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by pelario 11y ago
I just found this in a magazine, but when I realizes it was IEEE magazine I couldn't believe it.
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Everything you know about startup success is wrong, IEEE says(postimg.org)
1 points by pelario 11y ago|1 comments
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by pelario 11y ago
Clearly, such tricks may already be used by some expert detectives – but given the folklore surrounding body language, it’s worth emphasising just how powerful persuasion can be compared to the dubious science of body language. It strike
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by pelario 11y ago
Institutions are not humans, so they cannot do "the human thing to do". And of course there are departments, projects, etc, and probably the specific department that was billed did not have 30K to spare. Anyway, they could try a
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by pelario 11y ago
"Coding is exciting: you can decide what is supposed to happen, and the computer will do it…the only limit is your skill and imagination!" Someone didn't learn about the halting problem :-)
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by pelario 12y ago
Q: Are you self-aware? I am capable of universal computation; that I can say.. . I'm pretty good at subtraction, I tell you! ---------------- We are not doomed yet :-)
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by pelario 12y ago
Looking some names like "toxic" or "stay out/bad things will happen", makes me think about "Rythm 0" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Abramovi%C4%87#Rhythm_0....
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by pelario 12y ago
Most of Asimov's books, specially: * Foundation Series / Robot Series / Empire Series * The Gods Themselves
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by pelario 12y ago
Also > If one were to calculate the amount of destruction that nations have actually perpetrated as a proportion of how much they could perpetrate [...] is an extremely ridiculous metric!
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by pelario 12y ago
It is funny how everyone engages in writing his own explanation on why this works. Here is mine: By having the self-talk in first person you are in the scenario of being alone; while using any of the other forms, you are playing two differe
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by pelario 12y ago
From a Treo :) ?
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by pelario 12y ago
I think that one usually cites the paper were the idea was first proposed, and also some of the latest advances in the trend (including, as your example, papers where the experiment is redo with newest technology). The thing is that "t
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by pelario 12y ago
Link to the original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8263388
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by pelario 12y ago
Why we keep paying for insurance, when the expected value is negative ? To reduce the variance of the money we lose. With lottery is the same, I pay to increase the variance of the money we win.
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by pelario 12y ago
I totally agree. A more evident case is with the insurances: We also know that the expected value of buying insurance is negative for us; but we pay for reducing the variance of the money we lose. In lottery, we pay to increase the variance
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by pelario 12y ago
> The app ecosystem is like nature’s ecosystem – where innumerable species evolve and thrive, and that is the best that could happen for users. We need a rich ecosystem comprising of multiple species – read startups – that can lead to fu
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by pelario 12y ago
The "Infinity" problem is more general. I have no notifications, but a browser is equally troublesome...
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by pelario 12y ago
For that you need auto correction; "hasta la vista baby" gives the correct result
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by pelario 12y ago
> We already have a perfectly good court system for resolving ownership disputes. Patent trolls are ok too ?
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by pelario 12y ago
Interesting, however, I would not use google translate to obfuscate my writing, as it might appear in google logs :)
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by pelario 12y ago
The analogy with the music industry is not good: The core point of the article is to claim that Amazon is abusing his dominant position; which is a real problem, and in some countries illegal, regardless of the nature of the company.
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by pelario 13y ago
That is not very precise. Given a certain length (6 words in the example), how many "common phrases" (above the threshold in you example) exists? How many "simplistic substitutions" exists? I would say that the search s
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by pelario 13y ago
same issue in google.
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by pelario 13y ago
How it is possible that the most voted comment has not read the article, or if it did, it didn't understand a single word? The article is actually about philosophy of science: not against scientific understanding, but making questions
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Today, I was offered $1,000 by teach for america(inspireducation.wordpress.com)
2 points by pelario 13y ago|0 comments
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by pelario 13y ago
This starts to feel like the banks in the Wild West. I'm really curious about how it will evolve.
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by pelario 13y ago
The point is to calmly verify if the person was aware that he is behaving as an asshole. If he was not, not only the communication improves; you also make the guy a favor.
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by pelario 13y ago
That is called duopoly, and is less bad than a monopoly.
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by pelario 13y ago
They are actually paying to Shubham. The original post by Shubham was updated: http://blog.shubh.am/prezi-bug-bounty/
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by pelario 13y ago
They are paying to Shubham. The original post is updated with the emails regarding that. http://blog.shubh.am/prezi-bug-bounty/

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