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by maxander 10y ago
Its slightly ironic that this article "for beginners" is filled with obscure acronyms he doesn't define (UART, BOM, BLE...).
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by maxander 10y ago
It would be interesting to see public transit routes plotted over these maps; at least in Boston, they explain the distribution of education pretty precisely. (E.g., check out the transportation to Roxbury versus to Somerville.)
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by maxander 10y ago
> And what part of Linux makes me the product? As long as there's no provider whose product you could be, perhaps, but be careful even with Linux- awhile back, Canonical added a feature to Ubuntu where the user's use of the das
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by maxander 10y ago
As it happens, I was born in a well-to-do family, given preposterously easy access to education and healthcare, and now make plenty of money in a job that I like doing. And yet I'm still capable of caring, at least ideologically, ab
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by maxander 10y ago
"the ability and optimism to work your way up without limits" is absolutely the classic American ideal, but it requires that everyone is given half a chance. If you're too poor to go to college, or can't access treatmen
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by maxander 10y ago
The Scandinavian socialist countries are a step in the right direction, but no, not really. To some degree, this is because communism is a new idea that has had relatively few chances at implementation, and their implementors were either i
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by maxander 10y ago
A trivial answer would be; through systems overseen by elected representatives, roughly the same system that allocates state resources in the U.S.. There's more to be allocated, and allocating resources correctly becomes vastly more
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by maxander 10y ago
No half-educated modern socialist thinks that the Soviet Union was a successful implementation of communism, much less that it has anything to do with the aims of the modern socialist movement. To be sure, there are several distinct proble
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by maxander 10y ago
If I were in charge of aiming the Deep Space Communications Complex radio beam, I would likely find the temptation to 'accidentally' redirect it towards Proxima Centauri for a second to be overwhelming. Hats off to those well-beh
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by maxander 10y ago
The birth rates in Western countries have been plummeting for the last 40 years. In fact, birth rates globally are declining almost everywhere except in countries that are still too poor to provide things like welfare. The data does n
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by maxander 10y ago
Isn't a cubesat on the ground called... a box? There's no mention of a past or future launch in the article, so this looks like an egregious case of buzzwording.
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by maxander 10y ago
It would be interesting to know how spare parts work for a company like Tesla. Their sales, in terms of car counts, are huge for a company of their age but tiny relative to the greater auto industry, and many of their parts are niche thing
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by maxander 10y ago
Recruitment is an important purpose, though. Having a steady supply of pre-Tensorflow-trained engineers available is presumably why they opened up Tensorflow to begin with. They're not going to benefit more than that anytime soon by
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by maxander 10y ago
I would think less of a pop in future IPOs is also a good thing. It means that the markets are valuing shares in tech companies in a measured and reasonable way to begin with, which results in less market volatility, which in turn results
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by maxander 10y ago
Well , there's the bit where the "free market" has kept valuing Uber at absurd levels despite it being not financially viable. Also that the report from the "disgruntled employee" dovetailed well with what peopl
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by maxander 10y ago
And? What's the difference between total coverage in 2018 versus total coverage in 2020? Uber can't lock Lyft out of the market- that was abundantly proved when a bit of ham-fisted PR made Lyft one of the most popular apps of Ja
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by maxander 10y ago
Lyft and Uber, from a birds-eye view, do the exact same thing ; and furthermore, neither is profitable, so the entire market is built upon potential future sales bases. Lyft is here valued at, generously, $7 billion. Meanwhile, Uber&#x27
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by maxander 10y ago
Wait, so this is what those silly amazon "Prime Air" delivery drones were really about. It makes sense now! I wonder whats holding up the final reveal of the flying booze\weed delivery shop.
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by maxander 10y ago
To be clear, that line was something I imagined someone at Google saying prior to the developments mentioned in the article. But, "put an aquarium full of water bears in your phone"? That's a nonsense, fluff headline if I e
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by maxander 10y ago
I suspect a barrier to growth for this company is just that lots of people don't even know such a thing is legal. I'm astonished to find out that my hometown Boston allows it, and apparently that's where Drizly started up.
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by maxander 10y ago
I don't really get the threat model here. If an attacker is pushing commits into your repository, you're long since toast on all possible security fronts, right? Is there anything nefarious they could accomplish through hash col
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by maxander 10y ago
"Hey, the Ara is going nowhere, but it would be a shame to not get any return from it... Lets see how many click bait blog articles we can generate from it!"
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by maxander 10y ago
You're asking a great deal of a single neuron (or even a small set of brain-spanning neurons) if you expect it/them to be you . Functionally speaking, a neuron is a bag of sodium and potassium ions that fills and empties itself
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by maxander 10y ago
The coming glut of Python devs is going to be a problem. Its an excellent language, I've used it for work for years, but its almost too powerful. A minimally skilled programmer can write mostly-functional Python programs while stil
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by maxander 10y ago
They do perform a statistical analysis ("propensity score matching") to try to control for off-target correlations, but its true that the entire strength of the paper revolves around this having been done correctly and it being su
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by maxander 10y ago
I think it's precisely for those times that they have the fourth bullet-point; > Do not be offended if someone suggests you are not being reasonable.
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by maxander 10y ago
It's fascinating that the financial system has evolved this kind of layered abstraction (humans owning stocks is a fiction maintained by brokers owning stocks, which is a fiction maintained by DTC owning stocks, which is a fiction main
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by maxander 10y ago
Or maybe if you put too many IQ-associated alleles in one person you wind up with a psychotic wreck. We don't know how these genes interact, if they do, nor by what mechanism they work. And unlike with corn, you can't just guess
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by maxander 10y ago
Recognizing a plastic bag is tech on par with two of the techs you list (and arguably beyond sending a man to the moon.) Making a robot that can recognize plastic bags and manipulate them is harder. And applying that level of expertise to
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by maxander 10y ago
Engineers with skills related to self-driving car development are also currently much rarer than highly trained executives, and companies trying to get into the autonomous car sector need more engineers than executives. Failing to retain

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