JacobThreeThree

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by JacobThreeThree 5y ago
>that still doesn't solve efficient input The phone was an input downgrade from keyboard+mouse and VR as an even more severe downgrade. Anyone talking about VR, especially in the context of work, without mentioning the glaring lack
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by JacobThreeThree 5y ago
EI is not even close to what is commonly described as UBI. Not universal at all.
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by JacobThreeThree 5y ago
I like your framework. Would you put statistical analysis "algorithms" in the same category as "Machine Learning"?
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by JacobThreeThree 5y ago
>You are worried that people will cheat in online poker, or what? The norm for online chess is to not play for money, whereas the norm for online poker is to play for money, often for large sums. Of course the game with higher stakes is
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by JacobThreeThree 5y ago
For the purpose of AI "conquering" poker the money makes a huge difference. Would you play the same way if you were betting your life savings versus $5?
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by JacobThreeThree 5y ago
>Some places that could be considered a UBI welfare state would be Scandinavian countries or parts of Canada Canada does not have any UBI. What are you referring to?
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by JacobThreeThree 5y ago
>It is just going a bit slow right now. Ahh yes, as the AI marketing department always says, we're 99% of the way there, it's just that the last 1% is the hardest! https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles&#x
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by JacobThreeThree 5y ago
Both augmented and virtual reality currently suffers from the same limitation that will sink most consumer ventures in either realm - the lack of input bandwidth. Voice is severely limited. Eye tracking is awful for most tasks. Keyboard and
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by JacobThreeThree 5y ago
>I don't think most people realize how much the suppression of "misinformation" on Covid causes distrust of the system Every effort to suppress information, whether justifiable or not, leads inexorably to more interest in
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by JacobThreeThree 5y ago
>If you're tired of censorship, cancel culture, and the erosion of civil liberties subscribe to Reclaim The Net. That's the website slogan, not part of the article. If Facebook reversed the decision, it's not censorship.
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by JacobThreeThree 5y ago
If it's a mistake that Facebook reversed, it's not censorship.
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by JacobThreeThree 5y ago
It was an example of how someone could give advice while trying to take into consideration the nuances and circumstances of the person's context.
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by JacobThreeThree 5y ago
SWIFT alternatives have already been set up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPFS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-Border_Inter-Bank_Paymen...
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by JacobThreeThree 5y ago
Instead of having to curry favor with bankers, you now have to do so with a clique of developers, lest they hard or soft fork your crypto out of existence. “The development community is proposing a soft fork, (with NO ROLLBACK; no transacti
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by JacobThreeThree 5y ago
Yeah, screw social mobility. Stay poor!
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by JacobThreeThree 5y ago
>squeeze out the last 20% of the juice. Do you mean to tell me that Juicero wasn't a great idea?
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by JacobThreeThree 5y ago
>You're not allowed to question climate change like this on HN. What's there to question? The carbon credits markets that are being implemented definitely won't be manipulated by Wall Street like the commodities markets ar
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by JacobThreeThree 5y ago
Without real time errors you can't get in a "flow"? That's hard to believe.
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by JacobThreeThree 5y ago
Lol, it's the fault of the working class that they're oppressed? Strange world view.
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by JacobThreeThree 5y ago
Right, and futures markets have been proven to be the preferred vehicle for price manipulation.
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by JacobThreeThree 5y ago
BTC futures moves the price of BTC. So you don't even need any BTC to manipulate the price of BTC.
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by JacobThreeThree 5y ago
I think people also have an inflated recollection of how good Google actually was back in 2005. Back then Google was only going up against indexes and link-rings, not 2021 Google/Bing/DDG/etc.
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by JacobThreeThree 5y ago
Pretty sure Google uses dead reckoning geolocation tracking when no signal is available. So as long as your phone is outside of the bag at some point, you're being tracked even when the phone is in the bag, and Google can correct any e
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by JacobThreeThree 5y ago
Translation: too bad, you'll never own anything.
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by JacobThreeThree 5y ago
Yep, I had this experience with The Economist as well. It was very difficult to cancel and it was by phone only.
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by JacobThreeThree 5y ago
The NYT seems to think it's been discredited: >Now it has been largely discredited by two federal investigations and the indictment of a key source, leaving journalists to reckon how, in the heat of competition, so many were taken i
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by JacobThreeThree 5y ago
I haven't seen anyone mention the fact that a big factor that contributes to how the Google Ads "black box" determines how to rank ads is via an Ad Quality measurement. Each ad is given a quality score, and since your own web