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Agree, for this very reason I found tldr to be very useful (https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr)

I am subscribed to a matched betting service (I would link to it but its in Italian, I'm sure you can find plenty googling), I pay a monthly fee and they provide guides (on a daily base) and tools to take advantage of bookmakers bonuses. After you get the hang of it, it gets quite easy.

A few quirks: - Depending on gambling laws of your country, it might or might not be possible to do matched betting - It's not a constant source of income, it decreases over time as you can only exploit welcome bonuses once and bookmakers stop offering promotions to you after they realize you're not a fish. The year I started doing it I was over 4k euros yearly income, now I'm happy if I can get 2k. Still, I'm happy with the amount I get, its a good chunk of my income but for someone with a high salary might not be worth it. - The coronavirus pandemic slowed things down quite a bit, since currently there are few sport events. So it might be not the best time to start doing it.

Matched betting (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matched_betting)

The author has a point but I also believe that it exceptional longevity also comes from the fact not many authors are writing books for Perl. More popular languages, like Java, JavaScript or Python have a lot more competition going on.

I live in the city struck by the earthquake and I can tell you that what the article states is not correct. The scientists went under trial not for a wrong prediction but for downplaying the possibile risk after thousands of smaller earthquakes were recorded in the area.

The opposite.

From the evolutionary point of view, a virus has no interest in being deadly: if it kills its host, it can't reproduce itself.

When social distancing (quarantine and lockdown) is enacted, it is harder for a deadly strain of the virus to reproduce and hence survive, as we react to it by putting into place stricter countermeasures. Which strains will thrive? The ones that able to "sneak around" unnoticed, by causing only mild symtomps.

Public-shaming people is not a socially acceptable solution to this problem

Most likely. You need to develop antibodies to defeat a viral infection and, once you do, they don't just disappear overnight.

I think this article sums up quite effectively the differences between now and then: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/07/coronavirus-re...

Most countries (and leaders) and not taking this seriously until they are it HARD by it. They should learn from the nations that were first affected and not just minimize it with "They handled it badly, we're gonna be fine".

I second what you said and I add that these outbreaks did not have such a massive impact on the western world

Reddit has some of the most aggressive, and bothering, pop-ups I have ever seen on their mobile site that prompt you to install their app.

Because its cheap, if you only look at the immediate profit without considering the long term implications

Seems way more narrow than the title implies

"The rule will likely be welcomed by industry, Lewis said, because it had feared a much broader crackdown on exports of most artificial intelligence hardware and software"

How about keeping the same idea of a different question every time but mixing in some images? Like:

"How much is one + (image depicting a 6)?

Moral of the story is: there's more than one way to found a company and the current startup model ( place hundreds of bets, hope a few win big) doesn't work for all of them.

This story and others ( like the one of Gumroad: https://marker.medium.com/reflecting-on-my-failure-to-build-...) that show that success can be achieved even when others consider you a failure are refreshing and should taken as an inspiration from those who wish to become an enterpreneur (and possibly by everyone to be applied to life in general).

Nice but apparently it is not compatible with any of my 3 Android devices? What are the requirements?

Despite owning some of his books, I can't say that I am a fan of Gladwell's writing style. But his Revisionist History podcast (revisionisthistory.com) is, by far, one of my favourite things to listen to and I highly recommend to give it a shot.

Looking at it from a different perspective: creating content requires lot of work, while consuming content requires little to no effort. Hence, looking from this perspective, it's natural that the majority of us are content consumers and not content producers.

It's explained in the article that this is to solve one specific issue that Gambit Research had: in some parts of their code they need to take action with very low latencies (<10ms) and hence they can't wait for the GC. This way they manually execute the GC in other sections of the code were timing requirements are relaxed.

Sounds like Github's potato salad: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zackdangerbrown/potato-...

I have limited knowledge of machine learning so forgive me if I am wrong. I recall that some classification techniques provide you a confidence score of the classification... so can't you just treat a classification score lower than a certain threshold as "I don't know"?

I like the app but I can't help but think that teenagers already do a lot of stupid things these days, do we really need to encourage them more?

Apparently making the same game over and over (with different intellectual property to tie it up) does not pay off.

The wikipedia page about antibiotics resistance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimicrobial_resistance) adds some interesting points on why we are falling behind on the race for the discovery of new antibiotics. The TLDR is it's currently not economically convenient for big pharmaceutical companies to invest in antibiotics research but several measures have been taken in order to make it better and, hopefully, will allow us to catch up on the race.

Project is really cool and I am looking forward to it. Still, rather than make 10 different desktop environments run, wouldn't be better to implement critical features that are currently missing (i.e. calls)?

Ransoms are usually used to fuel other illegal activities, so paying it has some non-trivial implications and should be avoided

That's exactly what Quantopian it's trying to do: remove the barriers to entry so talented people can be discovered (and profited on).

Of course, judging from results, they might be doing it wrong.

Another slightly related cool twitter bot is @RoboRosewater, that uses machine learning to generate new cards.

https://twitter.com/RoboRosewater

Maybe I am missing something, but how does this differ from www.programmableweb.com? Seems more complete and more used