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by hgsgm 3y ago
And yet restaurant operators are allowed to open close their refrigerators and freezers at will, not subject to third party refrigerator maintenance company monopoly.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
Those who do not study history are doomed to replicate it. Those who do study history are doomed to not replicate it.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
Same for all the big tech Internet companies.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
Amazon built the entire company on two decision-making systems 1. A/B testing and multi-armed bandits. 2. "jeff_said", a special macro in the website that overrides the decisions of automated A/B testing and multi-armed
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by hgsgm 3y ago
I know it's been extremely suspicious of this extreme poverty metric, because anyone who earns a wage but can't afford sufficient food and shelter is "non-extreme poverty" , while subsistence farming is "extreme pov
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by hgsgm 3y ago
Why isn't there an affordable technical way to route rooftop power directly to the building's internal appliances? Something like a battery buffer to merge inputs from rooftop solar and utility AC?
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by hgsgm 3y ago
Tenure means you can't get fired for being crazy. It's a right to be wrong, not a guarantee of being right.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
The paradox of descriptivism is that it can't proscribe prescriptivism.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
I still remember my high school in the teacher hyper-correcting my correct use of "unique".
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by hgsgm 3y ago
I don't have a Twitter account. How do I vote on a Communinty note? Do I vote in the same or different place where my neighbor's botnet votes?
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by hgsgm 3y ago
He questions his own system constantly, but he's necessarily committed to it (modulo modifications and extremely rare overhauls), because his identity is tied up in what he's built, and he can't just jump to something new wit
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by hgsgm 3y ago
No. Branching is orthogonal to modules/monorepo.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
Monorepo works whether your APIs are modular or not, and also allows changes to the modular structure.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
Why would you need a table for each person or post? Those are rows.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
Who is putting forth that straw premise?
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by hgsgm 3y ago
I think the specific topics and activities are hit and miss based on the specific skill level, interests, and daily mood of the group. Presentation style is a common theme though.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
Another implementation here, with different (non-infringing) art http://misterbeebee.github.io/3qual
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by hgsgm 3y ago
Why 5?
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by hgsgm 3y ago
What percent of silicon valley wealth / employment does PayPal Mafia control?
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by hgsgm 3y ago
My adblocker seems to detect and block HN job ads.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
Still, pretty much every city in the country has more room to fill in density.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
OP was just going off a tangent about why cameras are bad, not saying that the AirBnB would use the cameras the blackmail a prostitute/ sex slave. > Now, am I trying to say that just by sleeping in a room with a camera I would be
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by hgsgm 3y ago
"This book gives a thorough introduction to topological data analysis (TDA), the application of algebraic topology to data science ."
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by hgsgm 3y ago
Click through to Pew and then Topline. https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/wp-content/uploads/site...
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by hgsgm 3y ago
Over 50% said "not sure", and the question was worded in a complicated way: "Does the United States have a national privacy law that sets common standards for what companies can do with all data their products and services co
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by hgsgm 3y ago
UK has an agreement with Rwanda to send refugees to Rwanda. But the UK High Court nixed it, because Rwanda is "not a safe country". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwanda_asylum_plan
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by hgsgm 3y ago
No, that poster's #3 added the key insight.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
Everyone advertises. Even a completely selfless philanthropist who wants to give away a trillion dollars needs to advertise to find people to help. CB is bad, but advertising isn't why.
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by hgsgm 3y ago
Not just personal, but protected by special laws for children .
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by hgsgm 3y ago
It's accurate but deceptive. CB does not send PII. Your SAT scores or estimates thereof are your private data, but not Personally Identifying Facebook and TikTok already have the PII! And that's why it's bad for CB to share t

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