maverick_iceman

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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
What a Rube Goldberg contraption.
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
Link to the original paper: http://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(17)3...
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Harvard’s nondiscrimination hypocrisy(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by maverick_iceman 9y ago|1 comments
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
>What gives it roughly 80 percent of the online search traffic is first mover advantage. Back in the mid-'90s[...] Google was just a little bit better than the others This is bullshit. Yahoo! and Altavista were there before Google
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
That's not true. I'm pretty sure they only include people who has some interaction with the app, in phone the app needs to be in foreground.
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
I fail to see what's the point of building space stations. What problem do they solve? It doesn't help with exploration of other planets and satellites. No major engineering application or scientific experiment needs them. They ha
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
Also, I don't see why a monopoly is inherently bad. If consumers actually benefit from it then what's the rationale in breaking it up? Moreover, sectors like social networking naturally favor monopolies; it's no good if your
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
True. Zuck, Page-Brin, Evan Spiegel all are pretty good looking. PG once said , "I can be tricked by anyone who looks like Mark Zuckerberg" (though he claims it was a joke)[1]. I think good looking people have a natural advantage
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
Really? I have discussed Theranos with a lot of people, both on HN and elsewhere, and nobody ever referred to her gender. Not as if there's any dearth of unethical male executives. Fraud is an equal opportunity employer.
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
I'm frustrated that the plots are not accompanied by definitions. In the US population charts, what is meant by divorce rate? Also I have no idea what "currently married" means.[1] [1] http://usafacts.org/us-p
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Our quest for robust time series forecasting at scale(unofficialgoogledatascience.com)
2 points by maverick_iceman 9y ago|0 comments
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
What's your field? In most hard science fields it's impossible to get a professorship if you take a break from academia. (Unless you were somewhere like Microsoft Research / IBM Research, which are basically parts of academia
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
Not surprising when you're past 40 before you even get tenure.
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by maverick_iceman 9y ago
A slightly better explanation: https://www.universetoday.com/134996/black-hole-imaged-first...
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by maverick_iceman 10y ago
Didn't detect any 'sponsored' posts in Facebook.
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ALPHA probes antimatter gravity(alpha.web.cern.ch)
1 points by maverick_iceman 10y ago|0 comments
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by maverick_iceman 10y ago
Life plus 75 is insane. A period of 25 years from the date of publication will be more than sufficient for copyright.
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by maverick_iceman 10y ago
No, being able to get a ride to a black neighborhood in the middle of the night is the revolution.
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by maverick_iceman 10y ago
>Real numbers are not necessary for continuity. You know of any continuum that doesn't include the real numbers? That will contradict the continuum hypothesis.
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by maverick_iceman 10y ago
Good for those of use who prefer chicken thigh with skin.
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by maverick_iceman 10y ago
I doubt very much that they have the funds to pay for it. We're probably looking at a Puerto Rico style bailout, only this time much bigger.
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by maverick_iceman 10y ago
Our best theories, General Relativity and the Standard Model, say that the world is a continuum.
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by maverick_iceman 10y ago
As a Twitter stockholder, how do I get to vote against this?
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by maverick_iceman 10y ago
I'm not an American and I completely support Uber. They did a great thing to break up the taxi cartel. Most of these laws are results of regulatory capture. They lead to an inefficient market and price gouging. Also just because a law
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by maverick_iceman 10y ago
As usual, politicians kill a cheap, customer-friendly service to save an entrenched monopoly. If the horse cart owners were this smart, we never would have had the automobile revolution.
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by maverick_iceman 10y ago
“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.
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by maverick_iceman 10y ago
Couldn't agree more. Chernobyl killed 28 and both Three Mile and Fukushima killed 0. Still people are so afraid of nuclear reactors. This and the opposition to GMO food show that pseudoscientific scaremongering is extremely effective i
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by maverick_iceman 10y ago
The whole court transcript is well worth a read. Fortunately, no legalese.
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by maverick_iceman 10y ago
Source?
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by maverick_iceman 10y ago
How can they access an employee's personal computer?

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