BlackFly

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by BlackFly 6y ago
No, it seems pretty obvious. Each use case of processing of personal information must satisfy the GDPR necessary requirement or have a priori informed consent. During merger of Scribd into LinkenIn, they can argue that it is necessary to tr
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by BlackFly 6y ago
Revenue isn't a good comparison and is more of a distraction than a usable data point. Presumably, if Google is servicing paying customers instead of paying advertisers, then google has much less work to do. Their revenue can decrease
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by BlackFly 6y ago
> Every team needs to deploy in lockstep. Team A can finish their part of joint effort before Team B and get deployed on Monday, then Team B finishes their effort and gets deployed on Tuesday: this looks the same in both microservices or
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by BlackFly 6y ago
The only application that I encountered that fit the microservice idiom well (obviously, in my opinion) was postfix (some diagrams at http://www.postfix.org/OVERVIEW.html ). Note it is usually using unix pipes for communicat
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by BlackFly 6y ago
I would say it always should be a good plan to defer to expert rationale but not opinion. I expect my experts to explain the benefits and drawbacks of following best practices not just assert that something is a best practice. When somebody
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by BlackFly 6y ago
One of the common threads on some limits to free speech is the notion that lies are not protected. Libel, perjury, false advertisement, slander. I treat downvoting similarly: I only downvote things I know to be false and figure the speaker
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by BlackFly 6y ago
> Integrating the 0 function gives us back the 0 function so it's a kind of counter-example to the fundamental theorem of calculus. I guess that is one way to think about it, but if that is the case you can just differentiate a cons
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by BlackFly 6y ago
This doesn't follow, because you need to also assume there are no people who downloaded for free and then went out and bought the book or convinced others to buy the book. Neil Gaiman has pointed out this happening with the Sandman ser
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by BlackFly 6y ago
People call people idiots instead of trying to understand how they made a mistake because of fundamental attribution error. We all do it. People are predominantly successful because of luck. Opportunity, connections, upbringing, all luck. Y
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by BlackFly 6y ago
They are the most general in the sense that there are Henstock-Kurzweil integrable functions that are not Lebesgue integrable and that other integrals that are also more general than the Lebesgue integrals are equivalent to the Henstock-Kur
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by BlackFly 6y ago
General in the sense that it integrates more functions. The Denjoy integral is equivalent to the Henstock-Kurzweil integral in that respect (Theories of Integration - The integrals of Riemann, Lebesgue, Henstock-Kurzweil, and McShane, Kurtz
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by BlackFly 6y ago
If school grades are indicative, even a 90% accuracy is commendable for human driven tasks. The big difference is that when a human double checks their own work, they may not make the same mistake twice. Or even better, when a second person
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by BlackFly 6y ago
I don't think the distinction between the signed and unsigned integral exists for the most general integral, the Henstock-Kurzweil integral. (I could be wrong, but an orientation seems to always be implied in being able to compute a Ri
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by BlackFly 6y ago
Isn't this just an illustration of the potential pitfall of the tendency to simplify UX to cover just the 80%? Here, the design seems to be following the idea that an owner of the standard edition of the car doesn't need to be mad
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by BlackFly 7y ago
> The only people who I would trust are named specialists in this field, that are willing to stake bits of their reputation on what they say. That is basically the antithesis of the enlightenment and the whole idea of the scientific meth
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by BlackFly 7y ago
This consensus you are pointing to is the consensus that livestock is a leading cause of deforestation. There is no consensus that eliminating meat from all diets is the solution to that problem. There is also no consensus that it is the on
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by BlackFly 7y ago
I always thought the point of fire drills was to inure people to them so that in case of an emergency they would just blasély treat it like a drill instead of panicking: you want them to treat a real positive like a false positive. Injectin
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by BlackFly 7y ago
The environmental arguments are hardly clear to anyone with experience farming since they appear to hinge on equating ranch land with arable land and cattle feed with millable grain. Industrial farming is easy to revile and many people are
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by BlackFly 7y ago
Yes, but why should society help you with that goal? In order to get something from society, there should be some sort of equivalent exchange. You are asking for a form of violence enforced by society (policing to enforce that the particula
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by BlackFly 7y ago
FORTRAN has some "beautiful" implicit typing rules. Most FORTRAN programmers will disable this with an `implicit none` statement because nobody likes the type of the variable being defined by which character it starts with. So, if
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by BlackFly 7y ago
My proposed solution to this: require frand licenses from copyright holders before they are allowed to bring copyright claims to court. Whatever license they want to give, they should be required to offer the same terms to whoever comes alo
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by BlackFly 7y ago
Python wsgi servers are generally based on processes and not threads since threads would trigger GIL considerations. While your process is making the single API call, the process is not serving anyone else, ergo you can only have so many si
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by BlackFly 7y ago
This shouldn't surprise you, but if the effect is large and real, you don't need large sample sizes to prove something. As an example, a loaded die that always comes up with 6. After 18 straight 6's in a row, you are more tha
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by BlackFly 7y ago
I was thinking of this indeed, but felt I was already becoming a bit long winded. ;)
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by BlackFly 7y ago
Which first principle exactly? Because they were already stating that the speed of light would be constant in all frames which is the only thing necessary to derive special relativity. Lorentz derived the transformations precisely to descri
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by BlackFly 7y ago
This narrative is very unpersuasive, since the actual mechanics that are used to perform calculations in special relativity and the idea that they should apply to all matter were developed by Lorentz and Poincare starting in the 1890s. The
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by BlackFly 7y ago
I thought Marcel Grossmann was usually credited with helping Einstein with the tensor approach to General Relativity. All of this was more salient at the time, which the article points out: Hilbert carried a grudge against Einstein for a pe
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by BlackFly 7y ago
I had a professor briefly that studied the history of mathematics. During lectures while he was developing out proofs he would often describe the historical context in which the proof was first developed. Galois has a particularly interesti
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by BlackFly 7y ago
You're far too quick to paint me with the brush of "enemy" simply because I can understand why sensible people are worried. That I tangentially refer to 8chan as bigots should have been enough to tip you off. Maybe you should
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by BlackFly 7y ago
The history misses several salient steps, like Lorentz and Poincare describing special relativity before 1905. I guess if you want to describe the controversy of general relativity you might not want to get distracted by the controversy ove

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