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by rm999 10y ago
You're right that the fact that US factories weren't being bombed was critical, but it's important not to underestimate the scale here. The USA was a world powerhouse before wwii, with a higher gdp than all axis countries com
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by rm999 10y ago
>I would. 60+ million people voting for a man as odious and unprepared as Donald Trump says a whole lot to me. Let me rephrase: you are extrapolating the wrong thing when you say the "liberals drastically overplayed their hand"
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by rm999 10y ago
> Micro-aggression, safe spaces, trigger words I think you're missing some perspective on this; a small % of activists on the left (mostly on college campuses) do not represent the trends of liberals in the USA. I can't think o
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by rm999 10y ago
I feel the opposite. I bought a Roomba 650 almost exactly four years ago (one of the best purchases I've ever made) for about 350 dollars after a bed bath and beyond coupon. With a little bit of maintenance it still runs every day exac
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by rm999 10y ago
I'm surprised the recent news about how Trump's campaign is using facebook to depress black voting wasn't mentioned. >The animation will be delivered to certain African American voters through Facebook “dark posts” — nonpu
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by rm999 10y ago
The MBP still has an escape key, unless you pay extra to "upgrade" to the touch bar.
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by rm999 10y ago
If that's the reason, it just seems so... destructive to me. This is something I respect about Facebook: they are willing to cannibalize their own products (e.g. instagram vs facebook, whatsapp vs fb messenger) because they realize how
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by rm999 10y ago
I see... I guess I'll just point out what you may already know: the way you guys are framing this discussion is really flawed. Marginal rates have no meaning without discussing brackets (and other important details), which can be qui
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by rm999 10y ago
>And at the high end in California (San Francisco), someone might pay 51.9% income tax and 8.75% in sales tax. What you're talking about is the marginal tax rate, i.e. the limit as income -> infinity, but it's typically much
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by rm999 10y ago
This reminds me of a conversation I had with a Google SWE friend last year about the new gmail interface. I complained that the default settings looked terrible, and that there was barely any space for actual content. He said he disagreed a
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by rm999 10y ago
There are two places I see the fallacy frequently pop up: 1. Over-engineering. This often comes in the form of trying to perfect something before releasing it, and/or long projects with fluid, changing requirements. 2. Criticizing old
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by rm999 10y ago
This was publicly announced more than a year ago, but still isn't live: http://www.thesempost.com/google-working-completely-separate... This title seems misleading, especially the "better" part. I think what&
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by rm999 10y ago
Non-paywalled article with basically the same information: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2016/10/12/w...
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by rm999 10y ago
>You can correct many of it's errors with simple language models. For instance the phrase "wreck a nice beach" has much less probability than "recognize speech". So if the model isn't sure which one it is, y
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by rm999 10y ago
Midtown West is like that. Midtown East is much less touristy and includes great restaurants, a lot of office buildings, and fairly residential parts (like Murray Hill). It also includes Penn Station's foil - Grand Central (Grand Centr
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by rm999 10y ago
You're addressing like 10% of the article. The article lays out tons of issues, including: 1. Shrinking product - this isn't about comparing to facebook, it's about comparing to 2015 twitter. 2. Unhappy employees - especially
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by rm999 10y ago
It's actually is one of the rare instances I've seen "do a 360" used appropriately. Facebook revamped their policy around the issue while ending up at exactly the same place: you have to use your real name.
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by rm999 10y ago
I consider search an essentially solved problem and I think most people agree with me. When I want to find something I can usually use Google or Bing to get to it within 10 seconds or convince myself it doesn't exist. Will search get b
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by rm999 10y ago
This is why I and most of my team work from home on Fridays (we never book meetings either). It's tempting to dismiss working from home as a way of skipping on work, but there's no other time I can get 4+ contiguous hours in front
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by rm999 10y ago
>US to hand over ICANN to UN ICANN is an independent organization, and DNS will not be controlled by the UN. This is actually a fear-mongering narrative being repeated by American conservative news sites. Obama's administration prom
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by rm999 10y ago
More generally, using data structures well-suited to your problem is really important but often underappreciated in software engineering. Elegant code and algorithms naturally follow. In the example in the article, OO seems like a good way
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by rm999 10y ago
>To edit, run, save, and share algorithm visualitions at PyAlgoViz, we need to know who you are. [Sign in with Google] Looks really cool, but no thanks :/
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by rm999 10y ago
If you mean the lack of theoretical guarantees due to a highly non-convex optimization, you could argue the same thing about 30 year old 2-layer networks. And we actually do have a decent idea why deep learning works well: http:/&#x2F
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by rm999 10y ago
>Deep learning, modeled on the human brain, is infinitely more complex [than machine learning]. Unlike machine learning, deep learning can teach machines to ignore all but the important characteristics of a sound or image-a hierarchical
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by rm999 10y ago
>What if I WANT to talk about politics, in a civil manner? Any sufficiently popular subreddit, just devolves into complete trash. What you're looking for are strictly moderated subreddits with a clear set of rules. I've had goo
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by rm999 10y ago
I think this is a cool idea. As a vegan I take a few supplements at different times of the day, and it would be nice to have to only take one pill, even if that came at a premium. On that note, are your products vegetarian and/or vegan
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by rm999 10y ago
Do you have a source? I just searched and see no such pledge. All I'm finding are vague statements from her allies and advisors that they think she'll prioritize Syria.
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by rm999 10y ago
Cool analysis, but the results seem off to me based on my own social network (which line up with a lot of common stereotypes). I think I know why. The majority of people I know who have cats don't post photos of their cats on social me
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by rm999 10y ago
I see an obvious improvement in clarity going from 1080p to 4k on my 65" TV. I think the lack of content today isn't due to a lack of purpose, it's a lack of demand because the technology isn't quite there. In the next f
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by rm999 10y ago
I feel like every time internet speeds increase I find reasons why I'd want it to be a bit faster. Currently, 4k video adoption is likely being held back by bandwidth speeds: http://blog.streamingmedia.com/2015/01&

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