mortehu

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by mortehu 9y ago
They're probably talking about labor productivity[1], i.e. gross value added per hour worked. The whole purpose of this website is effective altruism. I'm sure they're aware that people are struggling out there. 1. https:&#
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by mortehu 10y ago
Oh, I see now. You're reading "Having IPv6 access is a necessary for accessing Google". What I meant was "If the presence of AAAA records means you can't access a site, then you can't access Google". A u
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by mortehu 10y ago
I'm not sure what you're referring to when you say "Thats not how it works". I was referring to people with broken IPv6 setups, mostly Teredo and 6to4 (old Mac OS X versions), for whom IPv4 worked but IPv6 was not actual
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by mortehu 10y ago
If you can't access IPv6 enabled sites, you can't access Google, Facebook, Wikipedia, or Netflix, who all enabled IPv6 permanently in 2012[1]. According to [2], around a third of US has IPv6 connectivity. If AAAA records constit
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by mortehu 10y ago
I think you might be talking about what other people call Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligenc...
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by mortehu 10y ago
Are you sure it's a weight sensor? It's usually an inductive loop[1], which detects metal. They're usually supposed to detect motorcycles, but are sometimes incorrectly calibrated. I've been able to trigger most troub
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by mortehu 10y ago
One could take the view that a full TLS stack is so complicated that it is much more likely to contain exploitable flaws than some simple signature checking code.
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by mortehu 10y ago
When the price starts dropping, you would have to sell more shares to maintain a 1:1 ratio. For example, you can double the number of shares each time the price drops by half, and make up to 200%.
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by mortehu 10y ago
I can't find a complete list, but as I recall, the majority of the accidents consist of Google's vehicles being rear-ended while slowing down to yield at intersections.
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by mortehu 10y ago
If rolexes could only be bought from other consumers who actually want to keep them unless they can sell well above their purchase price, people might say there's a shortage.
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by mortehu 10y ago
What are those people (with the right skills) currently doing instead of working in tech?
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by mortehu 10y ago
In practice, the difference between US and other countries is still pretty big. In US, about 60 percent of individual tax returns are filed by a professional tax preparer, at every income level. People who owe no income tax still have to f
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by mortehu 10y ago
The original title is "Green finance for dirty ships", and the article uses the phrase "oxides of nitrogen and sulphur", rather than just "oxides". If anyone still doesn't know that CO2 is the biggest tota
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by mortehu 10y ago
In the article you linked, they say the rebar had to be positioned ahead of time. That doesn't seem to be the case here.
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by mortehu 10y ago
For lots more data and charts, see New York Fed's quarterly report on household debt and credit: https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/interactives/househo... Page 13 shows newly delinquent balances by loan
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by mortehu 10y ago
Are coaxial cable connections not available? These days, you can get 10/1 Gbps with DOCSIS 3.1 (although TWC in USA offers only 300 Mbps), and the standard seems to be improving still.
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by mortehu 10y ago
Specifically using OriginStamp[1], which aggregates multiple hashes before creating a transaction. This makes it possible for the service to scale without increasing costs or transaction volume. https://www.originstamp.org/
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by mortehu 10y ago
It makes no sense to inflation adjust the DJIA price index. Because the index discards cash dividends, by adjusting for inflation but not dividends you're ending up even further from the real returns of a DJIA portfolio then you were b
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by mortehu 10y ago
I've switched jobs on H-1B three times. All it takes is waiting for the replacement visa to come through before you resign. In each case I trusted my current employer and told them I was waiting for a visa for a new job, but I didn&#x2
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by mortehu 10y ago
From the FAQ: "All data is anonymized and aggregated to ensure no personally identifiable information or user behavior can be surfaced through the Movement tool" Aggregation is a common method for anonymization. One approach is t
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by mortehu 10y ago
And Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ The language in many of those books may be a bit archaic, though. See also Distributed Proofreaders: http://www.pgdp.net/c/
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by mortehu 10y ago
> Here, make a decision in at most a second and a half or you crash This is not the kind of system they're talking about at all. From the article: > Nissan’s cubicle-based drivers aren’t emergency backups. If the car hits black
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by mortehu 10y ago
For reference, 133,350,000 metric tons is 1.81x the mass capacity of the US strategic oil storage, another grand energy storage scheme. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=(133,350,000+metric+ton...
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by mortehu 10y ago
But the OS is committing to supplying memory for any writable pages you duplicated, because after all you might write to them. The OS doesn't know which pages you won't duplicate. Unless you set your vm.overcommit_memory sysctl v
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by mortehu 10y ago
Looks to me that even the most specific information in that article is aggregate data over a large number of users, i.e. population statistics, something I wouldn't consider a breach of anyone's privacy.
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by mortehu 10y ago
This doesn't explain why they can't upgrade user-space applications and libraries. It's very rare for a user-space application upgrade to require a kernel update on any major operating system.
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by mortehu 10y ago
IQ is normally distributed by definition, not by some natural property of humans.
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by mortehu 10y ago
SEA Rule 17a-4(b)(4): > Every member, broker and dealer [...] shall preserve for a period of not less than three years, [...] Originals of all communications received and copies of all communications sent [...] (including inter-office m
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by mortehu 10y ago
Slashdot has something similar. Moderators' points have to be tagged with "Funny", "Interesting", etc, and users can choose how to weigh each type of point.
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by mortehu 10y ago
Aha, I had skimmed past the fund of fund parts. In CFA Institute's estimate, the difference in fees only made up about half of the underperformance at the end of 2014, especially considering that 2008 was an easy win for hedge funds:

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