danielnaab

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by danielnaab 10y ago
SEEKING WORK - Madison, WI or Remote Freelance full-stack developer. I can take full responsibility for end-to-end development of your company's new application, or join an existing team in a development or advisory role. While a gener
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by danielnaab 10y ago
Trump won't listen to traditional environmental groups. I think what is needed is for a right-wing organization to offer a conservative non-denier as an alternative, and mount a large public campaign to pressure Trump to change course.
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by danielnaab 10y ago
The first question to ask with any James O'Keefe video is "where is the raw video." He has a long and sordid history of fabricating these kinds of storylines.
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by danielnaab 10y ago
Quick, someone feed the instructions for each of these sandwiches through an RNN.
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by danielnaab 11y ago
>> Decentralized has no immediate direct benefit for riders. Yes, but decentralized could have a very direct benefit for drivers... considering that sans an army of driverless cars, driver supply is what makes Uber's "sharin
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by danielnaab 11y ago
The software agent that consumers interact with would have to be responsible for determining the accuracy of ratings. I suspect that the most important aspect of such a system would be trusted participants: eg, insurance companies, city lic
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by danielnaab 11y ago
Interesting observations on the dynamic with "real cabbies." I would envision a decentralized system including both "real cabs", whose parent company vouches for a driver's licensing, as well as independent drivers,
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by danielnaab 11y ago
Good points. I meant "overnight" loosely, but I have a few other comments. * Any software may be branded - no one needs to know the word "blockchain" when they use a well-designed app. If a driver may have more take-home
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by danielnaab 11y ago
A decentralized ride solicitation tool with a reputation system, maybe blockchain-based, could kill off Uber and Lyft almost overnight. Especially if existing taxi companies embraced it. I want to know if a driver is licensed, insured, etc.
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by danielnaab 11y ago
Years ago, my impression was that the goal of the Volt was to be fully-electric with a range-extending flex-fuel generator that recharges the batteries (rather than a hybrid approach with a separate internal combustion engine to extend rang
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by danielnaab 11y ago
There are a lot of people building their own projects, as well as volunteering time to official campaign projects. https://coders.forsanders.com/
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by danielnaab 11y ago
I've used a WeakMap for a kind of memoization. Assume an immutable object may undergo an expensive transform that returns an object, which is then stored in a WeakMap keyed to the immutable. When there are no new references to that obj
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by danielnaab 11y ago
Calling it the "myth" of basic science is not instructive. Plus, the general gist of this article isn't new. But nonetheless interesting and accurate in many aspects. But the old [BBC Connections](1) series brings home the in
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by danielnaab 11y ago
Of course culture plays a role, as does education level of one's parents, access to opportunity such as good health care and higher education, the role of the criminal justice system in your community, the stress of dealing with basic
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by danielnaab 11y ago
All the evidence points the opposite direction... in the United States, you are unlikely to escape the economic circumstances that you are born into, especially if you are born into the top or bottom quintile: http://www.nytimes.
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by danielnaab 11y ago
This was also discussed last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8063870
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by danielnaab 11y ago
As an American in Wisconsin with Swiss roots (southwest Wisconsin has a strong Swiss imprint), your comment sounds so cool to me. It's much the same here... more cheese and sausage than the dietitians recommend, and while we don't
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by danielnaab 12y ago
Certainly, when it happens on the federal level it is of higher significance. It remains to be seen, if after scrutiny, Clinton engaged in official misdeeds by keeping her official communications private, but from the article it appears the
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by danielnaab 12y ago
It's sad and surprising how often this pattern seems to repeat itself. For another example (that's probably not well-known outside Wisconsin), Scott Walker set up a private server in the Milwaukee County office for his internal co
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by danielnaab 12y ago
Is 100% dual agency the norm? The industry definitely seems pretty opaque in regards to these issues. In my circumstance, the seller agent's contract stipulated that the agent earned 50% the buyer agent's commission for buyers lac
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by danielnaab 12y ago
It seems the value of this is highly dependent on the local market. A 2% commission on a $300k home is comparably priced at $6000 (and commission rates are negotiable), but a local agent will provide a lot of service difficult for a web app
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by danielnaab 12y ago
Sharing of previous semester code (or quizzes, exams, etc) should enhance the learning process, not hinder it. This is a bad and lazy policy for a school. Instructors should be creating assignments that cover the same material but are suf
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by danielnaab 12y ago
For many use-cases, http://prose.io works well. You can then use TravisCI (or the like) to trigger the site rebuild and deployment.
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When Autocorrect Goes Wrong (And So, So Right)(nytimes.com)
1 points by danielnaab 12y ago|0 comments
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by danielnaab 12y ago
This doesn't directly address your question, but the "financialization" [0] of the economy has gotten us to the point where 9% of GDP (as of 2012) is consumed by the finance sector [1]. It's certainly conceivable that th
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by danielnaab 12y ago
Besides being a bad metric (solar installations have fixed up-front costs, with long lifespans)... High labor costs per unit of energy is a good thing. Coal mining is resource intensive, and a significant portion of your energy dollar is go
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Bill to Restrict N.S.A. Data Collection Blocked in Vote by Senate Republicans(nytimes.com)
233 points by danielnaab 12y ago|150 comments
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by danielnaab 12y ago
Usually actions can be thought of as a consequence of a state change. For example, instead of exposing an API to send an email related to some business object, your backend should know to send an email when some corresponding state requires
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by danielnaab 12y ago
More flexible: GET /albums?artist=8 GET /albums?artist=8&artist=10 GET /albums?title='Blah'
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by danielnaab 12y ago
I agree, we need service providers to unbundle. It's an abuse of network ownership to extend that control into monopolies/duopolies on network services, be it internet service, phone, or television. But it seems apparent to me tha

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