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by gooftop 2y ago
I had the exact same reaction as d3vmax - and quoting one paywalled article about a failed builder does not make “ghost cities” a thing in India. Yes there are fraudsters who cheat people and never build anything, but India does not have th
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by gooftop 6y ago
> I did some quick math, and the 240k acres it says they own comes out to about 378 square miles, which if condensed down to a square would be 20 miles by 20 miles. To put that in perspective though.. per Wikipedia, all of Manhattan is
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by gooftop 6y ago
Whoa.. talk about disrupting the IIT-prep cottage industry! Of course, I haven't seen the details of whether it's an effective tool or not, but as a free service that can only improve and scale over time .. should be a gamechanger
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by gooftop 6y ago
I’ve heard it come up in an enterprise context, when there was a question about using a Google product - “they have a history of killing products, so let’s pick an alternate if possible”. This was a couple of years back, don’t remember what
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by gooftop 6y ago
Looking beyond the political angles, interesting analysis of the tax and financial implications of the returns. Not sure if other tax lawyers would interpret the same way, so I’m interested to hear other opinions, especially from those of y
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Tax analysis: Ten Quick Takeaways from NYT Article on Trump’s Tax Returns(justsecurity.org)
4 points by gooftop 6y ago|1 comments
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by gooftop 6y ago
Anyone know how this (EasyOCR) compares with a service like AWS Textract?
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Encrypted Deep Learning in TensorFlow(tf-encrypted.io)
3 points by gooftop 7y ago|0 comments
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by gooftop 7y ago
In the relationship graph that Linkedin builds, suggested connections could be based on a lot of things other than shared connections. Just speculating here, but it could be based on shared email address, shared IP address, shared physical
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by gooftop 7y ago
IMO there's a fallacy among some that _any_ course of study from _any_ college is worth taking on debt. While education is getting commoditized - and there are no guarantees even with so-called high ROI careers - there is a real risk o
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by gooftop 7y ago
I wonder how much of this becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, aided in part by ongoing weaponization of inter-nation trade discussions by targeting firms from China (arrests of executives, bans, etc). Of course, I've seen it argued
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by gooftop 7y ago
Well, if nothing else, at least GRRM confirms that he still plans to complete the books.
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An Ending(georgerrmartin.com)
3 points by gooftop 7y ago|1 comments
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by gooftop 8y ago
The advice makes sense, but isnt it a bit of chicken-and-egg? How do you sell something you haven't built? (or is it really .. build a little, or enough to illustrate; then 'sell' to validate and seek market fit; and then fin
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by gooftop 8y ago
In some ways not surprised, but its still a LOT of data (in sheer volume). Does Google even keep the data and analyze it, or is much of it thrown away as digital exhaust? Anyone know?
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by gooftop 8y ago
Huh.. is that title linkbait? Other than the photo of Andy Grove, I don't see anything about a call with Andy? (Or I'm really slow today) (edit: oh I am slow today. Its told in story form, the meeting with Andy Grove is several
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Austan Goolsbee on the math of tariffs (via Twitter)(twitter.com)
1 points by gooftop 9y ago|1 comments
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by gooftop 9y ago
In this day and age of FUD, what are the odds that said open source software has a vulnerability or malicious code inserted by some state actor (ours included)?
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by gooftop 11y ago
Not clear to me if the article implies that totalitarian societies have more coercion - but if it does, should a country like China have more mental illness? I don't know if thats the case, at least in percentage of entire population.
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by gooftop 11y ago
Taken in the light of today's news about Fire engineers being laid off, it might suggest that Amazon is walking away from the Android hardware space but wants to stay relevant in the Android App space.