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by BlackFly 8y ago
> This makes it possible to build a worldwide geographic database with no seams or singularities The geographic database may have no singularities but the coordinate system used does. The coordinate system has a singularity at the origin
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by BlackFly 8y ago
I agree, I think grue and bleen were constructed so that green and blue could be redefined in terms of these new time dependent predicates to confuse the fact that the original colors are not time dependent. In math it is completely normal
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by BlackFly 8y ago
Possibly. If you have 99% free users and you want to get to 98% free users by convincing free users to stop using your platform, then you need to lose half of your users. It will come up anytime you have a secondary metric which is a percen
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by BlackFly 8y ago
There was a time where relativists realized that instead of solving the Einstein equations subject to initial conditions coupled to some matter stress energy terms, they could instead fully specify what spacetime looks like, ram it through
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by BlackFly 8y ago
Some use cases and bugs are not amenable to proof. For example, how do you mathematically prove that your rendering engine is cutting off the bottom of the g of your new font? Not all requirements of a system can be expressed a priori. I th
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by BlackFly 8y ago
The cooperating part of this concurrency model is the complicated part. Consider how you would go about making an orm like sqlalchemy cooperate. Now you have to access properties like this: name = await account.user.name since a lo
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by BlackFly 8y ago
I too, don't understand why people think anyone could be a programmer if it wasn't for the existing programmers. What is considered a good grade in school? I think most parents would be happy with their children coming home with 9
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by BlackFly 8y ago
If you look into studies of lie detection training and efficiency, you will learn that it is mostly confirmation bias on the side of the lie detectors: humans cannot really be trained to be powerful lie detectors. There is some new research
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by BlackFly 8y ago
For the full story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedmann%E2%80%93Lema%C3%AEtr...
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by BlackFly 8y ago
I said necessities instead of specifying food or clothes because for some people, items which are hard to impossible to find in small towns can be considered necessities for a contented existence. Similarly, necessities might be friends wit
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by BlackFly 8y ago
What can be asserted without evidence can be denied without evidence. In other words, I'm sorry but I don't have any study to provide you. Probably such a study cannot exist, since it would be unethical to perform the sort of doub
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by BlackFly 8y ago
There is an excellent quote from the actual link: > Nevertheless, the Commission investigated to what extent competition for end users (downstream), in particular between Apple and Android devices, could indirectly constrain Google'
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by BlackFly 8y ago
I would like to contest the idea of living in rural areas as having a higher quality of life. As an analogy, we live in houses with refrigerators because this is a higher quality of life than farming or foraging for food and huddling under
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by BlackFly 8y ago
Don't get me wrong, I think its an excellent anecdote. I just shy away from a focus on correctness since in my experience people who prioritize correctness above all else usually make a shambles. I feel that people who prioritize simpl
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by BlackFly 8y ago
How sure are you that a given program is bug free? I feel that only very rarely would I ever assert 100%. In fact, I would generally assert with 100% confidence that there is some overlooked edge case. How many users that bug may affect...
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by BlackFly 8y ago
Having read those articles, I struggle to understand how the interpretations of "link tax" and "automated filtering requirement" arose. Article 11 reiterates articles from directive 2001/29/EC which gives copyr
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by BlackFly 8y ago
Obviously you cannot just allow copyright infringement because you are a small content provider. However, this particular article would not apply to you. You would have the ordinary duties already in law. Once you start to be large, then th
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by BlackFly 8y ago
> to supplant real life goal obtainment with virtual status/achievement. If you achieve a world first in an MMO, that achievement is as real as winning a sports championship. Even if you don't do something with a competitive co
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by BlackFly 8y ago
> This looks like a one-sided law. Yet the law says: > Those measures, such as the use of effective content recognition technologies, shall be appropriate and proportionate. Ignoring fair use is neither appropriate nor proportionate.
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by BlackFly 8y ago
It seems that once you are in the EU, the GDPR applies to you. So you could move to Europe for a year and demand that Facebook provide you with all the benefits of the GDPR. Residency is probably a practical requirement but is not a written
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by BlackFly 8y ago
While I think it may be easy to argue that use of Matomo is legitimate for the purposes of improving your service (and as a corollary, this can legitimately be outsourced), I think it is a stretch to conclude that it is legitimate for the t
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by BlackFly 8y ago
GDPR applies to data processors in the EU or for data subjects in the EU. Citizenship is irrelevant.
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by BlackFly 8y ago
Indeed, it is not service to EU users which is governed by GDPR, it is data processing of data subjects in the EU. Obviously the data processing as defined by the GDPR doesn't stop simply because the service stops since storage is cons
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by BlackFly 8y ago
I like the distinction between silencing and censorship, since it just lets you focus on the reality of the situation instead of focusing on the legal meaning. Instead of "I don't care for what you are saying but I will fight to d
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by BlackFly 8y ago
I don't think I am saying that. I am saying that the radius of curvature of a peak is potentially greater than the typical step size used in A/B testing. No discontinuity is needed, the landscape could be completely smooth. I&#x27
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by BlackFly 8y ago
I'm not sure what scenario you are envisioning. Type erasure does not completely eradicate generic type information, reflection can still be used to infer generic usage for deserialization and dependency injection (and is done in Jacks
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by BlackFly 8y ago
Isn't the answer to "Why do they cluster on diagonals?" Really mundane? The answer of course being: horizontal and vertical lines are forbidden because all non-diagonal neighbours of an odd number are even. Then your mind foc
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by BlackFly 8y ago
Well, indeed I disregard anthropic theories largely on the grounds of non-cognitivism, which I suppose is not an ordinary form of skepticism. I lump them both together in my own mind not because of how I rationalize ignoring them, but inste
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by BlackFly 8y ago
A/B testing is a form of markov-chain-monte-carlo experimentation that makes certain assumptions about the landscape it is trying to find the maximum likelihood in. Specifically, it makes the assumption of monotonicity of the likelihoo
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by BlackFly 8y ago
That is a rather cynical take. More pragmatically, while it may be true that companies don't immediately jump at the opportunity to export in a common format (or there may be too many standards to export as), there is suddenly a market

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