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by wbeckler 4y ago
I checked the leaderboard and it's missing Mt Gox, one of the few I'd heard of. $460M at the time, and about $29B in today's money if it were still bitcoins.
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by wbeckler 5y ago
This depends on details of the ML model. There is a mathematical field devoted to this specific question, differential privacy, and the techniques are in production at scale at Google, Apple and in the US census.
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by wbeckler 5y ago
Maybe mass starvation and wars are not projected to impact GDP, because it's mostly going to affect people living in Africa.
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by wbeckler 5y ago
I always thought Svalbard was a made up place in His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman.
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by wbeckler 5y ago
This is a hard question because there are multiple factors, but temperature is a known factor. And the recent temperature highs are generally considered to be related to the climate crisis. 2020's historic heat and fires caused a shift
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by wbeckler 5y ago
I was prescribed colace to address constipation, but I was curious about the mechanism and timing of its effect, so I took a glance at the research. It was worse than this Tylenol business. It seems to be pure placebo, but it's by far
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Colonial Pipeline warrant: “The private key is in the possession of the FBI”(scribd.com)
4 points by wbeckler 5y ago|0 comments
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by wbeckler 5y ago
Zoom bought keybase a while back. Now it's time to use their identity verification features.
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by wbeckler 5y ago
Also of note, even though it was written in 2013, it is today number two on the NYTimes bestseller list, and it's been on the list for 53 weeks. A lot of people are feeling like it's time to grow roots: https://www.nyti
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by wbeckler 5y ago
The question arises, what do you do about the Machine? How do you get roots? If you are looking for answers, a great place to start is "Braiding Sweetgrass" by ecology professor and Native American Robin Wall Kimmerer. I'm an
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by wbeckler 6y ago
It seems like your answer suffers from the very bias being described, because you don't have to "add" a balance bike to your inventory. You can just "subtract" the pedals off the one you've got.
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by wbeckler 6y ago
That was written in a time when slowly reducing emissions seemed a plausible approach. Given that we've pumped way more carbon into the sky since it was written, with no deceleration, and the climate is already undulating dangerously,
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Proposal by Ro Khanna for a Federal CXO(wired.com)
3 points by wbeckler 6y ago|0 comments
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by wbeckler 6y ago
He is constantly reading and relying on literary concepts to hold his thoughts.
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by wbeckler 6y ago
Here's another explanation, pre-election, of the gap, the found that Trump voters are more likely to lie to pollsters: https://www.cloudresearch.com/resources/blog/election-2020-p... These pollsters agreed wi
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by wbeckler 6y ago
This guy is really good at coming to false conclusions based on widely available data. See his previous article proving that Covid is less deadly than the flu: aier.org/article/what-does-the-growing-number-of-coronavirus-cases-rea
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Medallia acquires Stella Connect contact center management SaaS for –$100M(seekingalpha.com)
3 points by wbeckler 6y ago|0 comments
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NOYB: Complaints on EU-US transfers filed(noyb.eu)
2 points by wbeckler 6y ago|0 comments
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by wbeckler 6y ago
Have you ever used Labview? It started out great but hasn't evolved well and can't handle complex stuff. It's still used in lab environments.
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by wbeckler 6y ago
It sounds to me like you're describing Pivotal Tracker ( https://www.pivotaltracker.com/ ). It forces story ordering (rather than "prioritization"), it's pretty barebones, and it's fast.
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by wbeckler 6y ago
The device looks like a big roll of norimaki, but there's another angle on the use of sushi for this project. Sushi is unique among savory foods in that it is usually eaten at room temperature. The lower serving temperature means that
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by wbeckler 6y ago
Stella Connect | REMOTE (Americas time zones) | Rails Engineer | Full Time | https://stellaconnect.com We're making life better for people who have really hard jobs: customer support. Our SaaS platform helps bring positive
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Group tries using April fools to get Google to stop funding climate denial(grist.org)
14 points by wbeckler 7y ago|0 comments
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by wbeckler 7y ago
This article includes the IPCC predictions, which are a very thorough consensus based on a range of models.
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by wbeckler 7y ago
Here's a systematic comparison of climate model predictions vs reality, since the 1970s. It turns out that the models have done a great job of predicting reality. https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-how-well-have-clima
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by wbeckler 7y ago
That was CheapOair, a brand of Fareportal. Different company.
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by wbeckler 7y ago
Please read the article. That's not what it's saying at all.
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by wbeckler 7y ago
This is super apt for outage post mortems. Are there more tech specific versions of this idea out there that are anti-blame?
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by wbeckler 7y ago
The latest IPCC report says we have just 11 years to halve global emissions or we'll be seeing massive destruction to civilization. This is what is spawning organizations like Extinction Rebellion, which forced the UK government to dec
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by wbeckler 8y ago
Are you talking about Turing Tumble or a different marble game?

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