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by otoburb 9y ago
Interesting. Wondering if this means earning only redeemable SkyMiles[1][2], or actual Medallion Qualifying Miles (MQMs)- the ones that actually count towards status on Delta's loyalty program. Since the distinction isn't called o
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by otoburb 9y ago
The image showing the size of the Matternet drone compared to a human was informative. The drone is much bigger than I envisioned it would be. Since the drones are approved to fly over dense urban Swiss cities, one intuitively anticipates a
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by otoburb 9y ago
FTA: "Furthermore, we decided that we would require a setup that actually worked. Given that we did not have any AR hardware available (eg AR glasses such as a Microsoft Hololens), we quickly built one ourselves using a production helm
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It seems that if you bought a star earlier then Tlon will "[...] write [Ethereum smart-] contracts that help galaxies and stars distribute their stars and planets" such that the "[...] star owner configures the planet sale co
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by otoburb 9y ago
It reads less like a perk, rather more as a warning filter. Hopefully the "transparency" saves both applicants and the company time.
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by otoburb 9y ago
Does this mean that the "R Us" trademark suits will cease[1]? [1] https://www.lexisnexis.com/legalnewsroom/intellectual-proper...
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You could see if you are a good fit for the organizations that DataKind[1] represents. [1] http://www.datakind.org/
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I guess this is cheaper than having a Panamanian law firm handle domain name registrations amongst their other privacy-focused services.
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by otoburb 9y ago
I'm stymied about parable 99. The nomenclature implies that Mr. Xi knew the basics of encryption. No mention whether the decryption function was provided or previously agreed upon (e.g. "let's agree on GPG"). I think the
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The swipe needs to be recognized as such before the prioritization, while a separate home-buttom IRQ feels more immediate and hence "reliable" under most mental models. One could argue that any tactile event would generate an IR
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>> I was quickly assured this was a bad name for the role and that it primarily was a development role. Next time, refuse to start unless they re-issue the offer letter with the corrected job title. For any future contract, always e
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by otoburb 9y ago
Refraction networking depends on an incentive scheme where the costs of cutting off all outside TLS access is too great a burden to bear for censoring networks or countries. However, some countries are actively working to build enough self-
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by otoburb 9y ago
Do you technically know more than one flavour of German (e.g. switzerdeutsch vs. High German)? Are they much different in terms of practical day-to-day speaking to allow for different thought patterns?
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I wonder if Illumos / SmartOS and OpenIndiana continued with the principle of least surprise via their ancestry chain, or whether they also moved to a "system" load view like Linux. It's great that design decisions and t
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The commercial entity backing the ML program should be responsible. If one doesn't exist then the comparison fails, as one would presumably not be willing to trust the competency of a public domain ML program without a true, commercia
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by otoburb 9y ago
For a layman like myself, downloading and skimming the reference papers at the bottom of the page, starting with Craig Gentry 2013's paper[1], really helped. [1] https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/340
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by otoburb 9y ago
>> In August 2015, he suffered a concussion when he went helmet-to-helmet with another player and was knocked unconscious. "I think it hurt my ability to think well mathematically," Urschel said. "It took me about three
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by otoburb 9y ago
>> My 5yo son has been playing Minetest for a number of months now and loves it. Thanks! This is the type of actionable anecdata that I can use. I wasn't sure if it was too early to introduce my children to Mine[craft|test] at s
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>> "City center to city center in each case, with up to a dozen or more entry/exit elevators in each city" [1] This alone will drive up required funding exponentially. Almost all of the named city centers have onerous s
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Elon Musk Says AI Is the ‘Greatest Risk We Face as a Civilization’(fortune.com)
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>> New software pricing tied to business value > So, it's like a tax on your business, if you succeed, so do they! You may jest, but the flip side of this seemingly buzzword laden sentence in the feature set as a potential buy
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This hits the nail on the head. Western companies have seen the massive ecosystem that WeChat provides via their highly effective messaging UI and belatedly realize through their corporate and fiduciary duty bound value systems that there i
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The problem is that as they get bigger, they may soon automate delinquent account notifications to debt collection agencies which could impact your credit rating sometime down the line. You are unfortunately on the wrong side of an asymmetr
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You're right about the US being one of the few countries in the world that still tax citizens and permanent residents no matter where they are in the world. You are also correct you should get some tax accounting advice to file your US
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I think it's intriguing, and love that they're trying this out. It does seem to imply the following to make this work, as the blog post didn't delve into the dynamics: a) Salary might have to be at least market average, if no
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FirstNet[1] is a national first responder wireless network meant to address this concern. It's predicated on the assumption that network operators have already sunk in money to maintain resiliency in the face of emergencies, thus marry
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Toronto also has a vibrant Etheruem presence as Vitalik grew up there and started Ethereum while living in Toronto.
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>> The Bangkok Post says the men were arrested on several charges including overstaying their visas, working without a permit, using unregistered SIM cards, and, according to a later report also from the Bangkok Post, smuggling. So i
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This is an awkwardly worded title, which nonetheless should have had the word "stateside" in it somewhere. >> The report also signaled the need for measures beyond the scope of the U.S. military, such as changing immigration
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>> Additionally, there's no upside for creditors if Bitcoin becomes $5,000. It's funny you mention this, because from what I can understand of Japanese bankruptcy proceedings[1], any excess assets remaining after paying off

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