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by otoburb 8y ago
>> I think they claimed that the newly regenerated animal exhibit the same behavior. As directly referenced in the article, flatworm experimenters (James McConnell in the 50's and 60's, and Michael Levin in 2015[1]) definit
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by otoburb 8y ago
>> I found out managers despised having to cut huge overtime checks but found hiring a new tech too time consuming and costly in terms of training and certification. >> [...] Young guns might want overtime, but management can
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by otoburb 9y ago
I wonder if they will notice an uptick in bounce rate for Firefox 59.0.3 users, primarily because it seems to crash the tab. The Ars Technica review linked by 'portmanteafu provided great information.
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by otoburb 9y ago
Perhaps timelock[1] variants could be implemented if a usable option comes up. The idea being that if access or activity is dormant for a period of time t , then at t+1 secondary keys can be used. This presumes that organizations wishes
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by otoburb 9y ago
>> Still, the crash forced the IRS to extend the tax filing deadline one day, delaying some 14 million submissions. For a system that is supposedly so brittle, they were able to get enough of it back up and running to at least accept
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by otoburb 9y ago
Canadian banking is a protected industry. It is fiendishly difficult to set up a new bank due to Canada's proximity to the United States and the fear that larger international banks will (eventually) swallow up the Canadian banking sys
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by otoburb 9y ago
>> Like many other aspiring early retirees, Daniel also made lucky investments in cryptocurrency. “The crypto lottery forwarded my timetable by five, ten years.” He also got very lucky. Assuming no cryptocurrency optionality, even if
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by otoburb 9y ago
FIRE couples need to ensure that they don't get lonely , and should spend more of their available time cultivating their network as they traipse around the world. For some, it's easy to form and maintain relationships wherever th
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by otoburb 9y ago
The 4% safe withdrawal rate usually refers to the net return. To your point, in today's interest rate environment that would mean aiming for >7%+ returns.
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by otoburb 9y ago
Also, it seemed that the couple were willing to move to a lower cost of living location/country so their safe withdrawal rate would take them further. I don't think children were factored into the base equation, although it's
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by otoburb 9y ago
>> [...] Paris has 133 miles of rail to support a population of only 2 million. Just so we're talking about the same scales, the 133 miles of the Paris Métro rapid transit system covers the entire Paris metropolitan area[1], whi
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by otoburb 9y ago
>> Well, trying to build AI using failed papers from the 1980s have near zero value today. I think if you had picked any other example you'd have been correct, but many current-day AI advances are based on decades old techniques
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by otoburb 9y ago
>> Sounds like this guy has a lot of vague complaints but not much in the way of concrete solutions, other than "do the right thing" which in his mind is extremely obvious and yet undefined. Maybe he's operating on the
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by otoburb 9y ago
>> If the system detects that hands are not on, it provides visual and auditory alerts. This happened several times on Mr. Huang's drive that day. If the system detects that hands are not on the wheel, perhaps something else sho
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by otoburb 9y ago
>> "We are committed to providing public goods that help society navigate the path to AGI. Today this includes publishing most of our AI research, but we expect that _safety and security concerns will reduce our traditional publi
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by otoburb 9y ago
I think the policy is working as designed. The grating, low-grade, annoying, time-wasting inconvenience is supposed to continue to irritate the purchaser until they decide to bring their own bags.
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by otoburb 9y ago
A Denver Post editorial[1] links to the Digital First Media Workers campaign site[2] which aims to "win fair contracts with wage increases for the nearly 1,000 Guild-represented employees of Digital First Media." The campaign site
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by otoburb 9y ago
I like VisiData[1][2] for CSV/TSV data exploration. textql is a good command-line follow-up to run quick direct queries against the data without needing to see visual/spatial structure. [1] https://jsvine.github.io&#x2F
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by otoburb 9y ago
Can you elaborate why? Based on the reference to your young child, is your regret based on daycare and school choices?
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by otoburb 9y ago
The analogy can be taken further: like uranium, data can be and has been weaponized in a narrow sense, and despite the toxicity and trouble still remains incredibly valuable.
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by otoburb 9y ago
Cloudflare is making a public pronouncement that they're not going to sell your DNS data nor track your IP address, with the implication that they will also not use the usage data to upsell you services. That's about the only addi
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by otoburb 9y ago
This strategy worked well for me too until Circuit Theory. As an "early morning"[ ] class it was easy to bum the notes from somebody else, but the darn quizzes tanked my grades enough that I had to repeat the course the next avail
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by otoburb 9y ago
Public schools also run fundraisers, and most families seem to understand that these funds give their children a competitive edge that other schools may not be able to offer (after school programs, supplies, teaching assistants for lower gr
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by otoburb 9y ago
Comparable taxes to California, except that Canadian health care is (mostly) free. Some British Columbia residents pay an extra supplement for additional insurance (prescription drugs, vision, dental, etc.), but it's a nominal amount f
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by otoburb 9y ago
Vancouver Island is much more affordable; seems like the person is willing to live away from dense urban centres. The insanity of Canadian real estate seems to be isolated to Toronto and Vancouver, although prices are predictably rising in
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by otoburb 9y ago
Did they scrape indiscriminately, or did they pay for access? I'm hoping it was the latter so you were able to keep the site self-sustaining for a while longer.
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by otoburb 9y ago
Great way to comply with GDPR! Also presumably reduces your data management overhead slightly, although it seems you're still storing data on your own systems[1]. This reminds me of SpiderOak's "No Knowledge" claim[2]. [
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by otoburb 9y ago
If you remove the current state of the token supply, then I'd say that Stellar seems to be relatively decentralized as evidenced by the number of verified validators not under direct control or ownership by the Stellar Development Foun
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by otoburb 9y ago
Most of the outstanding token supply is still held by the Stellar Foundation to be distributed. In my books, that means that it's still pretty centralized, but much less so than other ICOs or early coins that seem like outright scams.
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by otoburb 9y ago
I think the Stellar Foundation distributed 20% of the tokens so far (from the dashboard[1]), and holds back 5% of available token supply for their operating costs. Your point still stands though: like Ripple, Stellar's token supply is

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