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NYT Editorial Board: Against Women's Only Swimming Pool in NYC(nytimes.com)
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What would happen if GPS failed?(newyorker.com)
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Scientists discover potentially habitable planets(news.mit.edu)
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by stillsut 10y ago
Here are some new rules of warfare that the F35 is designed for: "Blackhawk Down" If you lose even one aircraft crew as we did in Somalia, you may be forced to retreat from the entire war. So it makes sense to spend 10x to go from
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OpenAI Gym – reinforcement learning for your robot(technologyreview.com)
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What if Apple is Wrong [about privacy]?(technologyreview.com)
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Five Female Players Accuse US Soccer of Wage Bias(nytimes.com)
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by stillsut 11y ago
There is a larger issue here than just what recruiters at the GOOG are looking for. Historically, the difference maker between SV and Boston was the willingness of the former to take dropouts, divorced people, dreamers with gaps between job
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by stillsut 11y ago
This is meant to be a thought provoking question, not an attack: What if the safety of the planet lay in stopping greenhouse emissions. But certain large blocs of the international community refused to stop pumping it out of the ground. Now
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by stillsut 11y ago
> If you need a safe space at the university you will get walked all over in the real world. This is what I thought as well; surely the tougher and more resilient person is more valued to an organization. But most elite organizations no
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by stillsut 11y ago
The stalemate of the current horrid system seems only to be held in place by the (perhaps misguided) sense that being high enough middle class has a better chance to insulate your family against the ravages of drug addiction more than the t
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by stillsut 11y ago
I just feel bad for the event planning company: "They didn't like the dancers?" "Nope" "But the vacuum guys like them, so did insurance guys, hell even the mortician convention liked them. Are these the same da
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by stillsut 11y ago
as always with WSJ, clear all wsj cookies and search for the article title on google in incogntio mode
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Students Protest GMO Banana(wsj.com)
3 points by stillsut 11y ago|2 comments
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by stillsut 11y ago
Absolutely right. Imagine a white man goes on a spree shooting with hate-crime elements. We are trying to find out if more of these attacks will occur Now the suspect's money is in a Goldman Sachs account and the bank tells the gov&#x2
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by stillsut 11y ago
Roughly equal to Medieval Warm Period in terms of global mean temperature. Areas the size of Europe (~3% of the total area) might show significant differences between then and now in average yearly temperature, with the global average being
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by stillsut 11y ago
Kensho?
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by stillsut 11y ago
So meta... Notice how a couple Voldermorts have gone through the comments and down-voted anyone who questioned catastrophic global warming predictions. As Voldermorts are wont to do.
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by stillsut 11y ago
Perfect metaphor. Now go file off the serial numbers to some handguns and see how well your civil disobedience goes.
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by stillsut 11y ago
There's this man-on-the-street video where people at an organic vegetable market are asked to sign a petition outlawing Di-Hydrogen Monoxide. Many do, as they are advised it so corrosive that it cuts through rock! I'm starting to
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by stillsut 11y ago
And look what Google did with Chromecast - beautiful, national geographic style pictures you could sit and watch for hours. Clearly there's a team spending money at Google to create the best experience for me. If I went into a business
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by stillsut 11y ago
The average adult is required to be available by phone. Not by snapchat, not by skype, not even by text message. By. Phone. In tech-land and teen-land you can specify platforms to each of your relationships. But in the average American&#x27
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by stillsut 11y ago
Couple of thoughts: - Doesn't an iPhone become completely secure if you prevent if from passively polling for OS updates. If the iPhone would only poll and install updates after user un-locks and allows, then there would be no way chan
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by stillsut 11y ago
One person heard a racial slur yelled from a pickup truck on the UMissouri campus? The president of the school has to go. Psychotic and not uncommonly violent people are attacking citizens apparently everyday for the past decade? Suck it up
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by stillsut 11y ago
Type your search into the search box labeled "Select a job..."
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by stillsut 11y ago
I'd consider the #1 to #5 (out of 10,000 students) in Ng's MachineLearning Coursera more compelling than 'A' from his on-campus class. So by making it a national competition, MOOCs have an advantage for those companies s
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by stillsut 11y ago
Your comment made me think: Could driverless cars kill the domestic airline industry? If I could get from NY to Florida in less than a day in my driverless car, and at sub-$2-gas, who would want to do the security check-in, luggage ripoff,
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by stillsut 11y ago
> it was becoming clear that logic-based AI had hit a wall... Then came machine learning. In that context, this advance is a sign that there's still momentum going in the current ML paradigm - the hardest board game was at last sol
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by stillsut 11y ago
In the same boat, mate. I upvoted you to 500 though, enjoy the downvoting!
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Go, and the Chasm AI hasn't crosses(medium.com)
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