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by maged 10y ago
Is it not a coding competition?
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by maged 10y ago
I lean towards assuming the known liar is again lying.
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by maged 11y ago
I think more than what we are taught in engineering, the field itself tends to attract more conservative minded people (maybe because it's a safe field?). There's also correlations shown between religiosity, conservatism and study
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by maged 11y ago
> A needle of length L is dropped at random onto a sheet of paper ruled with parallel lines a distance L apart. What is the probability that the needle will cross a line? Thickness of line is needed right? Otherwise P approaches 100% as
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by maged 11y ago
How were countries selected? The obvious exceptions (other than the states) are left out (i.e. Arab gulf states).
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by maged 11y ago
I read a comparison of the Liberia to Uganda, Kenya examples before that said its because Liberia('s slums) are at a worse of starting point. For the programs to be effective it needs to target extreme poor who still at least have acce
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Cuba Casa Particulares on Airbnb(airbnb.ca)
2 points by maged 11y ago|0 comments
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by maged 11y ago
Its not about the default search engine on top of a browser, but the internet services on top of a search engine.
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by maged 12y ago
I wonder if tourist places will be able to keep overcharging in CUPs. I think it's a lot easier to sell a drink at 5 CUCs than at 100 CUPs.
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by maged 12y ago
Which party is this?
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by maged 12y ago
Nazre isn't being criticized for his consensual relationship with Pao. Its for his reaction to her ending it, as well as non consensual harrassment of other employees.
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by maged 12y ago
Apple has ~200 billion in cash. Tesla's market cap is 25 billion. It definitely could be.
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by maged 12y ago
The giants of the web continue to profit themselves at the cost of an open internet.
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by maged 12y ago
> censorship China wanted to censor inconvenient history. Turkey wants to censor offensive (to them) religious images. I think that's the important comparison, not the size of the market.
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by maged 12y ago
You might want to checkout givewell.org, which does a very quantitative charity analysis.
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by maged 12y ago
Also done by http://pantheon.media.mit.edu/rankings/people/all/all/-3000/... at MIT. To compare here are the top 4 from each: whoisbigger: 1. Jesus 2. Napolean 3. Shakespeare 4. Mohammed Pantheon: 1
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by maged 12y ago
So those millions of Chinese people use a Chinese service instead.
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by maged 12y ago
To add another data point, my pebble gets 6/7 days regularly. Yours is probably deficient if it only gets 1.5.
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by maged 12y ago
The side-effect was definitely not accidental. China has blocked the major company in every internet industry (social networks, search engines, video streaming, etc.), and as a result domestic products are booming. Now these domestic produc
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by maged 12y ago
Not so fast http://startupnorth.ca/2014/06/07/searching-for-life-on-mars...
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by maged 12y ago
Note this graph measures the % of total names, not the % of total boys with names ending with 'n' (which would be much more meaningful).
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by maged 13y ago
Just a heads up, your link to Android SMS Relay is broken here ( http://nyaruka.com/#open ). I think you intended to link this one https://github.com/nyaruka/android-sms-relay . But great stuff! I'm
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Donate idle computer time to charity(superdonate.org)
1 points by maged 13y ago|0 comments
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by maged 13y ago
5 is pretty equivalent to the mining of precious metals (well those with no practical applications).
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by maged 13y ago
What would be great is a kind of gmail (or any email client) app store. You give permission to different applications to work on top of your email client to react to different email content. ie Mint/your bank automatically adding item
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by maged 13y ago
The added features of email metadata can be achieved without the added complexities of adding metadata to all email, with a simple NLP solution. Gmail already does this with date recognition and google calendar integration, as well as the n