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by ghc 5y ago
That's what this thread is about. Parent of my comment was disputing that prediction from the article, and I presented a counter-argument.
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by ghc 5y ago
If you think about what they didn't have in 1822 that they did have in 1922: - Radio - Movies - Motorized Rail Transit - Airplanes - Blimps - Recorded Audio - Electrification (esp. lighting) - Telephony - Cars - Subways - Fax - Early T
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by ghc 5y ago
New England. I've never paid enough attention when traveling to notice (those words aren't exactly the most common to hear), but when I say "woom" my lips end closed, and when I say "womb" my lips end opened af
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by ghc 5y ago
Wait, what? None of those have a silent B, at least in my region. Are there places that pronounce the same as womb as "woom"?
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by ghc 5y ago
Sentenai | Front-end | Full-time | Remote (USA) | US Citizens Only Sentenai helps subject matter experts make realtime decisions using data from sensors, machines and logs. Our autonomous data engineering technology is used by equipment tes
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by ghc 5y ago
The author founded and ran a blockchain company for years, has done conference talks on modern cryptography you can find on youtube, and wrote an open source zero knowledge proof library.
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by ghc 5y ago
Sentenai | Remote (USA) | US CITIZENS ONLY | jobs@sentenai.com At Sentenai, we're helping data teams in US Department of Defense process and analyze data from remote sensing systems. Our temporal data fusion platform autonomously organ
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by ghc 5y ago
That's not really true until an equity round these days. Companies who raise seed rounds on SAFEs and notes often avoid having a board. In the portfolio of my firm, that situation accounts for just over half of the initial seed investm
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by ghc 5y ago
Sentenai | Remote (USA) | US CITIZENS ONLY | jobs@sentenai.com At Sentenai, we're helping data teams in US Department of Defense process and analyze data from remote sensing systems. Our temporal data fusion platform autonomously organ
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by ghc 5y ago
Sentenai | Multiple Roles | Remote (US) | Full-time | US citizens only Sentenai helps organizations make decisions at the speed of their data. Our data fusion platform uses autonomous data engineering to organize data from sensors, logs, ma
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by ghc 5y ago
Sentenai | Multiple Roles | Remote (US) | Full-time | US citizens only Sentenai helps organizations make decisions at the speed of their data. Our data fusion platform uses autonomous data engineering to organize data from sensors, logs, ma
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by ghc 5y ago
Ironically I submitted a link to the original paper but the mods (in their infinite wisdom) changed my submission to point at a guardian article.
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by ghc 5y ago
Yes, the actual title was ~20 characters too long for the Hacker News submission form. Unfortunately most people wouldn’t know what AMOC stands for, but everyone knows what the gulf stream is.
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Observation-based early-warning signals for a collapse of the Gulf Stream(theguardian.com)
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by ghc 5y ago
> Boston home buyers have only one requirement: a home to buy. Not in my experience. In my building 4 of 6 units have been sold in the past year. All of them sold below or at original purchase price 2 years ago when it was new constructi
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by ghc 5y ago
This article really opened my eyes to Gorey’s work! When I was growing up I knew Gorey as an older, somewhat eccentric local author who was something like a family friend. Until now I ever realized he was famous. I never really understood h
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by ghc 5y ago
from TFA: > Biden also said that although U.S. intelligence had found no evidence to link the attack with the Russian government, he believed the country had "some responsibility to deal with" the issue since some evidence did
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by ghc 5y ago
My wife is an immunologist who works on this at BioNTech. She explained it to me that this is expected and the data matches it. She explained why as well but there's a big gap in my undergrad-level understanding of bio and her phd + ye
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by ghc 5y ago
This is highly atypical, but they are probably worried. They just created a geopolitical incident that Russia has to clean up, and I would imagine there will be consequences for the group.
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by ghc 5y ago
Interestingly, the mRNA vaccines produce superior immunity compared to getting infected, due mainly to the two dose regimen. For similarly long-lasting natural immunity you'd probably need to get infected with covid twice.
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by ghc 5y ago
When I said "because they like you" I didn't mean as a person. Hopefully people don't misinterpret. In my experience, investors (especially at the seed stage) don't just pass deals around because they're "
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by ghc 5y ago
I think GP is just referencing the article because it seems daunting to many founders to "know" 20-30 quality investors. The investor who wrote this piece is a well known seed stage investor, so when he says "meet with 20-30
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by ghc 5y ago
If you have the network it's easy. The hard truth is VC is not a meritocracy -- it's privilege-based. To elaborate a little further, investors of quality tend to network and pass deals around to each other. Getting enough money ro
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by ghc 5y ago
Only works at later stages, as far as I know (as an early stage investor). I don't know any early stage VCs who would take a company intro from a banker. Edit: Not that early stage companies don't hire bankers. Checking my email,
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by ghc 6y ago
> September 15, 2005 — ScanSoft acquired and merged with Nuance Communications, of Menlo Park, California, for $221 million. > October 18, 2005 — the company changed its name to Nuance Communications, Inc. So Nuance was worth ~$220MM
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by ghc 6y ago
Keep in mind that the company named Nuance is a big, 30 year old public company with a lot of products, which acquired Nuance and changed its name in 2005. According to Wikipedia they did $2 Billion USD in revenue in 2016 and had $5.7 Billi
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by ghc 6y ago
Personalized medicine has been tested for years in clinical trials. Trials require tens -- not tens-of-thousands -- of volunteers. Personalized therapies are being used to treat cancer patients right now, and using machine learning to find
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by ghc 6y ago
I certainly wasn't claiming most people remember the war of 1812 -- I was just stating that it's not as if the events are glossed over or not taught in school. It is well covered in early American history curriculum; it just gets
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by ghc 6y ago
Pretty much every child in the US learns about the war of 1812 and the burning of the white house. Many 8th grade history textbooks even perpetuate the myth that it's painted white to cover the damage from the burning. But it's no
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by ghc 6y ago
There are actually a number of data models that the relational model doesn't handle well, and it's unclear if it's really even the best model. Back when I was in database research most of our projects focused on domains where

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