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by 75dvtwin 9y ago
" Australia passed a metadata retention law that came into effect in April this year. It requires telecommunications companies and ISPs (i.e. carriage service providers, or CSPs) to keep a record of things like the IPs assigned to inte
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by 75dvtwin 9y ago
Interesting idea. Looking at your website " $0 up-front + 17% of salary for 2 yrs (or $20,000 up-front) " is 17% before or after tax? Also does location/country matter?
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by 75dvtwin 9y ago
Not sure I agree with the analogy " Being denied entry is the same as being accused of a crime " Consequence of being accused of crime is prosecution, with potential loss of freedom (or death). Consequence of being denied entry i
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by 75dvtwin 9y ago
>> what special needs does Bloomberg have that would lead to a primarily non-engineering company investing the resources to create this They probably open sourced the database, and would do more -- to dispel the above notion, and the
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by 75dvtwin 9y ago
I think, my recommendation, would create more informed voter base. Mostly because lobbyist would have to reach out to the voters, rather than to the politicians. Additionally, perhaps, letting a voter to 'forego' his/her rig
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by 75dvtwin 9y ago
I think allowing to specify what percent of your tax goes into what 'pre-canned' list of causes, would allow a way for folks to influence the politicians outside of the 'election process', and, without, full blown on-lin
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by 75dvtwin 9y ago
normally a mobile operator would not know the 'GPS' location of a person. Just the tower IDs they were connected to. And that connection could be several kilometers away from the person. Operator knows probably the strength of sig
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by 75dvtwin 9y ago
I do not share your view at all. Perhaps having a diverse point from yours, will be labeled a 'hate speech' or some other form of left-propaganda-consistent labeling. I hope not, however. US citizens just elected the best choice
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by 75dvtwin 9y ago
Thx for all the follow ups and clarifications. I am a user of neither toolkit yet, but following their progress. Perhaps submitting a bug to ask MS to change the above misinformation, is appropriate
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US FCC Ajit Pai, draft NOI on ways to facilitate greater consumer choice of ISPs [pdf](transition.fcc.gov)
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by 75dvtwin 9y ago
I did not know the below situation with tensor flow. MS contributions to OSS, at least in this instant, appear a lot more transparent and not-self-centered, compared to Google's "...It was made very clear from the first day of Ten
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by 75dvtwin 9y ago
@sbarre what makes you think that the payouts will not punish the offenders? are the pharma, not one of the categories of offenders in this case? Just curious.
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the above seems to have only one temporal dimention, not 2. Why did you think the above is a bi-temporal data?
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I think prolog was a bit ahead of its time. Just like Lisp was ahead of its time in the 80s. Just like Erlang was ahead of its time but much more viable now. My issue with Prolog is not being able to easily conceptualize 'simpler thing
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by 75dvtwin 9y ago
I dislike intellectually dishonest titles, that try to hide the humanitarian or politically oriented motif. In this instance, much of the material is not about what Syria was like before, but about the horrors of war. And that Syrians are g
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by 75dvtwin 9y ago
Definitely worth the watch. here are my cliff notes: > human energy consumption, by means of burning fossil fuels, is the reason for green house gases, that in turn trap more heat, then our environment can sustain. > technology to red
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by 75dvtwin 9y ago
not everybody who reads a lot is widely successful. also replies below about Trump, are really distasteful.
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>I've found scientific literature and a number of very high quality bloggers to be a much more efficient source of reading material. I have same sentiment as well. For me most books are of very low information density, and
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by 75dvtwin 9y ago
Very well written essay. Had definitely prompted me thinking, and gave me a 'formulaic' way to describe what I would call a 'gut feel'. my take away from the article, with some elaboration is the following: a) through ou
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by 75dvtwin 9y ago
If you live in Raleigh, NC. have 4 people family and make 101K. you are squarely in the middle class, according to this calculator http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/05/11/are-you-in-t... &quo
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by 75dvtwin 9y ago
I do not think anybody wants ISPs to be in charge of internet. However, I also believe, that most do not want USA FCC to be in charge of internet either. Arguing for a benefit, without clearly identifying the strategic negatives, is intell
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by 75dvtwin 10y ago
I do not share the > The Web is the best example I can think of for why we still need net neutrality. I think the Web is best example of why we need privacy protection as it is a form of communication. I personally pay for a VPN. And I
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by 75dvtwin 10y ago
My observation that traditional database technologies are transforming themselves into 'hybrids' (as far document-oriented data types go). Example is Postgres. Now has with JSONB as document-oriented field type. Now has Postgres
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just in July of 2016, an unnamed hedge-fund was hiring architect/programmers. After a brief review of my resume (I have been in sr management and sr architecture roles for 17 of 25 years, but also code at home) -- was asked to take an
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by 75dvtwin 10y ago
The author, in my view, appears to be making 2 logical fallacies (that, therefore, invalidate the argument) summarized here "... A prima facie rights violation is an action of a sort that normally—that is, barring any special circumst
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by 75dvtwin 10y ago
Thx for the link to the paper. It is a useful read in its own right. It provides an overview of other processing framework, explains why C++ was chosen, explains various bottlenecks and their affect. I had worked with KMeans before, and hap
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by 75dvtwin 10y ago
Same here, felt like 'crying with joy'. I have been struggling to really understand and internalize eigen vectors for years now (even I used them for some of my lab work). With this visualization, I felt like it had opened anothe
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by 75dvtwin 10y ago
I personally support the executive order in its motif. Radicalization of US-born or US-admitted Muslims by clerics, relatives, social media -- is real, eg [1] (Fort-hood terrorist), San-Bernardino terrorists [2]. Therefore, the argument cou
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I think it is a great day for the power of direct democracy, individual impact, and subsequent accountability for ones voting decisions. The old England introduced to the world of kings & dictators, the Habeas Corpus and Magna Carta. No
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by 75dvtwin 11y ago
I suspect, they will react in the same way, as Russians when learning their 'corruption fighting' Путин (Putin) [1] is involved through a proxy. I suspect, the reaction will be: "If not [$enter-corrupt-leader-name], then wh

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