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by ronilan 8y ago
A little tangent nugget from the original text: > Kurzgesagt — In a Nutshell recently became the number one channel in Germany by creating videos that help others fall in love with science. If the number one channel in Germany is in En
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> Have you ever watched a grown up learning to swim, bike or ice-skate? I’m a Level 2 CASI certified snowboard instructor. I taught hundreds of adult beginners over the years. I myself started as a never-ever when I was 35. Season star
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by ronilan 8y ago
This sounds like a valid concern until you realize that it is just transfer of responsibility. What the surgeon wants is for lower level schools to provide him with students that are pre-trained for his specific needs. If the Imperial Colle
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@dang - I don’t understand. A: “X seems to have positive utility. I wonder if it is sustainable long term.” B: “You should wonder if your utility function is suitable for any term.” How is it ideological? P.S - I never heard the term “i
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What you should wonder is if this model is desirable in any term.
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The odds of winning a lottery (lets say the Mega Millions or the Diversity Visa) are, to an extent, evenly distributed. The odds of succeeding in a social endeavour (lets say a business or a Green Card obtained via application) are not. Whi
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I’ve looked into it. No end in sight.
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This trend is a big problem. We have to get to the bottom of it!
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> They also push out a lot of amazing projects ... although Netflix much less so. Actually Netflix much more so, only their projects are not in software. Just sayin.
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I read the whole thing, all 85 pages of it. Based on the content, and based on how I read it, I’m now almost 100% sure, not completely, but almost sure, that it is, indeed a Breirbrat News Exclusive. I think it actually says so somewhere on
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by ronilan 8y ago
The best thing to ever come out of Google+ is this: https://youtu.be/LTq8TrA3hb4
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I’ve published Open Source code and documentation. It is a lot of work. I think that “How I judge someone’s else hours of effort in 30 seconds” is a toxic attitude.
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From when it was sold[1]: > "I'm shocked it sold at all," Lederman's wife, Ellen, told The Associated Press on Friday. "We would let little kids play with it and have their picture taken." > Auction mana
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> We're offering new companies in both Seattle and LA a special $15,000 fee on your first hire. That is an insane amount of money in the world of education and skill training. For an industry that prides itself on being “efficient
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Or he can buy a wetsuit and a board, walk out of his backyard and learn to chill with his beach buddies. Life is full of choices.
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Vancouver’s “Second Narrows” bridge was built in the late 50s and completed in 3 years. Midway through the project a major accident killed 19 people. It was the result of an engineering error. In the mid 90s the bridge name was changed. It
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For anyone who wants to play live with Trix and Quill (as well as CodeMirror and the default contentEditable for markdown) see here: http://public.docs.xstatic.site.s3-website-us-west-1.amazona... You will be editing of static H
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It is from October 13 1999 not 1998. That’s after the 25M funding....
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Why was the WSJ title edited and the “U.S.” qualifier added? Does Google have any other CEOs beside Sundar?
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Seriously, how often do you look at a man’s shoes?
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They should add: Early Rejection will make it even easier for students to abandon the idea of building their startup after graduation. Then It’ll be perfectly balanced, as all thing should be.
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Can you also get early rejection? Asking for a friend ;)
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> Make programming simple and fun. Indeed. And I second that Scratch, which is great on many levels, is especially good as a starting point. I have three kids (12,11,8) who started at 6+- and still enjoy it extensively. I made BlockLik
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Ask HN: What do you think about “dim-lighting” low score comments?
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You assume that the feature will result in some net benefit for Google (at some potential expanse to users/public) but there's no such guarantee. Historically, the great Google products are made from scratch (or bought early) and
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Tell HN: Using Gmail? You will be force logged into Chrome
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I am the YouTube algorithm and I recommend these related comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17939803 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17939859
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Map/Satellite and dozens of face-level photos for each project: https://thewaterproject.org/our-water-projects It's actually amazing in scope.
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That took just 8 years.... http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2010-09-17-n17.html
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Story time. Almost a decade ago, I had a web project for kids. One day a VC invited me to a meeting. I drove up Sand Hill Rd., showed a txt file with notes on a screen, and talked with the VC for about 30 minutes. At the end of the meeting

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