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by mherdeg 8y ago
Cool! I have been pretty ignorant about this history and didn't realize that the Infocom z-machine was working from prior art (the UCSD p-machine).
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by mherdeg 8y ago
It's slightly above the best nationally available current rates (2.5% APY -- https://www.fragiledeal.com/t/best-nationally-available-high... ). It will be interesting to see if they * maintain a 0.5% spread above
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by mherdeg 8y ago
Yeah I suppose it's true that a system which has only "blocked more than 11.14 million flights and 4.25 million high-speed train trips by the end of April [2018]" http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1103262
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by mherdeg 8y ago
Yeah it was an interesting pivot. They started as the electronic version of the "ride board" [like http://resources.mit.edu/resource/apo-ride-board ] and took a while to change. Here is a press release from Z
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by mherdeg 8y ago
It's very cool to see someone trying this out. Any predictions on the outcomes? (1) I sold a bunch of product and made money (2) I sold a bunch of product and lost money (3) No one wanted my product and I lost money (4) I sold a bunch
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by mherdeg 8y ago
Yeah that's a good point. Until a month ago when I got an eye exam and glasses, I didn't really understand that the way a telephoto lens worked at wide apertures was very similar to the way the eye was supposed to work at _most_ d
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by mherdeg 8y ago
I didn't realize that the word "bokeh" is fairly new to English-language discussion of photography -- only since about 1998 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokeh ). I had this series of thoughts about sm
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by mherdeg 8y ago
Another area to investigate would be fertility rates -- the blog headline summarizing the research findings would presumably say "Why are millennials having fewer children? Because they keep their cell phones in their pockets on the su
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by mherdeg 8y ago
Yeah whatever happened with the Rolling Jubilee organization, which deliberately bought and forgave people's delinquent student loan debts? [ http://rollingjubilee.org/ ] Has anyone interviewed any specific person whos
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by mherdeg 8y ago
Ditto Neal Stephenson's "Anathem" which posits an alternate-Earth history with a future of widespread info war (quoted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14554592 ) and the evolution of a special quasi-p
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by mherdeg 8y ago
Yeah, I had totally missed that a change was in the works to redefine Avogardo's number as an exact number with no uncertainty. Pretty cool.
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by mherdeg 8y ago
The kilogram was the last one -- we're out of SI base units. This was the last one not defined based on some measurable universal constant, per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_base_unit and https://en.
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by mherdeg 8y ago
In the line of business that AWS, Azure, GCP, etc. are in (IAAS/PAAS/SAAS) there is a related software concept called the "free tier". It's very popular.
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by mherdeg 8y ago
Hey - could you share some of your SA rules/config that are working well for you? I tend to find that when I manually categorize spam/ham and sa-learn, spam goes to 0 for a couple of weeks, then creeps upward as trends change (?!)
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by mherdeg 8y ago
Yeah I treat it as "common knowledge" that polygraphs work about as well as the ADE 651 ( https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/world/middleeast/04sensor... ). It's always fun to think abo
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by mherdeg 8y ago
reddit discussions were seeded for a few weeks with a series of sock puppet conversations among multiple accounts controlled by the founders and a couple of friends: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1337359
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by mherdeg 8y ago
Weirdest one for me: in "The Roads Must Roll" (1940) Heinlein invented the Segway. "A tumblebug does not give a man dignity, since it is about the size and shape of a kitchen stool, gyro-stabilized on a single wheel. But it i
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by mherdeg 8y ago
I distinctly remember working with grad students in 2006 whose project was "collaborating with Nokia to make super high quality cameras in cell phones". At the time, I laughed inside and thought, "ha, it's gonna be tough
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by mherdeg 8y ago
I pulled out the book and dug these references up. We see his opinion about the essential sameness of places visited by tourists in a few places in the book; A confidence trickster bums a meal at a tourist cafe at Place Mohamed Ali, Alexand
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by mherdeg 8y ago
Pynchon writes a similar complaint in V about the "Baedeker world" of the late 19th century, where places like Egypt had begun to lose their local character and begun to all resemble a glob of similarly shaped tourist cafes.
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by mherdeg 8y ago
I have been using Flickr to archive my photos since 2013 when they announced a 1TB limit for free users, and have been paying them $50/year since 2016 when they limited availability to Pro users for their first-party auto-upload tool (
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by mherdeg 8y ago
The "OG account" stuff is fascinating. ( see e.g. https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/43ebpd/the-long-weir... for screenshots of forum or https://medium.com/@N/how-i-lost-m
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by mherdeg 8y ago
This presentation briefly mentions but then seems to mostly forget about "Elsagate" which they call the "Peppa Pig scandal". James Bridle argues convincingly that the genre of bizarre YouTube videos which appeals to the
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by mherdeg 8y ago
I was really hoping to see some follow-up from this amazing Reddit post from 2017: https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/5m90gv/im_17_2... The poster inherited about $100,000 and their parent, con
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by mherdeg 8y ago
The "open source intelligence" report on the MH17 incident -- where people found social media videos of the Buk missile proceeding through the countryside before being used to down the passenger jet -- was super interesting in a s
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by mherdeg 8y ago
Thank you to whoever made sure this news.ycombinator article title included "A review of Errol Morris's critique". It was not super obvious from the article itself online that this article is a book review. I thought the auth
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by mherdeg 8y ago
In Crichton's 2002 speech which cites the Gell-Mann amnesia effect ( http://larvatus.com/michael-crichton-why-speculate/ ) he argues that: (1) newspapers and other media sources should not quote experts who predic
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by mherdeg 8y ago
Yeah, I could have sworn I saw an alternate version of this what-happens-when wiki which spent more time describing "your brain sends signals which are interpreted as follows …" But I didn't come up with it in a quick Web sea
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by mherdeg 8y ago
> But then, Freeman's analysis is itself still controversial, so who knows. Yeah it's always interesting as an outsider to read about settled scientific wisdom being enthusiastically challenged. I liked: * the Gerta Keller dino
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by mherdeg 8y ago
there's at least one collaboratively edited doc about this standard interview Q; see https://github.com/alex/what-happens-when

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