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by tdaltonc 11y ago
Ya I'd love to know the details of the implementation. Maybe it's just a solution to the last mile? Maybe it focuses a signal at the receiver?
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Mortals Rejoice at So Great an Ornament of the Human Race(blogofthecosmos.com)
1 points by tdaltonc 11y ago|0 comments
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
I really like the educational policy recommendation in Where Mathematics Comes From [0]. Even the most abstract mathematics is an analogy with our intuitive embodied experience. One striking example: Training children to individually articu
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
Beautiful! What did you use to turn the DICOM/NIFTI files in to a printable format?
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
The author is trying to explain a global phenomena. Can an aging demographic bulge explain the Hukou? Honest question.
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
I don't think I got a satisfying answer to "Why now?" Why has the gerontocracy suddenly taken over in so many countries?
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
Man, so many things that I always wanted to know. Why didn't a marketing team at Tide make a infographic about this a decade ago?
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
I've though a lot about your comment. I don't think that they're dummies. This is one of the big unsolved problems in statistics and empiricism.[1] There is no general solution to this problem, and the practical solutions to
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
> Batygin and Brown inferred its presence from the peculiar clustering of six previously known objects that orbit beyond Neptune. This raised a big red flag in my mind. This must produce a literally astronomical multiple comparisons prob
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
As I understand it, Stanford v Roche only said that the assignments that they made the researchers sign were not sufficiently stringent. And not universities just compel researchers to sigh a more explicit and complete assignment.
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
Part of the problem here is the legal environment created by Bayh–Dole, Stanford v. Roche, and their fallout. These universities do not play a substantive role in the development of these technologies, but they get the IP because researcher
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
It would have the side effect of improving and propagating best practices. Most scientists are self taught programers, and it shows. The data models and codebases used by most labs are . . . amateurish.
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
This is the epitome of an industry where people with good ideas could benefit from being paired with insider advisors.
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
Capital (and an executive elite) is more mobile then labor. When there's a local downturn, people who derive their income from labor suffer, but the capital class does not --> increased wealth inequality.
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
Thanks! What is the process of getting zero-rating like? Are you glad that zero rating exists in your market?
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
Unless you think that there should be a totally unregulated market in human organ though, you still agree with my main point? That regulators have a role to play in preventing people from making coercive offers to the poor?
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
Mind if I ask how you usually access HN? Mobile? A mac you own? An internet cafe? Do you know anyone who would consider something like free basic? What's their story? I've heard basically nothing from anyone who might use facebook
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
> You are free not to use it if you want. This argument can lead to a lot of unpleasant places. It's the regulators job to decide what offers are coercive to the poor, and make it illegal to offer them. It's generally illegal t
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
If Marks not careful, he's going to talk himself right in to being a utility. http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toi-edit-page/free-...
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Facebook's Free Basics Shuts Down in Egypt(gizmodo.com)
87 points by tdaltonc 11y ago|58 comments
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
I think that his critique of academic economics is spot on. Economists do not have a good way for thinking about where Mark Zuckerberg's money came from. In macro they would call it return on capital because he bought some stock from F
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
As he pointed out in the article though, capital is playing less and less of a role in startups. Terms in SV have never been as "entrepreneur friendly" as they are right now.
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
> Globally the trend has been in the other direction. I think that this is misleading. Every global culture is fragmenting, but the biggest fragments within countries tend to get along much better then they used to. There is a "glob
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
Sarin gas doesn't decide deploy itself. A superintelligent autonomous insect drones might. That's the difference. >human-controlled They might not be human-controlled. That's why it's extra scary.
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
Here's a good review article to start you off. https://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleID=1809...
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
The frien-nemy relationship that this database represents is super interesting. So each candidate has their own columns in the database. Does that me that, for example, if the governor of California (Dem) endorses a candidate for president
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
Anarchic markets/networks don't always give the best results. The regulators have an important role to play in designing a network that gives the best results to all players. Net neutrality is a good set of principles for creating
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
"Why not let [the customer] choose" is an argument that can be made of any net neutrality debate. Should there be fast-lanes in the US? TWC: We'll offer plans with and without fast-lanes and let the customers choose! Either t
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
Ya, who needs to know the price of rice or fertilizer? Certainly not Indian farmers; they can eat inner peace. And who needs to learn algebra? Certainly not rural children; they already know the meaning of life. Free Basics isn't the a
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
I totally agree. Behavioral science needs an applied branch, and computer scientists are going to have a big role to play there.

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