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by olympus 9y ago
The FAA can't stop you from being a business, since that's not their charter. They can stop you from conducting air flights in the USA. As an extreme thought experiment, the FAA could revoke Delta Airlines' authorization to
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by olympus 9y ago
LinkedIn network size is almost treated as a binary big/little category to recruiters, because after 500 connections it just shows "500+" instead of the actual number of connections. So a recruiter sees "500+ connections
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by olympus 9y ago
The order for five four bit values has about 6.91 bits of information. log_2(5!)=6.91 More relevant to the problem, the order for four five bit values has about 4.59 bits of information (log_2(4!)=4.59). Not all of the sets actually h
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by olympus 9y ago
Considering the few other comments about pets eating their dead owners, this plan about getting help if you die needs a bit of thought. Would you train your pet to use the phone? Could it leave your house whenever it wanted? How will you
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by olympus 9y ago
The article recognizes that several time series databases already exist. They also say, "we aren't trying to compete against kdb+." They explain how they can handle time series data better than NoSQL databases that aren&#x2
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by olympus 9y ago
I didn't make that comment. However, I would say that people in their fifties have started to experience age-related decline in numerous areas (memory included). Showing a memory improvement in people 50-80 should be more accurately
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by olympus 9y ago
"Normal people flourish and are in their prime around 50." This is false. The only advantage people in their fifties have is experience. Your body is past its peak physically and mentally. People flourishing in their fifties ar
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by olympus 9y ago
Once the coins are converted to USD, JPY, EUR, etc, it's gone.
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by olympus 9y ago
The benefit of YC is specifically that they are a trusted club member, so investors have some idea about the chances that their investment will pay off. It's a good signal. ICOs don't have the same level of trust because anybody
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by olympus 9y ago
And probably the fact that it's so close to Seattle. Geography matters to a company like Amazon and putting up a large hub right next to the first one isn't the best choice.
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by olympus 9y ago
She would have trouble getting one, but she doesn't need one. Only a few senators are given access to every classified program. Most senators can request specific accesses if their work/committee requires it, but aren't giv
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by olympus 9y ago
I think that real journalism can happen under profit seeking organizations, because people find value in real journalism. However, real journalists don't do original research, they compile insights from experts. Journalists have a te
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by olympus 9y ago
It's true that we have lost trust in their analysis, but there is an important thing to remember here: fivethirtyeight is not a peer reviewed journal. You should treat their articles in roughly the same category as a CNN article on so
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by olympus 9y ago
One caveat: Bezos is the richest out of people that we can get an accurate and publicly available estimate of their wealth. It doesn't count people like Vladimir Putin because we don't actually know how much he's worth- but
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by olympus 9y ago
It's not actually a hot-button issue, at least not on the level of gender and race stereotyping. Claiming a difference based on birth order is more likely to elicit a "you're behind the times" type of response rather th
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by olympus 9y ago
There is no active mechanism to enforce gun laws when crossing state lines (and there are often safe passage laws if you are just driving through without stopping), but you can be charged if you are pulled over for another reason and the po
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by olympus 9y ago
Gasoline tax is based on quantity in the USA: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_taxes_in_the_United_Sta... It makes sense because gas usage is very correlated with road wear, so people who drive heavier vehicles pay
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by olympus 9y ago
These taxes currently only drive purchases out of your jurisdiction, lowering your tax base but not preventing the bad behavior. If you want a sugar tax to be effective it needs to cover a large enough area that I can't easily avoid i
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by olympus 9y ago
In your example, the difference between the high altitude person and you would be too small to matter if you weren't a mountain climbers or professional athlete. So for most people altitude differences are to small to matter but they
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by olympus 9y ago
> the first step is acquiring sufficient high-quality data and reproducing findings I agree that good data is a pre-requisite. An online survey of blog readers isn't going to upend psychology as we know it, but Scott's finding
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by olympus 9y ago
Previous researchers said "too small to matter," Scott's sentiments were more along the line of "small, but might matter in some areas." His sentence directly after him acknowledging the small effects: "I agre
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by olympus 9y ago
The middle child stereotype is that middle children receive less attention than both their older and younger siblings, resulting in them underperforming in several metrics. In three child families, the "best" child is first-born,
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by olympus 9y ago
Sure they exist, but we don't want to talk about it. There is a strong motivation to be able to say that everyone is created equal, regardless of how uncontrollable factors affect you (birth order, height, race, gender). We don'
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by olympus 9y ago
If you dont want to wait for the C.H.I.P. to become available again, a Raspberry Pi Zero should be able to do everything necessary here. It is about $5, can run linapple-pie, and has composite video pinout.
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by olympus 9y ago
They aren't in the target audience. Squirrels can't read, plus even if they did the squirrel university library didn't pay $10k for the subscription to access to the journal the paper is published in. Even if the squirrel wa
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by olympus 9y ago
10% of papers being completely uncited is a little misleading. There is a long tail of papers with 1 or 2 citations that were hardly read beyond the abstract and only cited to up a paper's number of references and had a few good keywo
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by olympus 9y ago
The biggest NVME drive I can find is 2TB. Apple might be offering a 4TB option, but isn't that less good? You lose all your data at once instead vs losing half. I doubt they are hurting for real estate with that screen size, it might
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by olympus 9y ago
Most SSD manufacturers offer a warranty that is included in the price of the drive. The Samsung 950 PRO warranty is 5 years or 400 terabytes written.
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by olympus 9y ago
VBA's one saving grace is that it's been available on every company computer I've ever used. Alt+F11 and I have an IDE. It's probably responsible for getting a few people involved in programming. But it had some seriou
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by olympus 9y ago
From the YC FAQ: "Can we do it without moving to where you are? Sorry, no. We tried this once, and by Demo Day that startup was way behind the rest. What we do, we have to do in person. We would not be doing a startup a favor by not ma

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