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by iaw 9y ago
> "The filing asserts that Levandowski destroyed the disks containing Google's material not long after Kalanick told him that Uber didn't want the information on them." A person that takes a trove of proprietary infor
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by iaw 9y ago
Cornell is a common enough surname that it could've been named for it's inventor.
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by iaw 9y ago
Cornell is such an odd university, thousands of little contributions over the decades to every field that touch the lives of everyone in the world. I always get a kick when I learn about another little thing that was invented there.
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by iaw 9y ago
Anecdotally: my mother frequently smokes regular cigarettes, she'll light one for a few 'puffs' then put it out. To combat this, tobacco companies put some sugar on the filter tip and I believe better tobacco in the very tip
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by iaw 9y ago
> discouraging non-smokers is a great idea Thank you, I hadn't thought about that before and you're completely right. If the risk profile for cigarettes is just barely too high for a non-smoker then e-cigarettes may be the last
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by iaw 9y ago
Read the article, nicotine vapor from e-cigarettes have the potential to cause the same damage to DNA as nicotine from traditional cigarettes depending on the amount of nicotine present and duration of contact. The claim in the title is utt
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by iaw 9y ago
> UConn researchers found that e-cigarettes loaded with a nicotine-based liquid are potentially as harmful as unfiltered cigarettes when it comes to causing DNA damage I don't like the way they've titled their research. Given
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by iaw 9y ago
I suspect there may be a method by which one could convert solved sudoku's into numerous candidate puzzles. I imagine strategically removing numbers from solved puzzles so as to reinforce the neural connections for solution and filter
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by iaw 9y ago
I have read alternate interpretations of the Planck length/time/volume/etc. One says that they are a mathematical construct with no meaning, the other says that they provide a bound for the limits of the measurement of realit
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by iaw 9y ago
What's worth more? A $200K lump sum in 20 years or $10K every year for the next 10? The answer depends on how much interest you can earn on the $10K/year. At around ~7% the $10K/year is worth more than the $200K in 20 years.
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by iaw 9y ago
Throw in stock growth for companies like Google back in the day and FB more recently. FB stock has doubled in ~2 years increasing the liquid value of employee stock compensation by nearly the same amount.
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by iaw 9y ago
Not quite but I know of one high level exec at a company you're familiar with that was given a year after multiple warnings. Effectively, he had no job but was still on the payroll for a year and maintained his equity. He came in and
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by iaw 9y ago
> Silicon Valley is truly uncannily realistic. Silicon Valley and Veep are both disturbingly prescient.
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by iaw 9y ago
Thank you for getting at what I was trying to say much better than I could have.
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by iaw 9y ago
This parable is designed to illustrate the difference in outcomes based on perception. Gender and racial bias in tech are not based solely on individual perception but also behaviors of individuals within a culture. How can this parable be
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by iaw 9y ago
I've had various issues with Plex on my two Roku devices. It's always been my fault though.
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by iaw 9y ago
This is pretty close to the setup I recall. It blows my mind that they have a visual link that long.
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by iaw 9y ago
E = mc^2 "Mass" in a blackhole is not the same as mass here on earth. The likely answer to your question is that the mass was converted to energy in the form of gravitational waves.
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by iaw 9y ago
They weren't great phones, and the iPhone definitely did a lot to push UI/UX forward, but the iPhone was most definitely not the first smart phone. I'd argue that the Blackberry was the first practical smartphone, released in
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by iaw 9y ago
I wish there was a listing of company IT quality somewhere similar to the list of 2Fac financial institutions. I'm leaving my citi card for a chase one due to poor infrastructure but I could have avoided a lot of wasted time if I hadn&
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by iaw 9y ago
Is there an option between 1 & 2? Push the acquisition through but with an exit timeline for yourself. How much does the business depend on your day-to-day interaction?
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by iaw 9y ago
I wonder how the tradeoff between precision, speed of movement, and robustness of the system was handled. Will a moving car on a bumpy road suffer from corrupted signals?
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by iaw 9y ago
There's something appropriate about this being his final work. It's beautiful and complete in a way that's challenging to do in any work.
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by iaw 9y ago
Apparently the author, Alex Tizón died days after finishing the story and never knew it was chosen for the June cover. He was 57.
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Shubhendu Sharma: How to Grow a Forest(ted.com)
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by iaw 9y ago
> the year indication goes to 9,999 and Schwilgué is supposed to have helpfully suggested that in 10,000, someone might paint in a "1" to the left of the year window I hope that's a true story, it's such a practical s
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by iaw 9y ago
I think it's harder but still feasible to obtain a job in data science, after the first job things will roll a lot quicker. What a self-taught DS would need to do in order for me to feel comfortable hiring them is have a public body of
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by iaw 9y ago
Electronic surveillance techniques could be one angle.
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by iaw 9y ago
Do you think Mr. Sessions has been lobbied by the alcohol industry?
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by iaw 9y ago
Have you tried to implement visual algorithms? Especially those prior to the prevalence of GPU-based neural networks? Even just ten years ago it was non-trivial to predict the shape of a room from a single 2d RGB image.

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