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by Iv 5y ago
No, that does not require some incredible earth-shattering event. It requires political consensus of a majority of nations. Like was done to forbid emissions of ozon-layer damaging chemicals. People thought that obviously, all countries wou
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by Iv 5y ago
Jules Verne was talking about coal depletion in the 19h century (albeit with a more positive note) In the 60s France started switching to nuclear power because it worried about the depletion of oil wells in the areas it controlled. It is wr
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by Iv 5y ago
US can decide to go on a useless 2 trillions USD war. It can find budget for a trillion dollar of tax cuts. US HAS decided to lose leadership on ecology. HAS decided to underfund fusion and renewables research.
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by Iv 5y ago
And will still peak its CO2 per capita at a much lower level than US is right now.
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by Iv 5y ago
The whole point of running such a stand is to get high quality data from players and make the AI learn from them. You don't 'patch' a reinforcement learning model, you just give it data to train on.
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by Iv 5y ago
My well-being, expectedly, increased when I stopped caring more about my projects than my clients did. What I was not expecting is that my quality of work remained constant or even improved while I was working fewer hours a day.
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by Iv 5y ago
Let's not dismiss a more humane explanation: if you know someone likes to wear fantasy shirts, every birthday present is easy to choose!
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by Iv 5y ago
In some countries like France they will have to comply with the local laws that restrict strongly non-anonymous listing of persons and basically bans some criterion like race or religion (bad memories from WWII). I suspect their algorithms
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by Iv 5y ago
Don't forget text plotting, that's the hard part. The technical challenge is not huge, but the amount of small and "easy" features a good plotting lib needs is huge.
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by Iv 5y ago
Microsoft sucks at many things. Naming things in a descriptive way is one of them.
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by Iv 5y ago
Alexandra Elbakyan is a perfect example of someone who deserves a presidential pardon.
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by Iv 5y ago
No, investments typically feed growth, not normal operations, which are funded by clients, ergo the demand-side.
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by Iv 5y ago
I wonder if we are not overestimating the value of tracking and underestimating the value that Google brings by forcing some "quality advertisement" from their clients.
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by Iv 5y ago
For people wondering if the version number means something about compatibility with Python 3, it does not: they claim compatibility with Python 3.8.8
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by Iv 5y ago
The shortages seem to be caused by hiccups in the cupply-chains bottlenecks that have a hard time to adjust to the slowdown and recovery of the economy. It is not caused by a unusually high demand, but compared to its depressed self six mon
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by Iv 5y ago
Yes, typically as investment, that feed the supply side.
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by Iv 5y ago
It removes it from the demand side of the economy, which, in period of low interests, is the part you want to boost.
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by Iv 5y ago
French here who just defaults to American English on most devices: I never realized that you could have American English with sane unit and date defaults with EN-CA. Will probably use that from now on!
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by Iv 5y ago
The reason why Google is not accused of hosting copyrighted content is because they somehow managed to sell the fiction that streaming and download are two totally different things. The slightest touch can make that fiction dissipate.
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by Iv 5y ago
Thanks!
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by Iv 5y ago
How so?
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by Iv 5y ago
The policies are directly caused by the laws. If google does not react swiftly, it is considered guilty of copyright infringement. Remove the laws, the policies are instantly removes as well.
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by Iv 5y ago
> Ok. that's the way Google thinks is the way it should work. Or maybe they just recognize that their AI is causing more harm than good. Let's be clear. It is not Google that wants it. Actually Google is on the side of calling
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by Iv 5y ago
Yeah, god forbids that a company may actually want to genuinely address an ethical problem, amirirte?
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> A stalker, not stupid and well-aware about the protection, visits iFixit for a picture of internals, takes a drill, and physically obliterates the buzzer, right through the case. Epoxy or superglue for protection from the elements. You
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by Iv 5y ago
I agree but let's continue with that story. Let's remember that the beginning of the story was the labor shortage. So not enough people to serve in all restaurants at a competitive price. Let's suppose some restaurants decide
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I wonder if ex-googler is not more prestigious than "googler" actually
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> Extremely high profit margins (>55%) could trigger a negative reaction, although this was not tested. Likewise, suspiciously low margins (e.g. negative or very low) could negatively impact the effect of trust that drives increased s
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by Iv 5y ago
> Over the following 10 years, these inventions saved 4 million lives and saved 15 million days of lost work/school. I have a more pessimistic view on that. It means that it took 4 millions death to realize that we could use resourc
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by Iv 5y ago
If you read it, I have a question: I read two times already the (unsourced) assertion that the renewal of a court system in western europe was due to the crusades. The caliphate had a tribunal system that the crusaders imported back. Is it

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