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by z2 8y ago
MSG is fine, but I stubbornly cling to the notion that high quality ingredients should yield umami taste without adding MSG. To me it's similar to using ripe red bell peppers that are sweet, without needing to "fake" it with
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by z2 9y ago
Assuming from the point of view of a founder, would they want to loan $500k to $1M to a US government-sanctioned project likely to return -100% to 3% over at least 5 years? If I had that money to spare AND was keen on founding a company, I&
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by z2 9y ago
My personal benchmark for this is to monitor Taobao for the day that the book is banned from Chinese markets. So far it's still available for sale: https://s.taobao.com/search?q=%E4%B8%80%E4%B9%9D%E5%85%AB%E5...
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by z2 9y ago
What is the competitor threat or new rising star that will usurp Facebook's position as a people-connector? LinkedIn? WeChat? Facebook was in super growth mode by the time MySpace stagnated. Or does "end" mean something else,
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by z2 9y ago
My very vague and armchair-esque fear is that sophisticated technology is actually the missing gap of truly and seamlessly centralizing control and power. Communism is awkward because it's actually quite hard to understand, much less c
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by z2 9y ago
The explanation I've seen is that multiple leads actually do a random walk search algorithm of sorts until one connects. https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/questions/580/why-doe...
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by z2 9y ago
There may be some ways to make it work more consistently--though not in a way that Uber/Lyft wants. I've met drivers who mostly work 3am to 7am shifts, to catch back-to-back airport runs. The enterprising ones also actively work t
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by z2 9y ago
As did this user in the past, before being banned for using HN primarily for political battle: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=sharetea
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by z2 9y ago
Not just in 'N>2' as the article states, but 'N' is also commonly used in Chinese slang as an mathematically-inspired, exaggerated or arbitrarily large number. E.g. "I've already told you N times" or &q
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by z2 9y ago
Is it also a failure (moral or otherwise) for the State to not tell citizens of this particular duty? Speaking anecdotally, citizens' duties are vaguely described as "participate, stay informed, obey and support laws." It too
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by z2 9y ago
If the naivety is actually a healthy bit of optimism when taking in information, then that's not so bad!
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by z2 9y ago
Understated here is that cuttlefish manage to match their surrounding's color while being color-blind, in the sense of lacking color receptors. It's thought that their pupils have such wild shapes because they can somehow use chro
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by z2 9y ago
Indeed, I'm frustrated in any of these situations where ambiguity seems purposeful. Is it "The Chinese" government? citizens? race? The article begins with Chinese government-sponsored operatives, which is OK, because at leas
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by z2 9y ago
Yet the onus is on visitors to prove that they did not overstay their visa, if leaving by land/sea, or if by some airline/airport fluke the departing passenger list didn't make it over to the DHS. https://help.cbp.
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by z2 9y ago
Although, certain consumers (the financial industry comes to mind) might have so many massive, old, linked, and undocumented VBA-enabled spreadsheets that they would probably prefer VBA to at least be supported on a legacy basis for ever an
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by z2 9y ago
Purely speculation, but it seems at least that this would greatly increase friction.
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by z2 9y ago
There's a related, typeset version from the Annals of Mathematics five months later, on page 9 of: https://webspace.princeton.edu/users/mudd/Digitization/AC105... While we're on the subject of brevi
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China's Energy Gorilla Will Eat Less and Do More(bloomberg.com)
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by z2 9y ago
SHRDLU, anyone? http://hci.stanford.edu/winograd/shrdlu/ For almost 50 years, we've been talking to computers about blocks in a box!
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by z2 9y ago
Reminds me of the XKCD April Fools terminal, whose code is actually available here: https://github.com/chromakode/xkcdfools
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by z2 9y ago
We've all got anecdotes, so here's mine. I was asked for ID each time I wanted to modify my AT&T account with a rep, and as such I produced one in the form of driver's license. At a major city hotel late at night, I produ
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by z2 9y ago
As said, the value here is the dual-frequency support. However, the features listed on Broadcom's site [1] show: The BCM47755 can simultaneously receive the following signals: GPS L1 C/A GLONASS L1 BeiDou (BDS) B1
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by z2 9y ago
It could be curtailment due to overcapacity or lack of transmission infrastructure to get the electricity to consumers [1]. I'm not quite sure why a more expensive source wouldn't be shut down instead, but maybe the unpredictabili
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by z2 9y ago
I can't speak to any agreements or conditions of use, but technically you need only a supported Google phone to activate the SIM card and tie it to a Google account. Afterwards, the card works in any phone.
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by z2 9y ago
Although, suppose they manage to average 3 rentals before someone decides they're not parting with it. That would mean they break even. Add in potential for advertising as another post mentioned, and maybe there's actually some vi
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by z2 9y ago
Took me a while to register that the simple letter replacement cipher used on that message has 26! = 403291461126605635584000000 possible keys... Ha!
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by z2 10y ago
You are absolutely right -- I was poking fun at the absurdity of saying that people as a culture or nation can be obsessed with self-improvement and perfection every waking moment. I have heard the phrase used in the same empty way that man
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by z2 10y ago
I'd caution against using broad strokes such as "The Chinese", which is a blanket identification that covers 1.2 or 1.3 billion people. Are you talking about the Chinese government that only cares about money and has 'no
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by z2 10y ago
I'd propose that a free press is not a binary thing. Sure, by definition, if all we care about is government censorship and intimidation, China's press is not free. But if we want to see the root issue of good quality, comprehensi
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by z2 10y ago
Prior to Europe's Age of Discovery, much of the world was actually quite well-connected. Just look at Ibn Battuta's travels ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_Battuta ) -- when in Yuan Dynasty China, he stayed

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