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by frankosaurus 10y ago
On Talking Book's album opener (and #1 hit), You Are the Sunshine of my Life, Stevie let background vocalists sing the opening lines. That always seemed incredibly cool and selfless to me.
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by frankosaurus 10y ago
Perhaps a fleet of self-driving cars could reconfigure on-demand. e.g. Customer orders a self-driving car with 1 infant car seat. A robot bolts-in a modular infant car seat at the depot and sends it off.
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by frankosaurus 10y ago
Good question. From TFA: there was no significant difference in complaints between officers wearing cameras that week and those going without This suggested to me that it was the study, not the cameras, that caused the reduction in compla
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by frankosaurus 10y ago
Walking past senior citizens whiling away hours at Vegas slot machines, I've often wondered how things would be different if they'd grown up in a time of ubiquitous video games. Will today's generation, who spends time playin
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by frankosaurus 10y ago
Similar situation here... I just purchased a refurbished L420 which arrives today. Hopefully they re-flash the firmware as a matter of course.
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by frankosaurus 11y ago
This was predicted: http://a16z.com/2014/02/07/love-affair-with-tablet-is-over/
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by frankosaurus 11y ago
Does Binge On subsume Music Freedom? The latter let me stream Spotify and Google Play Music without counting against my data cap. However, something changed around November 2015 whereby Spotify, Pandora, Google Play Music, et al cease to fu
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by frankosaurus 11y ago
Read the Experimental Method section. The experimenters conducted monthly hour-long observations of families. We don't know how often these parents conversed with their kids outside these observation periods.
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by frankosaurus 11y ago
> I suspect that behavior itself is intrinsic to humans. Sounds like Anchoring https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring
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by frankosaurus 11y ago
Really cool. You could generate all kinds of interesting art with this. I can't help but think of people who report seeing faces in their toast. Humans are biased towards seeing faces in randomness. A neural network trained on millions
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by frankosaurus 11y ago
NYT had an interesting recent article "1.5 Million Missing Black Men", which discusses the socio-economic consequences in communities with a scarcity of men.
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by frankosaurus 12y ago
Kahneman's talk at Google summarized the first 2 chapters pretty well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjVQJdIrDJ0 I strongly recommend it for anyone who doesn't have time to read the book. As for the book itself,
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by frankosaurus 12y ago
Auto companies and oil do have some common enemies. For example, mass transit is a threat to both.
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by frankosaurus 12y ago
> It might be instructive to look at how AOL lost out to the larger web FB just hit 1.23 billion monthly actives. AOL peaked at ~26 million [US] subscribers. FB's network effect is much stronger than AOL ever had. Also, AOL was heav
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by frankosaurus 12y ago
Reading your post, I couldn't help but think of the web usability classic "Don't Make Me Think". We've been working for over a decade to make computer use as mindless, er, easy as possible.
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by frankosaurus 12y ago
I suspect that technology can be a great learning tool if: 1) The computing environment encourages kids to practice problem solving, critical thinking, and systematizing. 2) The kids are intrinsically motivated to spend their "screen&q
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by frankosaurus 12y ago
Solar panels would be fantastic at my townhouse in San Jose, where the sun shines 300 days a year. Unfortunately, my HOA bans rooftop solar panels.
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by frankosaurus 12y ago
The current pricing has the potential to cut down waste. If your metro card has zero balance, you may as well toss it out. If you're carrying a balance, you'll refill it at one of the kiosks.
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by frankosaurus 12y ago
> Achievements that Internet companies seem to pull off effortlessly are tougher than Mars probes for federal agencies. Survivorship bias.
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by frankosaurus 12y ago
I went with glass for the first 6 months. Unfortunately, it was impossible to find a daycare that would accept glass bottles. They wouldn't touch them due to risk of breakage. We went with polypropylene after that.
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by frankosaurus 12y ago
In multi-threaded environments, immutable objects are thread-safe. When multiple threads are sharing data, you would normally have to worry about synchronization. However, immutable data structures guarantee that the shared data will not ch
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by frankosaurus 12y ago
Yeah, chrome profiles is the answer. I typically have two chrome windows open, one with my work account and one for personal. Each is linked to the corresponding Google account. This gives the advantage of chrome sync (bookmark sync, etc.)
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by frankosaurus 12y ago
I had high hopes for this, as I sometimes need to manually transcribe serial numbers from customers' screenshots. However, it seems to confuse letter O and number 0. Since serial numbers are not English words, I'm not sure how you
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by frankosaurus 13y ago
Generally, I agree. I worked on one website where we made a pre-prod version public but restricted by IP. We had a load test vendor (whose IPs were whitelisted) hammer the site from locations worldwide. This let us compare latency from, say
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by frankosaurus 13y ago
I've read many articles recently that make similar claims. Chapter 10 of NurtureShock talks about this. Anecdotally, the idea seems to be growing in popularity idea among my fellow parents. One way to capitalize on this would be to cre
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by frankosaurus 14y ago
This will be great once we can all agree on what is healthy! CSPI (mentioned in the article) campaigned hard in the 80s for fast food restaurants to switch from lard to cholesterol-free 100% vegetable oil. After all, back then, cholesterol
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by frankosaurus 14y ago
If subsidies were put in place for fresh fruit, agribusiness would switch from corn sugar to sugar extracted and refined from, say, grapes. The end result is that the market finds a cheap way to put large quantities of sugar in foods. These
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by frankosaurus 14y ago
Not that anyone reads newspapers anymore, but my local paper (San Jose Mercury News) is definitely guilty of this. Nearly every Apple product launch is front page news, and almost always glowingly positive. Other valley companies? Not so mu
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by frankosaurus 15y ago
IMO, the real reason for this comment is to avoid sounding anti-competitive. Even innocuous comments about market position or market leadership can come back to bite a company in an antitrust lawsuit.
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by frankosaurus 16y ago
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