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freyir
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> Most people won't be able to understand, let alone care, about your research? The intended audience is other researchers in your field, not the general public. Your reputation as an academic or researcher rest on your publicatio
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> And that also means you need 30% fewer employees to manage the same workload. God forbid. Didn't we learn our lesson from the plow, the cotton gin, or the combine? All those jobs needlessly lost. If we don't learn from hist
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9y ago
But it doesn't show its work.
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Amazon, Microsoft, Starbucks, Nordstrom, umbrellas.
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9y ago
It could be Trump rhetoric, if it were a little less coherent and drew from a smaller vocabulary.
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It's not blackmail. He locked himself out of his account, and Amazon is erring on the side of caution before turning off services and shutting down accounts. While it might be a nuisance to get a document notarized, it's not some
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> they supposedly have one of the hardest dev interview processes. People that work there are on top of their game. The one thing I've heard consistently from the start is that they pay poorly. Generally, the best people don'
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Yeah, I agree. It's extremely realistic.
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You can easily blow his claim out of the water by showing a video that is fully computer rendered but looks real. Parts of the video you offered look very realistic, but the content breaks the sense of realism, e.g., vegetables shattering i
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> then there are two cases: Isn't it interesting that we have five senses, when we could just have one that works in 100% of the cases? A third option is a system based on multi-sensory inputs. Several inputs that are just margina
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Maybe I look uncharitable, but I very rarely run into panhandlers in San Francisco. Perhaps it depends on the neighborhood. In the Tenderloin and parts of SOMA, there is an abundance of drug addicts and people with mental health issues livi
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That's like saying our eyes are useless because we can't see in the dark.
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They may have painted themselves into a corner by saying the current hardware is sufficient for "full self-driving capabilities." The worst case is they're putting half-baked solutions on the road.
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If 95% of their customers left, then 5% of their customers would remain and... Well, if they shut off 95% of their servers... Are we profitable yet?
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If only we could all aspire to affect the world like Snapchat.
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> More information in the system = greater efficiency. More information does not always increase market efficiency. In fact, it can have just the opposite effect when there is information asymmetry. https://en.wikipedia.or
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> You say "overpay" but if the user pays for it then that would have been an efficient price This says nothing of the possibility that one party has a lot of information, and the other party has relatively little information,
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Actually, the verb should be plural and the title "A growing number of traders are betting..." is correct. See the Oxford Dictionaries website for reference: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/explore/number-
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No, that's ridiculous. We must all be able live affordably in LA, and on a small peninsula in California, and on an island in New York. If we can't all get cheap housing there, there's something deeply troubling about our nat
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The author is casting the white characters in a good light, conveniently ignoring all of their deep flaws, and fixating on the flaws of the non-white characters. "Meanwhile, Pakistani immigrant Dinesh spectacularly screwed up both a C
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Google has been a big holdout within the community, and by continually releasing Python-based machine learning software without Python 3 support, they've helped slow its adoption in that field. Otherwise, most of the community has move
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Uninformed people.
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No, it's the previous next whatever now.
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You piqued my curiosity. Here are the nutrition facts from their drink product: Calories 400 Total Fat 21g 32% Saturated Fat 2g 10% Polyunsaturated Fat 2.5g Monounsaturated Fat 16g Trans Fat 0g Choleste
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I thought this screenshot may have been from an early and outdated rollout of the Rich Snippets, but no, I just searched and Google still says a quarter is worth 50 cents.
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AIDs, cancer, etc., is great, but what about male pattern baldness?
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I've certainly known some 1/10x programmers. I'm a 10x programmer by comparison.
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Maybe they would rise. In that case, why do they feel the need to do it?
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> they could get similar offers and opportunities without an HBS stamp Many HBS students work as analysts at management consultancies prior to their MBA, and their employers send them to HBS before promoting them to consultant. What ha
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> HBS is full of analysts and consultants from those firms and institutions taking a pit stop on their way to partner. Many get their MBA to help them move up from analyst to consultant. Most won't make partner, but many will spin
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