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by karzeem 16y ago
Am I alone in finding Google's CAPTCHAs unreadable a good 25-50% of the time?
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by karzeem 16y ago
I don't find that the "Google is a one-trick pony" argument holds much water. I'd say that Search, Maps/Earth, GMail, and probably a couple others I'm forgetting are all best-in-class products that were revelatory when they came out. Chro
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by karzeem 16y ago
This reminds me of the whole should-you-build-on-someone-else's-platform thing, with the unpredictable, ever-shifting platform rules being in this case the mishmash of federal/state/local laws. The next family values president could put al
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by karzeem 16y ago
The postscript mentions a paternoster, which I'd never heard of and is absolutely fascinating. It looks incredibly dangerous. Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternoster Example of one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXSnNzGJDdg
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by karzeem 16y ago
Your expectation is a worthwhile ideal, but it's very far out of the reach of modern medicine. Doctors are pretty good at treating symptoms, but when it comes to root causes of serious diseases, they're pretty bad at treating them without
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by karzeem 16y ago
One big issue is that health advocates spend 99% of their time telling people what not to eat. That doesn't work because, as you say, people aren't going to think, "Now that I know not to eat x, I'll take the initiative to figure out what
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by karzeem 16y ago
If you couldn't take present-day gadgets back with you, there's a good chance that you wouldn't get much payoff from your knowledge of the future. Say you're in 1975 and know exactly how to build an iPhone. It simply wouldn't be possible t
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by karzeem 16y ago
Another thing is that the number of pixels increases as the square of the ppi, so a 326 ppi screen has 51% more pixels than a 265 ppi screen. That's a bigger difference than a person might think from just comparing ppi.
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Ending Poverty(theatlantic.com)
10 points by karzeem 16y ago|0 comments
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by karzeem 16y ago
Another way of putting it is that while good hackers aren't necessarily likely to have high karma scores, a high karma score does predict better-than-average hacking skills. No idea if that's true, but that's the hypothesis.
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by karzeem 16y ago
This shouldn't be a surprise. When you create strong incentives for someone to do something, they'll probably do it.
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by karzeem 16y ago
Cutting the userbase sharply in half, with ugly on one side and attractive on the other, is probably a bad way for them to explain it to people. They'd be better off saying something like "we show you other users based on how much you have
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by karzeem 16y ago
I'm not quite sure what the problem is. OkCupid's goal is to help its users find dates. People rarely date someone who's very significantly more or less attractive than they are. Directing people to users with whom they're much likelier to
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by karzeem 16y ago
Wow. You know you've got marketing down when CNN's top story is simply a feed of your product announcement.
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by karzeem 16y ago
In addition to primary care stuff, there's a lot of CYA doctors do that HSA + high-deductible is meant to cut down on. I'm thinking of things like "let's do that MRI, just to be safe".
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by karzeem 16y ago
Gary Taubes' Good Calories, Bad Calories is a great book that examines the science behind low-carb diets and attacks low-fat diets as completely lacking scientific support and being essentially the biggest public health disaster of the 20
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by karzeem 16y ago
I'm with you that NFC isn't necessarily a big improvement here, but the nice thing about it generally is that over time, replacing physical actions/keys becomes just a matter of writing software. (You can imagine it replacing stuff like Me
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by karzeem 16y ago
Is 0% unemployment a good end in and of itself? Sometimes industries go through changes that reduce the number of people required to get the work done. It seems like if you're too aggressive about driving unemployment to 0, you end up wit
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by karzeem 16y ago
Not thinking about it for myself. Just trying to figure out what people might be rushing into in a mad panic.
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by karzeem 16y ago
If you wanted to position yourself to make a lot of money if Greece defaults, what would you do?
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by karzeem 16y ago
Single page link: http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/10_20/b41...
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by karzeem 16y ago
Apple's P/E is just under 22, which is not terribly expensive for a company that just launched a new, multibillion dollar product line (the iPad) and who has the dominant product in a rapidly expanding market (smartphones). The writer puts
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by karzeem 16y ago
The takeaway line: "The typical Harvard undergraduate is someone who … is driven more by fear of not being a success than by a concrete desire to do anything in particular." To the extent that this is true, it applies equally well to most p
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Pandora's Briefcase(newyorker.com)
6 points by karzeem 16y ago|1 comments
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by karzeem 16y ago
Do you happen to know roughly how many pounds of produce you get out of every 100 square feet?
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by karzeem 16y ago
Fascinating stuff. It would be nice if after harping on how expensive it is, the author put the cost in perspective, maybe by giving a rough $/pound comparison between, say, this, a farmer's market, a CSA, and the grocery store. $20 a wee
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by karzeem 16y ago
He should have taken a day or two to return the phone (not weeks), and he shouldn't have let Gizmodo disassemble it. But otherwise, to be honest, I don't see what he did wrong.
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by karzeem 16y ago
Yeah. Haven't looked into too many others.
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by karzeem 16y ago
Even a little data is really useful. I recently learned that my LDL and triglycerides are a little higher than optimal. When that happens, your doctor tells you something like "exercise more" or "don't pig out on carbs and saturated fats"
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by karzeem 16y ago
Do these kinds of bans even achieve their stated goal of reducing kids' access violent games? What 12-year-old walks into Best Buy by himself to get a copy of Modern Warfare 2? Seems like if you're young enough to be covered by the ban, y

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