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by arrel 3mo ago
This is an ambitious idea, but it’s pretty misleading to lump MRI, CT, and ultrasound into a single “body scan” category. They do different things and explicitly do not serve as replacements for each other. Inventing new, affordable early d
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by arrel 3mo ago
AI 2027 remains annoyingly on schedule. Worth rereading the doc. If you think it’s too long, I listened to the audio version while I walked. https://ai-2027.com/
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by arrel 10mo ago
N of 1, but I’m stuck in phoenix overnight because our flight was delayed an hour and a half by airbus maintenance and we missed our connection.
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by arrel 3y ago
Reminds me of 4dtoys, which does a great job introducing you to 4d interactions one step at a time. It’s great! https://4dtoys.com/
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by arrel 4y ago
Here’s the vertical landing scene: https://youtu.be/JuhahPrF7gk
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by arrel 5y ago
Didn’t YC already try this with Yuri Milner ten or so years ago? From what I remember they canceled it because it was creating zombie companies, where the founders felt like they couldn’t give up on a bad idea because they still had so much
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by arrel 5y ago
You could ask for them to make the service free for you until it’s resolved. You’re still locked in, but at least you’re not paying for it.
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by arrel 6y ago
It seems like a lot of people are defending credit card pricing, but the idea that they’ve been charging the same % since before the internet and are still absorbing the same “cost” of fraud protection is absurd. I would love Stripe to star
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by arrel 6y ago
Here’s a nice takedown of Plomin’s theory. I’m not a geneticist, but there seem to be a lot of holes in it. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06784-5
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by arrel 7y ago
To give some context, two to the 100th power is 1,267,650,600,228,229,401,496,703,205,376. Interesting description here! http://www.freemars.org/jeff/2exp100/answer.htm
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by arrel 8y ago
They mention that these pages were created for every combination of “connect service X to service Y”, which matches twhat people are actually looking for, so I would argue this is a great use of 25K landing pages that are adding value and b
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by arrel 8y ago
Article doesn’t give any clear reasons why. Anyone have more info as to the drivers?
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Physical fighting in high school has dropped ~50% since 1991(childtrends.org)
1 points by arrel 8y ago|2 comments
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by arrel 8y ago
Guardian has worked great for us for JWT auth
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by arrel 8y ago
When they say 5 million mph, is that relative to the center of the Milky Way?
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by arrel 8y ago
Amazing idea! I'd love it if the site could give some sense of how profitable the business could be, and over what timescale. I don't need specific numbers, just the fundamental expectations for a model: How do I calculate ongoing
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by arrel 9y ago
Which makes me wonder, why do they use their own domain instead of relying on npm?
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Yarn Package Download is down(yarnpkg.com)
1 points by arrel 9y ago|1 comments
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by arrel 9y ago
I would call that "interesting" instead of "pedantic"
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by arrel 10y ago
The difference is that the roll of a die is random, but the outcome of an election gets more deterministic as it approaches. Election prediction is figuring out what people have already decided they are going to do.
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by arrel 10y ago
I would argue that buying a single stock is gambling, but buying into a fund, or taking the time to research and invest in hundreds of stocks, is investing.
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by arrel 10y ago
The difference is in expectation of return. In retrospect, bitcoin is a great "investment," but looking at the hundreds of other failed cryptocurrencies it's clear that early buyers of bitcoin got extremely lucky. It's t
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by arrel 10y ago
It's tempting to describe bitcoin as "investing", but it's really gambling. I could say I bought $30K in lottery tickets and ended up making a few million off it, but I wouldn't call it investing. It might sound lik
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by arrel 10y ago
> found evidence for tissue rejuvenation in older mice when they are surgically joined to younger mice That's terrifying.
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Peter Thiel Wants to Inject Himself with Young People's Blood(vanityfair.com)
12 points by arrel 10y ago|9 comments
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by arrel 11y ago
A better title might be "Scientists pause the motion of atoms by blasting them with an imaging laser"
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by arrel 11y ago
As a programmer who only vaguely understands QM, the lazy evaluation example is amazing. Any physicists want to confirm its right?
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by arrel 11y ago
> We’re not doing this with the goal of helping YC’s startups succeed or adding to our bottom line. Helping YC startups succeed might not be the primary goal, but it's silly to say the project isn't also aimed to help YC startu
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by arrel 11y ago
You're absolutely right. James Surowieki wrote a great (research-based) article on this recently. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/24/the-short-termi...
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by arrel 11y ago
You're right! Turns out Wikipedia doesn't need me after all.

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