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by wufufufu 9y ago
What does it mean to be "blockchain-powered"? Your funding comes from tricking investors into thinking adding blockchain to every aspect of life is the future?
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edit: original comment was "Inconsiderate timing?" There's an ongoing emergency at the YouTube campus https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/03/breaking-active-shooter-re...
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Solutions (not all serious): 1. Paid trophy hunting where proceeds go towards reservations 2. Make giraffe burgers common and desirable so we have giraffe farms for manufacturing giraffe meat 3. Domesticate giraffes and make them th
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by wufufufu 9y ago
Shame. We've got a CockroachDB infestation in both our East and West datacenters and it's been critical in reliably scaling thus far. Sometimes a CockroachDB egg sac will go down, but we can spawn another which will hatch very qui
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by wufufufu 9y ago
So it depends on what society considers to be "weaknesses". I was just arguing with someone who thought that Google was evil for supporting LGBT while having massive cultural influence as a company.
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Still a terrible name for a database
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You are making the problem seem worse than it actually is. Account age and inability to delete comments make an anonymous reputation pretty realistic on HN at least. Just in this thread we see examples of toxic comments being downvoted into
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by wufufufu 9y ago
"Since the early 20th century, raw scores on IQ tests have increased in most parts of the world. When a new version of an IQ test is normed, the standard scoring is set so performance at the population median results in a score of IQ 1
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by wufufufu 9y ago
tl;dr False news is usually more interesting because it doesn't have to be true and so it spreads faster
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There's an entire genre of science clickbait where the title is extremely noncommittal, and it gets upvoted because it jives with users worldview and self-rationalization. "See, it's ok to be alone. That one study from 2011 o
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by wufufufu 9y ago
Alright, this is cool. I was annoyed at the last Google India campaign article about how everyone was going to use voice-to-text.
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Copy-and-pasted the abstract: "Expedited virtual currency transactions are provided by identifying a first user primary wallet associated with a virtual currency and including a first user primary wallet private key. First user seconda
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by wufufufu 9y ago
What's a jock culture problem? Where everyone talks about sports and it's alienating?
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Am I reading this right? > No public market for our ordinary shares currently exists. However, our ordinary shares have a history of trading in private transactions. Based on information available to us, the low and high sales price per
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Wow, that sounds great for small/new artists.
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(in healthy, male mice)
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by wufufufu 9y ago
Follow-up: How would you sell a $50 cheese stick?
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In elementary school and middle school we had "lockdown" drills, which as a kid I did not associate with mass shooting. No teacher mentioned guns, terrorism, or anything scary. It was just "lockdown".
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by wufufufu 9y ago
The voice-only stuff is just building AI for the sake of it and romanticizing accessibility. What's actually going to happen is the younger generation in these countries will adapt to current technology and won't be caught dead as
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by wufufufu 9y ago
From the article: "This [usage of Google Assistant] isn’t just due to many semi-literate or illiterate users, but also the fact that typing is difficult for people who never grew up with a computer keyboard." Another thing I'
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by wufufufu 9y ago
This assumes that kids would prefer watching digital video above all else. Just get a trampoline or something. The friends will come over. If watching is what your kids truly prefer in life, then my view is that you're not going to cha
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by wufufufu 9y ago
Good point. My issue is that when I hear that a startup is AI-focused, that means they're just implementing something with machine learning (and possibly unnecessarily). These startups generate a lot of hype, which I believe is unwarra
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by wufufufu 9y ago
I suspect that calculus, statistics, and linear algebra are required for most 4-year CS degrees. Some schools even have an "AI" track for their undergrad degrees. This article specifically refers to PhDs in Machine Learning, which
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by wufufufu 9y ago
Don't rat me out when you testify and we'll both only serve 1 year in prison.
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My problem with Dunkirk was all the stranded and starving soldiers looked like Versace models with fresh 2018 haircuts and Burberry topcoats.
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Gold subscription is a fixed monthly cost whereas microloan services are interest based. https://support.robinhood.com/hc/en-us/articles/214681823-In...
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by wufufufu 9y ago
I often wonder what would happen if there existed a public, self-updating list of every person on earth and their respective net worth.
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Maybe the strategy is to start at obscenely overpriced so when you "tank" and descend into just very overpriced, the market thinks you might soon return to previous heights and you settle around there.
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I played the A-section for Heart and Soul (the song from the movie "Big") and its response was enough to tell me it was not going to be playing actual duets. I'd be interested in a version that has learned accompanying portio
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by wufufufu 10y ago
Could you elaborate on what the different infant psychological models for each of those philosophies (fascism, communism, islam - and other religions)?

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