk factors, some treated with statins and some untreated.
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by dzdt 10y ago
I just skimmed through, but dont see them saying anything about where they get their data. Hedge funds are generally secrective about their investments. Why should I believe anything in this article is real?
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by dzdt 10y ago
A Turing machine is just a computer program. The Goldbach Conjecture example is just a program to loop through and test that each successive even integer can be reached as the sum of two prime numbers. If there is a counterexample to the c
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by dzdt 10y ago
The problem with this type of analysis is there is always a motivation behind it. This kind of analysis is deployed as an argument that it is okay that wealthier kids get better-funded schools with more opportunities to advance. Because (s
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by dzdt 10y ago
Keep in mind that legal vs illegal is a completely different question than right vs wrong. Whistleblower protections need to extend to cover more than just exposure of illegal activites.
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by dzdt 10y ago
Thanks for the detailed, informed post!
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by dzdt 10y ago
I expect the hull is thinner than the deck: it isn't designed to hold up to a rocket blowtorching and landing. But good point about compartments: the barge may well be able to survive a rocket-sized hole punched through it!
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by dzdt 10y ago
Newton's approximation for impact depth [1] gives a way to calculate how thick the barge deck would have to be to survive a high speed impact from the rocket stage. The impactor punches through until it has displaced an equal mass. A
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by dzdt 10y ago
We all love the story about the clever little guy who thinks outside of the box taking down the big giant corporation who does things the way they have always been done. Cringely trys to tell this as such a story, or could be, or could hav
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by dzdt 10y ago
"This is a ship-shipping ship, shipping shipping ships" : http://imgur.com/gallery/pB0VXKq
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by dzdt 10y ago
Being named Boaty McBoatface would have been such a great icebreaker for starting outreach discussions. A ship like this one needs a great icebreaker sometimes.
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by dzdt 10y ago
He is after the hundreds of millions of dollars of bitcoins that the real Satoshi Nakamoto controlled. When Craig Wright first came to public attention last December, there was a stash of "leaked" documents relating him to Dave Kl
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by dzdt 10y ago
So you expected the real Satoshi to keep his anonymity by announcing his identity to the world and then backing up the announcement with "proof" that is clearly false?
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by dzdt 10y ago
He had promised to do the impossible -- cryptographically prove he had access to early coins which he did not in fact have. He had carefully developed two scam-proofs of this. One scam proof was deployed on his blog where he claimed to sig
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by dzdt 10y ago
That account was later found to be compromised. It wasn't clear when the compromise took place, but quite possibly was before the email you mention was sent. See http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014&

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