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Possible on Android and without root?

Who's the best?

I tried to get through this, but after one or two chapters it seemed really dry, and somewhat outdated for current markets. I've read dry material on financial markets before, but …

BASF, Thyssen (without the Krupp at that time...) plenty of blame to go around...

So they're finally switching from Google STT to Mozilla Deepspeech, but that project includes no pre-learned models IIRC. So where is MyCroft getting its data from? Or is Mozilla r…

There are quite a few countries with much lower rates of religious affiliation than the US, and decent societal values. NZ, Aus, Nordics, Swiss, Germany etc. And even if they have …

If you were searching for ice-cream with real vanilla, then its possibly understandable. A cyclone clobbered the Madagascan crop in 2017, multiplying the price. Some gelaterias in …

I went into a Decathlon for the first time the other day, after long assuming Amazon would always be cheaper for outdoor+active wear...so wrong. Totally surprised at a high street …

Thank Orrin Hatch.

Are twins inherently more efficient per pax than quads? Wouldn't a quad plane just run at a lower thrust level per engine? Given that fan sizes and core temperatures are rammed up …

Mmm I don't know, I've met some educated and/or wealthy 1st and 2nd gen Indian immigrants who get pretty hoity-toity about being a brahmin.

Sounds like something LeCun would say..."I actually invented time as a special case of a deep network back in 19xx...."

Tiny country by land mass maybe, but you know the Dutch East India Company's peak market cap was (inflation-adjusted) 8x10^12 USD, right? If you don't understand the economic impac…

Given a market in a steady state, as long as your (return+premium) rate is higher than your expected payout, you're still ok. So your premium-expected_payout could be negative and …

Err, a big chunk of their bottom-line comes from reinvesting the float, or just re-insuring and taking the spread.

Isn't Coinbase a dark pool? Off-chain transactions seem like order internalization to me...

False equivalence. There's a legitimate argument that allowing one media group to stealthily control local media markets creates potential for mass misinformation. Or that allowing…

How does Oliver encourage helplessness? There's often a direct call-to-action at the end of particularly pointed segments, from contacting local representatives to the more frivolo…

The battery life on the Dash buttons seems subpar. Having torn one down last weekend, No easy way to replace power supply with something USB rechargeable either.

Needs to phone MyCroft homebase for setup (didn't look hard enough to figure a way around that), and uses Google's STT. Privacy...not attained. I shouldn't have to ask Google to op…

Tried it. You need an account with MyCroft to set up your device, and it uses Googles STT API. You can use CMU Sphinx to backend the STT...but it sucks. So nevermind privacy, the s…

PBS Infinite Series (nice pure + applied popmath, great visualizations) PBS Spacetime (cosmology, great visualizations) Practical Engineering (spotlighting unappreciated field of c…

What could they sue for? Defamation?

"If a paralegal is writing a document and every few seconds is switching to Hipchat, Outlook and Word then there’s an issue that can be resolved by addressing it with the employee"…