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by ridaj 6y ago
Sure. I'm not saying they should not solve the short term problem. Just that there's a bigger opportunity.
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by ridaj 6y ago
I feel like a smart country would take this opportunity to develop electronic, no-fee payment wallets, not just bring up a coin task force...
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by ridaj 6y ago
I've written once an internationalized parser for another (more established) language. As long as you can output an AST, this works. User feedback was interesting. Some non-native speakers of English objected to this, on the basis that
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by ridaj 6y ago
There is an established, domain-specific translation for this and many other terms of art (in this case, 对象)
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by ridaj 6y ago
Ground rents are fairly common https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_rent Yes it can hurt resale prospects, the longer into the lease you get. At the same time it can also lower upfront acquisition costs. Something to
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by ridaj 6y ago
The author lists a bunch of gripes with alphanumeric usernames but I'm fact many of these shortcomings are not worth a switch away towards non-unique, freeform names (John Smith), or towards random ID allocation (whether purely numeric
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by ridaj 6y ago
Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17578714
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by ridaj 6y ago
Spectacular presentation
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by ridaj 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9256844
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by ridaj 6y ago
If this misunderstands the market, I'd be interested in a positive proof of a channel like History making it as an independent offering. I don't personally know of any.
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by ridaj 6y ago
That's what I meant by, we can debate the merits of the History channel to begin with. I only took challenge to the notion that there is a world in which unbundling happens and consumers get to watch the same content for less money. Wh
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by ridaj 6y ago
The argument is not about your buying preferences as a consumer. Of course if you had a choice between (a) paying X for watching stuff, or (b) paying Y for the ability to watch exactly the same thing, but Y is overall less money because it
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by ridaj 6y ago
Pictures + snippets = so much better than HN's default, for me anyway. Hopefully this will inspire HN!
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by ridaj 6y ago
The technique used to listen in on a conversation using the window is an active technique (an IR laser is emitted towards the window to get the bounce), so it can be detected, and requires LOS to the window + to the reflected path if you&#x
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by ridaj 6y ago
LED lights and fluorescent lights are vulnerable too per the Wired article at https://www.wired.com/story/lamphone-light-bulb-vibration-sp... , just with different degrees of sensitivity
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by ridaj 6y ago
No, because, * You probably got a review on your change before it was submitted, so you weren't the only one to think it was an ok change to make * If you "revert first, ask questions later", you might also be the first one t
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by ridaj 6y ago
> It's quite frustrating and I wish I knew what the successful candidates had that I didn't. If you can ask your friends in top tier companies to give you a practice interview and give you feedback, I highly recommend it.
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by ridaj 6y ago
This is an interesting principle which I understand the power of but feel is sometimes detrimental because it treats all surprises are equally bad. Surprises can also be delightful. (It might be arguable that delight even requires surpris
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by ridaj 6y ago
The first few answers are unidiomatic where I work. Analytical functions would be vastly preferable to self joins, especially in the case of the join with an inequality that is proposed to compute running totals, which I assume would have h
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by ridaj 6y ago
> this is largely the same process that drives healthcare pricing in the US Also, real estate
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by ridaj 6y ago
> We treated a really bad but manageable papercut by chopping off our hand Yes, but it was only manageable for so long . We have unfortunately passed that point... Hopefully we will know more about what this massive mortality spike[1] i
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by ridaj 7y ago
You can. If your operation generates profit, but could grow faster by plunking the profit back into growth, the VC thing to do would be to demand you reinvest all profit towards growth. But if your business is losing money and not growing
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by ridaj 7y ago
What I want to know is, who implemented the original animation (on silicon, I presume?), and did they foresee that it would have such a cult following today?
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by ridaj 7y ago
I don't understand what you're suggesting, that California should ease up faster? It seems to me that reality being better than models had predicted is more the result of everyone flying blind due to lack of testing... California
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by ridaj 7y ago
Aren't the techniques that Taiwan and Korea have employed (testing, isolation of known cases, contact tracing) irrelevant at this stage of contagion? I doubt of the efficacy of contact tracing when you have enough of a percentage of po
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by ridaj 7y ago
There aren't very meaningful benefits to scale in that business. It's labor intensive, and no critical central infrastructure is needed. Capital costs (those janitorial carts) and supplies are a lot smaller than labor costs.
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by ridaj 7y ago
It does: for example, as djaque's comment points out, in their case this was published at conference proceeding. And of course advice can be sought in private as well.
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by ridaj 7y ago
It reminds me of the paper reporting that neutrinos had been detected going faster than the speed of light[0]. It turned out to be an instrumentation issue. Some of the folks involved had to step down. Yes, it is important to publish result
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by ridaj 7y ago
Hmm... I'm a big fan of fixed-budget or prepaid services, but between network, storage, VM costs, etc., what should the provider stop serving if you exceed the spend? Create an outage for your whole service? Throttle egress? Start rand
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by ridaj 7y ago
There are plenty of commonly-touched surfaces when people spend a long time in the same space: door handles, elevator buttons, countertops, buffet utensils, gym equipment, money... I don't think the hand-washing is epidemiology theater

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