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by peterlk 7y ago
This is an aside, but can we define what a "startup" is? To me, if you have a repeatable business model and have scaled it to thousands of customers, you're no longer a startup. Is the convention that if you take private inve
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by peterlk 7y ago
Before I respond to you, I will say that I have been on both sides of this argument. Especially early in college, there was so much to learn, and so many unknown unknowns. I craved the conversations with PhDs, postdocs, and researchers beca
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by peterlk 7y ago
I was curious haw this is actually measured, so to make it easier for others, LAI stands for "Leaf Area Index" [0], and is measured as "the one-sided green leaf area per unit ground surface area (LAI = leaf area / ground
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by peterlk 7y ago
To any browser developers out there, I beg you, please, please, please whitelist lvh.me. I am so tired of security restrictions making everything painful for lvh.me.
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by peterlk 7y ago
I don't buy this argument. There are known psychological effects which mute interesting discussion and promote division and extremism. Regulating algorithms that amplify these effects seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to do to me
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by peterlk 7y ago
My favorite quote addresses this: "Don't be mad 'cause I'm doin me better than you doin you" - Childish Gambino Figure out what that means for you, and you'll be successful. That's my theory anyway. The am
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by peterlk 7y ago
Really? I couldn't seem to prove that I was human. I thought it just threw you into an infinite "prove you're human" loop at the end.
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I grew up viewing school as prison. I was part of a program in elementary school which meant that I traveled to other schools regularly. My elementary and high schools were quite nice, but my middle school and the schools that I traveled to
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by peterlk 7y ago
I prefer to see the silver lining in this. If Google wants to break the web for Firefox, fine. I'll keep using (and evangelising) FF, and the sites that are broken won't get FF traffic. I believe that FF is doing the right thing f
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by peterlk 7y ago
I too have a huge problem with touch screens in cars. Having tactile knobs means I can find things on the dash without taking my eyes off the road. The thing that I think most of the comments are missing is the thing that powers all tech...
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by peterlk 7y ago
I don't understand your point. Everything is vulnerable; you can never secure something fully. Security in layers is how security works, and disconnecting critical systems from the internet seems like a good layer to add.
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by peterlk 7y ago
I have struggled to learn piano for a very long time, and I think that learning to play pieces written by other people is overemphasized in piano (and music in general, with the exception of drums, guitar, and bass) education. Music is like
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by peterlk 7y ago
I honestly don't remember any more. At the time, we were working with NOAA, and I remember a problem that was solved by talking to an admin at NOAA (our IP needed to be on some official whitelist or something), but that may have been f
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by peterlk 7y ago
If anyone is interested in doing your own thing with weather data, check out MADIS [0]. There are various levels of access, some of which require NOAA approval. But if you're serious about making weather predictions, it's a good t
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by peterlk 7y ago
The cynicism in this threads hurts. > “This is not just a chase for cold fusion,” says Matthew Trevithick, a research programme manager at Google in Mountain View, California. “If it were, I don’t think we would have maintained an intere
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by peterlk 7y ago
> while servants stream in bearing platters heaped with heavily sauced and delicately spiced foods from all over the world One of my favorite "audiobooks" (in quotes because it's actually a lecture series) is Food: A cultu
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by peterlk 7y ago
Alternative theory: the EALD use said planets as incubation for their offspring. We are a natural progression in the growth of an individual EALD in the same way that cell division and growth of gut bacteria are a natural progression in the
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by peterlk 7y ago
Short explanation: the music industry has discovered that capturing the teenage market pays dividends and teenagers are emotional. Unrelated anecdote with a different explanation: I had a fascinating conversation with my parents recently. T
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by peterlk 7y ago
Around the time that Donald Trump appeared to be a serious contender for the presidential race, I finished up my German dual citizenship application. When I was at the consulate, the person that I met with mentioned that they were absolutel
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by peterlk 7y ago
I think most people (myself included) do not understand how much technological improvement costs. Anecdote: I once had a conversation with a guy who worked at ITER, and he was pretty bullish (and he had no reason to bullshit me) on the pros
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by peterlk 7y ago
I have worked with a small number of exceptionally talented individuals (I don't know where to draw the "genius" line, but they were up there), and I see negative aspects of their personalities echoed in Stephen Wolfram. It l
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This is not true. Sikuli was a super cool language, and it was fun to write with. I'm sorry it hasn't received more attention.
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It's almost like unregulated financial institutions have a tendency to screw over their customers... No one could have predicted this in the consistently solvent, regulated, and trustworthy cryptocurrency market. It's too bad bitf
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by peterlk 8y ago
I have started reading the news differently in recent months. If the story seems to incite outrage, I paint all actors in the story as acting in good faith. This is obviously not true, but it helps break the cycle of feeling like the world
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by peterlk 8y ago
This is a naive way of looking at things. Your product isn't a thing that robotic ATMs spit out cash for, because they've been told to buy it. Though this perspective is true at some places, it creates a race to the bottom, and wi
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by peterlk 8y ago
> Living there would be constant danger plus tedium, the space equivalent of working on a farm barely making ends meet for the rest of your life. Such lives don't have enough dopamine hits to keep people of such dispositions around
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by peterlk 8y ago
Nope. You follow traffic laws. If you're in the lane at a stop sign, you stop . If you're on the sidewalk, you can behave as a pedestrian. Stop can mean different things in different places, so rolling through might be fine in s
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by peterlk 8y ago
Additionally, it is often safer to assert space on the road as a cyclist in order minimize the probability of being clipped by a car passing too closely.
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I recently did lots of traveling as well, and this attitude just boggles my mind. I got lucky on my day at the Louvre because they cleared out the whole place because a fire alarm got pulled. So I started as far from the Mona Lisa as possib
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by peterlk 8y ago
Because Europe has a social safety net. In Germany, for example, if you are a homeless German citizen, the government will provide you with an apartment which includes running water, internet, television, and a refrigerator, and they will g

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