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by fnbr 10y ago
The word is "obsolescence." (I wouldn't be able to say it any any other language!)
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by fnbr 10y ago
I tried to install it, but it's US only. Any idea why that would be? This seems like something that could easily be rolled out worldwide. Is it a language support issue? (i.e. in Canada, they would have to support the French keyboard).
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by fnbr 10y ago
I think you're right. But if you draw a straight line from Fort McMurray to Montana, it passes very close to Edmonton, so I doubt they'd see smoke in Montana from Fort McMurray while Edmonton has no smoke.
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by fnbr 10y ago
I doubt the smoke you're seeing is from Fort McMurray. I live in Edmonton and we have beautiful clear skies- no smoke to be seen.
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by fnbr 10y ago
GDP per capita is the relevant metric here, as it's a much better gauge of how much money each person has. Using that metric, Brazil ranks 76th [0]. Ranking countries by nominal GDP [1] gives a lopsided view of the world's economy
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by fnbr 10y ago
> Is it really that easy to enter finance at that level (or at all), or even get a job at Google for $200k/year? I think it is when you condition on the fact that someone is a professor at Berkeley/CMU. Roughly 5% of applicants
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by fnbr 11y ago
Thanks- that's really useful.
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by fnbr 11y ago
What does the -- option do? I haven't encountered that before.
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by fnbr 11y ago
> The amount of shell and build scripts on Unix-likes that die horrible deaths when encountering spaces is not funny. That's so accurate. I used to write shell scripts with command $1 until I got a few too many nasty surpri
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by fnbr 11y ago
This is the exact reason why Google is so valuable- when I use Google, I'm actively searching for something, so I'm happy to see relevant ads in my search results. If I search "bike shop London," I want to find a bike sh
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by fnbr 11y ago
The problem that I see is that people are heavily rewarded by being leaders, and so sell themselves as leaders even when the group incentive isn't there. I encountered this extensively in university, when seemingly every student was tr
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by fnbr 11y ago
Please don't do this. You're much more likely to get your friend in trouble with Amazon and have the police called on you.
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by fnbr 11y ago
Hey, just FYI, your posts are getting killed for some weird reason. See: http://imgur.com/FmBkqgo
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by fnbr 11y ago
Oh, that's fair. My mistake then.
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by fnbr 11y ago
I had a "US taxi non-service" experience in Toulouse, France, earlier this year. Taxi arrived late, no credit card payment accepted and we were gouged on price. Same experience in Brussels. Uber, on the other hand, worked exceptio
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by fnbr 11y ago
Your post is technically correct, but I think that you'd be likelier to explore more- say, 80% of the graph. I suspect that there are small pockets of extremely unconnected people which creates a long tail, distorting the mean.
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by fnbr 11y ago
That's a good question, and an aspect that I didn't consider. I'd be interested in hearing the answer if you find it.
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by fnbr 11y ago
Actually, I don't think the statistics are remotely similar (at least in the UK). In London, for instance, every single cyclist death in 2015 has been due to the cyclist getting crushed by a truck. [1] I don't know about the US, b
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by fnbr 11y ago
Smoothness isn't necessary to prove the result, just continuity. You do need smoothness to prove a bound on the rate of convergence of the basis representation, and given that the boundary of the Mandelbrot doesn't have a closed f
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by fnbr 11y ago
I think you're correct. That's one of the issues with results from theoretical math- the result is true, but it might not be useful. As another commenter in the thread talks about, we can get a nearly identical result by using pol
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by fnbr 11y ago
I agree with you within the framework of at-will employment. However, at-will employment is, IMO, entirely unreasonable. While Europe seems to have gone too far in terms of labour requirements, the US (and Canada, where I'm from) could
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by fnbr 11y ago
"Get Things Done" It's a popular book [1] discussing a system of how to be more productive. [1]: http://gettingthingsdone.com/
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by fnbr 11y ago
Can you still buy them newly produced, or is that the cost for old inventory? I believe it's the latter, which is an artificially low cost- it doesn't reflect the cost of manufacturing, but rather is the highest price that the mar
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by fnbr 11y ago
I suspect there's a vast difference in quality between the batteries used here and those used in, say, the iPhone 6. I might be naive, but I doubt that Apple is gouging consumers that badly.
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by fnbr 11y ago
I'd be more interested in downloading it if the iTunes page included actual screenshots, and not just marketing material. As it stands, I have no idea what the app looks like, and the description doesn't matter to me as I don&#x27
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by fnbr 11y ago
Presumably it's now owned by his estate, like the rest of his assets.
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by fnbr 11y ago
Can this be found online? I'd love to read that.
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by fnbr 11y ago
Why do you want/need an incubator? Pleenq seems like an idea that's very easy to bootstrap.
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by fnbr 12y ago
It does, though, in at least two ways: 1. There's little reason (a prior) to think that there would be much higher variance in the level of manufacturing defects than with any other consumer product, so knowing the average provides a p
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by fnbr 12y ago
Whoops, you're right. That's embarrassing. I naively assumed Toyota was representative of the industry as a whole. You make a good point. I could see Tesla being worth somewhere in the magnitude of $10-50 billion, but not $75. [1]

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