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The Real Story Behind Elon Musk’s $2.6B Acquisition of SolarCity(fastcompany.com)
4 points by surement 9y ago|0 comments
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by surement 9y ago
My university kept the pure math courses for "honors" students; I'm still outraged by this to this day. It's very misleading and as someone who didn't do great in the "regular" (i.e. rote repetition/m
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Oculus Founder Plots a Comeback with a Virtual Border Wall(nytimes.com)
2 points by surement 9y ago|0 comments
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Bots will help us become better versions of ourselves(hbr.org)
1 points by surement 9y ago|0 comments
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I've always found uberpool to work fine, and sometimes meeting people is extra fun. In other cases the driver doesn't pick up anyone else and I get an extra cheap ride.
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Leaked Internal Documents Show UberPool Was a Cash-Burning Machine(buzzfeed.com)
12 points by surement 9y ago|3 comments
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English is one of the rare languages that have heteronyms, and that's extremely weird for anyone coming from a language without them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteronym_(linguistics) Note the article only exi
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The Highest-Paid C.E.O.s in 2016(nytimes.com)
12 points by surement 9y ago|5 comments
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Matt Levine AMA(reddit.com)
1 points by surement 9y ago|0 comments
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by surement 9y ago
This should have "(2015)" in the title.
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Jeff Bezos says he's flattered by Warren Buffett's compliments(cnbc.com)
2 points by surement 9y ago|0 comments
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James Gosling, Inventor of Java, Joins AWS(facebook.com)
10 points by surement 9y ago|1 comments
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AWS Signs Java ‘father’ James Gosling(venturebeat.com)
4 points by surement 9y ago|0 comments
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The Mad King of Juice: Inside the Dysfunctional Origins of Juicero(gizmodo.com)
1 points by surement 9y ago|0 comments
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by surement 9y ago
>> Or they can simply leave them a bit more in the sun. This is what the whole article is about: [intro] The life of a tomato is halted tragically early. They’re wrenched from the vine in their adolescence and fledged from their nata
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by surement 9y ago
no
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Yahoo announces a tender offer to buy back up to $3B of its own stock(sec.gov)
2 points by surement 9y ago|0 comments
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Uber Engineer Barred from Work on Key Self-Driving Technology, Judge Says(nytimes.com)
1 points by surement 9y ago|0 comments
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Slack Doesn't Want People Using It for Romance(theatlantic.com)
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SSH Tunneling Explained (2012)(chamibuddhika.wordpress.com)
2 points by surement 9y ago|0 comments
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by surement 9y ago
What exactly is the problem with someone padding their estimates knowing there is a risk of being stuck creatively? When it happens, the estimates stand, when it doesn't, work is done faster than expected. If the parent is unfortunate
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by surement 9y ago
Wikipedia has a pretty fascinating list of cognitive biases, it's fun to go through it and mark each that applies until you start looking for the bias about thinking you have all of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by surement 9y ago
> Constraints are definitely the mother of all creativity This is the premise of 'pataphysique, the science of imaginary solutions [0]. This has been applied passionately to not only literature (oulipo) but comics (oubapo), music (o
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by surement 9y ago
I've owned the book and it's just been sitting there for years. Recently I just gave in and got it on audible and I find it much more palatable.
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by surement 9y ago
Care to elaborate? I've never had any trouble going over country lines, let alone state lines, in a rental car.
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by surement 9y ago
I modified the title to make it slightly less click-baity but I posted the article mainly for the humour of it. It is an outrageously stupid statement.
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Robinhood’s Stock Trading App Is Valued at $1.3B(bloomberg.com)
1 points by surement 9y ago|0 comments
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Money Stuff [0] has had an ongoing section recently called "People are worried about Uber." [0] https://www.bloomberg.com/view/topics/money-stuff
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Juice in a bag(elaineou.com)
2 points by surement 9y ago|0 comments
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> NURBS (Non-uniform Rational B-Spline) I believe NURBS stands for Nobody Understands Rational B-Splines [0] :) [0] http://www.springer.com/productFlyer_978-3-540-61545-3.pdf?S... (pdf)

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