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by spikels 13y ago
How would allowing defaults on government guaranteed student loans lower the cost of college? Cost would likely increase for most students. If loan interest rates were increased to compensate for the additional losses this would increase th
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by spikels 13y ago
Anyone know why the two Bitcoin Call Option Valuations get such different results: Python 361.203 and Julia 374.496? Monte Carlo will always some error but that's a pretty big difference. Can't confirm which more correct right now
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by spikels 13y ago
You hit the nail on the head. Power corrupts and more power just leads to more corruption. In theory transparancy should help but is resisted in many ways and rarely effective in practice (e.g. FEC). In my opinion the only real solution to
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Advanced 1-Day Course: Jonathan Corum, Bret Victor, Mike Bostock, Edward Tufte(edwardtufte.com)
8 points by spikels 13y ago|0 comments
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by spikels 13y ago
I wonder if many of the recent contoversies could have been avoided if all the parties involved had followed this advice. The ability to forgive someone's mistakes immediately is a very valuable trait. The ability to quickly recognize
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by spikels 13y ago
I'm pretty sure 96,000 bits/s vastly overstates the required storage. Common VoIP codecs uses as little as 5,300 bits/s[1] and military communication systems typically only require 2,400 bits/s and can go as low as 600 b
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by spikels 13y ago
"Nobody is listening to your telephone calls," Mr. Obama said. "That's not what this program is about." It's about recording your calls to listen to later.
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by spikels 13y ago
Is this a trick to get her to work in Silicon Valley? Kids always do the opposite of what their parents want.
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by spikels 13y ago
Thanks - very interesting presentation. I could almost imagine North Korea doing this but not to a plane full of Chinese - their leader is crazy but not suicidal.
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A Flight 370 Conspiracy Theory Worthy of HN
5 points by spikels 13y ago|4 comments
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by spikels 13y ago
I think the influence of the private prison operator while real is overstated. It makes a good story but they have less that 4% of US prisoners. Much more influential are the prison guard and police unions and organizations. In California a
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by spikels 13y ago
We don't have a black-market problem, we have a people problem: if people didn't misuse drugs, there wouldn't be a problem at all.
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by spikels 13y ago
For a mere $199 you can get his thoughts on the latest iPhone models. http://www.forrester.com/Apple+Doubles+Down+On+Its+Premium+B...
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by spikels 13y ago
Flew for 7 more hours changing direction & elevation repeatedly: fire reprogrammed flight computer.
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Dianne Feinstein wants drones regulated(politico.com)
3 points by spikels 13y ago|0 comments
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by spikels 13y ago
Funny how when certain words come up seemingly rational people go batshit crazy. Monsanto is one of those words.
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by spikels 13y ago
At least today you still have to trust the JavaScript the server sends you. I have heard talk in the past about adding code signing to browsers. Combined with open-source code and a security audit this could potentially offer something appr
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by spikels 13y ago
I'm not sure how much better you can do with a webapp. Either you trust them to encrypt your messages on the server or you trust them to send you JavaScript that does the encryption in the browser. Either way you need to trust the app
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by spikels 13y ago
Well that was disappointing. I was expecting more sexism and less crazy founder wife.
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by spikels 13y ago
You say power systems are about power. A meaningless tautology but at least a true statement unlike most of your comments. Are you being purposely dense? Nobody is saying some people don't have any merit. Everyone has merit but in diff
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by spikels 13y ago
Agree completely. It was a joke that referenced a company value not some guarantee about how the world works. Despite the unfortunate origins of the word meritocracy, the concept is ancient[1] and was always more of a goal than a practical
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by spikels 13y ago
Yay! More pointless division that will improve nothing and probably make things worse. Good work people! Now that she's gone does this mean that GitHub can get that cool carpet back? http://readwrite.com/2014/01&#x
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by spikels 13y ago
I'm pretty sure that the article is incorrect and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center has very little or nothing to do with this study. The apparent paper[1] describes the funding as: "This work was partially funded through NA
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by spikels 13y ago
Couldn't find anything on the study's author, Safa Motesharri, other than a bunch of reposts of this Guardian article. Edit: Study author's name was misspelled in the Guardian: Safa Motesharrei not Safa Motesharri. He's
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by spikels 13y ago
This is obviously sensationalist bullshit. The Guardian writer, Nafeez Ahmed, has produced a string of highly exaggerated articles in the past[1]. Very surprised that the Guardian publishes this crap but it seems that highly politicized sub
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by spikels 13y ago
It means to reduce the importance of something - right? He gets asked about being the only developer in Congress if he were to win and the response is “Software developers aren’t the only ones under represented in congress." In other w
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by spikels 13y ago
Sorry but he is clearly playing down his involvement with tech in the article - oddly to Wired - for exactly the top comment's reasons. I hope it is not a barrier to being a politician. His website is upfront about being an "engin
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by spikels 13y ago
I guess you think the anti-tech sentiment is worse than I do. But this makes him seems even more the generic politician: take a poll then decide who you are and what you believe. How can he expect to win by blending in with his competitors?
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by spikels 13y ago
If this guy is really something different, why does he sound like every other politician? “I’m running to tackle the issues that most affect families in South Jersey, like too few jobs, too high student debt, the need to act on climate chan
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by spikels 13y ago
Some Context: in 2010 the 121,000 annual US accidental deaths are roughly evenly split between vehicles (35,000), unintentional poisoning (33,000), falls (26,000) and other causes. Collectively accidents are the 5th leading cause of death a

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