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by mxcrossb 7y ago
I think the average margin might be misleading. After all, most restaurants fail pretty quickly. That number could be skewed by the unsuccessful businesses. But I think it’s an interesting point. Why fight all day long for a 5% margin when
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The paper is open access: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.5123794
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That was a good read. I found this part: > First of all the perceptual system cuts down this abundance or you couldn't survive." Religion, science, politics and philosophy represent our attempts to compress reality still furthe
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by mxcrossb 7y ago
Well optimizing the photo seems a sensible task for AI.
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I’m a professional FORTRAN developer. I would say even FORTRAN 90 has a very rich and capable feature set. The problem is not the language, it’s the other developers :). A lot of codes have been developed by people used to FORTRAN 77, so ev
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What We Know About the Wuhan Coronavirus(nytimes.com)
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> I would almost argue that it doesn't make sense to talk about something being true or untrue if it cannot be tested nor used to make any predictions. The theory can’t be tested by experiment, but I do think it can be critiqued in
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by mxcrossb 7y ago
Perhaps I’m naive, but given Grindr’s very vulnerable user population I expected more...
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The Capitalist Way to Make Americans Stop Eating Meat(theatlantic.com)
3 points by mxcrossb 7y ago|1 comments
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The big tech companies’ only advantage is that they can manufacture more complex tech. Their goal is to move what users want towards things that are hard to build, not necessarily what users would naturally want.
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Sounds like an industry ripe for disruption. Crowd source that job with an app, and the primary money maker is all that data you get on people waking up. Use the block chain to confirm awakenings. Eventually the workers will be replaced by
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Ironically, the submitted title was so “clickbait”y that I didn’t follow the link. But after reading your comment, my interest was peaked and I found it enjoyable
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The names are definitely my favorite part. They really express America’s mythic quality
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Banned in the USSR: how forbidden music made its way to Soviet streets on X-rays(aeon.co)
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> a UI that is essentially unchanged since Office 95 Back when I read slashdot, I swear every thread about office had a top comment complaining about how office’s ribbon UI ruined their work flow. One of the biggest weaknesses in open so
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I think the author is making a good point here, though overstating the case. Remember, plagiarism in academia isn’t just stealing an entire paper and claiming it’s yours. In my narrow sub field, probably the first three sentences of every p
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I like how they lost the wading depth, I’m all set for the Oregon trail now!
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Can you go into more detail? I don’t see how that would work. In this algorithm, you need the eigenvalues of all of the minors. So if I’m adding rows/columns to the matrix, yes I have one of the minors from my last solution, but I have
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by mxcrossb 7y ago
On the topic of not enough carrot, I’m curious how impactful the end of support for python2 will be. How many programs stuck in python2 are encountering bugs in the runtime?
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This. America has always been considered crude by Europe when it fines to cuisine, craftsmen, etc.
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There was a period where every web forum discussion of Firefox included a joke about memory leaks. I’m surprised no one remembers this...
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You can actually just do this on any website. When making an account, just type password into the password field. The best part is you can do the exact same thing at login, so you never have to memorize the super secure password they genera
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Also, I think the public has no problem with the government spying on other people. They just don’t want it spying on them. So in that regard, it opposing the policy, but instead mitigating the risk to your own communications is an expecte
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Is this really true though? Frequently I hear claims that safety standards are too strict and liability too great, but all of that could be addressed through suitable government policy. Maybe these companies just want it both ways. They can
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You could tell as soon as you read the top of the page and saw it was a blog about theology :)
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I couldn’t quite understand the part about Edison printing newspapers on the train. Was he copying newspapers to sell them cheap?
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Was this info not in the original article? It seems to be the most important point, yet nobody else is discussing it in the comments.
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> But I actually avoid the App Store these days, both on MacOS and my iPhone. I never really noticed but I just slowly stopped installing new applications from there That sounds less like avoiding and more like not using. I think this is
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Why do good programmers fail technical interviews? It’s because people like this are doing the interviewing...
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It seems like solid advise, but not sufficient? Having wasted many hours watching tv mystery shows, I’d say that just because the crime is coherent, doesn’t mean it’s compelling. Though it for sure helps, I thought his comment about “is it

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