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by wjnc 10y ago
After depositing the $428 she can borrow often and without interest in the future. Bankrolling Zidisha / the fund. And on this transaction only to her disadvantage. She's leveraging her shops supplies while she had the money! Howe
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by wjnc 10y ago
I predict this to be at least 10x off the mark. Concrete roof tile is about €2-3 a piece and lasts 50 years. 16 of these make a square meter.
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by wjnc 10y ago
I agree. What I find interesting is that real world security is also a function of popularity. You won't get many outside hackers to attack a platform, if it's hardly used. So any new platform would first need broad adoption, then
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Accountants adagium: Billing is a fact, profit an opinion.
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by wjnc 10y ago
RClone [1] will back up to Backblaze and is a very versatile tool. Why would you want a CLI per hoster, if there are CLIs that target most hosters? Service? [1] http://rclone.org
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by wjnc 10y ago
Try non-conformity under European law. Threaten to cancel the contract and follow through. Win your lawsuit. Make life better for all of us. The point is that non-conformity suits often hardly have any stake. Why bother for €100. With a Tes
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by wjnc 10y ago
How unique is @gavanwoolery? Would something like 'reverse kickstarter' be viable for building an engine and small game out of this? I for one would happily donate for any programmer building this towards an OSS-engine and demo ga
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by wjnc 10y ago
There's a little uprising going on in the Netherlands about the price and rewards to the CEO. He stands to gain about $.5B through this deal. This, while the KKR deal in 06 was made possible partly through government subsidies in the y
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by wjnc 10y ago
Don't forget gas for heating in Europe. One cubic meter of low caloric gas approximates 10KWh. My household (Netherlands) uses 4k KWh but also 3k m3 north sea gas. So about 34 KWh equivalent total. Suddenly a not so different ballpark.
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by wjnc 10y ago
Good read. Been through exactly this with my father. Obviously no causality, he could have started dementia without the treatment, but gives some backstory to what my family went through. One important point is that the hormones probably ad
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Old but gold. Kennedys 'A guide to econometrics'. Not so much a textbook as a book that ties theory to practice and explains common pitfalls and intuitions. It's one upmanship in statistical practice. You shouldn't try t
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by wjnc 10y ago
That would be a nice ML application for fun and profit! Predict infected files. Cross with known infectations. Submit all others. Collect bounty? In more seriousness. It still would be a hard problem. You never know for certain which files
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by wjnc 10y ago
Been staring in awe at this with my little sons (2&3). We actually get enthusiastic when the first signs of understanding arise. Where can I begin learning about this? I've done several sklearn examples, but this application to &#x
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by wjnc 10y ago
Retroactively scrubbing a programmers published work and social media participance is a red flag in itself.
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by wjnc 10y ago
In the last discussions on HN [1] the opinion seemed to be 'show us products first'. Now the first products are coming out next year. How will this change computing as we know it? Been trying to understand what this will do, but t
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Intel Optane and 3D Xpoint Updates from IDF(anandtech.com)
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Oh sorry, you misunderstood! I was thinking along the lines how This particular type of research (qualitative, based on written work by drivers, low #N, interpretative but nevertheless a sorted argument) could help my thinking. Not how &#x2
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by wjnc 10y ago
I've not much read in the field of communication and had some negative preconceptions. But this was a very interesting read! But how should one progress ones thinking from science like this? All it tells me is that working for Uber isn
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by wjnc 10y ago
I'm not sure if you're flaming or not. In the most market/libertarian sense you are right: athletes in highly visible sports do seem to make a lot more than those in not-visible sports. Market forces at work. However, the sal
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by wjnc 10y ago
Good points re economic instability as a driver for a -feeling- of less democracy and the distinction between wish and situation. Thank you.
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by wjnc 10y ago
In the Netherlands a parties candidates are up to the parties themselves, who usually put them up for internal elections. For the bigger parties, these elections are often newsworthy. Some parties experiment by taking suggestions from the o
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by wjnc 10y ago
I think this story does not need to be flagged, but could benefit from a very constrained discussion ('self-censoring') to not let personal political opinions take over the discussion. I'll try. Is this a direction more moder
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That would mean he could probably pay it off at a discount?
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by wjnc 10y ago
I was trying to do ballpark-comparisons. CC-rates are generally thought of as high-but-not-prohibitive. So being in the range of een CC-rate on first guess would land you in high-but-not-prohibitive-land. Totally right that the duration of
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by wjnc 10y ago
"“I’d say the cost is greater than the benefit for your average driver,” - Isn't that the point of this scheme, that they target non-average drivers, ie those with low credit scores that would be unable to drive otherwise. With re
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Approval really is the wrong word. The (legal) action towards the doctor for assisting in an unnatural death are shelved, if and only if the requirements are met. Clearing someone of wrongdoing is not the same as approving ones actions. It
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by wjnc 10y ago
This is the best quote imho: "If we can get CO2 from the air at 125 $/t-CO2 then the idea of making fuels at prices of order 1 $/L looks plausible over the next few decades." It's uplifting to me, both for the high
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by wjnc 11y ago
Wonder how well hashed that FINGER_INFO is? Any chance to reverse engineer a fingerprint that would give the same hash? That would be awesome, but not in a good way. A false passport including working biometrics. Implementing a new hash wou
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by wjnc 11y ago
An interesting situation. Obviously, being a backer on Kickstarter means taking risks. At first the risk feels binary: either the product succeeds or not. But obviously, quality and delivery matter. So the risk is not binary. Some delivered
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Thanks eggy, awesome replys. You should write some of your experiences down if you find the time.

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