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by smeyer 9y ago
> And then 2-3 years later there was one laptop manufacturer: Apple Your view of Apple laptops seems to represent only a small segment of the market. While Apple was on the rise, they were still only 3rd behind Dell and HP in market shar
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by smeyer 9y ago
There's obviously a bias, but the mentioned study claimed that even if the rate of CTE were 0% among brains not donated to the study, their sample would still be large enough to indicate a significant deviation from the general populat
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by smeyer 9y ago
> An interesting question is whether radio waves, gamma radiation, and visible light all travel an identical speed through atmosphere. They don't. The index of refraction tells you about how the speed of light is changed by a medium
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by smeyer 9y ago
Didn't they also get caught a couple of times scanning the email despite saying they weren't? I know there was a lawsuit alleging that they scanned the email of many university students after saying they wouldn't [0], which I
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by smeyer 9y ago
Did you read the change log? The first item there implies the answer is yes: >Unified Spec: With version 2.1, we made the decision to unify the two previously separate Features/Series and Docs/Coms documents into one overall se
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by smeyer 9y ago
>In restaurants, when a waiter is tipped, the kitchen gets part of the money. That practice is highly dependent on the restaurant and locale. In many places, it's illegal to require the waitstaff to pool tips with the kitchen. http
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by smeyer 9y ago
Waze is also owned by Google, but other than that I think it's a good point that there are a couple of other viable maps options. But still, you need something that actually works well, or you'll get to re-live the fiasco that was
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by smeyer 9y ago
Why would it be easier to make a biological mechanism that produces whole and usable chicken eggs rather than a commercial-scale process for ground beef? It's not like they're trying to create a whole cow, and the ground aspect is
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by smeyer 9y ago
The order still matters. If you have $20 in your account and get hit with three debits for $6, $10, and then $30, processing them in order means the $6 and $10 debits go through, leaving you with $4 in the bank, then the $30 debit causes an
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by smeyer 9y ago
>The embed their taxes and fees in the products and services they sell which means the consumer is the payer. This is only true in some cases, but what actually determines whether the business pays the taxes out of profits or passes it a
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by smeyer 9y ago
>I don't pensions funds would invest in Start-UPs since they have a low risk threshold. You seem to be mistaken. Here's a 2014 article titled "Behind the Venture Capital Boom: Public Pensions" from Bloomberg. Specific
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by smeyer 9y ago
Are those really alternatives in this context? The linked study highlights >Low-dose aspirin, commonly defined as 75–325 mg daily, is used for primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular events such as myocardial infarction (MI).
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by smeyer 9y ago
>Landauer's principle defines a lower theoretical limit for energy consumption: kT ln 2 joules consumed per irreversible state change, where k is the Boltzmann constant and T is the operating temperature of the computer.[2] Reversib
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by smeyer 10y ago
I don't follow these things closely, but what's the reason to expect that Google will be able to generate a watt at 10% of the cost that AWS can? 10x seems like a massively impressive edge to have over another huge player in the m
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by smeyer 10y ago
Out of curiosity, did anyone here regularly use the 3D features of a television? I've seen them used to good effect for various demonstrations and interactive displays and such, but don't know any regular end-consumers who used th
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by smeyer 10y ago
> just to provide users a little bit better service than what taxi companies already did for us. I'm not saying I'm a fan of all their business practices, but (at least in Boston) Uber has been a massive improvement over what t
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by smeyer 10y ago
This is the route I took. I'm a meat-eater and eat plenty of it (including pork, which someone else mentioned in this thread), but I decided to stop eating octopodes. It feels a little funny compared to people who avoid meat in general
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by smeyer 10y ago
>$360,000,000,000 is such an unfathomable amount of money. The article says $36B, not $360B. I'm not sure if you misread or made a typo.
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by smeyer 10y ago
Your email isn't actually in your profile (the email field is just visible to you and used by HN, not visible publicly), and it doesn't appear to be on your website, either.
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by smeyer 10y ago
As far as I can tell, the middle here tends to correspond more to the high end there. The only friends I know paying substantially more are living in luxury highrises, whereas on the low end I have friends paying more like $600 a month to d
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by smeyer 10y ago
I'm plenty familiar with Boston commutes and that they can be pretty crappy, my point is mostly that things seem an order of magnitude better than in the Bay. Commutes are still bad and rents are still expensive, but my point was that
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by smeyer 10y ago
$1200 each. But it still seems a lot better than my friends in and near the Bay Area (and please correct me if I'm wrong).
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by smeyer 10y ago
As someone in Boston but from California, the lack of commutes comparable to the Bay Area or Silicon Valley always makes me grateful, even if there are other downsides. For example, I split a 2 bedroom apartment in a nice, active neighborho
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by smeyer 10y ago
Are you talking about the financial cost? Due to the extra precautions around death row (including things like a more extensive appeals process and more security), it costs more to keep someone on death row and then execute them than it doe
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by smeyer 10y ago
I think the $100MM is just the US losses, not the global loss. >In the second quarter the losses significantly exceeded $750 million, including a roughly $100 million shortfall in the U.S., those people said.
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by smeyer 10y ago
That means that the distance from the planet to the star will be within the resolution, doesn't it? It sounded more like Diederich was asking about the scale of the planet itself being within the resolution.
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by smeyer 10y ago
The JWST has an angular resolution of 0.1 arc seconds (according to a quick google search). This means a pixel at a distance of a parsec will correspond to about 0.1 astronomical units, which is about 20 times the radius of the Sun. Of cour
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by smeyer 10y ago
I was having trouble loading the page, so here's a cached version I used: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:l3RsdPT...
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by smeyer 10y ago
>they have ads everywhere; maybe they just spend too much at the moment. But the parent commenter was worrying about shrinking revenue, not profit. If anything, an overly aggressive advertising campaign should grow revenue while shrinkin
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by smeyer 10y ago
I think you're missing that the stock might not be liquid. If you're an employee at a pre-IPO startup, you might not be able to just exercise your options and immediately sell some of the stock (since there's no public market

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