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by erikig 8y ago
I keep coming back to that article everytime someone talks about big data :)
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by erikig 9y ago
Thanks for this - pasting to and from Word/docx or PDF has always been painful and this makes things much smoother :))
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by erikig 9y ago
Sometimes the medium is just as important as the content and for this I've come to love the Texture app. It isn't absolutely perfect but when it comes to consuming magazines like The Atlantic, Harper's Bazaar, Dwell, Mother J
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by erikig 9y ago
I agree - I'm always in awe of their ability to boil down a complex issue into an comprehensible tidbit that makes it easy to consume and track.
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by erikig 9y ago
Damn you Tobias Frere-Jones, rolling around in your font wealth!
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by erikig 9y ago
I certainly hope not, there are a lot of great comments above that read as both honest and smart.
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Li Ka-shing Retires at 89(bloomberg.com)
2 points by erikig 9y ago|0 comments
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by erikig 9y ago
"When done right, satire is virtually indistinguishable from truth" - erikig
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by erikig 9y ago
I’ve been a fan of half-life based ratings/reviews because they allow improvement by increasing the weight of recent input - this feels somewhat similar.
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by erikig 9y ago
The same payout model is implemented on https://steemit.com - take a look there as well.
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by erikig 9y ago
Most new social networks suffer from this issue early on, the only solution is mass adoption and curation which the STEEM seems to be working toward.
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by erikig 9y ago
I'm always looking for evidence of planned obsolescense [1] but I didn't realize how effectively it has been implemented by "Big Pantyhose" and that move to buy out and phase out a superior product - deviously brilliant!
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by erikig 9y ago
Technically, these people are hedging their portfolios. Just like insurance premiums don't create anything during periods of zero losses (they may actually seem like a loss themselves), holding these leveraged VIX ETFs can be used to p
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by erikig 9y ago
This is true, looking at the chart for XIV if the placed this bet every month for the last couple of years they may actually be down. https://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=XIV&ty=c&ta=0&p=m
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by erikig 9y ago
I need a human, a banana or a skyscraper for scale. The provided pictures make it tough to tell how large the actual vessel is.
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by erikig 9y ago
I loved that diagram titled "Instability of an unsteered bicycle"
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by erikig 9y ago
I find this claim hard to believe - what products are you using to make the comparison?
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by erikig 9y ago
If I were launching a spy satellite this is exactly what I would report as soon as it was launched.
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U.S. Spy Satellite Reportedly 'Write Off' After Failing to Reach Orbit(npr.org)
2 points by erikig 9y ago|2 comments
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by erikig 9y ago
A talk about anonymization networks beyond Tor (JonDonym, I2P, Freenet, GNUnet, Loopix, Vuvuzela and Riffle) in case anyone is intrigued but can't get the video to load.
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by erikig 9y ago
Works buttery smooth on Chrome 53 on Android over a cell connection (90ms latency). Can't wait to review on desktop to view the WebSocket traffic!
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by erikig 9y ago
The UHD, HDR and Movie Modes for most of these tv/monitors seem to modify the picture a little too much. These are usually the first to get disabled when I'm using them for desktop use.
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by erikig 9y ago
If I had Geely money, I'd buy AeroMobil as well - https://www.aeromobil.com , their flying car is fly.
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by erikig 9y ago
The faustian bargain that writers of web performance articles make: use a minimal static platform that's fast and get minimal coverage and analytics or use a slower fully fledged platform that offers a built-in audience, analytics and
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by erikig 9y ago
I love this, for budding visual artists it is a great way to see how basic shapes and seemingly simple colors come together to create evocative images.
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by erikig 9y ago
This is pretty great, I will see if we can use it for our conference calls as well. Could you share some of the technical details behind the project?
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by erikig 9y ago
The autocorrect/fuzzy search is a little too aggressive. For instance searching for "PHP" or "REPL" yielded results with "PHD" and "Real..."
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by erikig 9y ago
Which hackathon was this?
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by erikig 9y ago
Growing up in East Africa, this reminds me a lot of our attitude towards time. In addition, in Swahili time is relative to sunrise which further complicates things: https://youtu.be/L2mekalOTas?t=1m25s
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by erikig 9y ago
With recent advances in neural nets that can mimic a speakers voice and tone and with this advance who knows what fake news this will begin to create.

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