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by gregw134 8y ago
Epigenetics and horizontal gene transfer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_gene_transfer
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by gregw134 9y ago
Really cool. It uses silver iodide though. How much silver would need to be consumed to make this work? That probably won't be cheap.
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by gregw134 9y ago
How exactly are you going to only pay 9.3% income tax in the US?
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by gregw134 9y ago
Same here. It took me going though 3 computers in about 4 years to see the point of paying more for good build quality. Installed linux on it. Unlike a mac it has an nvidia gpu so you can train neural networks on it (and yes it got hot enou
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by gregw134 9y ago
Sure, cross breed humans with a ridiculously strong animal with a propensity for murder. Great idea.
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by gregw134 9y ago
Last time I was out the hospital they had robots running around to just to pick up towels. Robots are great and all, but that's a symptom of not managing costs.
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by gregw134 9y ago
People don't ever talk about this, but we still grow rice in California. To grow rice you have to flood a field in several inches of water.
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by gregw134 9y ago
I'll second that. As someone who once worked on fingerprinting scripts I can tell you that iPhones of the same model are basically indistinguishable to Javascript.
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by gregw134 9y ago
Yeah definitely read The Robber Barons. It covers all the major tycoons of the 19th century and their financial shenanigans. A surprisingly exciting read, full of wicked deeds. To tell one story from the book, there was a battle over a rai
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by gregw134 9y ago
The United States used to hold stockholders accountable back in the late 19th century, when there were many more fraudulent and poorly run industrial and railroad companies. As a result, shareholders were so afraid of liability they gave th
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by gregw134 9y ago
Could you give us an idea of how that could work? I can't even begin to imagine how that could be done.
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by gregw134 9y ago
Does it make sense that equities would fall? It seems to me that interest rates on bonds should rise as the Fed adds to the supply of bonds, which should cause less investment in equities as bonds become more attractive.
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by gregw134 9y ago
Can't we assume everything you do on an iPhone is also tracked?
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by gregw134 9y ago
Give me a phone like you describe that also doesn't track you and I'm sold.
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Current Reddit AMA with Authors of Claude Shannon Book(reddit.com)
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by gregw134 9y ago
There's a good write-up here, which claims the bill only applies to corporations and not individuals. (Which is still inexcusable of course). http://www.thedailybeast.com/pay-no-mind-to-the-fake-ruckus-...
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by gregw134 9y ago
Let's hope visa doesn't convince society that getting rid of cash is the future. Not only would that be a terrible blow to privacy, it would entrench the need to pay Visa or another credit card company 2% of every transaction.
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by gregw134 9y ago
Come on hacker news, fix your css.
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by gregw134 9y ago
Why does it need to recognize specific types of animals? It seems like bad programming practice to code (or learn) for each specific case. Is there not a way to program cars to avoid animals more broadly, or simply objects that are moving t
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by gregw134 9y ago
We definitely need a well designed website or search engine for learning materials. I've wanted an algorithmic way to figure out the most useful websites to learn a topic. Perhaps if you had data on which websites users bookmarked, you
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by gregw134 9y ago
This doesn't prove that smog is the cause. Perhaps the people in smoggier districts had lower education levels and didn't stay as mentally active in old age? There are too many other variables that could be at fault.
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by gregw134 9y ago
It's interesting.
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by gregw134 9y ago
Which is why we need instant-runoff voting in the US, so we can vote for third party candidates but still choose between the top two candidates if our preferred candidate loses.
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by gregw134 9y ago
Sounds interesting. Could you give us a quick summary?
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by gregw134 9y ago
Everything at Trader Joe's is delicious, plus they have $3 wine that actually tastes good.
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by gregw134 9y ago
Walmart has less than 3% profit margin. It'd go bankrupt if it paid its employees $15/hour.
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by gregw134 9y ago
I suppose the follow up question is, what will replace this once enterprise SSDs start replacing spinning disks?
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by gregw134 9y ago
Sounds believable to me. If you don't know what you're doing you can easily waste six months setting up a hadoop cluster with ingestion.
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by gregw134 9y ago
Jeremy your fast.ai course was amazing. Any idea when/if there's going to be a part 2?
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by gregw134 10y ago
You can get a decent house (3 bedrooms, large yard) for 150k in many Midwestern cities as long as you're willing to live in the suburbs.

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