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by hershel 12y ago
Does anybody have anidea what's the completion rates for students who paid(for certification/something else) ?
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by hershel 12y ago
True ,it could be a wealth badge. But how many such badges does a person needs ? is there any additional value to the new ones?
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by hershel 12y ago
I support unions, but i think they need to be in the model used in sweden:one union for blue collar worker, one for white collar workers , which leads to distribution of power among all employees(and far greater negotiation power) . This is
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by hershel 12y ago
That's an interesting idea,and while RFID can be read up to nice distances(16 meter) but the RFID is quite power hungry and is dependent on antenna quality to achieve that , so it becomes a very challenging task and maybe an impossible
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by hershel 12y ago
Playsight does this: http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/tennis/2013/11/28/play-...
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by hershel 12y ago
They don't have to be publishers. They just vote once in a while, pay their dues , and the union does the rest.
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by hershel 12y ago
If they fear being left alone against amazon, why don't authors use their union to start directly collectively bargaining, or even starting business activities together ? In a world where a book store is just an app, there are a lot of
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by hershel 12y ago
The things that medical providers block are often things that would reduce costs, for example enabling mid-level workers supported by tech do some of the doctor's jobs at lower costs, and low cost eye exam kiosks. And sure, there'
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by hershel 12y ago
> but their work can shift to research. Can we use that much researchers ? what are the other barriers assuming doctors are willing ?
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by hershel 12y ago
Medical professionals have used FUD(fear,uncertainty,doubt) and requiring very high burden of proof(trying the technology for a very long term, even though preliminary results show favor ability) for ages as a tactic to scare the public an
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by hershel 12y ago
> balancing fitness and variation, so that if the environment changes drastically the entire population does not die off. How can this property be advantageous for technological systems ?
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by hershel 12y ago
I agree , but those same claims are true for many subjects learned at school, for example math.
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by hershel 12y ago
> a lot of badly-written toy programs. That's not necessarily true. On some panel about python, one of the participants who teaches python to science students said that after their relatively short amount of training, scientists ca
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by hershel 12y ago
This is a good source: dsp-book.narod.ru/FFTBB/0270_PDF_C16.pdf
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by hershel 12y ago
With that great spec, why did google release tango with limited functionally, and not as a full blown processor ? And is it their next step ?
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by hershel 12y ago
In a similar vain, one could say that selling ebooks at $9.99 and sharing profits between authors and retailers[1] is a better result all around. [1]Of an amazon monopoly on retail is a bad result, but in principal that has nothing to do wi
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by hershel 12y ago
Continuing this thread of thinking , maybe the reason people will buy this is customizability and play , not price ? And from a quick search it seems that there are some cheap makeup available online, So my guess this industry is mostly bas
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A Python variant with seamless dynamic and static typing(github.com)
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by hershel 12y ago
it has been killed. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7693640
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by hershel 12y ago
Threes also the mypy project which offers optional static typing in python, if you're interested in such stuff.
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by hershel 12y ago
Google ventures use algorithms to help with investment decisions in they don't call it a board director, but its essentially the same thing.
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by hershel 12y ago
Do youmean that if someone doesn't want to work he can easily get welfare ?
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by hershel 12y ago
But what about latency ?
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by hershel 12y ago
There's sub reddit[1] i tried for some time , but didn't really stick to it. The hard part here is building a community of people who will contribute problems and content around problems. This might be bootstrapped at the beginnin
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by hershel 12y ago
Do you know of many such companies started in the recent decade or two ? that achieved near monopoly state , without unfairly crushing competitors, without depending on network effects(which naturally favor one winner), and without unfairly
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by hershel 12y ago
They're also very unfocused. They bought circuits.io , but doesn't seem to have given it the required treatment for it to grow to be a common tool.
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by hershel 12y ago
But there has been cases for schools for inner-city children that showed great results ,for example sabis. Not sure how they did it , but maybe not all is lost ?
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by hershel 12y ago
We've heard news about google and microsoft spying on user's email. Nothing happened. That's not that different.
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by hershel 12y ago
Some do. There's innocentive.com for example.
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by hershel 12y ago
In theory , for phones with cortex-a15 cpu, one could use ARMORED[1] , which encrypts the content of ram, with keys saved outside the reach of the baseband, inside registers. But still, CPU backdoors are possibility. [1] http://w

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