tristanj

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by tristanj 8y ago
This is analog computers all over again. It suffers the same problems, namely lower reliability and a lack of precision. I don't see how this will stack up to the millions of man-years humanity has invested into silicon based computers
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by tristanj 9y ago
Google IO is next week, I'm surprised they announced this today rather than at the event. Maybe Google has bigger plans in store.
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by tristanj 9y ago
Many programmers have Vitamin D deficiency. It's a really common issue most people are not aware about. Low Vitamin D has been associated with cardiovascular disease, cognitive impairment, and cancer. It is super easy to treat with a
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It’s time to rethink how much booze may be too much(vox.com)
3 points by tristanj 9y ago|0 comments
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by tristanj 9y ago
Discussion from 3 years ago (311 points): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9227541
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by tristanj 9y ago
> Literally their entire Net Income increase from $5.4b to $9.4b is due to a tax cut from 20% Hyperbole. Revenue is up $6.4B YoY from $24.75B to $31.1B.
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by tristanj 9y ago
> Capital expense for Google more than triples: up from $2.4 billion to $7.7 billion year-on-year Part of that also comes from Google buying up $1 billion of north Sunnyvale properties over the past year [0]. They bought roughly 50 prop
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by tristanj 9y ago
A few people I know who studied it ended up working in Data Science/Machine learning.
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by tristanj 9y ago
Econometrics. I completed all the pre-reqs too, just never got around to taking it.
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by tristanj 9y ago
Non-paywalled link: http://archive.is/xbcSB
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US Weighs New Trade Action Against China, Over Curbs on US Tech Companies(wsj.com)
2 points by tristanj 9y ago|2 comments
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by tristanj 9y ago
I mean we can run through the math. In March of 2015, 21.co/Earn.com raised $115m from a16z. In June of 2015, the price of BTC was about $240 each. If we assume half the investment went into bitcoin, it means they acquired $115m/2
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by tristanj 9y ago
Volvo's automatic collision braking sure has improved since 2010 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNi17YLnZpg
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by tristanj 9y ago
> A healthy liver can deal with quite a lot of alcohol and acetaldehyde with not much issue. But in evolutionary terms, this is not true at all. Humans today are consuming way more alcohol than the metabolic pathway can handle. Alcoho
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by tristanj 9y ago
> Alcohol in the absence of polyunsaturated fats is fairly benign. This isn't true. Sorry to inform you but Ethanol is a IARC Group 1 Carcinogen. There is no safe amount of consumption of ethanol. When Ethanol enters the body, it i
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by tristanj 9y ago
REITs have existed for a while.
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by tristanj 9y ago
It's not fully clear what Zillow is offering here, but my reading is that Zillow is buying homes, quickly fixing them up, and selling them. If this is what they are doing, I can see a lot of value in these "Zillow Approved" f
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by tristanj 9y ago
Apple doesn't let users download major iOS updates over cellular data, and that's been their official policy for the past decade. Why is it a problem if Tesla does the same thing?
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by tristanj 9y ago
According to this forum post [0], the Tesla Navigation data is 5-8 GB in size. This is a large file to download over a cellular network, and I can understand why Tesla/Carriers would prefer people download this file over wifi or wired
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GDC 2018: John McDonald (Valve) - Using Deep Learning to Combat Cheating in CSGO(youtube.com)
2 points by tristanj 9y ago|0 comments
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by tristanj 9y ago
"Make transportation as reliable as running water, everywhere, for everyone."
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by tristanj 9y ago
I have much better links. Here's one from 2012: Facebook scans chats and posts for criminal activity https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-scans-chats-and-posts-for... The program probably started a year earlier th
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by tristanj 9y ago
Old news. Facebook has been doing this since at least 2009, I recall seeing an article where Facebook censored all links (including those in private messaegs) to thepiratebay.org [0] They also crawl links you share in private messages to gr
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by tristanj 9y ago
Looks like this is the culprit's website http://www.nasimesabz.com/index.html There are links to her (4?) youtube accounts, which have all been terminated. There's a link to her instagram, which has also been term
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by tristanj 9y ago
That's the exact same image as the one in the post you're replying to...
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by tristanj 9y ago
The article cites AvE's youtube video and brings up some skepticism about his hypothesis. His explanation is one of several and it's not yet conclusive.
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by tristanj 9y ago
This is a really thorough article that explains the reasoning behind the design of the bridge and looks at multiple reasons why the bridge collapsed. I found the animated concept video of what the completed bridge would look like very illum
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by tristanj 9y ago
Note: This isn't at the same location as last week's accident. Last week's accident was in Mountain View, CA; while this one looks like it's in Lake Station, Indiana. Edit: it's in Chicago not Indiana, see replies
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by tristanj 9y ago
The Facebook download tool has been around since 2010. It's not correct to suggest they created this in response to GDPR.
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by tristanj 9y ago
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16710891

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