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by gniv 3y ago
> They're basically there to give VCs a figure head they can point to and claim some new effort to financialize and monopolize another part of our economy is backed by some brilliant ass hole they found somewhere who started this th
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by gniv 3y ago
BTW, this is the pdf with that data: https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs415...
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From the article: I think it is a text book example of the main difference in DNA between Google and Apple: Google is all about crowdsourcing. Apple is all about curation. But how does Apple scale discovering new places with
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by gniv 3y ago
This seems like a win-win for CNET. They get publicity from the news and lots of typical outrage and Google-bashing comments. And if it doesn't improve the ranking as expected, they can always put back the old articles, quietly.
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by gniv 3y ago
The other way to get streetview is to turn it on as a layer on top of the map. You do that by hovering over the square on the bottom left. The most used layer is probably satellite imagery, but I occasionally use traffic and altitude lines
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by gniv 3y ago
How did you get from Advertising Agency to Shady Business? Agencies on Madison Avenue are not generally thought of as shady.
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Yes, mostly very low alcohol iirc (0.5). I am now living in France and the selection in low-alcohol is very limited, mostly German beers.
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> Any beer recommendations? Where? In eastern US, Athletic Brewing makes really good hoppy ales. The ones from Brooklyn Brewery are good too, but a bit heavy for my taste. In continental Europe, Germany has a large selection of lagers, g
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by gniv 3y ago
I was first introduced to 3% beer in Norway. It was crazy expensive (due to taxes on alcohol) and really good. I was disappointed that I couldn't find anything similar in the US.
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I'm not sure you get a full enough taste though. I've made low-alcohol beers with fewer grains and lots of hops and it was unbalanced, the base was not there.
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by gniv 3y ago
> Actually, my impression is that the main driver of that "alcohol free beer taste" is the absence of the taste of alcohol. I think it depends on the style. For hoppy ales Athletic Brewing in the US makes really good beers, you
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by gniv 3y ago
> very low ABV between 0.5 and 2.0% How did they brew such small beers? Nowadays the non-alcoholic beers (basically 0.5%) are mostly made by removing alcohol after brewing, which greatly affects the taste. I think it's a highly desi
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by gniv 3y ago
Once that telescope is in place, can they tell exactly where the asteroid would hit Earth, or is it more like everybody on this hemisphere take cover?
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by gniv 3y ago
The commentary on page 25 -- on Koreans and Korea under Japan rule -- is extraordinary for how unfiltered it is. I suspect most Koreans back then would have objected.
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You might have misunderstood what happened. They changed the duration of the literal week , not the workweek.
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From the first few pages: "As is well known, the Russians now make a work day of Sunday, taking their rest instead every sixth day." Never knew this. Indeed, from another source: "The nepreryvka was supposed to revolutionize
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by gniv 3y ago
> People go into CS to get jobs in software engineering. This is misguided. > CS is really a mathematics major, This is true in many departments, and it's wrong imo. The reasons for the math focus are historical and they perpetua
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by gniv 3y ago
Yes. The actual numbers of graduates with CS degrees: 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 55,271 59,586 64,402 71,416 79,597 88,638 97,054 104,874 Source (same as TFA): https://nces.ed.
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by gniv 3y ago
I feel like if Google really wanted to differentiate itself, it should have never let Bard give that answer. Go all out. The same way Google search always returns something, Bard could too.
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by gniv 3y ago
Just a meta comment: Don't think of calculus as hard in the same way learning a language or learning to paint is hard. Calculus is more of a gotcha moment. You fumble in the dark for a few focused hours (or minutes) and then you Get It
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by gniv 3y ago
"But now online navigation apps are in charge, and they’re causing more problems than they solve." We shouldn't lose perspective. That statement is not even remotely true. Compared to the time and the gas savings, the problem
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Apologies for the slang: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=TFA
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Here's an attempt at making sense of that intuition. Let's compute the volume of a pyramid that's inside a cube. Imagine that you're inside a cube room (this will make it easier to identify the faces). You are sitting in
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by gniv 3y ago
In certain places almost all Uber/Lyft/taxi drivers prefer Waze. It's more aggressive with driving directions, has a good UI for speed traps and accidents, and a few other features useful when driving.
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by gniv 3y ago
So much talk about the rule but not much about enforcement. To me most of the scenarios are breaking the rule, but what happens afterwards depends: emergency vehicles, wheelchairs, toys get a pass. Bicycles either get a pass or a warning. C
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> backup cameras are mandated by law in the USA I used to think that was a good idea. But now I have a car with both backup camera and sensors, and I find myself relying much more on the sensors than the camera. It helps that the impleme
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by gniv 3y ago
Also just realized Noam is a founder of this site. Nice way to create buzz.
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Interesting details on the negotiations, especially the lack of chemistry with the Facebook teams.
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I felt the same way about chemistry in high school. I only cared about math really. Recently, 30+ years later, I got interested in human physiology and ended up reading chemistry. Really basic stuff, since I had forgotten the little I knew.
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I think this is the featurette mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F9z0nQTt8A

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