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by em500 4y ago
They do take up some space on the sidewalk, but less than a non-underground version. Here's what they look like: https://www.core77.com/posts/102208/Amsterdams-Smart-System-...
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by em500 4y ago
It's probably an effective way to prevent bots (or even humans) from spamming the lottery if entry to the lottery was free or gated by a one-off fee. The exploitative part is mostly that these per-application fees are pocketed by a pri
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by em500 4y ago
The article answers it's own question. On the website developed for Obamacare: > The government had spent $400 million over four years - more time than it took the U.S. to enter and win World War II - and yet, the dozens of contrac
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by em500 4y ago
The conclusion, that a low-complexity statistical ensemble is almost as good as a (computationally) complex Deep Learning model, should not come as a surprise, given the data. The dataset[1] used here are 3003 time series from the M3 compet
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by em500 4y ago
I think technically all the cloud sync picture/file platforms (Onedrive, iCloud, gDrive, Dropbox, etc) can do that, can't they? How I understand it, if I (or the platform owner) delete something from one of the synced devices, it
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by em500 4y ago
I don't think offline translation kicks in automatically when you have a bad (as opposed to no ) connection. You can easily verify that it can translate without any connection (both on iOS and Android) by downloading the language a
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by em500 4y ago
Surprisingly, there doesn't seem to be any link on his page to this reconstructed commit history in github https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo
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by em500 4y ago
If you do dev in the cloud, you might as well just get a Chromebook, since you're probably carrying a keyboard with the iPad anyway. And all the recent Chromebooks can also run Android and Linux apps.
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by em500 4y ago
The iPad in the setup described is just running a terminal with SSH. Emacs (and pretty much everything else described in the blog) is running on a remote server running Ubuntu (so I don't know why he even bothers to compile emacs from
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by em500 4y ago
I think his argument even generalizes to literacy in general. Remember that reading and writing skills don't develop naturally (as opposed to spoken language). They require a large educational investment, and used to be reserved for th
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by em500 4y ago
> A lot of people don't need computers in the general purpose sense. I admit my mind boggles a bit when co-workers tell me their kids don't want a computer to do their school papers because their phone is fine. I grew up in the
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by em500 4y ago
You should probably amend this, since this is very misleading to people unfamiliar with the Dutch tax regime. As you are aware, in the Netherlands net wealth (not capital gains / appreciation) is taxable. (Even if you consider the ap
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by em500 4y ago
John Carmack on Twitter: "My younger son said “coding is basically just ifs and for loops.” Which inspired this great cartoon: https://twitter.com/nice_byte/status/1466940940229046273
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by em500 4y ago
Sure, mortgages are the most common example of leverage for non financial pros. But that's also a reason not to use it as an example. Because even if they're levered 9:1 nobody thinks they're wiped out if their house price
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by em500 4y ago
Btw, a great, well known quote from John Kenneth Galbraith (from A Short History of Financial Euphoria ) is: "The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version. All f
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by em500 4y ago
This seems a bit too wordy to demystify the concept. Here's a simpler example. 1. Bank A offers you 5% interest for a 1 year deposit. You deposit $100 of your own money. You are unlevered. Things go well and after a year you receive $1
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by em500 4y ago
As others have noted, this is a legalese/formality issue (copied from ISO-3166), not a political statement. Note that IP ranges from provinces in mainland China are listed as "China", not "Province of China" (e.g.
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by em500 4y ago
FB alone certainly not. Even if these 11k people would be earning on average 300k/year, their combined income would be only around 3B/year. The US national income is around 25.000B/year.
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by em500 4y ago
Yup, as per my other comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=33448802 ), fbprophet is largely tuned for a few years of somewhat regular business data sampled daily (e.g. sales per day). Outside its comfort zone (e.g
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by em500 4y ago
fbprophet is mostly just regression though, with features for trend, yearly and weekly periodicity (smoothed a bit using trigonometric regressors), and holiday features. The only non-standard linear regression part is that it includes a fle
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by em500 4y ago
Would that really help? My guess is that most musicians and song writers also need another paying job to cover the bills?
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by em500 4y ago
> Under the header 'Protect your money', the first bullet point is never use bank tranfers. The first bullet point is "Never send money by bank transfer unless you are absolutely certain you are sending it to someone you
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by em500 4y ago
Ok, I admit that I don't know the particulars of every Euro area bank system. But if you're referring to SEPA Direct Debit, only commercial clients can do that, after going through tons of hoops and paperwork. (In practice, all SE
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by em500 4y ago
1. With bank details I mean name+act number. Of course we are also being told not to share login details etc. But here in the Netherlands tiny businesses and individuals do not hesitate giving you their account number if they expect payment
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by em500 4y ago
1. Europeans are not "constantly being told not to give out our bank details". That's an American thing, apparently due to a quirk that allows anyone with a US bank account number to draw money from that account. Euro banks c
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by em500 4y ago
Indeed, it's a bit puzzling. In Hong Kong, people could freely choose between Sinovac and Comirnaty ("Pfizer" for most in the West, but "Fosun-BioNTech" to those in Hong Kong), both were widely available during the
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by em500 4y ago
MacOS and Windows got built in search around 15 years ago. Anything more advanced would be very niche, so there's probably no market left.
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by em500 4y ago
Same here. These well known drawbacks of the GDP measure are covered in a standard Dutch VWO high school economics textbook (comparable to UK GCSE A-level).
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by em500 4y ago
Would it surprise you then to learn that in every country in the world where medical personel get paid in currency, health care is part of GDP?
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by em500 4y ago
The title/article seems to be a bit of a strawman, AFAICT countries (or their governments / citizens) do not consider the GDP as the one and only measure of national success. Politics are driven by tons of different interest group

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