Frqy3

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by Frqy3 10y ago
While there were some interesting insights in the article, they are not the unintended consequences alluded to at the start with the reference to IMPs and the early Internet leading to the disruption of journalism. An example of an unintend
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Even if the car is paid off, there is still the opportunity cost for the value of the car being invested.
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Also, that is the raw output from the antenna array. This is then analysed before storing, compressing it down to a much more managable few GB/s.
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Your online identity is also more valuable if Facebook can link your profile in with data brokers such as Acxiom.
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Sun purchased a souvenir set of the purple Gemaco Borgata (with the punched hole) from the casino, so it sounds like these cards are in regular use by Borgata. Probably they use several different patterns, and Ivy requested this particular
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by Frqy3 10y ago
I think defining political is going to be tricky. For example, is a discussion about fake news vs censorship political? Is the answer different if we are talking about China vs the US? What about discussing a company that provides fake news
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The idea of using a fake result to break a paradigm has been used in a number of science fiction stories. I believe that the earliest is "Noise Level" (1952) by Raymond F. Jones, though the idea originated with John W. Campbell [0
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The critical part is the difference in how those on the right and left rate articles that are viewed as right or left leaning. No prizes for guessing how that will turn out.
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The DNC's mistake was misunderestimating (sic) Trump. The media played their part too.
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When newspapers and television news held influence, most countries had media ownership laws. Humans and algorithms will have bias, but a diversity of bias is good. If industry cannot implement some self regulation, it risks finding itself w
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Here is a modern version of the same scam [0], using social media accounts and deleting the wrong predictions while the account is set to private. [0] https://medium.com/message/how-to-always-be-right-on-the-int...
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I remember Doyne Farmer giving a talk on this 20+ years ago. The basic premise is that each table has a slight tilt to it, and this can be calculated by measurements of the ball position, velocity and landing position over multiple spins. W
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> more robust or complicated In my experience (mostly in networks) these are two different things with a negative correlation between them.
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An example of bikeshedding perhaps?
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Also, the managers who sign off and make the final decision on which office plan to go with tend to spend most of their own work time meeting and talking to people, rather than needing to sit and concentrate on something for several hours.
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by Frqy3 10y ago
I like the title the Australian public broadcaster went with: "Small robots are getting teenagers pregnant, study finds" http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/hack/small-robots-are...
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And the networks on both the sender's and receiver's side keep a copy of the messages for a certain time. Depending on local data retention laws, these may then be kept for some mandatory longer period.
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by Frqy3 10y ago
A similar argument applies to traditional economic tasks. Clean your own house - no GDP. Pay someone to clean your house - GDP. Same amount of work is being done, but GDP only counts what is paid for.
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My billing address is my post box. Some companies refuse to ship to post boxes (probably due to concerns over fraud) and then my shipping address is of course different to my billing address.
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Golly [0], an open source, cross-platform application for exploring cellular automata, includes the Wireworld ruleset and some example starting patterns. [0] http://golly.sourceforge.net/
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And sometimes those recounts uncover issues of ballots having gone missing [0]. [0] http://aec.gov.au/Elections/federal_elections/2013/wa-senate...
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I think this issue could be overcome by a proxy/delegate style system. With the ability to change proxy/delegate at any time, we would have ongoing accountability and move away from the problems of election cycles. Even better fro
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Similarly, I hope that voice interfaces don't become popular in open plan office environments.
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Not too hard to find. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-op...
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The tough part is the cellular structure to the frequency usage and handing live calls smoothly from one cell to the next.
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by Frqy3 11y ago
Some background on this guy: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160308/08034033830/guy-w...
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With the infrastructure available today we should be able to do a hybrid direct-representative model and also have multiple representative delegations that we can change on an ad-hoc basis (i.e. not just at elections). For example, on some
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From what I've seen, it is mostly Southerners (南方人) or Western people taught by Southerners who have trouble with distinguishing between endings such as -n and -ng. Also, pinyin IMEs can be fairly fast even with only minimal practice a
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by Frqy3 11y ago
As someone who has taught themselves Chinese (lower intermediate level) as an adult, I agree with your assesement. An equivalent premise to this author's would be to say that the inconsistent spelling and grammar of English is a millst
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Those 'democratic' countries you mention are using the same features themselves.

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