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by samscully 9y ago
Recently working on an embeddable shopping widget I noticed that if I animated it in certain ways chrome would block it as a popup. Doesn't contradict what you said I just thought it was interesting that chrome doesn't just look f
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Introducing Token(blog.tokenbrowser.com)
488 points by samscully 9y ago|152 comments
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by samscully 10y ago
It's not a protection racket but it is close to becoming a monopoly, which is also illegal in some circumstances. This sort of anti-competitive coercion through overwhelming market power is why monopoly laws exist in the first place.
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by samscully 10y ago
In three years only emissions-free vehicles will be allowed in central London.
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by samscully 10y ago
No usually You did that on purpose ;)
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by samscully 10y ago
I've never been to LA so I'm speaking from ignorance but some of the objections raised in this thread seem like they have obvious solutions to me. 1) Tolls are regressive. I believe cities in the US have power over some taxation s
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Show HN: Functo – Composable method objects in Ruby(github.com)
2 points by samscully 10y ago|0 comments
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by samscully 10y ago
It depends on the town a bit I think. In Brighton there are lots of small business and some areas have no chains at all. Not sure if that is because of planning policy or for another reason.
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by samscully 10y ago
Found my notes on difference in differences method. First model the sessions originating on page [i] at time [t] as: S[it] = b0 + b1 * X[it] + b2 * A[i] + b3 * D[it] + e Where: S[it]: number of sessions originating on page [i
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by samscully 10y ago
You can calculate the significance using the difference in differences method popular in econometrics. I derived this result for a previous employer and it worked well. I can look up my notes and explain the method in more detail if anyone
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by samscully 10y ago
Depending on the business, there is usually a requirement for a coordination role. Whoever that coordinator is needs to have the authority to make a final decision in order to be effective. If companies want to avoid tyranny in the workplac
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by samscully 10y ago
Babies take a while to learn how to grasp things, it's believable that the number of attempts they make is in the 10,000s. 1 grasp attempt a minute, 8 hours a day for 3 months is 43,000 attempts. Of course they are learning a lot of ot
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by samscully 10y ago
I have not read the book so I can't comment on that but I have done a good deal of cognitive behavioural therapy. Mostly I was taught to consider the optimistic explanation and assess how realistic my negative thoughts were. The main e
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by samscully 10y ago
Some factors in motivation at work are the level of autonomy, mastery and purpose in your job. A coworker giving minor feedback is only contributing to your mastery. A boss giving you the same minor feedback is cutting in to your autonomy.
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by samscully 10y ago
Fortunately the non-establishment groups sometimes infiltrate and manipulate the establishment too [1]. [1] http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/oct/17/jeremy-corby...
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by samscully 10y ago
It does not exactly answer your question but this study [1] had some relevant results. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAND_Health_Insurance_Experime...
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by samscully 10y ago
What if the robots are better at the new jobs as well?
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by samscully 10y ago
For anyone interested in this sort of thing "Why Buildings Fall Down" [1] is a good related book. I did civil engineering at university and you'd be surprised how many beautiful and interesting buildings only ended up that wa
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by samscully 10y ago
If the tax is 100% of the annualised return on the land (so perhaps around 6-7% of the land value) an increase in property values will lead to a concomitant increase in the level of UBI. Presumably there is an equilibrium point where prices
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by samscully 10y ago
Regularisation methods like dropout are often good enough that you can build a network with too many parameters (for the amount of data you have) and rely upon the regularisation to find the subset of that network that is actually useful. P
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by samscully 11y ago
Uber could still offload maintenance, fuel, liability etc to other entities and license the self driving software to them. Those entities would still have much lower operating costs than human drivers. They could even open source the self d
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by samscully 11y ago
I think the concern is less that an AI apocalypse is imminent and more that if it does happen, we won't see it coming and it will happen so quickly we won't be able to do anything to stop it. So it's important to try to avoid
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by samscully 11y ago
The Great Gatsby curve [1] suggests that increasing inequality may lead to lower social mobility. The further apart the rungs are on the ladder, the harder it is to climb. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Gatsby_
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by samscully 12y ago
Another factor is generational wealth. Most of my friends who own houses in London earn less than me but were given large amounts of money by their parents. When you have a 20-40% deposit the monthly mortgage payments become much more affor
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An experience with CrowdFlower(devblog.nestoria.com)
1 points by samscully 12y ago|0 comments
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Make Your Values Mean Something(hbr.org)
2 points by samscully 12y ago|0 comments
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Maintaining a consistent linear history for git log --first-parent(devblog.nestoria.com)
5 points by samscully 12y ago|0 comments
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by samscully 12y ago
I have seen people in my neighbourhood (Bermondsey in London, UK) struggling with luggage twice, luggage that was clearly far too much for them to carry on their own. Both times I offered to help them take it from the train station to where
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Dragons on the far side of the histogram(signalvnoise.com)
1 points by samscully 12y ago|0 comments
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Battery stores 40 MW for Fairbanks, Alaska emergencies(windpowerengineering.com)
2 points by samscully 12y ago|0 comments

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