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by gthank 16y ago
Actually, most of the people least able to defend themselves walk out on it, just as the hospitals expect, because they have the least to lose. When you're already horribly impoverished, what does one more bill that you'll never be able to
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by gthank 16y ago
The way it works is they bill outrageous amounts in the expectation that they will either be totally stiffed or have to negotiate a much lower settlement (which is essentially what insurance companies do, AFAIK). In the rare case where some
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by gthank 16y ago
That's too bad about emacs. I was really starting to like him. ;-)
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by gthank 16y ago
He seems to be arguing that you shouldn't handicap the computer by removing one of its advantages, but they've already handicapped the humans by removing lots of their advantages: at least in the parts I've seen, there have been no audio or
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by gthank 16y ago
My point is that a human nervous system is MUCH slower than Watson's equivalent. It is probable (don't know, but it seems likely) that it is more variable, as well. As such, under the current rules, Watson has an overwhelming advantage. If
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by gthank 16y ago
You're right: consistently being 6x faster on the buzzer than the common case for your opponent is going to let you destroy them. Their only hope is that you can't come up with a response before Alex finishes reading the question. I arrived
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by gthank 16y ago
This. A thousand times this. Watson absolutely CRUSHED the human players on pretty much every question that was basic facts. I know Watson can probably generate answers faster than humans on simple search stuff, but it seemed so bad at some
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by gthank 16y ago
Since we're swapping anecdotes: I'd guesstimate 75% of the fixed-bid projects I worked on back when I worked for a consulting shop barely broke even or actively lost money. Estimating the project well enough to make a profitable bid is hard
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Safe Harbor for Negative Externalities(bitworking.org)
4 points by gthank 16y ago|0 comments
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by gthank 16y ago
It's also typically a huge win for the employees: at a pre-IPO company, your stock isn't really worth very much, because it's hard to find somebody to buy it (for most employees). So instead of paying taxes for a highly illiquid asset, you
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by gthank 16y ago
H.264 is not new. All those Flash videos? They're almost certainly encoded in H.264.
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Eavesdropping on GSM Calls(schneier.com)
30 points by gthank 16y ago|7 comments
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2012: Beginning of the End or Why the World Won't End?(nasa.gov)
1 points by gthank 16y ago|0 comments
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by gthank 16y ago
In fact they can, but it has never happened. The relevant text is here: http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html#Article5 . The basic idea is that 2/3 of the state legislatures must call a Constitutional Convention, where the Amendment(s)
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by gthank 16y ago
http://www.vimeo.com/ ?
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by gthank 16y ago
The scenario explicitly says he didn't show up to drink with the other nine.
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by gthank 16y ago
No, they weren't. According to the "Release Notes", they were using a DES-based crypt scheme. Read up on tptacek's ( http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tptacek ) comments on the matter.
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by gthank 16y ago
They were using a DES-based variant of crypt (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypt_(Unix)#Traditional_DES-ba... ), not actually encrypting the passwords.
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by gthank 16y ago
Removing the GIL was one of the explicit goals as originally conceived, but was dropped when it was realized how difficult it would be (source: http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/wiki/ProjectPlan#Gl... ).
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Back to school(raganwald.posterous.com)
8 points by gthank 16y ago|0 comments
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by gthank 16y ago
Does anyone know of startups that put this advice into practice?
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Stop Killing Innovation(taosecurity.blogspot.com)
3 points by gthank 16y ago|0 comments
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Why I feel like a fraud(blog.asmartbear.com)
266 points by gthank 16y ago|74 comments
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The continuous integration I want(alexgaynor.net)
5 points by gthank 16y ago|0 comments
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by gthank 16y ago
I think the point was not that the government is preventing a Wal-Mart-level success story, but that organized crime was preventing a Wal-Mart-level success story. Say what you want about Wal-Mart (I avoid them like the plague just because
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by gthank 16y ago
Sorry about the misunderstanding. At a guess, I'd say they mostly just mean J.D. and M.D. degrees. Those are the ones most commonly lumped in with Ph.D.s, probably due to the amount of time you need to spend getting them.
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by gthank 16y ago
It's all subjective, but for me the usability enhancements of GMail are far, FAR more than evolutionary.
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by gthank 16y ago
Professional degrees are degrees that are designed to prepare you for a specific profession. Those professions typically involve government regulation, with said regulation commonly requiring the degree in question. It's often used to indic
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Sexism in the Software Industry, as Encountered by the Cranky Product Manager(crankypm.com)
2 points by gthank 16y ago|0 comments
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by gthank 16y ago
Given the context of the discussion, it only seems fair to remove all the products they acquired from your list.

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