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by rfrey 5y ago
"Software is IT captured"? What does that mean? You can have Python running and be creating software in an hour.
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by rfrey 5y ago
It's not a false dichotomy at all. The discussion is about constant parental attention to childrens' activities; your parent points out a situation with the complete absence of such attention, and happy children nonetheless, as
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by rfrey 5y ago
Stop subsidizing industry by socializing the cost of carbon and planting trees will be profitable.
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by rfrey 5y ago
I disagree with the commenters who are saying your comment was just "C++ bad". The point I took from your comment is that this particular class of application , which is parsing many complex formats from external sources, several
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by rfrey 5y ago
The rest of the thread in your link is contradicting that one answer. And the fact that particular answer says the modern steam engine was invented by Watt doesn't give me a lot of confidence in the author. Hero's Aeolipile boiled
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by rfrey 5y ago
Medo.AI | Android Dev | Full Time | Edmonton, Canada or REMOTE | https://www.medo.ai Medo is bringing the benefits of ultrasound scanning to communities and point of care locations that have previously not had access to this saf
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by rfrey 5y ago
Perhaps the PhD student wasn't trying to make an AI that wins at pac-man, but investigating something else. They mention "maximizing control over environment".
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Noise, Cognitive Function, and Worker Productivity [pdf](joshuatdean.com)
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by rfrey 5y ago
While that is true, the cost of insulin in Canada is less than $100/month (81 USD).
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by rfrey 5y ago
They both sold themselves and their vision to investors. I guess that might seem pedantic but I don't think it is.
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by rfrey 5y ago
When you offer somebody a revenue share or future equity, you're proposing a very unbalanced deal. You get a product (one that's the basis of your company, your company can't exist without it). You have it, you start making m
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by rfrey 5y ago
But I also know a trans woman who is over 6 feet tall and has a beard. She is considering hormone replacement therapy but has not committed yet. I cannot help but have some empathy for women -- who might have very good reason to be fearful
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by rfrey 5y ago
OMG it's in four year cycles. We have six months to sell our startups and get out.
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by rfrey 5y ago
More like asking an microelectronics engineer how 3 phase motors work. She probably took a course in school although it may have been awhile and it's not her specialty. It's a feature of engineering and scientific education that t
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by rfrey 5y ago
Is this a curriculum or a complete list of classes? 88 courses over a 4 year degree sounds a bit heavy.
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by rfrey 5y ago
The linked article says 900 MWh from a 40 acre installation.
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by rfrey 5y ago
I downvoted your comment until I read it more charitably, as "the most pressing need for young people is meaningful employment, and the government would be better off focusing on that". It kinda reads like you think culture itself
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by rfrey 5y ago
Unlike drugs which have limited substitutes (alcohol and caffeine I guess), PoW currencies would have several functionally equivalent replacements. I doubt we'd end up ravaging underprivileged communities as they turned to black market
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by rfrey 5y ago
"Will it scale" is an odd question to ask about a $2.3 billion company.
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by rfrey 5y ago
I don't believe for a second that data is subsidizing anything. It's a revenue stream, sure, but prices haven't gone down as data collection went up.
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by rfrey 5y ago
The trick is that the host does not pick a door to open at random... If they did there would be a 1/3 probability they opened your door. If they didn't open yours under that circumstance, there would be a 50/50 chance you alr
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by rfrey 6y ago
Why would they lose the DMCA safe harbor? We're talking about YouTube's own scanner here, not DMCA takedowns. There's no requirement in the DMCA to implement an internal scanner that has many false positives, and not investig
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by rfrey 6y ago
The system that was in play in the USA up to about 30 years ago, where the government provided a check on the power of corporations? (Not ignoring the capture corporations in the pre-Reagan world had on US foreign policy. However there wasn
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by rfrey 6y ago
The article has very good headers that you could scan in < 15 seconds, no guessing required. 1. Engineering part 1: station construction methods 2. Engineering part 2: mezzanines 3. Management part 1: procurement 4. Management part 2: co
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by rfrey 6y ago
Most of these ships are owned by single vessel companies, much like power plants. This allows the massive shipping companies to walk away from individual vessels.
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by rfrey 6y ago
Disappointed that the forum link doesn't work -- I had my post all composed in my head!
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by rfrey 6y ago
It's not universal. I recently discovered that some weird behaviors in my kid were because he was emulating Richard Feynman, having discovered Surely You're Joking on the basement bookshelf.
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by rfrey 6y ago
From the sidelines it seems like "scaling YC" is similar to "scaling MIT/Harvard/Stanford degrees". Pretty good for the masses who can access it, but bad for alumni. The early value of YC as I recall (I got rej
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by rfrey 6y ago
But the argument that it does deter is also weakened. It's unfalsifiable if the response to "we removed the death penalty and crime did not increase" is "maybe crime would have started falling, and removing the death p
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by rfrey 6y ago
My engineering degree had six classes per term at 3 hours of class time per course. Two of those would be labs with a 3h lab each week. So 24 hours of in person time per week, with an expectation of 2-3 hours or outside work for every in cl

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