John_KZ

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by John_KZ 9y ago
That's a very interesting insight into the world of American healthcare and privatized healthcare in general. Previously I thought that all these statements about the US healthcare system were seriously exaggerated, but I guess I wa
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Ask HN: Are there any purely keyword-based search engines with no NLP?
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At first I felt insulted for implying the left is easy to manipulated, but then I realized I'd be more insulted if I was in the right wing because you imply the right-wing doesn't care about the sexual molestation and exploitation
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by John_KZ 9y ago
Yeah the article is very misleading, possibly intentionally.
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The white/non-white dichotomy is purely an American construct. When they say "white" they mean "anglo-saxon". In my opinion anglo-saxons are actually red, not white, but that's a differnt argument. The rest of
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Yeah this screams to me "Please take our toxic waste, please". The cost of dismandling/disposing them in the US would be very high, because they can't risk human lives in the process. So far it had been working "gre
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>Unemployed drunks protesting before the automatic growthlab and sawmill. Or politicized unemployed people chopping your head off because you took their jobs and gave nothing back. It goes both ways. I don't think you understook wha
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by John_KZ 9y ago
Exactly. Not to mention that some other guy in this thread said that in Brazil now all forestry equipment is sold with GPS tracking, so there's literally zero need for such a device regardless. If they want people to stop chopping down
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by John_KZ 9y ago
If a number of people(experienced/experts in a field) are willing to volunteer their time and/or capital in exchange for equity/patents/stock, then it's all good. My problem lies with externalizing the cost and risk
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by John_KZ 9y ago
Startups are a form of volatile research projects that could be done better in a corporate environment. Startups provide precarious and unstable employment, and on average they fail and lead to unemployment. I personally love working on new
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Yeah, Americans seem pretty indifferent on such issues, probably because they oppress others too well and don't get to hear such things themselves. What if a major French company lists the Falklands under Argentina? What if open street
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This is also why people in France have stable, long-term jobs, instead of being fired by Wallmart every 6 months due to some war veteran scheme that allows them to save 0.1% on employee salaries. In this particular case, if the man wasn&#x2
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This is because the two systems are extremely different. In the brain memory is localized and bundled with processing. Could a neuroscientist figure out how a program works by damaging memory cells in the ROM that holds it? Sounds a lot m
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Defrauding investors yields jailtime more often than not. Depending on the particular case is might be a civil case, but even civil cases often result in incarceration. I'm not going to argue with the rest of your post because your bel
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by John_KZ 9y ago
Depends on your definition of "smart". Germany undercut and closed down most factories from around Europe. Ask anyone you know in the EU, they'll tell you how things were going well in the 70s and how their country actually h
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by John_KZ 9y ago
Yeah it's pretty naive. Google trying to make the world a better place would actually be illegal and would place the managers in jail for defrauding investors. Google's mission is to make as much money as possible, typical tactics
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by John_KZ 9y ago
Great, now you can't escape Google's tracking even in the middle of the fucking jungle. Those bastards will triangulate your position from the sound of your footsteps and send BigDog to slice you up.
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by John_KZ 9y ago
I upvote links that promote discussion of interesting concepts, even if the article itself is really bad - like this one. I couldn't bother reading the original article, but designing neural networks via evolutionary algorithms is a ve
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by John_KZ 9y ago
I would suggest going to university. Anything else is a waste of time if you're looking for employment. The only exception would be if you're an employee (programmer) of a large firm that's willing to train you and put you in
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by John_KZ 9y ago
They can just ask their ISPs to remove facebook.com from their DNS. That'll remove 80% of the users. If that doesn't work, they'll just have to ask their ISPs to block traffic to facebook and their associated IPs. It's n
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by John_KZ 9y ago
Not to mention 10 years worth of archived videos that will be lost (and are currently lost due to censoring and de-ranking). Youtube at this point is like the Library of Alexandria, but they just decided to burn down half the books and re
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by John_KZ 9y ago
I bet it's still very loud, which is why we don't get to hear it in operation. This, along with the ugliness of motor-based motion and electromagnetic profiles is why these artificial fish aren't very convincing to anyone, be
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by John_KZ 9y ago
There's a reason for this. People love to go to the countryside for a weekend trip, but nobody live there. Why? Because there are no jobs and no people (or very few of them). Many families would be glad to escape to the countryside onc
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Does a developer in SF really produce 500k of work while one in Nevada produces 80k? Would Google and Facebook pay up so much money if they were stationed in a European city? No they wouldn't. Cities provide more people because of th
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by John_KZ 9y ago
Yep. I'm not an economist, but I've been watching this weird "urban inflation" trend too. People in big cities, even though they don't produce more or better work than others, get paid a lot more to account for the
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What do you mean by domesticated? It's very vague. The original comment looks shallow at first, but GMOs often contain pesticides inside the seed/grain because the companies designing them don't know how to control it. That c
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by John_KZ 9y ago
That's sad, but until we get insecticides with high specificity I'd rather have fewer birds and fewer insects over more birds and more insects. Monocultures are definitely in need of becoming at least somewhat diversified because
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It's time to set the precedent by jailing those who deemed the system was ready for real-world use. This woman's death will not be in vain. I did not expect such a terrible fuck up so early on, but I'm glad it clearly demonst
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Very informative article. Sheds more light into the emerging nuclear weapons race.
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Lytro captures true depth information. Sure, you can blur things in Photoshop, but it simply doesn't look like the real, depth-of-field based blur on real lenses, or the calculated one of light-field cameras. Re-focusing on photoshop i

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