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by gervase 7y ago
This is pretty cool, and the first I've heard of the SOS Fund. Was this something that you actively sought out, or did they come to you?
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by gervase 7y ago
If you want to go direct to the publication: "Conceptual Design of a Universal Donor Screening Approach for Vaginal Microbiota Transplant", https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcimb.2019.0030...
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by gervase 7y ago
I had some trouble accessing the site; if anyone needs a mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20190917180019/https://cosmoteer...
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by gervase 7y ago
It seems so: https://github.com/lunaroyster/LaTeX-search
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by gervase 7y ago
This seems like it would be related to a broader shift (among tech parents, at least [0]) from digital to analog. From my perspective, it seems like a pendulum. On the whole, baby boomers didn't adapt to the advent of computers very we
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by gervase 7y ago
> Apple users seem far more willing to pay for small useful applications from indie developers so more indie developers put more effort into producing small useful and beautiful apps for Mac. This rings true to me as well, but why is
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by gervase 7y ago
> If it fails, you know they aren't. And if it succeeds, well, then you know they are. This problem is solved in an interesting way by Keybase Chat, in which messages sent to non-existing accounts are "delivered", and ca
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by gervase 7y ago
When I was running hiring at a previous startup, we ran into this issue often. When I proposed adding FizzBuzz to our screening process, I got a fair amount of pushback from the team that it was a waste of the candidates' time. Once we
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by gervase 7y ago
If you replace "punish" with "control" I think that's an easily-extensible template, because isn't that ultimately tied to the personal ethics of the employee? <Some Company>: hey dude want to work for a
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by gervase 7y ago
> This is a horrible idea that breaks the idea of secret ballot and opens up all sorts of vote buying, coercion and intimidation. Not at all; the parent said "taken into account in the final tally", not "see that their v
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by gervase 7y ago
From the article, it seems they're dealing with demand fluctuations of 1000-3000 MW within a given hour (2PM was the example), so I think it's really working on a totally different scale. Even 10x as many batteries wouldn't b
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by gervase 7y ago
I think this is a natural outcome of the peer review process; you're not targeting research papers at statistical models, you're targeting them at human reviewers. This kind of behavior is equally prevalent in many fields, includ
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by gervase 7y ago
Agreed. I don't object to company or founder exposés such as these, but I do find the article's focus on the founders' age to be misplaced and distasteful. I also think that these kinds of breathless adorations of the latest
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by gervase 7y ago
In case anyone else was curious, it seems the penalties for being so labelled are enforced through the imposition of tariffs [0]. If the IMF / WTO agree with the Fed's characterization (which is doesn't currently look like wi
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by gervase 7y ago
FIOS wasn't actually why that market segment died; it was due to the FCC decision to re-classify DSL [0]. This was in response to a lawsuit resolved a few months earlier that did the same for cable internet connections. [1] By re-class
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by gervase 7y ago
> i've always wondered how companies get away with decrypting certain sites, i.e. Healthcare. Often, through some kind of employee code of conduct; think along the lines of "I agree to refrain from using my work computer for
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by gervase 7y ago
> At best you have someone who is basically an idiot savant. At worst, you have someone who has forgotten basic life functions, but handles being a soldier like the best of them. From both an industrial and military perspective, this s
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by gervase 7y ago
> PCs made a lot of fast progress until sometime in the 90s and then things stagnated. Transistor densities increased 2 orders of magnitude (~100x) between 1995 and 2005. Integer operations were a little less, maybe 1.5 oom, over the s
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by gervase 7y ago
In this case, I think that's especially true, but maybe not from the perspective you intended: they were sold on the idea of reduced costs, and they're marketing the changes to their employees (and the public) as retention-impro
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by gervase 7y ago
Pollution is a commonly-used example of a negative externality [0], or a way to shift business costs onto a third party. In the parent example, the implication is that rather than investing money in reducing pollution, that money can inst
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by gervase 7y ago
From the comment guidelines: > Be kind. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. > Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone
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by gervase 7y ago
Yep, that's pretty accurate. It also drives degree inflation in the job market: "Why would I hire a BS student when I can get an MS or even PhD for the same price?"
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by gervase 7y ago
If you're interested, you can find a more comprehensive cast of cryptographic characters on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_and_Bob#Cast_of_characte...
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by gervase 7y ago
Carol is also commonly used as the 'C' when a third agent is necessary.
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by gervase 7y ago
If you dig into the documentation they've released so far, you'll find that it explicitly addresses this (I also am in the "No Facebook-owned Services" camp, so I went digging for the answer.) There are two subsidiary or
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by gervase 7y ago
They're not arbitrary, but they're not razor-thin, either. If we take a quick look at profit margins (net income over revenue) for 2017 as a proxy for fees relative to service costs, Visa was something like 36%, which is pretty go
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by gervase 7y ago
If it fails, they lose their investment, which I believe was only on the order of double-digit millions, which is nothing to Visa. If it succeeds with their investment, they have a tiny amount of leverage. If it succeeds without their inves
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by gervase 7y ago
I think people are missing the big picture here. This isn't a replacement for Apple Pay, Alipay, or PayPal - it's something new, driven by the sheer scale of Facebook's userbase. The cryptocurrency aspect is a smokescreen for
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by gervase 7y ago
> Everything they do should be a public good. It seems the main disagreement is on how to define public in this context. Should it be for the good of humanity, or the good of the United States? And, if it's the latter, how can t
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by gervase 7y ago
Apparently the initial implementation (iOS 8) randomized it every time the screen sleeps or wakes. I wasn't able to find any recent documentation detailing the current behavior - probably similar?

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