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by stillsut 9y ago
There are MBA's who are also curious and interested in "going digital", "leveraging big data", etc. Left to initiate programs under these banners, and evaluate themselves I expect the MBA to perform sub-optimally. M
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by stillsut 9y ago
Let me give you a hypothetical company IT department: while you are allowed to work there with any education background, only an MBA can be a manager. How do you think they would perform at IT tasks? Who runs libraries? People with Masters
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by stillsut 9y ago
There's been a growing fear of how much dirt is going to get spilled when the current generation with omnipresent camera-phones goes to run for office. But this signals that we could be nearing the end of the age of embarrassing leaked
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Ask HN: Can Startups circumvent employee visa with tourist and pay Bitcoin
1 points by stillsut 9y ago|0 comments
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by stillsut 9y ago
> If you can find a way to own the customer as a distributor, you own the life-blood of the entire business downstream. Very interesting thought. Like how I buy clothes from Nike, then advertise them. I had some thoughts on this a while
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by stillsut 9y ago
Maybe Broad Institute, Harvard, MIT, shouldn't be tax free "non-profits" while TrainRepair Inc is paying 35% tax rate?
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by stillsut 9y ago
Interesting...I'd rate these no more offensive than Sarah Silverman stand up.
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by stillsut 9y ago
Interesting fact: Richard M Stallman dabbles in 9/11 conspiracy theories while being 'employed' at MIT. http://www.stallman.org/articles/911-new-investigation.html
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by stillsut 9y ago
"...we were not the popular kids that drank, had sex, and partied." - From the current discussion on UploadVR scandal [0] These are literally the most enjoyable things people do together, which has held for all history, for all pe
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College student lists dorm on AirBnB(nypost.com)
4 points by stillsut 9y ago|0 comments
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by stillsut 10y ago
I'm always curious when someone shows up with a super impressive project, but has never registered a user name on Hacker News. Can I ask "where have you been all this time" - Do you have some other aggregator or blogroll that
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by stillsut 10y ago
Ornithopter -> RC helicopter -> Quad[copter] -> Multi-rotor -> Drone ... which can be a $50 toy, a $5,000 photography machine, or $50 Million killing machine. bicycle -> cycle -> bike ... which can be a motorcycle too. See
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by stillsut 10y ago
> The model struggles the more the input text diverges from review data This is where I fear the results will fail to scale. The ability to represent 'sentiment' as one neuron, and its ground truth as uni-dimensional seems most
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Motion Tracking Dartboard Guarantees Bullseye on Every Throw(sploid.gizmodo.com)
1 points by stillsut 10y ago|0 comments
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Jared Kushner Runs Windows on a Mac?(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by stillsut 10y ago|3 comments
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by stillsut 10y ago
> Has anyone anywhere in the poetry of the two worlds ever seen such complete idiocy? These ‘Ahs’ and ‘Ohs,’ this want of comprehension of the simplest remarks, this repetition four or five times of the same imbecile expressions, gives
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by stillsut 10y ago
> you are saying that skeptics and lukewarmists would change their minds if GMT went up significantly more than their present views predict? Yes, absolutely. One thing which makes this seemingly completely empirical topic difficult thoug
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by stillsut 10y ago
For most lukewarmists it is certain that humans (GHG emissions) are causing the global temperature to increase. But how much? About +0.5C since pre-industrial times. Everybody also understands there's some natural variation, year-to-
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by stillsut 10y ago
Does anybody recognize the CNC machine this is based on? Anyone see a way to do registration on the CNC? It almost looks like the top of the steppers might have a rotary encoder on them.
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Automatic Bullseye: Moving Dartboard(youtube.com)
2 points by stillsut 10y ago|1 comments
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by stillsut 10y ago
No, contrails are condensed water vapor, and they are shortlived enough they contribute ~.0001% warming effect observed. Aerosols, usually a sulfate, are particles, which block sunlight, like the ash from volcanic eruptions. Most eruptions
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by stillsut 10y ago
What if we called it "pay what you can". With 100% of the amount over the minimum ("the bill") going to the staff, not the ownership. There's sharp disagreement among the patrons on whether to keep servers in rags o
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by stillsut 10y ago
> Even disbelief in evolution causes deaths, e.g. if we don't do enough to deal with antibiotic resistance. I wonder if this is true? What is correlation of Americans who "don't believe in evolution" who would reject
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by stillsut 10y ago
I believe it's "protected classes" under 14th amendment that people sometimes conflate with 1A. As an example, there's a gay teacher who was fired from a Catholic school near where I live after he was outed. It was compl
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by stillsut 10y ago
> what the fuck are programmers thinking when writing today's programs The difference is in the old days, you adapted to computer. Now, computer must adapt to you. Take a look at MS's latest text-editor program's release n
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by stillsut 10y ago
If DeleteUber succeeds, that's then end of the American dream as we know it. Starting a tech business with better ideas, and working harder and smarter than the Old Boys with Money (and taxi medallions) is the one of the last ways anyo
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by stillsut 10y ago
I upvoted you because you're raising some important points. To play advocate for keeping it unflagged: - domain of gwern.net is a respected source here; even his zanier points get the benefit of the doubt - China's future is hug
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by stillsut 10y ago
Everyone jumps to the dystopian scifi implication. But how about lets try thinking like real technologists? Example use: I know of three small but vibrant towns in Massachusetts where my wife and I would like to open a Bed 'n Breakfast
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by stillsut 10y ago
The Anabaena Event is something you'd be interested in. Also, the decrease in atmospheric CO2 below 200ppm would be catastrophic to almost all photosynthesizing crop-type plants. For reference the natural cycle has had us oscillating b
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by stillsut 10y ago
This. I actually use VB.NET at work to strong effect. It enables us to hire domain experts (insurance) and have them working as developers in a week. And you get the full .NET compatibility to networking for updates, PDF libraries, crypto,

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