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by zenkat 9y ago
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Rome_Viharo
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by zenkat 9y ago
Reading between the lines, this appears to be someone who has tried to alter Wikipedia to support fringe scientists & alt-medicine gurus like Rupert Sheldrake and Deepak Chopra. So I all a bit skeptical of his motives. Does anyone know
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by zenkat 9y ago
Interesting to see 3-D printing being used in a high-end precision industrial application like this one. Cobalt-chrome sintered powder, neat!
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by zenkat 9y ago
Except that Google acquired the semantic web startup Metaweb (aka Freebase) back in 2010. That tech became the foundation of the Knowledge Graph, which is deeply integrated into Google's stack, and powers Google Home / Assistant
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by zenkat 9y ago
Does anyone know the valuation of the company? And more importantly, what justifies that valuation? I have trouble believing that the meal replacement market is all that lucrative.
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by zenkat 9y ago
In _Collapse_, Jared Diamond makes the argument that almost all modern mining of metals would be economically unprofitable if all the negative externalities (i.e., cleanup costs) were taken into account.
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by zenkat 10y ago
Given that you expected it to be "very tough for everyone" before the vote, care to elucidate why you think this is the proper policy choice?
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by zenkat 10y ago
But just wait ... VR is going to be HUGE!
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by zenkat 10y ago
Except the ways in which this data will be used is never disclosed, and in fact is deliberately obscured.
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by zenkat 10y ago
Tech companies don't give options to employees because they "deserve some of the rewards". They do it because it's difficult to attract and retain top talent, especially for speculative start-ups. That's not the c
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by zenkat 10y ago
The last part of this article resembles a tutorial for generating Heptapod glyphs.
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by zenkat 10y ago
Experience.
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by zenkat 10y ago
"The short story is that I’ll be collecting interest on this loan at a rate of 10%, until 11 months from now when the loan is suddenly repaid in a balloon payment." Sounds a whole lot like subprime. In a rising market, it's
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by zenkat 10y ago
Such was the logic behind subprime CDOs. We all know how that one turned out.
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by zenkat 11y ago
You think hospitals are run by doctors? That's cute.
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by zenkat 11y ago
Real unicorns don't give a rat's ass about the valuation of your startup.
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by zenkat 12y ago
Double-blind experiments are a great way to separate correlation and causation. See my (@zenkat's) wife's story above. Every so often, she accidentally and unknowingly eats foods she is sensitive to, and exhibits symptoms shortl
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by zenkat 12y ago
My wife has nearly the same story. Complaints of fatigue, nausea, cognitive difficulties (feeling spacey, fuzzy-headed). Tried a radical elimination diet, and then reintroduced different dietary components one-by-one to see which we'
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by zenkat 17y ago
Freebase FTW yeah!
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by zenkat 18y ago
MQL + ACRE = sweet semantic apps