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Staff Engineer at Calm, making the world happier and healthier
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You can wax poetic all you want about anecdotal values differences between the first and third worlds, but speaking in terms of actual practical impact: what you are saying is simply not true. Greenhouse gas emissions…
The tradition of using shift registers for automated music generation very much lives on! These days they are typically called "Turing Machines" (I know, kinda of confusing for us CS folks), due to the influence of a…
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13226078 When I'm in my working tab group, that's like 8 tabs or so. Most of the tabs in the storage groups are months old (more like bookmarks I didn't have to hit Cmd+D to save)
In most contexts, an entertainment event being "presented by X" just means that X funded the event in exchange for having their name associated with it. E.g., "Thursday Night Football, Presented by Bud Light" -- Bud…
> The corollary is that you have to worry about the DAC in the phone if you have an analog jack, and they're not good. So with digital only, you have the option of buying a good off board DAC (if you care), or otherwise…
well maybe listen to more than one ;D I included that one as an example of how artists are merging instrumental hip hop back in with Jazz; there's plenty of other styles of Jazz in the list! You're right that a global…
If it's true at the county-level, it's true at the national level (which is also stated in the abstract). By specifying it's additionally true at the county level, it makes a much stronger claim -- that high racial bias…
re: 2, this is covered quite clearly in the abstract: "There is no relationship between county-level racial bias in police shootings and crime rates (even race-specific crime rates), meaning that the racial bias…
Of course, no one is saying that companies and employees have to value ISOs the same, but no one is saying employees who value ISOs at zero should be working at a startup either
My understanding is that the bug was in a particular contract written using the Ethereum contract "language", not Ethereum itself. E.g., one does not stop using Python because there's a bug in Quora
but the code does not execute unless you interact with it, as can be easily verified by inspecting source. move them out of your tab bar and never click them if it's a big deal to you.
I know that. I was responding to a poster who implied that critiquing neoliberalism makes one a "very poor quality publication"
Pi is far more than just the ratio of the diameter to the circumference, even as a constructivist: https://affinemess.quora.com/What-is-math-pi-math-and-while-...
I'm much more on board with the comment this one is replying to: """ ... On top of that, do you guys honestly think that Firefox would not have slid down the same slope, given that it suddenly had Google, Apple, and…
i wish there was a word like schadenfreude that captured that sublime feeling of seeing someone miss the satire in something and pile contempt on it at the same time.
didn't say i agreed with it, just pointed out a likely reason why such a narrowly specific threat notification tool would be launched now.
> when it turns out they weren't doing any of that Except for the part where they had all 200 tests going through lab review... Is the doubt that they'll move on to getting more tests FDA approved once the first one…
Oh of course! More data (sanely applied) is almost always going to result in more accuracy. I just found it very strange that the core assumption of the article -- that the default setting is to add median times of…
Exactly. All this article is really saying is "most of the time, adding together median expected times underestimates the sum of mean expected times". Well then, easy fix: add together the mean expected times off the…
https://www.google.com/search?q=define+erstwhile https://www.google.com/search?q=define+booster /shrug If those are familiar words to you, then I think it's a little harsh to say that they "hate convincing people"…
He is strongly critiquing the notion that "there will be robots, there is basic income and it's better than what we have now, just because." He labels this notion "Accelerationism", and then the final section tears it…
Well, given that one of the primary sources in the article was a set of quotes from the ATO investigation itself...
Are you working with https://unhosted.org/ at all on the unhinged apps concept?
Hey there! Would love to update copy to make sure it's clear for you. Current home-page says "Recurring funding for artists and creators. Creators receive millions of dollars each month in support from their patrons."…
> Although accessed, all passwords, social security numbers and tax form information remain safely encrypted with a 2048-bit RSA key. > ... > We protect our users’ passwords with a hashing scheme called ‘bcrypt’ and…