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by mherdeg 7y ago
Hmm, how does this compare versus the Craigslist/3Taps/Radpad litigation? Are these similar issues?
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This is an interesting view. For some reason I had never considered that participating in a large employer's defined-benefit pension fund might be kind of equivalent to signing up for a tontine with a bunch of your peers and all puttin
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> One of my favorite interview questions (created by Vikrum) was: “What happens after you type ‘ https://www.google.xn--com-to0a into a browser and hit enter?” Wow, I had no idea who came up with that question first. (see, e.g
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by mherdeg 7y ago
Hmm. A friend took a $20 budget to Aliexpress and bought us everything matching the keyword "panda" priced under $1 with free shipping. Small packages, generally about 6" x 6" and weighing under 4oz, trickled in over the
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by mherdeg 7y ago
(ouch, I ended up formatting this in a way I didn't quite expect...)
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by mherdeg 7y ago
Cool, so, looks like the product generates daily reports for advertisers about performance of ad spots over a trailing 1 day, lining up info about (a) what ad ran in what markets at what times plus (b) what increase in mobile/web traff
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by mherdeg 7y ago
I'm kind of amazed at how effective this digital reputation management technique is: * publish an exact copy of the offending content on a web site and include something that looks like a datetime which is earlier than the publication
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by mherdeg 7y ago
Yeah he had some thoughts on how tarsnap should price itself at https://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/04/03/fantasy-tarsnap/ which I think suggests that he would consider Backblaze underpriced.
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by mherdeg 7y ago
Does the same driver do the Friday trip south and the Sunday trip north? Do they get paid for their time on Saturday too? Does Cabin buy them a hotel for Sat/Sun? (Ha, do they park the bus somewhere and sleep on it?) Is it the same per
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I'm a little confused. * They operate a single service once a week on a round trip from SF to LA that departs SF 11pm Friday and departs LA 11pm Sunday? And they have no published timetable beyond Dec 2020? * The bus has twenty total b
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by mherdeg 7y ago
This marketing copy is great! I giggled at "Real, Flushing Toilet". Somebody put some love into this and it definitely shows.
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Yeah I think the consensus is that 100% passive would be terrible. Jack Bogle's view was that if the market is 50%+ passive indexed that would be bad news. Some folks argue that the number is even more extreme, that passive indexing ge
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by mherdeg 7y ago
When I hear a result like "software which understands basic grammar structures can predict what grade a human would give an essay" I think my views are roughly: * 5% - cool, we could make a company that grades essays * 15% - cool,
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by mherdeg 7y ago
> When the yield between the 10-year and 2-year US treasury inverts, a recession is months away. Cool, so have you bought puts on SPY? What terms did you go with / how much did you buy?
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You're not the only person -- I have a friend who did this, also generally inserting silly words in the side he guessed was scanned from a book. I have a hunch that von Ahn knew this would happen and the same scan is shown to multiple
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by mherdeg 7y ago
> Those same threads have logins like "indebt4life" and "kids2feed", which matches what I've heard from doctor friends: the length and cost of medical training and insurance are so brutal that the folks gatekeepi
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by mherdeg 7y ago
This still happens but it's a lot less fun, yes. See for example "Tai's Formula Is the Trapezoidal Rule" ( https://doi.org/10.2337/diacare.17.10.1224 ) and the paper it was responding to, "A Math
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by mherdeg 7y ago
For the reasons you suggest it's likely that any safe useful embyronic editing will make it to the global mainstream within a generation or so. This will have some interesting consequences for the future of our species. Greg Bear'
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Nice! The list of six items is a more concise read than https://blog.fosketts.net/2016/10/29/total-nightmare-usb-c-t... , which also raised some concerns about the profound differentness of many identical loo
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by mherdeg 7y ago
This is a remarkable deposition transcript. Attorney Harmon comes off as quite a character.
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Wow, this is embarrassing. I've read plenty of Inform 7 source code (see e.g. https://github.com/i7/counterfeit-monkey/blob/master/Counter... ). And I read Knuth's book "Literate Programmi
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Well, you could get your test data from paid participants who consent to constant whole-home recording. Like the "Nielsen Families" of old. This would be worse data than just using all available inputs to train your model, but it&
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These laws vary state-by-state. I'm kind of surprised that Massachusetts's very strong laws about wiretapping permit storage of training data from Amazon Echo/Google Assistant/Apple Siri/Microsoft Cortana/Xbox,
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Interesting idea! I wandered around a thrift store in Bern once and found some weird secondhand stuff -- mannequins apparently for sale, fur stoles, mattresses, chandeliers, clocks galore, oil paintings, dress shoes, model trains, china, fl
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Lately I have had a couple of reasons to keep cash in or near a brokerage account (brokerages offered signup bonuses for transferring assets, and affiliated banks offered mortgage relationship rates based on total balances in brokerage acco
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by mherdeg 7y ago
If the business model for CaaStle does not work out, but I can accurately predict when they will go out of business, should I sign up to rent a bunch of stuff that month and hope I get to keep it after the shutdown?
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My sense is that people mostly just don't want to hear or think about the sometimes messy way that things got to be the way they are (I saw "-2 points" when discussing this a few months ago, https://news.ycombinato
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by mherdeg 7y ago
Well, when I got the device, the Lyft app was not installed. I visited the Play store, installed the Lyft app and ran it, and then: the Lyft app immediately signed me in, told me that my full name was Britney G-------, showed me "my&qu
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I got a free loaner phone once a few years back ("Samsung Ultimate Test Drive") which came with pre-activated mobile phone service and was very clearly re-using a phone number that someone else had quite recently actively been usi
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> As far as I know, there's no full text search and the types of reports and aggregation you can do are extremely primitive. My understanding is that it's helpful to think of honeycomb.io as a replacement for Scuba -- which, to

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