Amadou

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by Amadou 13y ago
The clearest finding was that the more diverse the area, the less people trusted each other. I grew up in Hawaii, arguably one of the most racially and culturally diverse populations in the world. As an adult I've lived in 10-15 cit
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by Amadou 13y ago
farm workers have the UFW but being a farm worker remains one of the most intensely miserable jobs in the US, with constant rule-breaking by the employers, and a lot of unrepresented workers. I don't think it is fair to blame the lar
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by Amadou 13y ago
The power to strike is no help when you depend on your paycheck to survive Well managed unions maintain a strike fund so that their members can survive the economic hardship of a strike. After googling a little I think you are talking abo
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by Amadou 13y ago
I see it as a yin-yang situation. Corporations are a way to organize capital for the benefit of the capital owners, unions are a way to organize labor for the benefit of the labor "owners." In a healthy capitalist system, both
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by Amadou 13y ago
I've made catfish hunting on Plenty of Fish into an entertaining game. Once you know what to look for, it is pretty easy. The biggest tip-off are well-composed photos. I'll see a profile with those kind of photos and throw them
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by Amadou 13y ago
Call me cheap, but I pay for my bandwidth and I don't want to have to deal with slow video streaming or high ping times just so someone I've never met can buy their drugs on silkroad. A key thing to remember is that each person&
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by Amadou 13y ago
Hiding metadata is a difficult problem to solve, but it's vital. I expect you'll have to burn bandwidth. Broadcast "all" messages to "all" users, users can only decrypt the messages intended for them, discar
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by Amadou 13y ago
They are going to need giant robots to build it.
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by Amadou 13y ago
Thanks, I saw the link to it and didn't realize it was current, I thought it was just background on Udacity before this pivot. I probably should have submitted that link instead.
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by Amadou 13y ago
The article makes it sound like he gave up real quick. That he wrote class materials at a level above where the actual students were and instead of adjusting to their level for the next semester, he just threw up his hands in frustration.
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by Amadou 13y ago
The original letter didn't blame Spike, it asked him to intervene. You are definitely correct in the technical sense, but Spike's responses have been extremely tone-deaf. Instead of saying "not my problem" he should ha
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Thrun pivots Udacity toward vocational education(cis471.blogspot.com)
118 points by Amadou 13y ago|95 comments
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by Amadou 13y ago
Looks like Spike Lee has just made the mother of all hypocritical "its OK to pirate my movie" responses: “Why Should I Pay Someone Who I Never Met Nor Had Any Contact With Ever? He Never Made Any Deal With Me. Why Don’t You Pay M
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Spike Lee responds to 'stolen' poster designer(uk.movies.yahoo.com)
45 points by Amadou 13y ago|61 comments
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by Amadou 13y ago
- Benito Mussolini Probably not him. http://blog.skepticallibertarian.com/2013/02/07/fake-quote-f...
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by Amadou 13y ago
According to the article it was actually "General Tom Power" they were worried about. Reality is better than fiction.
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by Amadou 13y ago
Reverse psychology against hackers/spies. Let them think that it was a super obscure, difficult code to crack. Nope, according to the article it was listed in the instructions handed out to the soldiers who manned the silos. If ther
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by Amadou 13y ago
The problem I have is the really shitty targeting. I strongly believe, to the point of it being an article of faith, that effective relevant ad targeting will never happen, that it is an AI problem that can't be solved without enor
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by Amadou 13y ago
I read that line as "they have detailed data on how to maximize total ad views where losing some % of viewers is made up for by the increased number of ads watched by the remaining viewers."
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by Amadou 13y ago
Well, the Canadian border agents were running an eavesdropping program until it became public and they supposedly stopped doing it. I think that if the canadians were doing they were only following in the footsteps of the US side. http:
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by Amadou 13y ago
So, let your phone hold the canonical copy and let the swarm handle the efficient transfer of files -- not everybody will be on cellular data plans, hell you won't be on a cellular data plan when you are within range of a wifi AP
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by Amadou 13y ago
The net is soooo ripe for a distributed replacement of Youtube, Facebook, Gmail, etc. Once upon a time those sorts of sites provided real value in hosting files, pictures, video and providing a well-known endpoint like gmail. But now we h
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Linux Worm Targets Embedded Systems Like Set-top Boxes(symantec.com)
2 points by Amadou 13y ago|0 comments
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by Amadou 13y ago
I don't know if newspapers were publishing it, but this story is not very comforting: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-05/states-hospital-dat...
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by Amadou 13y ago
I wouldn't do it, for the simple reason that it is, for all practical purposes, a vendor-specific language. There is plenty to be said for the idea that the concepts of programming translate into all languages. But that's an a
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by Amadou 13y ago
When did you agree to let the police protect you if they encounter you being mugged? That's a particularly poor example. Supreme Court Justices Rule Police Do Not Have a Constitutional Duty to Protect http://www.nytimes.
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by Amadou 13y ago
Ho hum. Just another day at the office fighting the The War on Dignity. In it to win it!
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Buy Products From Google's Showcased Ad Results and You Will Pay a 34% Premium(ft.com)
1 points by Amadou 13y ago|0 comments
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No checkouts, no chocolate: Online shopping hits impulse buys(reuters.com)
30 points by Amadou 13y ago|20 comments
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by Amadou 13y ago
I went through the first four hits on that. All of them included uploading. Please pick a case that you are confident supports your claims and then we can examine it. As a point of order, the surest way to admit you are wrong is to tell

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