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by mjewkes 6y ago
Where have we seen this? Genuine question.
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by mjewkes 6y ago
>3. The renewables industry likes to downplay the sheer volume of fossil fuels required to manufacture the parts. The energy ROI on this is quite poor, and in many cases, we would have been better off skipping the intermediate step and b
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by mjewkes 6y ago
The top comment on the article itself suggests that the UK’s betting markets don’t have the problems that limit PI. They are currently +-0.05$ of PI. A material but not enormous difference
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by mjewkes 6y ago
Motion Twin is the classic example in the games space http://motion-twin.com/en/ They shipped Dead Cells, which is rated as "Overwhelmingly Positive" "96% of 50,435 reviews" on steam. https:/&
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by mjewkes 6y ago
Strilanc, who works on the google quantum team, has a simulator here: https://algassert.com/quirk
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by mjewkes 7y ago
0.046% You didn’t multiply by 100 to change from per unit to per cent. Still bad though.
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by mjewkes 7y ago
Conversely, I'd love to read a Vox editorial that looks for opportunites for government deregulation/step-back.
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by mjewkes 7y ago
In their public-facing work, Cowen and pc talk primarily about the importance and upside of progress and growth [1][2]. As someone who leans left, I find these writings both novel and compelling - some of the most compelling market-oriented
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by mjewkes 7y ago
What's the best way to get in touch? I'm at username [-] google's email.
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by mjewkes 8y ago
It's much older than that. The first bulletproof vest dates to the 1890s, and the inventor photographed tests on himself for publicity. https://culture.pl/en/article/the-monk-who-stopped-bullets-w...
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by mjewkes 8y ago
A doubly linked list is not a good candidate to be written in _safe_ rust. Lots of other problems are.
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by mjewkes 8y ago
>why these highly experimental approaches (e.g reprogramming immune cells) can't be done in animals with cancer They absolutely are, all the time. Animal testing is relatively cheap (esp. for mice) and widespread in biotech. It&#x27
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by mjewkes 8y ago
Yes - if you prove that it is safer than other options for the indicated population, the FDA will approve it with a label indicating it only for that population. Indications can be as specific as "indicated for tumors with specific mut
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by mjewkes 8y ago
Yep. Trade Union Congress (TUC) puts real wage growth in germany at 0.9%, and real wage growth in the USA at 1.2% Source: https://www.tuc.org.uk/news/national/uk-be-bottom-wage-growt...
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by mjewkes 8y ago
>If our greatest environmental efforts can at best end in failure To date, this may be true. But human cultivaiton _can_ result in an increase in biodiversity and ecological productivity vs non-intervention. This generally looks like gar
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by mjewkes 9y ago
Veeva is a notable counter example. They raised their A round (their only round) once they had a pilot deal in place with Genentech. Though, at that point at least, Veeva was basically a salesforce reseller.
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by mjewkes 9y ago
1TB egress @ DO = $5 = 0.005$/GB...
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Digital Ocean Launches Object Storage(digitalocean.com)
1 points by mjewkes 9y ago|0 comments
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by mjewkes 9y ago
MotionHall | Software Engineer & Data Munger | SF, Vancouver | ONSITE | Open to Interns (Vancouver only) MotionHall identifies the best possible development, financing, regulatory, and sales partnerships for emerging biotech companies,
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by mjewkes 9y ago
>Norman H. Cohen (nco...@watson.ibm.com) wrote: Anyone know what the watson group at IBM was doing in 1995?
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by mjewkes 10y ago
Do you have any more? Looking for an invite :)
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by mjewkes 10y ago
The C# documentation is quite clear: https://realm.io/docs/xamarin/latest/ var puppies = realm.All<Dog>().Where(d => d.Age < 2); The LINQ integration is appreciated. // Update
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by mjewkes 10y ago
Life aside, in a slightly different universe, it's unclear whether space or chemistry or atoms would even be possible: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-tuned_Universe To quote neutral milk hotel, "how s
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by mjewkes 10y ago
To extend this even further... ~This~ morning Joe rolled a dice, and it came up 1, so he hosted a board-game party. During the party Joe hints that the die he rolls may be very large, but stops short of outright saying so. Joe also refuses
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by mjewkes 10y ago
Does YC still require international corporations to reincorporate in Delaware?
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Applications of the Vector Dot Product for Game Programming(medium.com)
5 points by mjewkes 10y ago|0 comments
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by mjewkes 11y ago
(for those unfamiliar) With roughly even strength, Isreal destroyed 82 Syrian aircraft + 30 SAM batteries while suffering only 2 damaged aircraft (that flew home). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mole_Cricket_19
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by mjewkes 11y ago
>Socrates, Buddha and Confucius we're alive at the same time, yet we don't call that "age of philosophy". Actually we do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_Age >During this time, according t
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by mjewkes 12y ago
I'm in the same boat. The only machine I can find fitting those specs at the 13" form factor is a Clevo W230SD[1]. And I have serious concerns about its build quality. [1] http://www.xoticpc.com/sager-np7339-clevo-w
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by mjewkes 12y ago
For those interested, I think Whisper Systems is currently hiring iOS + UX in the Bay Area: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9127708

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