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Why Uber Keeps Raising Billions(nytimes.com)
3 points by nhstanley 10y ago|0 comments
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by nhstanley 10y ago
Similar effort by Microsoft: https://github.com/Microsoft/Pyjion
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by nhstanley 11y ago
Yup. It's hardly any different to the standard sorting, because facebook's business is controlling what you see. I don't know why people keep spreading that like it's some protip.
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by nhstanley 11y ago
I think that sets a bad environment, because who decides what historically important is? How many years does it become "historic"? A much simpler and better solution is to not extend copyright to 120 years or whatever the hell it
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Lawsuits Claim Disney Colluded to Replace U.S. Workers with Immigrants(nytimes.com)
180 points by nhstanley 11y ago|180 comments
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House Republicans sneak net neutrality attack into appropriations bill(dailykos.com)
3 points by nhstanley 11y ago|0 comments
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by nhstanley 11y ago
No, but I think as long as the bug bounties pay enough to keep someone comfortable (along with added notoriety/resume padding with it), you'll have enough moral people choosing to reveal them to the companies rather than bad actor
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by nhstanley 11y ago
I know this is anecdotal, but everyone I know uses Venmo. I have never met anyone who uses Square Cash or Messenger, and I have both apps. To be fair, I don't know anyone in the US that uses WhatsApp, but all my friends in Europe use i
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by nhstanley 11y ago
Why would they need samples when the chemical structure is so widely known[1]? It's not like it's a biologic where sequence and other formulation details are critically important. Can you explain? [1] https://en.wikiped
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by nhstanley 11y ago
Stuff like this often makes me consider writing an open source version of whatever the software is. If I really had to base my long-term livelihood off a piece of proprietary software, I wouldn't want to perpetually have such a sword h
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by nhstanley 11y ago
Perhaps making the student share a portion of the cost would be smarter. Maybe make the student pay 5 or 10k or the 30. Alternatively, everyone could be adults and settle for a smaller, much more reasonable amount proportional to harm. Espe
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by nhstanley 11y ago
Not my opinion, but what I think lukasm was getting at is that a majority of players in the startup game aren't VCs or founders, but suckers taking low wages and/or options and/or insane hours on the promise of a big future
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by nhstanley 11y ago
"Why did you want to climb Mount Everest?" "Because it's there. Everest is the highest mountain in the world, and no man has reached its summit. Its existence is a challenge. The answer is instinctive, a part, I suppose,
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by nhstanley 11y ago
"Cancer" is a word that describes any disease that is the result of uncontrolled growth of your own cells. However, there are so many types of cancer cells and the treatment for each so different that saying we've "cured
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by nhstanley 11y ago
Certainly the leading cause of liver failure and need of liver transplants. http://www.medpagetoday.com/Psychiatry/Depression/2233
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by nhstanley 11y ago
I wont disagree that perhaps the US system could use reform/overhaul, but it's a bit more complicated than you describe. When you compare how medical schools and medical school admissions are handled in the US versus how law schoo
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by nhstanley 11y ago
Someone was arguing to me recently that this has all come about because of some court cases in the 80s and 90s. They claim that one case in particular, between Notre Dame and the faculty, was a turning point. The story has been related to m
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by nhstanley 11y ago
What's so entitled about it? The IMF is a creditor just like any other, and assumes risks when it makes loans. The duty of the Greek government is—without question—to its people. While you can certainly argue that default is not in the
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by nhstanley 12y ago
This isn't the first antibody therapy that tries to reduce plaques (Bapineuzumab, solanezumab, gantenerumab, crenezumab, etc.), but is it the first one to "work" correctly, but still fail? I don't believe so. I think bap
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by nhstanley 12y ago
$100k in SF is laughable (for that kind of commitment). If you're not offering $200k minimum, it's not even worth 60 seconds of consideration. Unless you really really believe in that 6%. But man you really shouldn't. Edit:
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by nhstanley 12y ago
> Yet Mr Buffett’s 50th letter to shareholders is an exception, serving to muddy rather than clarify, for two reasons. First, because it does not tackle the questions that hang over Berkshire’s conglomerate model and its durability. Seco
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by nhstanley 12y ago
Was the use of ANN necessary, or simply done because it was cool to do? Because at least in my mind it looks like extracting the text and running a brute force program on it would be faster, no?
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by nhstanley 12y ago
How frequently do those people move to those universities after they've made the scientific breakthrough for which they receive the award?
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by nhstanley 12y ago
I don't know what the truth is either, but sites like Glassdoor are specifically designed so you can find out if you're being underpaid, and let others know they're being underpaid. So intuitively it could go the opposite as
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by nhstanley 12y ago
What would "Extra Discretionary" look like for SF?
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Government-Linked Certificate Authorities in OS X(zitseng.com)
214 points by nhstanley 12y ago|85 comments
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by nhstanley 12y ago
Empathy for whom? I know pacifists want to believe we live in a post-war world, and if only we would not make guns or do the kind of things the NSA is doing here we'll suddenly live in a perfect world—but by what fantastical mechanism
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by nhstanley 12y ago
I don't have as much personal experience (only one colossal flop, $4k invested + ~20% lower salary), but I've got enough experience in the industry to have come up with this hard and fast rule: If you didn't found the company
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by nhstanley 12y ago
When you think about it, Germany is like the hot girl in a small town high school. She doesn't care if she's pretty (rich) in the absolute sense, she only cares that she's prettier (richer) than all the other girls in the sma
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by nhstanley 12y ago
> statistical facts Didn't downvote you, but you have heard the saying "Lies, damned lies, and statistics", haven't you? Calling a single chart "statistical facts" is laughable at best. Especially when we&#x

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