ArnoVW

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by ArnoVW 6y ago
I agree, this was sort of a annoying. Though when you reason about it in a systems way, not having a default of "reboot" would be problematic from a security PoV. Of course, you're not the only one with this issue. There used
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
in related news: first night frost in the Netherlands this year has resulted in the first skating rink opening. In only one night, thanks to a new system based on nebulisers and isolating occluded air cement. (translated) article : https:&
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
Let's have the debate about what is actually being proposed: police officers must be non-identifiable when you publish images. Not an interdiction of "filming the police". The proposition as it has been adopted by the commiss
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
Problem is, it's not the same people doing the dieing. And the dieing doesn't happen right now. Inverse situation for covid. Suddenly there is a lot of money we can borrow from our children, because 'a problem right not'
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
Aircrash investigation épisode https://youtu.be/bqRWupOv8DQ
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
Haven't read the S-1, and won't be investing, but I can give you another way of looking at it. You do an IPO to scale. Once you scale, the relative costs of systems and engineering 'disappears'. In terms of profitability
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
* even when accounting for losses, the CO2 output of ICE is worse (today) * electric cars allow us to tap into "free" energy (i.e. base load we can not turn off at night) * we can innovate much more on electric (generation, transm
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
I'd argue differently. Yes, his name is dropped often in the press. However, if you compare the number of interviews, speeches, or other public interventions, they have been greatly reduced since the hyperprésidences of Sarkozy and
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
You are completely right. But that was not what were talking about. When Hollande said he wanted to be "normal" he meant "less snobbish", or more precisely "not like Sarkozy". However, both Hollande and Sarkozy
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
Emanuel Macron, président of France since 2017 famously decided that France needed just that, after 10 years of hypermediatisation of his predecessors. I tend to think he was right.
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
I was intrigued so I read the page. "the CIA's Office of the Inspector General which ultimately concluded the allegations were unsupported." "Webb's series led to three federal investigations, all of which concluded
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
Or as his contemporary French lawyer / philosopher Joseph de Maistre said: Toute nation a le gouvernement qu'elle mérite (Every nation gets the government it deserves)
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
In an ideal world, this is how things would work. The problem is, those features were created for customers. They will not take kindly to those features being removed. And no-one wants to lose customers. This is why the second law of thermo
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
In an ideal world, this is how
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
And that does not even take into account rate of endebtment. Nor the fact that the US has several historical advantages, like the role of the dollar, or the fact that they emerged out of WW II with 'only' 250k dead and their econo
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
Perhaps because all it takes is 1/24th of a second to make a picture? Or because once the light is on, it's too late? Or because I don't want to risk missing the light being on, just because the computer is on but I m not beh
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
Physical aging has its effects. Moreover, as we age we generally accumulate more responsibility. A relationship. A team to manage. Two kids. That sort of thing takes up time, focus and energy.
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
You may be interested to know that there exists a service called "let me google that for you": http://letmegooglethat.com/?q=Threatware
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
In a dream world: find a law firm that buys the class action from you. Given their market share and the amount in question, it should be a profitable affair. Meta-idea: create a startup that functions as a marketplace for bringing together
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
Because he wants to give his technical expertise, and does not want to enter into a political debate about the way we organise society. If you read between the lines, you can see that he understands that people have reservations (and probab
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
I've just read their terms. There is no mention of that. I figured maybe you give Prezi the rights to your content, but in fact, no. They can only republish your content on their account if you tag it as "public": Customer he
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
It used to be that we had to chose between models that were 'powerful' (complex neural networks) and those that were 'interpretable' (linear régression, trees). In the last years a lot of research has come out. We have s
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
The article dates from march 2016. The other articles are simply the more recent articles that the algorithm says are "similar" or "popular". If you scroll higher up you'll see a similar heading saying "RELATED
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
Pro tip: if you're trying to expose your kids to foreign languages, change the language of games to that language (in the same vain as "watch cartoons in that language)
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Decline and fall of Easter Island culture (1995)(discovermagazine.com)
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
In just a few centuries, the people of Easter Island wiped out their forest, drove their plants and animals to extinction, and saw their complex society spiral into chaos and cannibalism. Are we about to follow their lead? By Jared Diamond
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
.. and when inexorably it gets hacked it will get you your 15 Mb of fame.
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
Office for iOS is hardly a company-changing announcement. And wasn't Azure the baby of Satya? And let's not forget decades of failed products under Balmer. The way I remember it, when Microsoft fiiiinaly launched something succe
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
Or, as it is called in English: "lying by omission". Indeed such an idiom does not exist in Dutch. Which raises interesting questions that take us into Sapir-Whorf territory..
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
I suppose there were intellectual / philosopher. And "having strong opinions losely held" was not a thing back then (certainly in France), so I guess it is easy to understand why they didn't hang out together. Sartre and

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