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by symplee 6y ago
Not a doctor, just a thought, could this in part be caused by some sort of Deep Vein Thrombosis or other clots due to people not physically moving as much during quarantine?
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by symplee 6y ago
You might be able to use https://hn.algolia.com/ which searches every comment/submission from HN. Just paste in a wikipedia link to see if it has already been submitted, then click to the comment section.
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by symplee 6y ago
I bought my boss two copies of The Mythical Man-Month so he could read it twice as fast.
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by symplee 6y ago
Right, like a guaranteed incentive bonus. With an indisputable deliverable, like GPS at the person's house. But, as with everything, it could probably end up being gamed.
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by symplee 6y ago
Isn't this just increasing the branching factor? How hard will it be to find new melodies a million years from now? Easier than today, the same, or harder?
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by symplee 6y ago
The pigeonhole principle [0] is also becoming more of a factor due to the sheer volume of production. Especially in domains with a limited branching factor. For example, in music, if you only have 12 tones in an octave to play with, along w
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by symplee 6y ago
Come on, you know the routine. No matter what your cause is: Never let a crisis go to waste.
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by symplee 6y ago
In a more general sense, what level or standard should advertised privacy claims be held to? How are "privacy" and "security" quantified? Are there any real-world tests they have to pass? Or is it simply: "Yup, our
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by symplee 6y ago
Just for comparison, what percentage of their overall yearly revenue do those three products represent?
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by symplee 6y ago
This bad boy holds about negative $-43,492,267 dollars worth oil. 160,000 metric ton capacity times 2204 pounds per ton 352,640,000 pound capacity 300 pounds of oil per barrel 1,175,467 barrels at -$37.00 = profit
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Ask HN: Oil's % change tomorrow if negative to positive?
1 points by symplee 6y ago|1 comments
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by symplee 6y ago
Follow up question: If it had ended at zero dollars, then the next day jumps to $5, what's the percentage change?
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by symplee 6y ago
Certainly messed up the Yahoo finance graph: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/CL=F?p=CL=F Look at the red block below the graph, where it should have gone negative.
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by symplee 6y ago
Now trading at -$37.00. That's right. Negative thirty seven dollars. Today: -54.67, -299.23%. https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/future/crude%20oil%20-...
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by symplee 6y ago
Really not sure why both of my comments are getting down-voted into oblivion, but case and point, oil is now trading at -$37.00 ( negative thirty seven dollars) https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/future/crude%2
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by symplee 6y ago
The comment was to lightheartedly point out the incorrect doom and gloom predictions over the last 100 years, where people have been predicting that we're going to run out of oil "soon." Now we have so much we can't get
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by symplee 6y ago
Anyone still talking about peak oil? :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predicting_the_timing_of_peak_...
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by symplee 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_testing#Virus_testing... Shows the following stats: Country--------Date-----Tests-------Positive----%-------Tests/mil ppl----Positive/mil ppl ---------------------
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by symplee 6y ago
Can you give some examples of axioms in pure math that run completely counter to our physical world? For example: It is NOT possible to draw a straight line from any point to any other point. It is NOT possible to extend a line segme
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by symplee 6y ago
There have been some encouraging results recently. For example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22269115 In any case, the time frame we're talking about is 10-20 years from now. Lots of time for even more breakthr
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by symplee 6y ago
Isn't it the other way around? Axioms are chosen because there are no observable counter examples in the real world.
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by symplee 6y ago
Are these repurposed oil pipelines? Or dedicated fresh water pipelines built specifically to replenish water supplies? I'd imagine as oil declines, the pipelines from the gulf might be able to send desalinated water back inland. Not su
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by symplee 6y ago
Exactly. I wonder how feasible it would be to repurpose oil pipelines and send desalinated water back inland.
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by symplee 6y ago
Feature idea: use the webcam to project the watcher's image/body onto the instructor's. Then with some computer vision magic, gamify how close your workout matched the instructor's workout.
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by symplee 6y ago
Not crazy at all. This is where the industry is going anyway. For example "Tonal" is a work out machine that attaches to the wall, with a large video screen (probably larger in the next generation version). https://www.
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by symplee 6y ago
You've got infections, he's got answers.
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by symplee 6y ago
Exactly. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_fallacy The example there is: Tom: All cats are animals. Ginger is an animal. Therefore, Ginger is a cat. Bill: You have just fallaciously affirmed the conseque
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by symplee 6y ago
Exactly. And then at the way end, there's a graph with the two scenarios predicting what will happen based on all of the article's analysis: Scenario 1: Dollar goes up, then down. Scenario 2: Dollar goes down. In each Microsoft Pa
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by symplee 7y ago
Quick four and a half minute video going into a little more depth about the above concept: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2STbdWkgyg
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by symplee 7y ago
Should the list of who upvotes an article be public? When I make a comment, my username is displayed. If upvotes and their timestamps were public, it would make it a lot easier for the community to get to the bottom of any funny business li

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