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by jthacker 2y ago
This is certainly a great immediately useful tool but also a relatively small ROI, both the return and the investment. Big tech is aiming for a much bigger return on a clearly bigger investment. That’s going to potentially look like a lot o
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by jthacker 4y ago
I'm unable to read the article due to the paywall, but if the first paragraph is indicative of the thesis, then it is "startups that build incremental functionality on top of existing products are upset when the company improves t
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by jthacker 4y ago
While hemoglobin in blood has magnetic properties there’s no evidence that it leads to anyone being able to feel magnetic fields. At least one study has shown evidence for humans sensing magnetic fields but the author's do not make a c
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by jthacker 8y ago
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by jthacker 9y ago
The article mentions that it's a problem to ride the elevator past the top or bottom floor, but it is unclear why. I don't see why this should be an issue.
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by jthacker 10y ago
Agreed. How are knitted objects normally made on these machines? Are they using the "assembly" instructions?
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by jthacker 10y ago
Is it really true that "all of mathematics can be described with sets"?
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by jthacker 10y ago
Unquestioning acceptance of science is definitely not a conclusion of this piece nor is it alluded to. The main argument of this piece is how "an understanding of what real truth-seeking looks like" can allow you to reject claims
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by jthacker 12y ago
Speculation: It appears they are using this for the overarching structure of projects. Rather than managing individual appointments it manages overall time, e.g. on this day BobbySue should be spending 50% of her time on project A and 50% o
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by jthacker 13y ago
The 99.6% effectiveness statistic comes from the planned parenthood website and I'm assuming they quoted it from this study since they do not cite their source http://humrep.oxfordjournals.org/content/22/5&#x2
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by jthacker 13y ago
I actually did the same %s/2048/4096/g in the code the other day after getting 2048. And I finally beat it! http://i.imgur.com/pC51sNT.png I suppose the next step is to make it endless and see how high you ca