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The status quo is neural nets already are allowed in safety critical systems - humans. And with the amount of drivers snapchatting behind the wheel, I'd rather take my chances with a self-driving car.
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by 21 8y ago
Unless you think Skynet is impossible, all impressive leaps are an incremental step towards Skynet.
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I'll just leave this here: > Conventionally, Julia's arrays are indexed starting at 1 https://www.google.com/search?q=arrays%20start%20at%201&tbm=...
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Some part of it (older people versus prudish younger people) was hilariously captured in Gym Wildlife: https://youtu.be/n1GUQVo1Lps?t=235
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> Lego emits about a million tons of carbon dioxide each year That's about 214133 passenger vehicles driven for one year, or 107980 homes' energy use for one year according to this: https://www.epa.gov/energy&#x
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The YouTube experience is way worse for me in Firefox than in Chrome. Many times, after seeking inside a video 3 or 4 times, it just stops working. This never happens in Chrome. I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but seeing this so often..
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by 21 8y ago
It seems to return blue for pretty much anything ("cat", "man"), maybe because of blue sky?
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For hackers good opsec would require them to use a new persona for each separate hack. Compartimentalization. Linking separate hacks together is a really bad idea.
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> Also, accidents can alter the brain and lower your IQ, so are you saying you can go down but not up What sort of an argument is this? You can lose an arm in an accident, does this mean you can also gain an arm?
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> sometimes wonder if the weather reports should be tell ing wet bulb temperatures This is why many reports or apps have "feels like X degrees"
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This is tragedy. We'll no longer be able to say "lol, no generics" :(
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So you are saying that it's better to run a modern AC (inverter, all that) continuously on a low power than every hour or so? I'm thinking in context of cold leak (through windows, ...)
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Makes sense, you typically need to raise temperature more in the winter than you need to lower it in the summer. And you need heating non-stop in winter, while in the summer half of the day is enough many times. Also, most people have heati
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One call center agent in India. He will SSH in remotely and reboot it for you.
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To reinforce the idea that the only way to safely get apps on Android is through it's store.
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Why can't the silicon be encased in metal? Thermal reasons? Problems passing the wires through?
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Not a big surprise. Being secure against the FBI (not to mention NSA) is really hard, even for a technical person. If you want to be secure against a possible prosecution you really need to hire an expert to setup your devices and teach you
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Were the underlying cryptographic primitives ever bad (in a practical attack sense)? Even DES with it's 56 bit key was not cracked in a real targeted attack.
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How can I tell looking at the screen who is winning? Is there a score somewhere? Maybe the left side sliders?
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https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GreenSkinnedSpac...
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While I understand why cells have ids on them to be able to detect self from non-self, why is this also happening for blood cells, which are basically just bags with no genetic information inside? What's the evolution reason to guard a
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In the past it was called 'fusion'. Today it's called 'cultural appropriation' https://twitter.com/hashtag/jerkgate
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It says "Anti-Capitalist" right on their banner: https://static.westernjournal.com/ct/wp-content/uploads/2017...
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Apparently that happens: https://www.wsj.com/articles/mumbais-slums-make-way-for-luxu...
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Location, location, location. Price per square m/ft is much lower in the slum than in the gated community. If you couldn't aford a place in the gated community, would you use that money to buy a place in the slum? Or would you try
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On a bigger scale, Whole Foods versus Walmart in California: https://i2.wp.com/famvin.org/en/files/2013/03/Walmart-and-Wh...
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Not really. If you had experience trading other financial markets it was way easier. Because the crypto markets are still quite small, they are very inefficient, thus it's much easier to make money here than in the stock market for exa
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Then why do people say "invest in the stock market for the long run by buying an index fund?"
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You are not wrong: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-26/love-isla...
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I work in a software firm. Last autumn half of my team was "investing" in cryptos. People who never traded before, who didn't knew what a bid or an ask was, and who complained to me that exchange interfaces were terribly comp

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