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Ask HN: Research Heavy Startups in Germany?
2 points by orange_tee 6y ago|2 comments
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by orange_tee 6y ago
Being required to write a paper in LaTeX, is the least elitist requirement of any profession that I can think of.
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by orange_tee 6y ago
Maybe the disconnect here is that they are talking about "innovation" but not necessarily profitable innovation. There's also something to be said about the kind of innovation that disrupts a whole market, and the kind of inn
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by orange_tee 6y ago
The idea that casual sex serves as some sort of formative process sounds ridiculous. In my mind, sex serves an important role in pair bonding, and casual sex would then inhibit the ability of people to pair bond.
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by orange_tee 6y ago
It's probably psychology. For example, myself quite frugal, I would probably not pay explicitly to remove ads. But if you raised my internet subscription by $1.50/month, with the same intent, I wouldn't bat an eyelid. It&#x2
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by orange_tee 6y ago
Yeah well, deep learning is still very far from general artificial intelligence. It just gives you that impression because it's essentially a very advanced parroting system. The challenge with automating seemingly monotonous human task
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by orange_tee 6y ago
Since when do you first get people to buy and use your device and only later tell them how the device could become useful in some form or another? It's a joke that they are trying to push this for self serving reasons, but cannot even
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by orange_tee 6y ago
Obviously they want to make everyone wear their monitoring cameras though. They could have created and marketed a device only for people who need it, and nobody would have complained if they had done that.
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by orange_tee 6y ago
> In explaining possible use cases of facial recognition, Bosworth said that Facebook’s smart glasses may help someone recognize someone at a dinner party What a fucking joke. There is clearly no practical upside to this for the wearer,
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by orange_tee 6y ago
I do not think that solves the question. What is the reasoning behind the assumption that GDP/capita in the UK should be equal to that of the US? And why should it not be equal to say, that of Italy instead? The author is assuming a ce
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by orange_tee 6y ago
I want to know what logic he is using to determine how wealthy countries should be, relative to others.
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by orange_tee 6y ago
Well as somebody who has written research software, I don't agree that research software is a "tangled mess". A couple of points, 1. often when I read read software written by profession programmers I find it very hard to rea
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by orange_tee 6y ago
But the people shouting about the FED debasing their currency are not poor unbanked people in 3rd world countries so I don't see how your comment is relevant.
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by orange_tee 6y ago
But why are people so concerned about this whole currency depreciation thing? Only idiots keep their money under the mattress. Anyone with sense has their money invested in assets. I honestly don't get the big deal.
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by orange_tee 6y ago
Poor people in poor countries are way more likely to have an Android phone than a Windows PC, or a PC at all for that matter.
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by orange_tee 6y ago
I totally agree with you. The irony is that a lot of people throw away good furniture made from real wood to buy IKEA particle board. As a result of which I can acquire good solid furniture from charity shops and online classifieds for clos
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by orange_tee 6y ago
The same chemical formaldehyde is responsible for the off-gassing from cheap furniture. That smell of chipboard (also called particleboard) that all the new cheap furniture is made of.
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by orange_tee 6y ago
> I think bitcoin is useful and important enough to be worth several large tech companies. My thought experiment to verify this is simple: Tomorrow bitcoin disappears. What happens? Tomorrow FAANG disappears, what happens? I don't t
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by orange_tee 6y ago
Yes bread is served first. But I always thought bread was to be consumed with the rest of the courses. I think the butter thing came later. People got impatient waiting so they started serving butter with the bread so that you can get a bi
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by orange_tee 6y ago
But if you try to google if there is any conclusive research that sugar is bad you will find that actually there isn't. For example this is a good review.[1] And a more scholarly review [2]. The truth seems to be that there is no one &
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by orange_tee 6y ago
Why not simply "racists"? They are racists. They are literally trying to reorganize society based on a race theory. They only difference is that it is a different race theory, but they still have the race war mentality of past era
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by orange_tee 6y ago
> Less guns in the world is better for everyone. If the defenseless had guns they would be able to protect themselves. I am not sure if that would result in more peace or more war, but it would definitely be a more just world.
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by orange_tee 6y ago
No, it has nothing to do with that. It's policy driven. The Dutch realized they can get in on what the UK was getting if they swallowed their pride and started speaking more English and allowing English as a language of business. Germa
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by orange_tee 6y ago
I don't quite remember from the original white paper if it was pushed as a feature or just a property of the system. But later proponents certainty try to say it is some revolutionary feature. Now don't get me wrong. Transparency
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by orange_tee 6y ago
All of this shows how the supposed transparency of Bitcoin is useless. The blockchain does not really tell you anything. Price goes up 500%. Nobody knows why. People speculate it is because of Tether or some cabal of Chinese BTC mining tyc
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by orange_tee 6y ago
Despite claims of transparency, I find the exact opposite is true. Yes all wallets and transactions are public but because these are not tied to identities and are international (i.e. no consistent set of laws that might force owners to dis
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by orange_tee 6y ago
The discrepancy could be explained by how tax benefits and welfare work between countries. In some countries it pays for a young family to pretend to be a single-parent household to get welfare benefits. In others it is the exact opposite.
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by orange_tee 6y ago
That is not true. For example I hold bitcoin. But I also don't believe that bitcoin will replace the financial system or will serve any real purpose in the future. I am just speculating on its value. People speculate on loads of assets
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by orange_tee 6y ago
That is not necessarily a downside.
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Elon Musk puts up $100M for global carbon reduction competition(reuters.com)
26 points by orange_tee 6y ago|20 comments

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