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by seieste 7y ago
I've been moving towards putting documents in a virtual folder and zipping them -- you can still use your own extension and the end consumer is none the wiser. This seems to be how Microsoft handles docx and pptx files.
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by seieste 7y ago
> Interest compounds geometrically and wages grow linearly. That doesn't seem right -- wages should grow with inflation. Maybe there's a difference between the growth rates of the two, but I don't see how wAge grows linear
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by seieste 7y ago
It doesn't matter if the stock market is "reverting to the mean" if we don't know what the mean is supposed to be.
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by seieste 7y ago
Chrome is the fastest browser for YouTube because Google intentionally made it slow on other browsers. So, sometimes this speed is just the result of monopolistic actions.
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by seieste 7y ago
What sort of optics did you feel weren't covered by your physics courses?
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by seieste 7y ago
That's something you hear from people who have already achieved some success. But when you're trying to make enough money to live comfortable and also want to have a social life, it IS an optimization problem.
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by seieste 7y ago
1. Deliberate practice is different than merely putting in hours. So 5,000 of difficult practice could build skills more than 10,000 of mindless repetition. 2. "10,000 hours" is a necessary, not sufficient, condition. Further, som
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by seieste 7y ago
Some fields are very small, and some authors only focus on one small part of a field. So, high citation count isn't always a direct indicator of quality.
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by seieste 7y ago
> “Obviously, there are laws to protect people’s privacy and we are respectful of all those laws,” Hartman said. “We also understand the importance of operating in an ethical way as it relates to further protecting people’s privacy.” The
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by seieste 7y ago
How is Raven's matrices biased?
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by seieste 7y ago
Or you live outside the Silicon Valley bubble.
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by seieste 7y ago
The user experience doesn’t matter that much, because the primary target of Windows is businesses, governments, etc. who buy in bulk and can be persuaded by Microsoft sales teams. Considering that Mac systems (the only alternative with supp
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by seieste 7y ago
November 16, 2017
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by seieste 7y ago
Remember when Munich ditched Windows? It only lasted a few years before Microsoft successfully won them back by offering steep discounts and moving their headquarters to Munich. One has to wonder whether history will repeat itself. https:&
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by seieste 7y ago
Don’t do this if you’re an American—it’s illegal to bribe anywhere in the world.
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by seieste 7y ago
Google’s argument is that the audio they store is non-private and non-personally identifiable. So this statement doesn’t make sense: > We just learned that one of these language reviewers has violated our data security policies by leakin
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by seieste 7y ago
If you go into the bathroom of a restaurant and see cockroaches, would you feel comforted by management telling you to give them time, because they will definitely get rid of them and to not be too worried that they haven't already got
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by seieste 7y ago
The question is not “Will it be fixed?” but “Why is it there In the first place?” Given that the app makes a request to zipow.com to download the new installer, the auto-reinstallation is not a bug or an issue, but an intentional and anti-c
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by seieste 7y ago
Kim Jong Un was educated in Switzerland, which has a very strong democratic environment, yet it didn’t change about how he ran North Korea.
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by seieste 7y ago
David Epstein's book "Range" offers a different view of expert performance -- that it doesn't work very well in domains with ambiguity (such as a hidden state), or when a variety of skills are required. In other words, e
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by seieste 7y ago
At least with corn and soy futures there is an asset with intrinsic value and some unpredictability due to weather / disease / yield / etc. In contrast, Bitcoin is only valuable because people assume others find it valuable.
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by seieste 7y ago
Why does everyone think there is?
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by seieste 7y ago
The issue is that “fairness” has many dimensions. Representation is one of them, but so is racial fairness (e.g. you can’t split districts to deemphasize one race’s vote) and compactness (you shouldn’t make thin slices geographically to see
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by seieste 7y ago
There are government services, such as the USPTO, that rely on Google reCAPTCHA. The new reCAPTCHA has made it difficult for me to access documents, and sometimes they think that I'm a bot and thus deny me access entirely. Does the gov
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by seieste 7y ago
Yesterday I went to book a hotel and Priceline had a room for $129, which was $20 cheaper than Expedia or any other site. Curious, I clicked on it and went to the Priceline site, and watched as a JavaScript animation “rolled” the price from
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by seieste 7y ago
Both Murdoch and Hearst ran publishing entities, whereas Google and other social media sites claim to be neutral platforms. This distinction is important because certain protections given to neutral platforms don’t necessarily apply to publ
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by seieste 7y ago
Go to a Reddit AMP page? Can’t upvote the post or comments or see your messages. Go to a wordpress AMP site? Can’t comment or access many comments. A lot of features aren’t present in AMP, so often I don’t want the AMP version. Sure, at s
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by seieste 7y ago
AMP is slower for me because I have to press on my screen twice to get to the actual page I wanted to go to. Hence AMP requires at least 0.5s between the time I click on a Google link and get to my real destination?
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by seieste 7y ago
There were reports that some TV’s will automatically connect to any unsecured WiFi.
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by seieste 7y ago
You don't need the Target app to be tracked by Target, since the tracking beacon code can be in any number of unrelated apps (weather, news, games, etc.)

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