ArnoVW

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by ArnoVW 6y ago
.. and since one is obliged to keep 10 years of history for tax auditing reaons, the whole point becomes moot. Yes, you can ask that your avatar image be removed. But they can easily claim that your name, address, bank account number are ne
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
Scratch is great. If you want something like that but less open ended and more directed (with exercices and training videos) try https://code.org/ It also helps they use known franchises like minecraft or angry birds =)
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EURion Counterfeit Protection Constellation(en.wikipedia.org)
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
In general, in the spyworld you do not talk about your tricks. But if you've already been found out, and your tricks no longer work, there is still political advantage to be had (damage your adversary, obtain credit from partners, obta
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
I'll add that the family of viruses is called Corona virus because they are 'crown shaped'
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
1 gigapixel means 32768 pixels per side (assuming a square image).
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
More likely it will be remembered like "L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat" In other words, only by intellectual gaming buffs. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Arriv%C3%A9e_d%27un_trai...
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
It does not matter if it is toxic or not. It's a chemical byproduct that we don't want in the atmosphere. That means it's a pollutant. Sure. Terra forming works. Conceptually. If you can manage to build a rainforest in the de
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
Fully agree with you that if we do nothing, we're heading for a world of pain. But I never said we should do nothing. In fact I pointed out we already have other options. Real ones, today, that we know will work. Eat less meat. Drive l
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
There are several problems with this approach. The person performing the forming would essentially be cleaning up the polution of everyone else. Terraforming would require global agreement and adherence to a highly capital-intensive enterpr
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by ArnoVW 6y ago
If the propagation of a virus is similar to a fire running through a population, herd immunity is analogous to a backfire. If most of the people are immune, the fire has no combustible to propagate and it stops. The level at which this happ
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
One thing I never understood, how drone attacks were a scandal. Yes, he ordered the killing of people. And the legality of these killings is indeed arguable, in the sense that the legality of the whole war is arguable. But I don't see
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
If you want to discuss the quality of video it is important that your own encoding does not alter the image. GIF allows animation and lossless compression.
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
In case you didn't know, it's in used as a technical term in distributed computing circles. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eventual_consistency
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
my guess would be using some sort of active learning. In other words: 1) building a model using the data set 2) making predictions using the training data 3) finding the cases where the model is the most confused (difference in probability
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
BTW,19% of Virginia is black. https://worldpopulationreview.com/states/states-by-race/
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
You're lucky I was waiting for a render to finish =) A google of "race distribution over age us" got me this: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/07/30/most-common-age-among-us-ra
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
Those averages are across the country. The distribution will be hugely different depending on whether you are in Iowa or Florida. Moreover, the distribution is not equal across ages. And since only young people go to universities, this has
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
Sure, many concepts identified 2000 years ago still exist. Adding, subtraction, platonic shapes. But we still add stuff, and some things are even changed. We don't call odd numbers "male" anymore, and even numbers "femal
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
subjectiveness aside, exceptions generally are relatively expensive.. In Java : http://java-performance.info/throwing-an-exception-in-java-i... In C# : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/stand
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
To anyone having doubts about this: this has been an active field of research by the military for the last 70 years, when it was found that the efficiency of the average conscripted soldier was lacking due to non- or mis-firing soldiers. Se
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
Teenagers are supposed to have a support net, and be in school. It is not abnormal for them to have a living wage. The same is true for students, albeit in a lesser form. Nevertheless, students will rarely have full time, qualified jobs. Th
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
Making money allows you to invest. If you can't make money, the scope of what is possible is restricted to "what one guy can make as a hobby". Not all problems are workable within that constraint.
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
Actually, in Europe it is illegal to collect personally identifiable information of people without their consent. GDPR and all that. I am surprised they haven't been fined out of existence yet.
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
Cytokine storm is generally observed with young patients. Their immune system is "too strong for their own good". My understanding is that most deaths are in the elderly, and that those deaths are due to pneumonia.
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
While this is true, I wonder if this is not partly because the European countries were quite busy organising themselves and were anticipating an urgent but unknown need for their own population. China has a retrospective of three months and
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
This is how science works. Knowing this may help the production of new theories, that produce new research initiatives, that may result in solutions. Imagine you are debugging a random connection loss issue in prod. You notice that the erro
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
- introduced easy payment decades ago (PayPal) - reduced the cost of launching satellites significantly - has made electric cars 'cool' - by doing this has inspired people to take risks and be visionary Don't get me wrong, he
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
The Lancet has published a study this week that anti-inflamatory drugs may help Ncovid penetrate cell walls and actually speed up the process. France has stopped over-the-counter sales of Ibuprofen as of mid January. https://www.
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by ArnoVW 7y ago
It is my understanding that the church is sort of a cult, and it's followers hide their membership. This illustrates the challenge with tracing approaches: if people are not open, or not sufficiently aware of the consequences of their

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