rueynshard

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by rueynshard 5y ago
Samsara's founders also previously started and sold Meraki to Cisco for $1.2 billion. Pretty rare to have founded 2 unicorns in ~15 years.
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by rueynshard 6y ago
Criticism of the company's product seems pretty tangential to the blog post. Either way, the value provided comes not from the labeling alone, but from the platform it provides to be able to do so. If it were so easy, why don't th
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by rueynshard 6y ago
There are plenty of jobs that pay better and don't require you to devote your lives to the company (incidentally, one of them is mentioned in the article). If a firm wants people who are obsessed with work, then that's their choic
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by rueynshard 6y ago
Except a lot of governments have indeed enacted policies that protect tenants and employees during this period.
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by rueynshard 6y ago
Columbia, UC Berkeley and Dartmouth too. I think this move is gaining traction.
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by rueynshard 7y ago
Sure, but even among the remaining 2/3rds, meat consumption is much lower, compared to other regions where they typically eat meat every meal.
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by rueynshard 7y ago
$9 an hour works out to about 100,000 rupees a month, which allows one to live relatively comfortably in India.
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by rueynshard 7y ago
Works for me (FF on Ubuntu)
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by rueynshard 8y ago
Singapore might be a flawed democracy, but it still is one. The ruling party does fear losing vote share in elections and adapts its policies to win public support (e.g. in the 2011 elections when the opposition won 40% of the vote).
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by rueynshard 8y ago
Wouldn't the user's speech data need to be sent to Apple to convert to text, or identify the intent first?
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by rueynshard 8y ago
I don't see why this could not be possible on Android. All Google needs to do is build an API for Assistant that other apps can use to 'donate' frequently used actions/intents. Assistant can then make suggestions to user
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by rueynshard 8y ago
While I agree that Ivy League admissions could be more transparent, I certainly hope they don't move to the Oxbridge style of purely focusing on academics. University admissions are not just a means of selecting people - they are also
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by rueynshard 8y ago
I doubt it would make much of a dent in their reputation. It is already widely perceived (whether true or not) that children of important donors, legacies and other groups get preferential treatment.
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by rueynshard 8y ago
The key difference is that designers are free to show the work they've done in their current jobs or internships. Programmers usually aren't at liberty to do the same.
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New research uses sound waves to amplify light(phys.org)
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by rueynshard 8y ago
I daresay sharing memes is arguably the most commonplace use of Facebook among teens nowadays.
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Thank Colleges for Imminent Carbon Taxes(wired.com)
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Why Deep Learning Won't Change My Life(yaledailynews.com)
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The Tribalism of Truth(nature.com)
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by rueynshard 9y ago
Students in elite American universities (ivy-plus) come from the top 1% of all American students in their cohort, not to mention other countries. However dismal American performances in PISA/TIMSS and other tests have been, the top 1%