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by mousa 12y ago
That has been edited (maybe corrected) since I posted
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by mousa 12y ago
Great news unless you are living in a village near the tigers. These are not animals I would want living near me. There are an estimated 270 tigers in Sunderbans National Park. They kill 100-250 people a year. http://en.wikipedia
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by mousa 12y ago
> You need to have multiple copies open at the same time if you want to refer to different parts at the same time. That's true but that's a huge advantage to ebooks. Having two copies of the book open, one for the "Diagram
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by mousa 12y ago
From what I've in the finance industry, there aren't enough standards. It seems like every bank/broker/data provider stores and sends data in its own format and has different procedures for clearing. It's like the p
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by mousa 12y ago
Those blocks with one or two houses are so weird. Looks like sim-city.
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by mousa 12y ago
That may be the effect but I doubt that is what is going through the minds of individuals making these decisions. This is just a misguided attempt to give Europe's tech industry a shot but another American company will fill in any spac
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by mousa 12y ago
Probably. It's tough. I get where they really do stomp out European (and any other) companies that can't compete with a company that has tons of cash/data and offers all its services for "free," but also I think th
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by mousa 12y ago
It's not that interesting. Yahoo is under a lot of pressure to grow and just got a windfall of cash from the Alibaba IPO. This is an easy place for them to grow their revenue.
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by mousa 12y ago
Yahoo has a ton of cash it didn't have until recently and a CEO who wants growth and is willing to overspend.
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by mousa 12y ago
You can't see how a company with a bottomless pocket and the most computing resources can help them achieve their goals?
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by mousa 12y ago
They're great but its a matter of time before their reporters die. The one in Mali was filming the front line of a gun battle.
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by mousa 12y ago
I fail to see how the French kids' ability to write would be hurt by their being introduced to programming. Maybe you think the solution to their not being able to write is to sacrifice all other subjects to focus on writing. Though I
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by mousa 14y ago
Most professors I know are not professors because of the money. These are usually the people who were the best students and as such could have found nice jobs in other sectors. And do you really think they would have difficulty getting fund
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by mousa 14y ago
"and a US citizen (born in Denver) " I've never understood the emphasis on this point. You're either for or against drone attacks on presumed terrorists, I can't understand how US citizenship plays any role in it. If his father was involved
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by mousa 15y ago
They have been getting much more complex. For example many stat geeks have been trying to make one that takes the +/- stats (how well the team does when the player is on the floor in terms of point difference per 100 possessions) and adjust
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by mousa 15y ago
NBA media and fans are much much more resistant to empirical stuff than baseball. I think it's because the appeal of the game is more about emotions and hype than baseball. There's this feeling that things can't be captured in the numbers,
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by mousa 15y ago
As quick as you're willing to pay for it because prefabricated stuff can be done in parallel.
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by mousa 15y ago
How about employment? It will make millions of jobs disappear. Truckers/taxi drivers/bus drivers/etc. make up a pretty huge group of people.
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by mousa 15y ago
It's not really that big a deal for them to this every year. It's just something you have to live with like NPR's fundraising drives, except much less grating. I don't hear people irl complain about it. I know it really irritates many of t
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by mousa 15y ago
Those numbers really aren't bad at all. Obviously wages are going to a main expense of a nonprofit that's a giant website.
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by mousa 15y ago
Probably the whole process of bidding for any of these reduces the pool of potential contractors to a couple of these giant government contractors who have bidding down. I know there are bidding procedures for everything to fight corruption
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by mousa 15y ago
I don't believe the ai class profs have mentioned it yet. The db professor sounds like she is going to do it again next year same time, but hasn't said so definitively. ML class is happening next semester again.
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by mousa 15y ago
Yes the db and ml class websites are outstanding. The video and in class exercises are very smooth, but the best part are the exercises in both classes. The db teacher said some students threw all of it together over the summer. Very impre
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by mousa 15y ago
Add to that it's all being done by an ex-convict entrepreneur and it looks to me like the only reason this is a story is because it's a story. He did a good job hyping it.
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by mousa 15y ago
There is a small but vocal subset of people on HN who find it hard to believe anyone cares about anything besides money. I think some people just want a simple way of deciding how good they are doing at life.
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by mousa 15y ago
It was hypothetical if someone with that kind of ambition could make just enough that he accomplished all these great things even if it left him middle class, he'd take it. I agree it would take a huge amount of cash to get there, but the
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by mousa 15y ago
"he has to have profit as his main motive or he would fail" Obviously it has to not go under but I bet he'd be happy driving on Mars in his solar-powered electric car if his companies made just enough to get by. If by "main motive" you mean
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by mousa 15y ago
I wish people would stop trying to paint their own motives on other people. There is no reason for him to trumpet that he loves profit if that not his main motive. These guys have money and successful companies it's possible they would make
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by mousa 15y ago
I doubt people will back off of malaria at this point in the past it seems like once it starts getting under control in a region it keeps going down. There is a lot of anti-malaria momentum building up with awareness and malaria education o
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by mousa 15y ago
I don't think there is any reason to encourage saving money. Living within your means, yes, investing, yes, but saving under your pillow, especially if you had a non-inflating currency, isn't good for the economy. Even if it should be encou

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