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sfrechtling

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About sfrechtling

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    https://hypem.com/ - its a website that aggregates new music from music blogs.

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    Comment #12723513

    I think an objective summary is going to be hard to come by. The only thing I can add is that this view is common throughout history - think Shylock in the Merchant of Venice. The …

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    Comment #11415512

    Some countries like New Zealand and Australian have these - called Marine Reserves and limit commercial activities. They normally are in areas of great diversity (Milford Sounds) o…

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    Comment #10937685

    Nope, very Australian, with another varient being "no f$&king wucks"

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    Comment #10368652

    One of the last times this popped up, I printed it out and annotated it. I wanted to see if it was possible to take something so different to my working world (risk management) and…

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    Comment #10251453

    This article basically just outlines regulatory capital and (I think) avoids economic capital. In very very shorthand - regulatory capital is the capital needed to comply with loca…

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    Comment #10164493

    I don't know if there is an engineer who is able to invent a new form of energy and a complete weapon while captured by the taliban, so no I do not think there is an exact analogue…

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    Comment #10116402

    Link to journal article referenced: http://iopscience.iop.org/1367-2630/17/8/083023/

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    Comment #10033754

    Oh that first answer is very interesting - my thoughts at the moment is when/if is this technology going to be included by governments alongside their currencies. Eg each currency …

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    Comment #10033728

    Hi, thank you very much for your answers. Part of my questions were piqued by this blog post ( https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/08/07/on-public-and-private-b... ) which defined a pri…

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    Ask HN: Blockchains

    More and more noise seems to be appearing about blockchains. I see the small benefit of use in transactions between organisations, but am struggling for the case for private blockc…

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    Comment #9934240

    Sorry, I agree with the OP. I interpreted the "Success Stories" page, especially when it is sub-titled "Our prior work speaks for itself" as referring to the work performed through…

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    Comment #9835887

    Hard to tell with the noise out the Eurozone. Together, the next week will be a bit of a bumpy ride. Definitely agree with your first statement; maybe you should look towards Austr…

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    Comment #9642815

    Especially interesting in light of this, their analysis of traffic from the sec: http://sandhill.exchange/blog/sec-analysis

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    Comment #9436785

    You have to keep in mind that to get to Europe, any Australasian has to stop over at least once. Dubai is the most convenient; so really this route is Australasia to Europe.

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    Comment #9402050

    Yes, some NLP POS (part of speech) taggers do use context. I'm not entirely sure if they work in the way that you describe. I believe that they use the grammar of the sentence to d…