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by vazamb 9y ago
(i am somewhat familiar with the tech but don't follow the business side of bitcoin) what I find weird is the forks. A major selling point of bitcoin is that there will ever be only 21 Mio coins. You know, unless there is a hard fork a
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by vazamb 9y ago
I will be moving to Melbourne next year. What kind of internet speed can I expect, what areas should I be looking at for a good connection at home? I currently have 200/20 in Berlin, presumably will need to downgrade my expectations...
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by vazamb 9y ago
Systems like this exist all over Europe. They are very popular in Denmark for example. But you Americans surely wouldn't want to engage in socialism...
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by vazamb 9y ago
Like, no one can? That seems weirdly restrictive. Is it for security reasons?
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by vazamb 9y ago
At least in Germany you need a masters to start a PhD and I think this is true for most of Europe. Actually, I always thought America is one of the few countries where you can start a PhD right out of undergrad.
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by vazamb 9y ago
No shit. A friend of mine brought an apple from Sydney to Perth. 500 dollar fine. Yes, from within Australia to another place in Australia.
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by vazamb 9y ago
The author explains why they want to stick to "native" ChromeOS. You said you only skimmed the article, that is probably why you are being downvoted.
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by vazamb 9y ago
While a really cool approach I would highly discourage a beginner to get started with this. Bayesian methods are not what most people use and the book does not teach any of the necessary basics in terms of analysis of real world data
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Ask HN: Modern, open source python 3 code bases?
6 points by vazamb 9y ago|5 comments
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by vazamb 9y ago
AFAIK in the original TPU announcement they said the cluster would be shared between all participants of the program.
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by vazamb 10y ago
As a non drinker you probably don't like the taste of any or most alcoholic beverages. Whether it is conditioning or not, I do enjoy the taste of a good beer. There is not more 'benefit' to it than eating good food.
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by vazamb 10y ago
Backprop is such a fundamental part of Neural Networks, I am very surprised how anyone can complain about having to know how it works. It is true that once you grocked the principle implementing it for more than 2 layers is pretty tedious.
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by vazamb 10y ago
Could you link to a specific moment where his Excel skills show? I have seen this video pop up from time to time and by clicking through the timeline all I ever see is him copying numbers from pdf's into Excel. Surely the whole "w
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by vazamb 10y ago
I don't really understand the outrage about the touchpad when the actual keyboard is likely a far worse problem. Unless they have significantly upped their game from the 12 inch MacBook I don't see anyone typing on that keyboard f
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Twitter axes Vine video service
1 points by vazamb 10y ago|0 comments
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by vazamb 10y ago
I have yet to meet a professor that is not at least able to read English fluently. Their pronunciation might be terrible but they can at least understand.
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by vazamb 10y ago
Could you elaborate? I am using Telegram not because of privacy concerns but because of the desktop and tablet clients. I had absolutely no issues so far.
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by vazamb 10y ago
A minor detail, but I am surprised about the whole "it was hard to figure out when someone moved a file" thing. I always assumed the actual file on disk was abstracted away into a database record, that specified the folder etc. We
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Ask HN: Modern Web Dev on the JVM – How does the stack and tooling look like?
10 points by vazamb 10y ago|5 comments
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by vazamb 10y ago
I feel like "Digital Natives" is a term non-technical, business people (most in entry level positions) use to make themselves feel better about the fact that their jobs don't require any kind of special skill or knowledge.
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by vazamb 10y ago
sidenote: it roughly translates to "total shit"
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Ask HN: How do startups in Europe generally deal with the VAT requirements?
8 points by vazamb 11y ago|6 comments