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The Qassam rockets that Hamas uses fly at about 200m/s, while these North Korean ones fly at about 800m/s. Additionally, Israel is tiny compared to the United States.

There were about 30 million bison in North America before we hunted them near extinction. Bison, especially young ones, are prey to wolves and bears. Bison weight about 1.5x cows.

There are about 100 million cows, and if about 30% of those feed pets the numbers come out similar.

There are also pigs and chickens, and depleted river fish/wild fowl populations.

Wolves/bears are heavier so the same mass of prey supports a smaller population. Still, I think we'd be in the same order of magnitude.

Edit: actually I might be an order of magnitude off, depending on the length of life. If cows live a year before slaughter, vs bison living 10 years. No idea what the real numbers are.

It’s a google solution to a google problem, the problem being that websites tend to come preloaded with a dozen or so non-google trackers. The google solution is to incentivize stripping out the content and hosting it on google’s servers, so only they see what you are up to.

Has anyone done the math to see the effect of ransomware on the bitcoin price? How much demand is from folks buying their data back?

It's interesting that your respect toward google doesn't extend to their decision to pay apple. I suspect google, being as good as they are with data, wouldn't pay apple if it didn't make sense.

You can cut maybe 5-8 years off that if you factor in the cost of non-solar roofing. I doubt too many people are signing up to replace their roof if it doesn't already need replacing.

>Our diet is full of fruits and vegetables containing thousands of complex chemicals, indistinguishable from "synthetic" chemicals, that have entered our diet far too short a time ago to have had evolutionary impact.

Our diet of fruits and vegetables has been refined through thousands of years of trial and error, and the result is that we eat a tiny fraction of available plants. It's arrogant to dismiss that history.

>I felt a new, for-profit, tech-based approach was necessary, so I launched 70MillionJobs.

I understand why you preferred to make more money, but what made it necessary?

I'm skeptical of the potential of dark scrapers at scale. You'd need to simulate too much human behavior to be unidentifiable, and humans are slow.

You would need real-looking bot accounts that you'll use to scrape. You'd need a realistically randomized rate limit, sampling from some distribution conditional on the type of the source page. You'd need realistic mouse/keyboard movements. Realistic hours of operations. Can't be scraping at 4AM and 4PM, and all of the hours in-between. Occasional noise operations, such as searching for a job, or getting salary estimates. You'd be geographically constrained. You wouldn't want your bot from Boston to be looking at too many individuals in Houston (regularly). Maybe you'd use a Markov chain to have the bot make decisions? I doubt the blackhats would have good training data for a neural net. You'd need tens of thousands of these bots to cover the linkedin user base in reasonable time (say, once every week on average), and these bots would have to either overlap or seriously underlap on who they cover.

Best use case would scraper-API that you can use to look up batches of specific people, with your bots looking at others only to look realistic.

(Or maybe not? It's a fun question, but I know fuck all about this. Not my area of expertise.)

Sure that example is extreme, but the deadly amanitas do look like puffballs when young.

I'm working on something similar as a hobby project.

What approach did you take to ID mushrooms? Model -> mushroom? Or Model->feature->mushroom? What kind of model?

Where did you get your training dataset?

Definitely add a big loud warning on the home page that this isn't a reliable.

I used to be a big fan venmo as a cash/check replacement, until a friend needed some emergency cash. Tried to venmo them, both accounts ended up being frozen for over a week. A check + USPS would have been 6 days faster.

In an industrial setting they don't really need to solve that problem. Battery low? Swap out the glasses for another pair.

>>Glass is also helping healthcare professionals. Doctors at Dignity Health have been using Glass with an application our partner Augmedix calls “a remote scribe”.

My primary care doctor has a human scribe. The scribe is a recent graduate (BS), planning on going to med school next year. Being physically in the room, watching the doctor work is a great benefit to her. I'm not sure she'd benefit as much from watching a live stream.

Additionally, as a patient I wouldn't be comfortable being recorded.

While I imagine it's not a security measure, I don't think it's "just the way it worked" either. It sounds like a conscious decision to limit false positives.

Does anyone know what is meant by "high ego identities" and "low ego identities?"

I love this! If I had to ELIA5 it, I would say: if you get lucky you get rich quickly. If you get unlucky you get poor slowly. So some people will get lucky and some will get unlucky, but the first to get unlucky will get below 100 and the first to get lucky will get above 100, explaining the initial behavior.

[Presumably] There is a massive volume of information that one gains access to when one is elected President. It would (and does) scare me that President Trump seems to be entirely unaffected by the realities of his new position.

His top advisor complained that Silicon Valley had too many Chinese CEO's, so this isn't surprising. It'll be interesting to see which country takes our place as the 'brain magnet.'

>“When two-thirds or three-quarters of the CEOs in Silicon Valley are from South Asia or from Asia, I think...” Bannon said. “A country is more than an economy. We’re a civic society.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/steve-bannon-disgusted-a...

Question on this topic - is there a method of encrypting subdomains when you don't own the domain?

An example: I run a vm that exposes mysubdomain.azure.com, can I turn on ssl at that level? A google search says "no" but I figure this is a place where someone might have a workaround.

>But the critical part of all this is hanging up within 6 seconds. This is the one thing that hurts the telco knowingly supporting this

You should explain why that number is critical, what happens before, what happens after.

What a nonsequitor. First, the presence or absence of other immigration paths doesn't speak to the cost or benefit of the startup visa.

Second, there wouldn't be so many H1B applicants if there were other ways into the US.

>I totally agree that stratification at age 10 is pretty terrible, but stratification in universities seems like a very different story.

What would it add that the choice of university and major doesn't? The math kids at MIT aren't so different from each other.

AMP exists because it benefits Google to know what content users read and what they click-through to. It has nothing to do with making a better internet.

Suppose a company invented an aids vaccine, and then charged gay folks and injection drug users 20x, because of hey - those at higher risk are willing to pay more for protection would that be a great thing?

Or let's go back to the Paris example. If everyone is paying the most they can afford, that leaves less money on the table for restaurants, cheese and wine when actually in Paris. It's 'great' if you only look at the market dynamics of flights and ignore the economic/social benefits of cheap travel.

Do you think the NSA wouldn't have checked access logs and the emails if not for the scan? The difference isn't between getting caught vs. not, it's between getting caught in days vs weeks.

I think the real fuckup is including in the article the method for IDing a Russian agent - registering with a personal phone number. That's the kind of mistake that could have been made again, but now probably won't be.

On the whole I think this information needed to get out. There were reports of people all over the US being dropped from voter registration rolls, and now proof that the Russian military targeted voter registration companies.

This is competing against Sonos and similar audio-focused speakers, at least in my mind. Plus, it's not subsidized by advertising.

>That description means the new all-in-one machine will rival the current Mac Pro which will be replaced with a modular version in the future.

> There is a tendency to believe that the normal dynamics of markets should be suspended when the product is "really important."

I've not seen the argument that they should be suspended as much as that they are. "Really important" just means that demand is inelastic.