hillz

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by hillz 3y ago
> clearly guilty as hell I think you underestimate the power of neuroses. Good chance no money was involved.
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by hillz 7y ago
It sounds like they don't really use it. Their about page says: We’re collecting data to find out if humans' pattern- recognition and puzzle-solving abilities make them more efficient than existing computer programs at pa
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by hillz 7y ago
> We’ve seen the opposite phenomenon happen in every market. Not really? If buffalo wings are like a man's name, or men's pants, the same trend would be for women to adopt those things (which we do). Similarly, if you market on
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by hillz 7y ago
> This [plot # 2] view wasn’t very useful I disagree. It shows that far more gender-neutral or boy names become significantly more popular as girl names, compared to the other way around. That's pretty interesting. This conforms to
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by hillz 7y ago
If a tree is planted, grows, and then for example is burned down and paved over, that'd be true. But if a tree grows and eventually dies in a forest, it'll be replaced with new trees naturally, cancelling out the CO2 leaked from t
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by hillz 7y ago
> the bare edges of the canvas suggest that the woman has agency, physical and otherwise; in Morisot’s garden scenes or beflowered interiors, the dresses melt into the background, refuting the viewer’s possession of the figure. Morisot’s
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by hillz 10y ago
I think s/he means evolutionary speaking.
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by hillz 10y ago
$0. Left a 108k job, now developing recipestasher.com for free and fun on my own. Will probably get a real job again soon...
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by hillz 10y ago
Living in a city does tend to produce fewer greenhouse gases. But the reason most people live in cities? Jobs.
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by hillz 10y ago
Why draw the lines by state? Wouldn't income or race be better dividers?
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by hillz 10y ago
That's like saying: let's ignore 58.55 million voters for no reason other than where they live. More than 18% of the entire US population. States are arbitrary dividers, it's silly to think there's some great reason for
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by hillz 10y ago
I mean... He did lose the popular vote. So 'most' people didn't have an influence on the election. Or at least, the plurality of people.
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by hillz 10y ago
Yeah, that's fair. I'm doing the same thing with recipestasher.com. I lose about $400/yr on it, but I really like using it and so do a few other people. No ads, no clickbait crap. But, I realize that I'm quite privileged
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by hillz 10y ago
I've tried asking multiple times (for non-emergency procedures) and each time they've said they don't know. (Kaiser)
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by hillz 10y ago
First I thought this was Jim Dale - the amazing narrator of Harry Potter - and was pretty confused.
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by hillz 10y ago
Apart from perhaps printing a boarding pass and (given security) food on very long flights, these all seem OK to me. Not charging for checked baggage is equivalent to taxing those who pack light and subsidizing those who pack heavy (and cos
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by hillz 10y ago
But that's an inherently wrong way of looking at it. If you're traveling somewhere in a plane vs on the road, you're way more likely to die. Even if you factor own your own human error (but not others').
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by hillz 10y ago
To save people time: I created an account but it still doesn't seem to work. Now the URL seems to always redirect to the login page.
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by hillz 10y ago
> "As quantum mechanics demonstrates, observing changes the thing being observed" This isn't really a fair corollary. It's not that true observation that changes particles, it's that once we hit them with light (
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by hillz 10y ago
It's used every day in some legitimate ways. For example, Premise Data Corporation pays their data collectors in almost entirely bitcoin. https://medium.com/@premisedata/premise-payouts-get-easier-w...
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by hillz 10y ago
Hmm. So the head of innovation at a company in France says that he believes solar (etc.) is in a J curve of upward growth. I'd like to know more about where his 1¢/kwh estimate is actually coming from.
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by hillz 10y ago
Yes, a little. A big issue is that people forget you're around, and so forget to include you, which makes you more disposable.
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by hillz 10y ago
So, the cause of the corrupted photos still is undiscovered?
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by hillz 10y ago
Yes, there are also quite a few grammar errors. Makes it hard to read.
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by hillz 10y ago
It's kind of a bummer that she knew she wanted to work with computers the whole time but her parents thought it would be more responsible to be a secretary. Glad she got there.
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by hillz 10y ago
First, I agree with you. But to answer: One chooses to be obese more than one chooses to be tall, so arguing that tall people should have to pay more for their size while the obese shouldn't seems illogical.
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by hillz 10y ago
I'm quite confident that they store the voice data. It's very valuable to them as a source of training data for future versions of 'Alexa'-like products.
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by hillz 10y ago
Sentences after the 'Alexa' key word are still recorded as un-identified questions that you can view in the Alexa app. Source: bought mom one, have used it.