montrose

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As China Marches Forward on A.I., the White House Is Silent(nytimes.com)
2 points by montrose 9y ago|0 comments
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Astrophotographer Spots Elon Musk's Roadster Cruising Through Space [video](space.com)
124 points by montrose 9y ago|11 comments
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by montrose 9y ago
I love the technique of catching misdeeds via subtle statistical traces that the bad guys leave. It is extremely hard not to leave a statistical signature when you do something bad repeatedly. You leave tracks you have no idea you're l
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by montrose 9y ago
Wow, if you use that url plus the Mercury Reader, it works. Thanks so much!
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by montrose 9y ago
I believe this is true for businesses in general, but that doesn't mean it's true for startups. Startups are a tiny proportion of businesses, and things work very differently in that world. Exactly how and why they work differentl
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by montrose 9y ago
Investors aren't looking for founders who are easy to intimidate and push around. They're looking for founders who will succeed, and someone who is easy to push around is not likely to.
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by montrose 9y ago
"Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains."
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by montrose 9y ago
This is a very interesting thesis. Moreover, the idea of someone having an extreme amount of several orthogonal qualities (flipping heads five times in a row) is a very useful one, regardless of how closely it matches our use of the word &q
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by montrose 9y ago
Interesting how similar the distribution of criminality is to the distribution of wealth, in which the top 1% own a bit over half. https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/nov/14/worlds-ri...
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by montrose 9y ago
What your comment makes clear, and what I suspect the author does not consciously realize, is that cancelling debt is spending money.
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by montrose 9y ago
Yes, reading between the lines, it sounds like they suspect that. They would not have gone into such detail about a mere technicality.
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To Power the Future, Carmakers Flip on 48-Volt Systems(nytimes.com)
2 points by montrose 9y ago|0 comments
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The Rise of China and the Fall of the ‘Free Trade’ Myth(nytimes.com)
91 points by montrose 9y ago|110 comments
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by montrose 9y ago
There can't be a significant net decrease in number of households unless housing is sitting empty. There could be a net decrease in population if the people arriving are younger than the people leaving, and don't have kids yet. Bu
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by montrose 9y ago
Uber was right to cave. Google is not a litigious company, and would not have sued unless Uber had behaved really badly.
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Cryptocurrencies Come to Campus(nytimes.com)
46 points by montrose 9y ago|49 comments
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by montrose 9y ago
If your shareholders are VCs who have board seats, they want to escape even more than you do. So from their POV at least, shutting down the company or doing an HR acquisition would be fine. If one of your cofounders has always longed to run
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by montrose 9y ago
Has Betteridge's Law stopped working?
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by montrose 9y ago
Some other questions that seem to have been omitted from this list: 1. Is there an atmosphere of energy? 2. Is the company bureaucratic? 3. Does the company do good work? 4. Are the people good at what they do? 5. Are they happy?
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by montrose 9y ago
"Development of mathematics resembles a fast revolution of a wheel: sprinkles of water are flying in all directions. Fashion—it is the stream that leaves the main trajectory in the tangential direction. These streams of epigone works a
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How to Know When a Child’s Flu Turns Serious(nytimes.com)
203 points by montrose 9y ago|124 comments
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Engineering Marvel of the Winter Olympics: A Broom(nytimes.com)
130 points by montrose 9y ago|39 comments
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by montrose 9y ago
It's not simply miserliness that makes people reluctant to pay for articles online. It's also because subscribing is so much work. If you could pay 50 cents for an article with a single button click, a lot of people would do it. B
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by montrose 9y ago
"The ability to overflow an input buffer is also a potential security hole, as shown by the recent Internet worm." Interesting data point that in 1989, it was still a novel idea that buffer overflow was related to security.
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by montrose 9y ago
One way to test that claim is to look at e.g. who worked at Xerox Parc in the 1970s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_associated_with...
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The Octopus: Stable Genius(nytimes.com)
83 points by montrose 9y ago|16 comments
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by montrose 9y ago
This article is a good example of how urban legends get started. Now in addition to the one about how boys liked microcomputers in the 1980s because they were only marketed to boys (when in fact early microcomputer marketing = "16k of
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by montrose 9y ago
This seems to me a big deal, if the miniaturization of satellites turns rockets that weren't previously launch vehicles into ones that are.
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by montrose 9y ago
The difference is the type of work you do and how you feel about it, not whether you're employer or employee. There are businesses it's a grim schlep to run, and jobs that are very interesting.
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by montrose 9y ago
Hackers aren't only interested in programming.

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