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by gertef 9y ago
Nothing in Jobs' quote says "everything remain unchanged"
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by gertef 9y ago
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/34899 Not quite. The IT aide did say that the email (which was an imitation of a real "You've already been hacked" email template) was legitimate, but di
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by gertef 9y ago
It's funny that they are being honest about the likely contents of the cache? "both authentic and falsified documents" was speculated in the DNC/Russia hacks, and also claimed to be the Russia Today strategy abotu news,
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by gertef 9y ago
Putin is not the only autocrat or autocrat-wannabe. Not even close. There's shades of a tech anology: remember teh 1990s when Microsoft was the big bad monopoly, and it crushed competitors such as democratic Linux, and also... Apple, w
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by gertef 9y ago
Do you happen to know the chances of "being slashed by a 14 yo gang-member in USA", or did you just invent an example?
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by gertef 9y ago
How many murders is a reasonable amount?
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by gertef 9y ago
If I had leukemia, I'd love some possibly-mad-cow-tainted blood/marrow from an otherwise healthy donor.
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by gertef 9y ago
Can you use a neural network to discover a formula for Easter date?
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by gertef 9y ago
That smells like over-fitting: >For every $1,000 a representative received from corporations supporting net neutrality, like Google or Netflix, they were 24 percent more likely to vote for it. For every $1,000 from companies opposing it,
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by gertef 9y ago
Baking an apple pie is a ridiculous conceit. Just use cookie fragrance spray: https://demeterfragrance.com/chocolate-chip-cookie.html
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by gertef 9y ago
> While Volcker had used high interest rates to engineer a crushing recession at the start of Reagan’s first term, he then allowed the economy to expand rapidly just in time to carry Reagan to a landslide reelection in 1984. Is it reall
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by gertef 9y ago
> Paul Hudak Ah :-) > memorial symposium Oh no :-(
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by gertef 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obstruction_of_justice#Obstruc...
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by gertef 9y ago
The only investment a human can make is in their genetic future. Everything else (money, power) is in service of that.
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by gertef 9y ago
Spot on. You reinvented the World Bank https://www.one.org/international/issues/debt-cancellation/ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marcelo-giugale/does-debt-forg...
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by gertef 9y ago
> "be human" "The key is authenticity. If you can fake that, you can acheive anything."
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by gertef 9y ago
fun fact: Flickr was originally created as a social video game, but the photo-sharing component overshadowed the game component. Flickr users weren't obsessed with lens quality, they were obsessed with good looking pictures. Facebook s
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by gertef 9y ago
> don't respond to features in Google Photos By the time GPhotos launched, was there anybody still invested in the rotting carcass of Flickr? I bought Flickr Pro almost 10 years ago and immediately regretted my decision when they b
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by gertef 9y ago
That's why I chose not to attend a religious university (run by the most profitable religion cartel in the USA) in order to obtain a scientific education.
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by gertef 9y ago
Any college worth attending doesn't make homework a condition of your grades. If your class can be beaten by an "answer key" you aren't teaching/testing anything important.
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by gertef 9y ago
How much funding did you seek for a chess education company?
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by gertef 9y ago
He didn't get directly involved; he forwarded a misrouted message to the relevant team.
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by gertef 9y ago
In my experience, pople like to use their time and expend effort to research the optimal solution instead of implementing any solution, ignoring the waste cost of their research and ignoring that "research" is a sneaky way to avoi
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by gertef 9y ago
It's not that hard. You don't need to dig into the implemetnation, just look at the interface: when you book a ticket, you are presented with the option of purchasing upgraded seating (economy plus, bulkhead, exit row -- not just
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by gertef 9y ago
I remember seeing legroom on Orbitz/Kayak/whoever in the past, but I don't see it now.
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by gertef 9y ago
Your second sentence should be in quotation marks to clarify that your comment is debunking it.
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by gertef 9y ago
"homeopathic" is a specific term that denotes a specific discredited (pseudo)scientific concept, that has been analyzed. "toxin" is an general term that encompasses many established entities as well as phony ones. When y
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by gertef 9y ago
Of course 10 is the only radix http://cowbirdsinlove.com/43
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by gertef 9y ago
The encoding of all books written so far (and will ever be written in finite time), is a rational number. Don't need Reals
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by gertef 9y ago
The measure of epsilon is 0. Proof: what else could it be? If it's not 0, there's a smaller number, contradicting your (intuitive) definition of epsilon.

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