Eridrus

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by Eridrus 8y ago
I'm sympathetic to all of these ideas, and I think we should really be talking more about housing on a national level, but there are a few main issues I see that all of the public funding proposals ignore: a) Housing is, at the limit,
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by Eridrus 8y ago
I have no desire to go to Mars, but plenty of people had no desire to go to the Americas either, and yet someone did. I don't think the fact that Mars is inhospitable is really an argument against it. I think there is a reasonable ques
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by Eridrus 8y ago
It's pretty amusing/amazing how well domain randomization works, but it seems like they train the pose detector in the real world and not in simulation: "To transfer to the real world, we predict the object pose from 3 real c
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by Eridrus 8y ago
I think it's basically impossible to prepare for. Finding jobs for these folks can't be done effectively in a top down manner. Retraining programs haven't been found to be very effective. We might extend additional unemployme
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by Eridrus 8y ago
So, I don't think this is about any of the racial groups, but more so about the fact that diversity advocates have latched onto a narrative of underrepresentation of minorities as the issue, which is basically asking for equality in ou
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Asian people have been discriminated against and oppressed plenty throughout (recent) history, just because the Asians in the US are doing well doesn't mean there is no discrimination - we're just seeing that minorities who come h
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Some not necessarily cohesive thoughts from my experience, 8 years after graduating: College is probably more useful for tackling topics that you find more challenging - personally I am trying to brush up on my Math after taking an interest
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Trump made the claim that we must introduce these tariffs on national security grounds, because that is the authority he is using to impose these tariffs, which is an additional slap in the face to our allies. Trump is probably lying about
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by Eridrus 8y ago
You're right, "ignore misconduct because it might help 'the enemy' make us look bad" has its own downsides, but the answer isn't "who cares who it hurts". There are many ways to deal with misconduct -
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by Eridrus 8y ago
You're getting downvoted because you're failing to see the bigger picture here, in much the same way journalists deciding "even if we got handed this by the russians, it's true, so we should publish it" is missing t
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Most of these communities are not farming communities, most farms are huge multi-million dollar enterprises that do not need a broadband subsidy, food can be imported, there's a whole market for paying people for the food they produce,
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by Eridrus 8y ago
> there were significant collective benefits to near-universal electrification and phone service If we keep having to subsidise these areas because it is uneconomical to build infrastructure there, and most new technologies require infra
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by Eridrus 8y ago
I agree that China has not been a good actor trade-wise, and pressure should be applied, but I'm utterly unconvinced that Trump understands the situation well enough to get them to actually do anything. He put tarrifs on Canadian steel
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by Eridrus 8y ago
It's interesting how these politicians are talking about congestion, but they are unwilling to introduce congestion pricing to directly attack the issue, because no-one lines new taxes and people don't have a basic understanding o
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by Eridrus 8y ago
> Even though they already have the metadata indicating a song has explicit lyrics. Heh, I talked to someone from a large tech company about this who was working with this data, and in his opinion the "explicit" metadata that r
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by Eridrus 8y ago
I didn't get why everyone was getting hyped over a product without threads when they were the most useful part of Flowdock, so I'm glad you're trying to think about it further. But the flat thread model is still limited, part
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by Eridrus 8y ago
So I looked for the FB stock price and found this gem of an article: https://www.zacks.com/stock/news/312831/should-you-buy-faceb... > Based on Facebook’s continued importance to advertisers, its growing
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by Eridrus 8y ago
This is a criticism that would be more suited to the Canvas API than the WASM API. WASM is still meant to drive the DOM API which is still as introspectable as before. [EDIT]: Steve is right of course, and I misspoke here, "WASM is sti
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Yes, it definitely is.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
On one hand I see where this is coming from: people like restaurants and having a variety of them, usually a good chunk of their business is from office workers at lunch, and by occupying those offices, tech companies are making the economi
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by Eridrus 8y ago
> The next morning, all your services end up broken as a result. I mean, this is the argument for having good integration tests. At some point someone has to figure out if the new code will break a system; if you don't have good int
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by Eridrus 8y ago
It seems odd that the API they have defined only gives you the scores, rather than the actual cards.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
I doubt there is much political appetite for this in the US/Europe. It would have to be led by neighboring Latin American states. And who would that be? Brazil? Their politicians are probably pretty happy to sit by and gloat and accept
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by Eridrus 8y ago
It seems odd to focus on physical tokens, when this could just as easily be built into the Browser/OS. Sure, you also get some additional resistance when your machine is hacked, but it's pretty marginal compared to the phishing be
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Seems unlikely. There's no appetite to pay people as well as Google/Goldman. Even much of HN isn't willing to accept how much Engineers get paid there. But it doesn't need to be as cool as Google/Goldman, it just ne
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Everyone who has an approach that hasn't worked likes to say "the right thing to do is to combine the best of both worlds", and it's sort of tautologically true that if you have orthogonal approaches that can be meaningf
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by Eridrus 8y ago
Not all software is equally affected by this, browsers are particularly affected because they have a JavaScript VM running untrusted code. But Site Isolation has been in the works in Chrome for a long time and it brings additional protectio
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by Eridrus 8y ago
It's not like TV, it's like mail advertising, which was starting to get attention for its lack of transparency before the 2016 cycle got everyone hyper attuned to Facebook's issues.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
A Surface Hub is $9K though, so not sure why you're bringing up cost here.
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by Eridrus 8y ago
The one time this system complained about my tests it found a real bug in my test, though not an actual issue with the program under test.

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