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by olympus 9y ago
Assuming rational actors simplifies theory to make it within reach of undergraduate students, so it is useful to get people started in the field. Lots of things are explained by rational choice, such as the actions of many corporations (th
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I think Amazon's case is a little more specific. People want trustworthy delivery, and they like getting a few larger packages rather than many small packages. I could buy a few items from non-Prime sellers with free shipping, but the
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You will notice a difference if you live in a house with multiple people streaming at once. The most typical use case is a big family that wants full HD on their tablets plus a 4k stream in the living room. That requires a 100 mbps connec
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by olympus 9y ago
Ofcom is a regulatory agency in the UK, this article has nothing to do with the FCC and the US.
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But when I can't even get that speed under favorable conditions then it is dishonest to advertise that speed. If you can't even get that speed when connecting to the ISP's own server a few miles away then you aren't get
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by olympus 9y ago
Or you can purchase a VPN subscription that lets you connect through different countries. I have one that lets me connect through dozens of countries and it's faster than the Tor network. It isn't iron clad security, but it gets
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by olympus 9y ago
brb. Buying some shoes in the hopes that wearing the same thing as an investor will make my company not suck. Just like wearing Jordans made all those kids jump higher.
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Galaxy Note 8 faster than iPhone 8 in real world test(forbes.com)
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by olympus 9y ago
Not sure about the funding, but it has been around for 20+ years. Maybe not tens of millions in VC funding, but it definitely has tens of millions of dollars worth of devs spending time on it.
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by olympus 9y ago
In general, it has to be a "regular" laptop, and not an ultrabook. The ultrabooks have gone to soldered in RAM and SSDs to save space. Try looking at ifixit for repairability scores. They take the laptops apart and show you the i
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by olympus 9y ago
Containers aren't cheaper than a modular (manufactured) home, they are just trendier. That's why you haven't seen containers replacing manufactured homes in trailer parks. This is kind of like the tiny house movement. It&#x
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by olympus 9y ago
Best, as in cheapest, or highest throughput, or easiest to configure? Your network type matters as well. A pi-hole works okay and is a low price option for a home network, but would get swamped on a work network. My suggestion: make a pi-
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by olympus 9y ago
ARES (Amateur Radio Emergency Service) is an emergency response group of amateur radio operators. Hurricane wipes out all the phones, but radios still work. ARES operators help with emergency communications until the phones and internet g
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by olympus 9y ago
One thing the Chumby had going for it was that it was pretty hackable. Had/has a small community around it. The Echo devices don't have that (AFAIK).
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by olympus 9y ago
A clearer explanation is the lazy evaluation here: http://adv-r.had.co.nz/Functions.html#function-arguments I can pass an argument but R won’t try to evaluate unless it needs it. This can be beneficial when only some of a
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by olympus 9y ago
I'm not putting the project down, but your comment "as long as you are OK with occasional API changes / deprecations" is exactly my point. Facebook doesn't want a system borking because an Arrow dev decided that so
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by olympus 9y ago
It's not even two years old and doesn't have a 1.0 release. It wouldn't be smart for "major" projects to be using it. There are probably folks using it for exploration but probably not a production system.
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by olympus 9y ago
I'm not an R-guru, but I did my thesis with 5k lines of R, so I'd call myself proficent: Point 10: R has lazy evaluation, which means here that a function will not be evaluated when you define it, it will be evaluated when you cal
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by olympus 9y ago
This really has nothing to do with the altitude of the missile. Any ICBM that the US sends over Russia without talking with them first would be an extreme provocation, and would give Russia justification to do whatever they wanted (hopeful
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by olympus 9y ago
No, one of the first things that is considered when deciding if an unknown missile is hostile is to look at its point of origin (comically abbreviated POO). If a missile originates from NK, then Russia would first assume it is headed for t
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by olympus 9y ago
The US doctrine on nuclear stuff is (paraphrasing here) "if you want something done right, you have to do it yourself." There are very few countries that we trust enough to hand over a job as important as nuclear deterrent. Aust
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by olympus 9y ago
I'd like to see some relative size indicated by the rankings. In the search category, Yahoo is listed at #3 behind Google and Baidu, but I'll bet it is a distant third. In the movies category, Rotten Tomatoes is listed at #3, bu
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by olympus 9y ago
My main claim was that Urbit isn't revolutionary. It is really just a Unix server and programming language. However, in an attempt to seem more sophisticated they invented new words so that nobody could figure out what it was. Urbi
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Hi yeldarb! This is a really neat app. I don't want to diminish your creation, so please don't think I'm trying to put you down with this question: How much of this was just glue-code to integrate a few modules, vs. how muc
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by olympus 9y ago
Urbit has been around for a few years and has done nothing to clear up the confusion around it. I think at this point it is safe to say that any claims of Urbit being a revolutionary form of computing are hogwash. This is probably similar
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by olympus 9y ago
Or it's theoretically worth twice as much to locate your company near the big tech companies. Can you really not entice people to move out to another city? Say Kansas City, which is quite pleasant. If they moved to K.C., a company c
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by olympus 9y ago
I think "great" implies that it is clearly better than anything you'd compare it to. Messi is great at soccer. The McLaren F1 was a great car. The iPhone 6s was merely a flagship phone that was directly comparable to ot
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by olympus 9y ago
If you want a watch with a neat movement that is widely available, get a Swatch Sistem 51. Granted it has 5x as many moving parts as the Zenith Defy Lab, but it is actually affordable and pretty neat.
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by olympus 9y ago
Realistically, no. The design is very clever, but nothing is truly new here. You could have made this out of wood 200 years ago, but it would have been much bigger and less precise. Using silicon for a mechanical device is neat, but not
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by olympus 9y ago
When he says the tests favor people that just graduated from school. Those that have been in the workforce for a while (older people) are focused on "real world" problems and not the academic problems seen on HackerRank. Any sys

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