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by symplee 7y ago
How reproducible is this? There are only so many companies that can make it to that level of success, and only so many pigeons to fill those holes.
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by symplee 7y ago
Unless an outside force acts upon it. In the future, all distributions will be uniform. And everyone will finally be happy* *(whether they like it or not.)
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by symplee 7y ago
Ahh but you see, only someone who's NOT exponentially smart would fail to see it's true. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Clothes
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by symplee 7y ago
Much lower than the percentage that read articles about the tweets. But nevertheless, the content finds its way.
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by symplee 7y ago
Are you making your own quinoa poke bowl, or is this something you buy pre-made?
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by symplee 7y ago
Any software patterns comparable to this? (Would help to have a use-case example. And how the pattern helped Vs. what was being done before)
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by symplee 7y ago
Bravo. Agreed. I've installed an actual set mouse trap where my mouse used to be. My hand has suffered but my clout in the open office is at an all time high.
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by symplee 7y ago
Meta reply, I think we all just fell victim to Cunningham's Law [0] "The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer." https://meta.m.wikimedia.org&
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by symplee 7y ago
Got me curious enough to look this up: Total surface area of Earth is ~500,000,000 km^2 Total land area of Earth is ~150,000,000 km^2 (~.29 Earth) Australia's land area is ~7,500,000 km^2 (~.015 Earth, 5% of land area) Moon s
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by symplee 7y ago
Similar, there's a website where you can compare the true size of countries. It allows you to drag and drop countries around the map, thus seeing the country "grow" and "shrink" with the stretching effects of a fl
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by symplee 7y ago
(removed - since this reply was for a different comment)
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by symplee 7y ago
AirPnD
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by symplee 7y ago
Some say that's how they got the idea for MongoDB: Snapchat for Databases
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by symplee 7y ago
Highly recommend testing this new cheating tool out by entering a custom prompt at https://talktotransformer.com/ (which uses GPT-2) and reading what the AI generates for your custom essay snippet. A single sentence with a
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by symplee 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word There's a great list of examples halfway down the page. For example: "A growing body of evidence..." (Where is the raw data for your review?) "People
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by symplee 7y ago
>> The new measurement puts the size of the proton to around 0.833 femtometers, against the previously accepted figure of 0.842 femtometers. 1 femtometer = 10^−15 metres. Also commonly called a fermi. It's a quick read, worth the
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by symplee 7y ago
>> "Translating his works is difficult due to passages with elaborate word formation, idiomatic wordplay, alien or robotic poetry, and puns." >> But he is the only writer of European [science fiction, most of whose] bo
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by symplee 7y ago
It's ultimately a selection bias for both. If you're in the top X percent to get accepted to Harvard Business School, you're also the type of person to have a higher chance of success in general. Same for YC. The post is call
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by symplee 7y ago
I wonder what the second-hand smoke risk is like. Even though they're not inhaling their own cigar, there are about 15 other competitors in the enclosed room.
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by symplee 7y ago
They're waiting until they have a driver
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by symplee 7y ago
Mars and beyond anyone?
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by symplee 7y ago
>> "Modifications to a vehicle to enable rolling coal may cost from US$200 to US$5,000." Imagine paying that much for the privilage to spite.
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by symplee 7y ago
What do you think the last five years will look like? And when do you think it'll happen?
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by symplee 7y ago
Crossing their fingers for the next great bailout.
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by symplee 7y ago
What is the probability that it prints a completable[0] maze? Expressed in terms of line width (w) and number of lines (n). [0] Where there's a valid path from the first line to the last.
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Ask HN: Unsuccessful one-person online businesses?
2 points by symplee 7y ago|2 comments
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by symplee 7y ago
Pretty amazing natural image stabilization. That the external world is interpreted to be a motionless. Even with all of these tiny micro-movements.
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by symplee 7y ago
Exactly. If that number were arbitrarily changed to 60% and did include Social Security, well, there goes the news article.
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by symplee 7y ago
Furthermore: escalation of commitment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalation_of_commitment
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by symplee 7y ago
I wonder what the single point of failure was to take out every store nationwide of a 45 billion dollar company.

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