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by r_singh 7y ago
Interesting conclusion made by the authors about why reviews on Airbnb tend to be more positively biased than elsewhere. > Reviews on Airbnb may all appear similar on the surface, but they nonetheless hold power as each one increases t
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If nearly all Airbnb reviews are positive, does that make them meaningless?(academia.edu)
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Why some coronavirus patients are getting inconsistent test results(sfchronicle.com)
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by r_singh 7y ago
It will never be easy. This kind of tech will rely on the subjects thinking of that memory. And you can always, well, choose not to. Or even corrupt the memory deliberately by imagining things.
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by r_singh 7y ago
This reminds me of a tangentially related episode of mind field, in which a Japanese researcher is working on tech that one day could be able to read people's dreams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgbeGFYluEA&vl=e
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Investors Serve Up $53M in Series C Funding to Web Dev Platform Netlify(news.crunchbase.com)
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IIT-Bombay, Delhi break into top in world university ranking(timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
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Wealthy Indians see a route to US citizenship via Grenada(economictimes.indiatimes.com)
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Researchers successfully dry vaccines into rapidly dissolving shelf-stable film(theconversation.com)
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Plague Inc. Has Been Removed from the Chinese App Store(techspot.com)
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Photograph satellite streaks across the night sky to monitor sky pollution.(anecdata.org)
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by r_singh 7y ago
Being a browser extension, they can access the URLs, and HTML data of the web pages their users visit.
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India reports three more cases of coronavirus, including Italian national(mobile.reuters.com)
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Summers are now twice as long as winters in all Australian capital cities(mobile.abc.net.au)
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Doubting what you already know is associated with OCD [pdf](journals.plos.org)
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When Woman Is Boss – An Interview with Nicola Tesla by John B. Kennedy (1926)(tfcbooks.com)
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by r_singh 7y ago
I would pay for a browser that allowed me to - build puppeteer/selenium like automation scripts without writing code - use a lot of extensions built in: like search on every search engine rather than choose 1 default. - help me be more
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by r_singh 7y ago
Hey there varlock! It's a good thing you're asking this question here. Now the answer to your question[s] will really depend on what it is you're trying to build (and more importantly, sell). Take for instance a website like
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by r_singh 7y ago
Although old, but here's the last discussion on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9396116
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China bans consumption and trade of wild animals(ctvnews.ca)
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Bumblebees can create mental imagery, a 'building block of consciousness'(science.sciencemag.org)
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by r_singh 7y ago
I really hope none of these upcoming brands sell out to Coca-Cola (or Pepsi) again like Thums Up and Limca did in 1992.
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Regional drink brands in India grow at twice the rate of Pepsi, Coca-Cola(economictimes.indiatimes.com)
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70% of Americans Support Solar Mandate on New Homes(cleantechnica.com)
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How to Write Usefully(paulgraham.com)
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Why the US Has No High-Speed Rail [video](youtu.be)
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Capital Gains Tax for 3 Founder Exit at $50M Under Bernie Sanders Tax Plan(twitter.com)
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by r_singh 7y ago
Yes it was: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22295160
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All images can be found here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/sets/
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by r_singh 7y ago
My favourite resource that I discovered a few years ago in a similar Ask HN thread: http://eloquentjavascript.net > Where do I go? You don't really need to go anywhere else (especially not into the vortex of looking fo

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