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by rm999 14y ago
I'm curious how the new screen shape will play out. And not just the issues with fragmentation of aspect ratio, but with usability. Currently the iphone screen is just big enough that I can hold it with one hand and reach all four corners w
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by rm999 14y ago
You make it sound like this is official government policy or a law, but it's just an agreement between some private companies. Copyright holders can already can communicate with ISPs and ISPs can already shut off someone's internet. My ISP
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by rm999 14y ago
Ah you are right, my bad.
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by rm999 14y ago
I don't think the Air can fully turn on in clamshell mode, unlike the pro. This is (I believe) because the air uses its body as a heat sink.
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by rm999 14y ago
This essay is pseudo-intellectual. I'm not here to defend the USA, my beef with this article honestly has nothing to do with its message. I've heard several reasons people move out of their home countries, and as the child of immigrants (an
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by rm999 14y ago
Here are some clips from the episode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMKis4FPykw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQO4FDuW3PI
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by rm999 14y ago
Isn't a laptop a better replacement? They are usually optimized for low energy usage, and run a full OS. How does the energy usage of this computer compare to say, a macbook pro?
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by rm999 14y ago
I realize you are being cynical, but the e-mail says the CEO wants to make radical changes to fix issues for all customers. I'm a bit skeptical myself, but if we take him for his word this isn't just for a subset of users.
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by rm999 14y ago
Technically an average is general statistic and mean and median (as well as mode) are specific types of averages. As a person with a stats background I often use "average" to mean the general concept instead of a strict arithmetic mean. It
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by rm999 14y ago
> Other hash applications (like hash tables) don't need that property I'm unclear on what you guys mean by correlation, but if it means what I think it does I disagree with this. A hash table ideally has an uniform distribution regardle
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by rm999 14y ago
While I think Python is great, I think the author discounts R too casually. I share his frustrations about R, but what's nice is R (well, S) was designed to be a statistical computing tool, and it does anything related to that quite well. E
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by rm999 14y ago
My paypal account has been hacked twice, and both times I had to catch the ensuing fraud on my own. This was about 3 and 4 years ago. Two months ago they shut down my account because they think I'm high risk. I've had my Chase account fraud
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by rm999 14y ago
I have an academic and professional background in traditional AI, and I've programmed an AI for a 3D video game I made in college. My traditional AI background is mostly in applying a wide variety of mainstream machine learning algorithms,
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by rm999 14y ago
FYI, it came out more than a year ago.
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by rm999 14y ago
This shouldn't be a surprise. It is trivial to capture that kind of data from large bittorrent clouds like piratebay, and that data may have some useful applications. For example, getting statistics on what movies, tv shows, and music peopl
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by rm999 14y ago
Interesting. Would you say a file system is a database?
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by rm999 14y ago
I'm mildly interested in something like this, and almost funded it on kickstarter for 30 dollars. But I really wish it was cheaper and available now. It's not at the point in either regard where I'd impulse purchase it. For now I'm going to
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by rm999 14y ago
>Pizza, caffeine, desserts, beer -- these are all things that are easy to come across in many (most?) common social situations. Pizza is kind of an odd one. It was ubiquitous in college and grad school, but since I started working in th
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by rm999 14y ago
Interesting, from the comments: > As a Cheil member, I want to express my deeply sorry to make you feel that way. We’ll try to do our best not to make any inconvenience around this matter. And I promise that your comments will be reflec
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by rm999 14y ago
In most cities people can find much cheaper places to live within commuting distance. Cities can't support themselves when people are totally priced out. For example, I know someone who lives in Bushwick, Brooklyn and pays <600/month (w
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by rm999 14y ago
I never said you can't find those things in California, nor did I even ever directly compare any city in California with NYC. "Can't beat" is an idiom, it means I think those things are pretty awesome in NYC :)
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by rm999 14y ago
You're looking at the trailing P/E, which looks at the past four quarters of earnings, but for fast growing companies investors tend to use the forward P/E, which is based on estimates of the next four quarters. FB's forward P/E is 29, goog
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by rm999 14y ago
I just moved to NYC from California a year ago. In many ways my quality of life has shot way up. You can't beat the transportation, food, culture, and intelligent, diverse population. Cities are perfect for attracting the kind of young, int
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by rm999 14y ago
> It seems to me that it is in their interest to maintain the present patent system The present system helps and hurts them. All three are large varied companies who can't grow without offering new types of products and services that ma
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by rm999 14y ago
I can't access it now, alpha is very being slow. The concept reminds me a bit of this chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nangghhladpnhlllol...
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by rm999 14y ago
Thanks!
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by rm999 14y ago
E-mail isn't a good urgent communication method for anyone regardless of their level. It's common for people to be away from their e-mail or to only check it periodically while they work. I can get 10 e-mails an hour, I don't stop everythin
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by rm999 14y ago
> PG already spoke about how their mishandled IPO could hurt the funding landscape for startups Do you have a link to this? I'm curious about what he has to say about it.
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by rm999 14y ago
I guess we've gotten in a circle of "this is bad science"-> "no it's not". While I disagree with you, I enjoyed debating it with you.
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by rm999 14y ago
I realize that epidemiology can be sloppy science, but it's the only way we can even hope to tackle immensely important questions like this. It shouldn't be cast aside because it fails to hold up to impossible standards. According to your r

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