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by kharms 9y ago
I think they'll end up in Providence. Very close to Boston & NYC, cheap land, reasonably close airport.
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by kharms 9y ago
If I recall correctly (from a radiolab interview w/ Dr.Tsai [0]), something like 99% of animal model successes don't transfer to humans. [0] http://www.radiolab.org/story/bringing-gamma-back/
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by kharms 9y ago
Per capita fish consumption is not radically different between East Asian and Europe/USA [0], while sperm count is. https://www.st.nmfs.noaa.gov/st1/fus/fus99/per_capita99.pdf
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by kharms 9y ago
Vet bills can easily go up to tens of thousands of dollars, but that's not the point. The point is that I could be away on a mountain backpacking trip for two weeks, and I need to know that the dog sitter has that money easily accessib
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by kharms 9y ago
>But for Uber for local babysitting, why would the buyer and seller not just leave the platform permanently after meeting, and transact directly, saving both the fee? Insurance. Uber/airbnb/rover/etc. provide insurance for
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by kharms 9y ago
The Qassam rockets that Hamas uses fly at about 200m/s, while these North Korean ones fly at about 800m/s. Additionally, Israel is tiny compared to the United States.
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by kharms 9y ago
There were about 30 million bison in North America before we hunted them near extinction. Bison, especially young ones, are prey to wolves and bears. Bison weight about 1.5x cows. There are about 100 million cows, and if about 30% of those
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by kharms 9y ago
It’s a google solution to a google problem, the problem being that websites tend to come preloaded with a dozen or so non-google trackers. The google solution is to incentivize stripping out the content and hosting it on google’s servers, s
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by kharms 9y ago
Has anyone done the math to see the effect of ransomware on the bitcoin price? How much demand is from folks buying their data back?
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by kharms 9y ago
It's interesting that your respect toward google doesn't extend to their decision to pay apple. I suspect google, being as good as they are with data, wouldn't pay apple if it didn't make sense.
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by kharms 9y ago
You can cut maybe 5-8 years off that if you factor in the cost of non-solar roofing. I doubt too many people are signing up to replace their roof if it doesn't already need replacing.
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by kharms 9y ago
>Our diet is full of fruits and vegetables containing thousands of complex chemicals, indistinguishable from "synthetic" chemicals, that have entered our diet far too short a time ago to have had evolutionary impact. Our diet o
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by kharms 9y ago
>I felt a new, for-profit, tech-based approach was necessary, so I launched 70MillionJobs. I understand why you preferred to make more money, but what made it necessary?
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by kharms 9y ago
I'm skeptical of the potential of dark scrapers at scale. You'd need to simulate too much human behavior to be unidentifiable, and humans are slow. You would need real-looking bot accounts that you'll use to scrape. You'
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by kharms 9y ago
Sure that example is extreme, but the deadly amanitas do look like puffballs when young.
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by kharms 9y ago
I'm working on something similar as a hobby project. What approach did you take to ID mushrooms? Model -> mushroom? Or Model->feature->mushroom? What kind of model? Where did you get your training dataset? Definitely add a big
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by kharms 9y ago
I used to be a big fan venmo as a cash/check replacement, until a friend needed some emergency cash. Tried to venmo them, both accounts ended up being frozen for over a week. A check + USPS would have been 6 days faster.
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by kharms 9y ago
In an industrial setting they don't really need to solve that problem. Battery low? Swap out the glasses for another pair.
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by kharms 9y ago
>>Glass is also helping healthcare professionals. Doctors at Dignity Health have been using Glass with an application our partner Augmedix calls “a remote scribe”. My primary care doctor has a human scribe. The scribe is a recent grad
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by kharms 9y ago
While I imagine it's not a security measure, I don't think it's "just the way it worked" either. It sounds like a conscious decision to limit false positives.
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by kharms 9y ago
Does anyone know what is meant by "high ego identities" and "low ego identities?"
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by kharms 9y ago
I love this! If I had to ELIA5 it, I would say: if you get lucky you get rich quickly. If you get unlucky you get poor slowly. So some people will get lucky and some will get unlucky, but the first to get unlucky will get below 100 and the
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by kharms 9y ago
[Presumably] There is a massive volume of information that one gains access to when one is elected President. It would (and does) scare me that President Trump seems to be entirely unaffected by the realities of his new position.
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by kharms 9y ago
His top advisor complained that Silicon Valley had too many Chinese CEO's, so this isn't surprising. It'll be interesting to see which country takes our place as the 'brain magnet.' >“When two-thirds or three-qua
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by kharms 9y ago
Question on this topic - is there a method of encrypting subdomains when you don't own the domain? An example: I run a vm that exposes mysubdomain.azure.com, can I turn on ssl at that level? A google search says "no" but I fi
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by kharms 9y ago
>But the critical part of all this is hanging up within 6 seconds. This is the one thing that hurts the telco knowingly supporting this You should explain why that number is critical, what happens before, what happens after.
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by kharms 9y ago
What a nonsequitor. First, the presence or absence of other immigration paths doesn't speak to the cost or benefit of the startup visa. Second, there wouldn't be so many H1B applicants if there were other ways into the US.
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by kharms 9y ago
>I totally agree that stratification at age 10 is pretty terrible, but stratification in universities seems like a very different story. What would it add that the choice of university and major doesn't? The math kids at MIT aren&#x
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by kharms 9y ago
AMP exists because it benefits Google to know what content users read and what they click-through to. It has nothing to do with making a better internet.
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by kharms 9y ago
Suppose a company invented an aids vaccine, and then charged gay folks and injection drug users 20x, because of hey - those at higher risk are willing to pay more for protection would that be a great thing? Or let's go back to the Pari

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