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by rweba 14y ago
Darn, looks like this is not editable like the code at http://0x10co.de I was looking forward to seeing if I could figure out how to cheat and give myself infinite lives (I'm not very coordinated so that's the only I'll ever win ;-))
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by rweba 14y ago
THIS: "Better yet: since the agency is already receiving that data from all those financial institutions through a separate stream, how about organizing the data for me and simply letting me sign off on my automatically-generated return? I
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The Value of an Academic Publication(blog.computationalcomplexity.org)
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by rweba 15y ago
The same story when anything involving race comes up.
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by rweba 15y ago
THIS. This is my biggest problem with this entire issue. It is ALWAYS reported as an Apple problem, when in reality (i) There is no evidence presented that Apple is doing something other companies are not doing. (ii) The reasons for these w
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by rweba 15y ago
(1) I object to the use of the term "stole" - there is no indication that the Forbes blogger did anything unethical. She gave links and full attribution to the NYT article and therefore helped to promote it. YES, the quotes from it are more
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by rweba 15y ago
Yeah the same happens within any large organization - universities are one example I am familiar with. If you get a large grant from NIH or NSF or whoever, you don't have any incentive to minimize expenses because you don't benefit in any w
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by rweba 15y ago
It seems this guy doesn't account for "bureaucratic overhead" that is involved in dealing with any large client: You already mentioned the need for lots and lots of meetings and doing the translations, there is also writing up a proposal an
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by rweba 15y ago
Surprised no one has mentioned Doug Bowman's reasons for leaving Google, which seems in part because of extensive use of A/B testing. I don't really know enough to comment on it but it seems relevant: http://stopdesign.com/archive/2009/03/
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by rweba 15y ago
Perhaps this will prompt a substantial reorganization of society. Ideas like the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_guarantee might actually gain traction. Marshall Brain's novel http://www.marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm is one re
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by rweba 15y ago
This might now end up affecting not only Airbnb but also the image of Ycombinator and pg. Also the important issue here is not just the (terrible) handling of this specific incident by Airbnb but the fact that it puts into question their en
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by rweba 15y ago
They SHOULD get bad press, their service is MASSIVELY risky. After this incident I feel very disinclined to rent out my personal residence through Airbnb and I think a lot of people would feel the same way. Unless they really need the money
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by rweba 15y ago
(1) England and Spain were at war around that time (The Spanish Armada sailed in 1588 so maybe change the date to 1600). (2) England was protestant, Spain was Catholic. (3) Because of the language difference probably most English couldn't c
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by rweba 15y ago
The assumption seems to be that muslims born, brought up and living in Europe would have the exact same birthrate as if their ancestors who lived in a very different society at a different time. For that matter, birthrates are plummeting in
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by rweba 15y ago
I read a lot of arguments about how 'multiculturalism' and 'too many muslims' will lead to loss of social cohesion and lead to inevitable social conflict. My thought is how come Europe managed to have CENTURIES of warfare (100 years war, 30
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by rweba 15y ago
THIS. A lot of people would be surprised to learn that America in 1500 was arguably less racist than America in 1850 or 1950 simply because the concept of "race" wasn't well established as being a particularly important way to categorize pe
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by rweba 15y ago
" Honestly, when you hear the phrase 'the world’s best developers,' you see a guy. " Thats the key right there - women are comfortable competing, they just have a hard time picturing themselves as the alpha geek hacker that this competitive
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by rweba 15y ago
Here is one problem with life extension that I haven't seen mentioned - can we just assume that people who grew up in vastly different time periods will just be be able to coexist comfortably? To give an obvious contemporary example - gay m
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by rweba 15y ago
Hi crazygringo, I was intrigued by your estimation procedure and was thinking of a way of playing around with it: (1) Create a random bit vector of size 45,000. (2) Pick 40 positions in the vector at random and use those positions to estim
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by rweba 15y ago
My PhD was in computer science and my experience was quite similar. I wrote probably around 3000 lines of code on 4 separate projects (mostly MATLAB, C and Java). This code was never shared with anyone, my advisors were not interested in th
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by rweba 15y ago
They used PPP for the GDP per person comparison (but not for the GDP) They are not trying to say Qatar is generally comparable to Uttar Pradesh, just pointing out that it has the same nominal GDP. This can be interpreted in any number of wa
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by rweba 15y ago
The entire success of Khan Academy rests on providing simple quick introductions to different topics. If Khan made the videos longer or went into more details the students would get bored and it might as well be a History channel documentar
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by rweba 16y ago
In Norway all tax returns are public: http://skattelister.no/ In fact I just looked up an old high school classmate and was initially surprised at how much she was making - until I realized 280,000 Kronor is only about 50,000 USD.
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by rweba 16y ago
This paper fills a much needed gap in the literature.
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by rweba 16y ago
Michael Sherrill of Addmired seems to be another one.