twinkletwinkle

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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
Drones could fly under cloud cover also. Satellite photos are probably less useful for Seattle than for Denver.
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
Interesting. I vividly remember a commenter here on a thread about Uber's acquisition of Otto. The user said based on the timeline and filings, it seemed like Otto hadn't really accomplished anything yet, and was probably founded
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
It's not "anything", it's "intent to defraud". The prosecutor needs to provide a minimum standard of evidence to bring charges, they don't need to prove intent (to hear the case). The rest is like I said.
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
Same way we decide everything, a sitting judge or a jury of your peers.
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
If he has no intention of selling, yes.
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
It probably correlates. People with wealthy supportive parents are more able to take a "less valuable" degree. Where value = market rate for your skills.
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
It's an interesting balance. I'm the same as you, I received an incredible amount of help to pay for private college. I paid my way through grad school and now make a professional salary in an expensive city, entirely self support
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
I have a bank account which I manage online. I am not ashamed of it. Yet the password is something I wish to hide. That's privacy, at the most basic.
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
My thought as well. 100% growth as your last measured datapoint is not peak anything.
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
Maybe the CEO is thinking first about his company, and the company is feeling a negative impact (#DeleteUber) because of his association with Trump?
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
Maybe he doesn't want to be kidnapped in the first place...
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
I imagine it's a legal disclaimer. Same reason every investing prospectus in existence says "Past performance is not a guarantee of future returns"
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
Compared to the paragraph before it, I think he's just saying our estimates of ABV may be wildly off because we don't have a great historical basis for them. Our modern notion of what constitutes wine or liquor is based in part on
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
No one is talking about staffing. We're talking about the executive gag order and similar policies. The number of employees is irrelevant if they aren't allowed to communicate their findings in a transparent way.
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
To quote Matt Levine: "If you announce that you are updating the database software used by a consortium of banks to track derivatives trades, the New York Times will not write an article about it. If you say that you are blockchaining
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
> Once there are robot cars there is no longer a limit to how many cars can be on the road But there are resource costs. Also your reductio ad absurdum doesn't make sense. No one is saying there should only be one car that everyone
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
Forgive my ignorance - is a GIF search engine any different from a text search engine? They assign text tags to GIFs (maybe in a clever, machine learning type way?) and then search those, right?
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
I'm not going to comment for or against GMOs or whatever. But can we all take a minute to appreciate the staggering stupidity of the CEO of Monsanto saying: "Every farmer is a smart businessperson, and a farmer is not going to pay
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
They are publicly-owned companies too. That's surprising to me as well.
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
It's wasted potential all the way down.
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
The only thing worse than someone creating a smartphone-controlled candle is someone else writing an article about it.
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
A lot of weird self-hating stuff specific to college students. Plenty of Millennials are late 20s with steady jobs, the author doesn't really address that at all.
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
I think the point was they conduct the speed test from the same servers that deliver video content. So ISPs can't throttle video streaming without it showing up in this speed test.
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
It's not that far off. It should read "The US is running out of places for people to live and work "
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
Anyone remember Sandhill Exchange, and how badly they got slapped around by the SEC? I'd steer clear of this sort of thing until further notice.
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
Doesn't that leave a huge paper trail?
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
The suspects are people also. Remote warfare trivializes human life, and not the humans that signed up for the risks.
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
This is HN so I don't want to make an argument without data, and certainly people are on edge because of events of the last few days. But characterizing police actions (in the USA where I live) as > irresponsibly, with lots of false
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
Is that better, or worse? I would argue the expensive tool might be more appropriate in cases, if it means it will be used more judiciously.
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by twinkletwinkle 10y ago
"How would random sampling of incomplete data improve the results?" It doesn't. The author means there is some actual population of shootings, and this dataset is a random sample of them. Since there are no systematic biases

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