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JeremyHowardon Trump wins presidency for second time

No it's not. Harris has less than a 1% chance of winning the popular vote at this stage. You can put $100 on her right now and make $20K when she wins.

JeremyHowardon My Resignation from the Intercept

Here's an audio source[1] for the people downvoting this.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxE2nlDjYt8

JeremyHowardon My Resignation from the Intercept

> and other people in the emails deny them.

No they haven't. Neither Hunter Biden, Jim Biden, James Gilliar or Rob Walker, have denied that the emails and text messages sent to Tony Bobulinski are real.

JeremyHowardon OpenLava under IBM attack

> What I also want to say is, if code added to OpenLava was proprietary from LSF then IBM has every right to sue. We only released authorized GPLv2 code and IBM from what the lawsuit says acknowledges this part. This code in question is legal and free to fork use and develop.

JeremyHowardon I Am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator. AMA

Sam altman tweeted this thread to his 149,000 twitter followers some of which would have worked with Jason, and won't have HN accounts.

Before Sam edited his comment, his comment implied that Jason had bullied founders, changed offers and shared founders confidential information.

> We collect feedback from YC founders on investors (we have a giant database of this). If you mistreat founders, we don't invite you to Demo Day. This isn't permanent--if you stop mistreating founders (i.e. bullying them, changing offers, sharing their confidential info, etc etc etc) then we start inviting you again.

JeremyHowardon Instagram's Million Dollar Bug

"I never contacted Facebook or Alex using my work email account. It was only after Alex contacted my employer via email that I sent a reply from my work account. Alex indirectly contacted me at work, not the other way around."

JeremyHowardon Words matter in ‘ISIS’ war, so use ‘Daesh’

They want to be called Islamic State because first of all it gives them legitimacy and it also helps with their recruitment because any action taken against them would automatically be called a 'War against Islam" which is exactly what they want to portray it as, they want it to be the West coming up against Islam. [2]

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4ouhpOPenI (Queen Rania And Arianna Huffington Discuss ISIS And What's Working In The Middle East)

JeremyHowardon Words matter in ‘ISIS’ war, so use ‘Daesh’

Islamic State is a term that has real meaning to many Muslims [1], referring to Daesh as Islamic State legitimises their caliphate.

[1] http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2014/09/12/347711170/i...

JeremyHowardon The German Tank Problem (2010)

It's actually "add m/n" where n is the number you collected and m is the highest sampled serial number.