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by spcoll 12y ago
As the trend towards urbanisation (rural flight) continues worldwide, and as population continues to grow, the rent isn't going to get any cheaper in the decades to come, anywhere. Even imagining that 3D printing techniques can signifi
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by spcoll 12y ago
If DPRK has the capacity to pull this sort of hacking feat on demand, it begs the question: why aren't they doing it around the clock, to hurt their enemies that they seem to hate so much? It's just not very realistic to think tha
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by spcoll 12y ago
> Are they? That hasn't been my experience Examples are abundant and easy to find. Here is an example of sexism and discrimination coming from Paul Graham. Highly relevant to this discussion about female founders at YC. http:/
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by spcoll 12y ago
YC and PG have a history of sexism and actively discriminating against women (see http://www.thewire.com/technology/2013/12/paul-graham-revive... ). For this reason, yes, it is important to mention that Alex i
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by spcoll 12y ago
Are you denying that women are being heavily discriminated against in developed countries, like Norway or the Netherlands? Technology and entrepreneurship are very attractive in terms of social prestige and salary, therefore if women weren&
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by spcoll 12y ago
"Biped" is only found in the context of science (evolutionary biology) or technology (robotics).
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by spcoll 12y ago
Indeed, that had escaped me. It makes the case stronger then.
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by spcoll 12y ago
Many variables share this exact graph shape over the 1960-2000 period, without having anything to do with crime. It's not a particularly characteristic shape. This seems to be a textbook example of "correlation does not imply caus
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by spcoll 12y ago
Any risk estimate makes implicit assumptions, so they are conditional probabilities rather than absolute probabilities. It is assumed that Amazon engineers mean to prefix these data loss numbers with "under normal operation of our serv
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by spcoll 12y ago
Any planet harboring intelligent life would likely be several hundreds (like this one) if not thousands or millions of light years away, making any contact impossible at human scale. Even with this relatively close example of a possibly hab
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by spcoll 12y ago
As far as I can tell it's now a network of content sites (Tumblr, Flickr, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Weather, a long site of Yahoo {{content_type}} sites, etc), monetized through targeted advertising. Their demographics are typically older t
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by spcoll 12y ago
In the absence of a direct way of arbitraging between YHOO, Alibaba and Yahoo Japan, is it not surprising that the respective valuations of these entities will become disconnected. The market value of a company does not represent its actual
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by spcoll 12y ago
This is a great variant. I wonder if it would be possible to conceive a chemistry version that can could potentially teach people about atomic bonding? A bit easy though, I had no trouble beating it after a couple tries.
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by spcoll 12y ago
I believe these laws target human cloning experimentation, rather than cloning as "twin manufacturing". The fact is, we don't know how to make fully viable clones yet (see the fate of our most advanced animal experiments for
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by spcoll 12y ago
I wish more abandoned projects were open-sourced instead of merely shut down. Like Google Wave, which became Apache Wave after Google lost interest in the product...
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by spcoll 12y ago
The question of whether time is in fact directional is far from being closed, at least for quantum physicists. In fact, one of the physicists cited in the article is known for proposing a time-symmetric formulation of Quantum Mechanics [1].
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by spcoll 12y ago
It's a new success for Deep Learning. It seems to be actually 99.8% accuracy according to their paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.6082 That's one order of magnitude higher.