jdale27

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by jdale27 7y ago
>Uber had a big shitstorm when they first killed someone, now they kill someone every day and the response is crickets. Umm, what? Source?
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by jdale27 7y ago
No idea about their profitability, but doing a big raise before a recession to try and tide you through with minimal layoffs is probably not a bad idea. (Yeah, I'm sure this has been in the works for a while before the coronavirus hit
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Election_Law
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exact_sciences
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by jdale27 7y ago
Why are you assuming that they are referring to the British Empire? They could be referring to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurya_Empire , which covered most of India not long after Buddha is said to have lived.
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by jdale27 7y ago
Assuming this semantic distinction holds, what are the practical consequences? How do you find "consulting" clients? In fact, what is even the shape of a "consulting" engagement in software development, where I am tellin
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by jdale27 7y ago
What is the license / copyright status of these works? I am interested in possibly doing a similar project and I am wondering if these are unencumbered / free for redistribution.
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by jdale27 8y ago
I had no idea what "Six Memos for the Next Millennium" were before clicking the link, but was pleasantly surprised to find that they are the work of Italo Calvino. Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler is an abso
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Antidepressants and the Placebo Effect (2014)(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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by jdale27 9y ago
I was going to mention Growing a Language, but since it's already been posted, here is Alan Kay's "Doing with Images Makes Symbols": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2LZLYcu_JY .
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by jdale27 9y ago
Thanks, I stand corrected.
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Public universities are not profitable. Quite the opposite: tuition and fees cover only part of their operating costs; the rest comes from the government. In California, AFAIK, public universities don’t have endowments. Government funding o
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by jdale27 9y ago
The way this is going we're going to have AI toasters by the end of the year. I'd be surprised if they don't exist already. We already have AI rice cookers: "Zojirushi's top-of-the-line Induction Heating Pressure
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by jdale27 9y ago
A Caravaggio has inherent value because it's a cultural artifact. I would argue that it has no inherent value because it's a cultural artifact. It's just paint on a canvas. It only has value because the culture thinks it
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by jdale27 9y ago
To be fair though, we are really close with cancer. Like really really close. cfDNA is revolutionary for our measurements. Crispr is revolutionary for understanding. So close. Just curious, on what do you base this opinion? Do you work in
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by jdale27 9y ago
Or maybe it's just a reflection of the reality that there are probably a lot of people who don't want to go to a football game and not get drunk.
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by jdale27 9y ago
Turns out I was right. Both are SSRIs, and the former is the S-enantiomer of the latter. Not exactly. You're right that escitalopram is the S-enantiomer; citalopram is the racemic mixture of R- and S-enantiomers (of which only S- has
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by jdale27 9y ago
To expand on the sibling comment, if the article is accurate the social credit score is based on some of the same factors as the FICO score (e.g., do you pay your bills on time) and has some of the same implications (how easily you can get
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by jdale27 9y ago
Having interviewed people who worked at Facebook, I'm convinced that nobody there really understands how it works. I agree, but far from being an unique or surprising property of Facebook and the way it (as a company) works, I'd
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by jdale27 9y ago
Thanks for your comments. Does Kierkegaard by any chance suggest a way out of this “Demonic Despair”? A path to follow to find “an identity in our experiences and to something higher than us”?
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by jdale27 9y ago
I found this article to be rather more illuminating on this question, as it addresses the ambiguity in how you slice up the world into distinct linguistic chunks: https://www.linguisticsociety.org/content/how-many-langu
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by jdale27 9y ago
Most likely before taxes. In my experience (in the US) the usual rule of thumb has been to spend about 25% of your before-tax income on rent. But in the San Francisco Bay Area today, it's not uncommon for people to be spending 30-35% o
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by jdale27 9y ago
Spain is working well? They have 17% unemployment, second worst in the EU, after Greece. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/...
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by jdale27 9y ago
Is the economy so much better than last year that everyone is buying 34% more stuff than they did last year?
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by jdale27 9y ago
Okay, but do we really need a "future Facebook"? Are innovation and creativity in social media really something the world will suffer for a lack of? In any case, the next big thing is usually not just a better version of the last
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by jdale27 9y ago
there is no specific, canonical sequence at large scales, neither between two individuals nor even two cells This is correct, and is a reason why genome informatics has been moving away from representing the genome as a single linear &quo
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by jdale27 9y ago
Lol, yeah, I thought the same thing. I assume the point is that the physiological reaction the fish has when dying is altered.
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by jdale27 9y ago
Not sure in general, but I'm pretty sure I have encountered the self-heating kind in Japan.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-heating_can

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