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College student, it was fun for a year or two and then pretty much everyone gave up on it.

The unique commentary was what made it, there was essentially humor that everyone could relate to and the unique perspectives people felt were too uncomfortable to share with their persona attached. It was fascinating to watch what would come up over the day

He says pretty early on that what he actually got was a disorderly conduct charge.

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Do you remember the name of the paper, that sounds like a fascinating paper

I mean, even when put in the terms of 5 empty waterbottles per square kilometer is still an astounding amount of pollution.

Yah I've got a good few years more on my parent's insurance, it's an overlooked fact that you need well-off parents to have a strong safety net while you're young.

I want to live in a van, and I want to be sponsored to do it. I see other people saying the lifestyle is vapid, but to be honest everyone I know that has done it has embraced it.

There's unique challenges for sure, and making sure that sponsor obligations and the like don't take over your life can be a real concern. But the idea behind it comes down to living a lifestyle that works for you.

I want to do it because I want to spend the next few years of my life chasing dreams of being a professional skier, I'll probably not get there but I'd like to try it for a while. I'll sacrifice money, security, and a lot of normal comforts, but there's reasons certain lifestyles exist.

Granted, I don't know how the transition after this period of my life will go, I think it's important to chase dreams for a while and not have regrets.

I guess my whole thing is money doesn't buy happiness, but even then money is needed to support yourself and if it takes selling yourself out a little bit for sponsors and the like, so be it.

What's more interesting to me is the cranes are 3d modeled, that was not expected

Capital markets are crucial indicators of economic activity

My only Uber pool experience was when in San Francisco the whole group I was with would all request an uber pool for two people and the people who didn't get the same driver would quit. We accordingly were using it to get cheaper rides that was the exact same experience as a normal uber

There's traditions around this race, and it's okay if you don't agree with them but not being part of the community that embodies these traditions means you cannot come in and redefine them.

Also, no offence, but you clearly don't know enough about the race to really be talking about how it should be operated.

This race is full of obscure rules and insanely harsh conditions, it's just how it goes.

Talk about the freedoms you care about as much as you want, but at the end of the day the people who care about those things are such a small minority it has virtually no effect on the greater market.

Yah there's enough of you to support some niche stores, but it's great this works for you, but it doesn't matter for most consumers.

Big data is really just a buzzword that no one knows what it really means, because everyone's definition is different

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Comparing the mental fatigue of your work commute versus vacation travel is like comparing apples and oranges.

I think the issue is that they're trying to signify how they're innovating rather than what sector the company is in.

A better taxonomy would indicate their sector and either be AI powered <sector> or just include their AI processes in the description.

The thing is though that AI opens lots and lots of new business opportunities and if these companies weren't doing nominally AI processes they wouldn't exist.

Ever heard the phrase "Nobody gets fired for buying IBM"?

IBM is massive in IT consulting with basically half their revenue coming from the consulting side of their business, and the rest they're a service company in a lot of different IT verticals.

A somewhat informative quora link, because if you were too lazy to even google this you probably won't dig deeper than this: https://www.quora.com/What-does-IBM-do

I mean every narrative about the invention of CFCs is basically found a great thing, didn't realize the great thing has downsides.

To be honest that kind of scares me. What will happen when VR is commonplace and we are continually using it to escape reality.

Not to say we don't do that already, but the gradual degradation of reality is truly quite interesting.

Last I heard of Tilt it was mostly a bunch of people using it to fund large scale parties. Enough people committed, and then boom yup we have the money we'll do it.

That's absurd, I had surgery and couldn't do anything for 3 weeks, once finally cleared my second run I ran a 6:30 mile.

How is it that as a society we've devalued physical health so strongly.

I think there is both a good and bad aspect of this quote, you've done a great job highlighting the bad.

The good, is in essence that you don't always need to be fully comfortable and in fact will not always be comfortable. I find in mathematics if you try to always strive for total comfort you will never progress, as a lot of the comfort comes from advancing past a topic and upon revisiting it you realize you understand the fundamentals better than you thought.

An additional detail is also the expansion of the panama canal which allowed more and larger ships to travel through it cutting down the travel time for larger cargo ships eliminating a primary advantage of smaller vessels.

However ironically though, these mega vessels are considered with quite a bit of disdain by many in the industry. This link can provide quite the rabbit hole of information. http://www.supplychain247.com/article/state_of_ocean_contain...

Question: I've seen a large amount of hype around chat bots, but is there any evidence that "normal" people really use these for anything more than novelty, excluding the realm of Amazon echo et al.

I think the number one obstacle to this is it would be nowhere near viable from the costs perspective.

No one really wants to build cargo ships right now, shipping companies are barely staying afloat right now because there is a glut of cargo capacity.

This technology would need to be cheap enough that it would make sense to retrofit a ship with it... which would probably not be the case for a very long time.

I do think it's a very thought provoking idea however.

I don't feel particularly convinced by this article, I feel like it misses the bullet by going beyond a reasonable standard. The article is phrased in such a manner that it acts as if typical descriptive statistics are not useful, but the more important point is more reasonable and understand when to use what statistics.

In fact, many of his examples of what to use are just other descriptive statistics, median is no less a descriptive statistic than the mean is.

I think the problem is not so much that descriptive statistics are bad, so much as they are not particularly useful when they lack context. Unfortunately, statistics is a much more complex field than your average product designer doing an A/B test thinks. The majority of statistics and models the average person utilizes has assumptions and qualifications that they don't fully understand, and frankly that's not a slight to them but rather just the additional depth of the field.

Just as an example, ask the average person to derive the degrees of freedom for their t-test without just utilizing the formula they were taught.

As in most fields this is an issue of nuance, not that beginner techniques are bad, but beginner techniques alone are not nuanced enough to capture useful or rigorous insights.

You know there's a certain irony that I would never ever use a modem that I can't turn off the XFinity wifi crap, but I absolutely love having the ability to use other people's XFinity wifi. I pretty much have access to free wifi everywhere because of it, even spent two weeks in my new apartment mooching off someone else's wifi until I could get fiber installed.

Just saw this, but American consumers are more sensitive to import prices than export, because consumers generally do not directly receive the proceeds of exports.

Net-net, it'd be hard to say what happens long term in the economy because that has a lot to do with long-term changes in the macro environment, if economic growth remains strong consumers will continue to make out better, if the strong dollar ultimate hurts the economy (and that isn't impossible), a weakening economy hurts consumers more than the stronger dollar.

In general, an increasing dollar does not have effects on the real price of domestic goods, but decreases the real price of imports. Because that is no change and increased purchasing, it results in a real increase in purchasing power which is therefore an increase in real wages. You can buy a larger basket of goods because the imports cost less.

Interstingly this could make sense, because they're selling off all of the Yahoo! assets there is no reason there is no incentive to use Yahoo! mail and in fact they lose the rights to those assets once the sale is completed.

Altaba will still be holding all of the other assets not sold to verizon so this is likely the best way to move forward for whoever is left working for this not quite dead entity once the sale is complete.

The crappy thing is that while this might be "back in the day", I still have to spend time cooped up in computer lab because software companies make the licenses way too expensive so we have nowhere else to do our homework.

Don't have this machine, but have a Lenovo Yoga 14, I was amazed when even the touch drivers worked out of the box.