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by nbanks 3y ago
They wanted a new CEO and didn't expect Sam to take 95% of the company with him when he left. Sam also played his hand extremely well; he's likely learned from watching hundreds of founder blowups over the years. He never really
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by nbanks 3y ago
Sam Altman has done in four days what it took Steve Jobs 11 years to do! I'm impressed.
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by nbanks 5y ago
I think the most obvious redesign would be to switch to a stenography system instead of Querty/Dvorak/etc. By chording, we could type faster with less movements. Steno takes longer to learn, but it's easier to type over 200
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by nbanks 7y ago
South Korea seems to have done this; they have more testing than anywhere else, yet they have less new cases now than they did last week.
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by nbanks 7y ago
Getting Re below 1 seems like the right approach, but I really hope that we can do this through extensive testing and travel restrictions. This way anyone who gets any illness and can be tested immediately, tell their friends to get tested
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by nbanks 7y ago
I switched my browser to use verbatim by default when doing google searches for a few months. It still came up with false positives like this.
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by nbanks 7y ago
Older people also tend to have more friends in the industry and more capital along with competence/experience.
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by nbanks 7y ago
I've been using the Gemini PDA for the past year; it's recently been replaced by the Cosmo Communicator. It has a normal glass screen that folds like a mini laptop to reveal a keyboard. Mostly I like the keyboard (I'm typin
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by nbanks 7y ago
For very short distance flights, electric aircraft are already viable. For example, Harbour Air Seaplanes operates a 20 minutes flight between Vancouver, BC and Victoria, BC. They use float planes because both cities are on the coast. Th
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by nbanks 7y ago
There is a compromise. I have a tendency to work odd hours because it's much easier to get actual work done if there's less distractions. On the other hand, I do feel it's important to have at least 1-2 hours overlap with o
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by nbanks 7y ago
Presuming you still can't borrow a new book if you have overdue books at home, and you still have to pay for lost books, this seems reasonable. It reminds me of the old-school netflix DVD rental system where you can keep a movie as lo
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by nbanks 7y ago
I wonder how countries like Norway and Switzerland implement their wealth taxes if this is absolutely impossible. It's true that more countries use an inheritance tax which has a similar effect to a wealth tax.
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by nbanks 7y ago
Thanks! I didn't know how to get by this paywall until now.
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by nbanks 7y ago
I'd be willing to try a fitbit if they had a daylight-readable smart watch. I haven't gotten around to getting a Garmin, but last I checked they were the only watch since pebble with a daylight-readable screen--and they support h
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by nbanks 7y ago
This isn't a new phenomenon. I've also read magazines with advertisements disguised as articles, except for the small "advertisement" label at the top.
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by nbanks 7y ago
Obviously Harvard is a really good school and learning English is useful, but it also makes me wonder if dictators and their daughters would be even more radical without a western education.
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by nbanks 7y ago
I tried reading an issue of Dabiq once because I was curious about how they interpreted the Hadith. It was really hard to get, which probably shows that the cyber attack worked. If their servers were still up it should have been easy. edi
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by nbanks 7y ago
That explains why the jquery based script I wrote to change the alpha channel of an image didn't work in Edge whereas it worked in all the other modern browsers I tested. edit:clarity
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by nbanks 7y ago
I've been thinking of switching from an old Pebble to a Garmin because it has a daylight visible screen. Do they also have a system to text in case of emergency like the Apple watch?
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by nbanks 7y ago
I've always considered Amazon's search system as pretty bad, often ignoring keywords to get more search results. It does look like their sort by price mechanism has improved. eBay has my favourite search system because it's
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by nbanks 7y ago
With Hong Kong's population density, I could see this technology working fairly well. I'm not sure how well it would work inside buildings, but could be good enough for people walking on the streets. It would also theoretically
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by nbanks 7y ago
I know of a pastor who asked a woman in his congregation to go to a different church for a while so he could date her because he wasn't allowed to date parishioners. After they married, she came back to his church again. It's en
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by nbanks 7y ago
I wonder how if this European study holds true in North America. The US and Canada have a regulation for maximum speed/power, but pedelec is optional. In Canada it's pretty easy to build faster/more powerful e-bikes that bre
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by nbanks 7y ago
The article states that miniature horses live 35 years or longer, whereas dogs have a much shorter lifespan. Presuming both are equally difficult to train, this is an obvious advantage.
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by nbanks 7y ago
He has a point. I started wishing I knew more maths when I started playing with tensorflow last year....
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by nbanks 7y ago
I don't understand why this was done suddenly. Warning Iranians that there account will be blocked next month and offering read-only access in the meantime would be much more reasonable. I'd expect legal action to impose the ban
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by nbanks 8y ago
I have a Gemini PDA phone that I've used to recompile the Linux kernel. It takes 4-5 times as long as compiling on my laptop, but sometimes it's easier than cross-compiling. I rarely use my phone as a development machine, but whe
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by nbanks 8y ago
When I was 10, I kept track of politics, and my political views haven't changed much since then. I certainly had better judgement at 10 than my grandfather the last time he voted a after living with Alzheimer's for a decade. The
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by nbanks 8y ago
The Joint European Torus had a 67% efficient reaction back in 1997. The torus wasn't designed for it, so they never tried again. It seams that ITER could achieve break-even quite realistically simply because tokamak reactors are more
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by nbanks 8y ago
I thought nuclear was many times safer than hydro, especially if you compare the fatalities from the Chernobyl disaster to the Banqiao dam. Hopefully more countries start reprocessing spent nuclear fuel the way the French do, though this do

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