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by kafkaesq 9y ago
spaCY, the leading open-source NLP tool? Agreed, the description is definitely cringe-worthy. As if whoever wrote that wasn't aware that these are language geeks they're marketing to.
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Claude Shannon, the Las Vegas Shark(nautil.us)
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Utilities companies won't let you sell your own solar power. Why not?(theguardian.com)
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The ghostly radio station that no one claims to run(bbc.com)
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Meat's probably never going away, so is there a way we can incentivize the production of cleaner meat? Yes, by making the retail price reflect the true environmental costs of producing it. And if that means that the supply is drastic
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
It's a "nice" headline for Bloomberg's advertisers (and hence, for Bloomberg) in that it gets people to click on the link. But in terms of information content, it's a horrible headline (for the reasons you so succin
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
You also assert i called people stupid, which is also clearly false, Sorry, but saying "it's stupid to do X" really is basically the same as saying... "people who do X are stupid". Or at least "they are, in
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
My counter is that although it is not a lot of evidence, it is generally a very deliberate act. Is not "lacking in evidence, yet deliberate" the very definition of... rash and impulsive? BTW I wouldn't say these people are
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Meat industry blamed for largest-ever 'dead zone' in Gulf of Mexico(theguardian.com)
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Google snaps up 52 Sunnyvale properties worth more than $820M in one fell swoop(bizjournals.com)
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'There are things worse than death': a cancer cure leading to brutal bioweapons?(theguardian.com)
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
However, he was less comfortable jumping into [and] thinking about a problem outside of an area of expertise. These kinds of snap judgements I find very problematic. As if anyone -- even if they're an "industry leader",
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
If you want HN to be a place of real discussion and debate, it's stupid to try to tie people to their companies. When the company is Google (or of a similar scale) -- and that company claims to care about privacy (but sometimes eng
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Declassified CIA memo predicted the 1980 October Surprise(muckrock.com)
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
A "small town" ... 7 miles from the center of a major global city and metro area ... even closer to a major international airport. Nothing weird about that situation at all. In fact it's the way much of planet is organized
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Inquiry launched after mystery air crash kills Brazilian environmentalists(theguardian.com)
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Airbnb sued by woman who says she was sexually assaulted by 'superhost'(theguardian.com)
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Why Corrupt Bankers Avoid Jail(newyorker.com)
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Wisconsin Company Offers to Implant Chips in Its Employees(wpr.org)
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
How should (s)he approach the decision? By looking into one's heart, and deciding what one really wants out of life. Financial constraints are one thing. But one really shouldn't sacrifice truly important life goals (like havin
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Rich successful older man secretly does a lot of drugs and hangs around with younger women. No, it wasn't simply a matter of his doing drugs and "hanging around" with younger women. You might want to give the article a clo
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
The puritanical impulse to hold people to super-high standards of wholesome rectitude in their private lives seems silly to me The "in their private lives" part stops (not just stops - comes to a screeching halt) when we have in
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
"Doing really well". Heard in the context of many competitive activities. E.g. at a jazz club, someone might say "He's killing it, man!" if they were really connecting to what the trombonist was doing.
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
I'd like to know why people are downvoting this. Because for some people, it's not enough to think of others as misinformed, or not so well-spoken. They need to be thought of as blundering idiots, and castigated accordingly.
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Everything is unacceptable nowadays. Nothing is unacceptable. Except faulty generalizations like the above. An informed society is better than a society that doesn't let you play football. Is anyone here saying we shouldn't &
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
Further evidence is given in the form of part of the TOS where you essentially agree that if iRobot goes under, the buyer will get all the data. As if anyone reads those things.
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
I'm arguing that FB isn't the right place to solve it. But in practical terms -- this is basically saying it will never be solved at all.
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
It isn't "new" of course, but it's been greatly, greatly expanded. Back around that time, if you considered, say a school district... it'd be nearly a given that most of those people were employees of the school di
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
by accepting lower margins That is, by lower quality standards and working conditions. If its own internal (non technical) sectors are to be taken as any indication.
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by kafkaesq 9y ago
"Hipmunk for conferences." You might be able to make an actual thing out of this.

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