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by iaw 5y ago
Variance overlapping isn't a reason to discount this analysis. Also note that the variance narrows substantially for older age groups. So effectively what the variance says is that some younger people are vastly more responsible driv
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by iaw 5y ago
After someone turns 30 (according to AAA [0]) their likelihood of entering an accident decreases until they reach ~70 years old. [0] https://aaafoundation.org/rates-motor-vehicle-crashes-injuri...
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by iaw 5y ago
My guess would be a semi-autonomous military vehicle was being tested in the most real-world scenario possible. As others have said it likely had liquid fuel rather than battery reserves which would allow such operation.
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by iaw 5y ago
Yes but it's harder, I wouldn't say "universally to all companies" (e.g. wal-mart is always going to pay wal-mart wages to devs) but many smaller tech companies recognize they have to pay top wages to attract experience
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by iaw 5y ago
I was not involved with downvoting your first comment but I am downvoting this one because it's a clear violation of the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by iaw 5y ago
Really naive question. What's to stop apple from using two distinct and separate visual hashing algorithms? Wouldn't the collision likelihood decrease drastically in that scenario? Again, really naive but it seems like if you ha
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by iaw 5y ago
“They do a time study on older people, and ride them hard. I’ve seen them make fun of an older guy because he couldn’t keep up. They changed his job so he was doing two people’s work. He was walking like 15 miles a day, while he was on dial
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by iaw 5y ago
I'm in the market for a house right now and red flags for myself and my agent are houses that were purchased within the prior 2 years to be resold. We just don't touch them. If the market educates itself we can starve the flippe
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by iaw 5y ago
"Anything that flies on anything that moves" -Henry Kissingers policy for attacking the Vietnamese
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by iaw 5y ago
> I regularly see $400 retail ounces in Oregon for top shelf. I think because this article refers to Canada, not the US, we can't infer things about the market in the US due to the low likelihood of smuggling occurring. What has the
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by iaw 5y ago
I saw Holmes in SF around 18 months back. Photos don't do her justice, she's pretty charismatic in person but more strikingly she seemed very happy in the moment. If I had a similar sword of Damocles hanging over me I'd be
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by iaw 5y ago
Could you elaborate your point?
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by iaw 5y ago
I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to help hundreds of thousands of refugees in a small way through my day job. It's probably my greatest contribution to the world to make these peoples lives marginally better after everyt
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by iaw 5y ago
I really want a Yahoo style internet portal back. It could be wiki-style. You click down through subjects until you find what you're looking for. It could effectively be the anti-Amazon if you include alternative options to buy item
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by iaw 5y ago
From your other comment: > But it seems pointless to try to make a semantic argument that excludes her content from any reasonable definition of the word "adult". With this statement aren't you doing the same thing? Obvio
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by iaw 5y ago
Of all the answers here.... I think you gave the right one. Children should never be allowed near tools without close adult supervision.
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by iaw 5y ago
Could you explain why the content is "obviously adult"?
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by iaw 5y ago
Innovation always precedes regulation/safety. Look at the early automobile and the road marker[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_surface_marking
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by iaw 5y ago
The seemingly handwritten manual was great.
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by iaw 5y ago
Having dabbled with chaotic heavily dynamic systems in college I actually disagree. It may be that our system was in a relatively stable highly linear regime and we just knocked it out into a non-linear chaotic region that we can't es
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by iaw 5y ago
Can you provide evidence of this? My reading of the ADA was that employers can ask for whatever they want to but are ultimately required to take a doctors certification. No one, as far as I know, is required to disclose their medical re
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by iaw 5y ago
1) Most of the roles can just switch to another FAANG where the largest discount is 85% instead of 50%. 2) Employers have changed the terms of employment at will for decades, I can literally find stories from a hundred years ago. This is
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by iaw 5y ago
Your employer should not be the arbiter of your health, your doctor should. Your doctor should be able to determine what you are and are not capable of doing and communicate that to your employer who should take that as proof. This whole &
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by iaw 5y ago
> We often fail to realize how little we know about a thing until we attempt to simulate it on a computer. I'll often write out with pen and paper of how I think the flow of a model will go, it's always fascinating how much t
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by iaw 5y ago
There are two schools of thought. There are those that think Assange is a hero or a martyr to a surveillance state and those that think little if anything about him. I've said this before: Assange dabbled in espionage without a Nation
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by iaw 5y ago
> your risk in buying a business goes down if the current owner under-appreciates what they have This is completely true, my sentiment is more for the idea of a "turn-key business" acting like an annuity. I don't think e
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by iaw 5y ago
Just to echo this, I recently had a lovely conversation with a guy building a business he knew would be irrelevant in 10 years with the goal of selling in 3 years to someone who didn't realize that. I will never buy a business, real
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by iaw 5y ago
Someone said to me the other day that they're going to pair gun rights with marijuana decriminalization. This appears to be the same playbook states used to legalize marijuana but for deadly weapons.
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by iaw 5y ago
> but I think it's intellectually dishonest to portray is as fundamentally sound No offense but I think this sentiment is a huge problem with Hacker News. I have a minimal understanding of fusion energy production from an engineeri
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by iaw 5y ago
Serious answer: Come up with a concrete logical proposal and reach out to academics with expertise in the area you're trying to show results for. They'll either tear you to shreds or consider the experiment.

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