John_KZ

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by John_KZ 8y ago
If they wanted to counter a biological weapons attack on food crops, they would be creating a detection network, a facility to produce a specific compound to counter the threat, and a delivery network comprising of dusting aircraft. They wo
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by John_KZ 8y ago
On a somewhat related note, I recently bought a chocolate from a local discount store (in the EU). Apparently the list of ingredients is a machine-translation of the original (unknown) language. It listed "palm-oil" as an ingredie
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by John_KZ 8y ago
We need this for humans too.
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by John_KZ 8y ago
I can't believe I haven't heard of this before.
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by John_KZ 8y ago
>Google is selling out for nothing. I don't understand the notion. Google already censors anything they like with very advanced methods that even provide them with plausible deniability, high specificity etc. And I bet they're
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by John_KZ 8y ago
Thanks, I couldn't find it on mobile.
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by John_KZ 8y ago
Paper? The video is really impressive if it's not just a highlight reel.
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by John_KZ 8y ago
But why should we have to lose this benefit? If Sweden or Germany doesn't want DST, good. Vote to abolish it. In your own country. But why should Italy and Spain be forced to do the same? It's obviously a rhetorical question, an
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by John_KZ 8y ago
Things like the mass hysteria with CO2 are just surreal to anyone with a basic understanding of atmospheric and climate science. It really messes with your trust in public consensus.
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by John_KZ 8y ago
Although China is on the other side of the equation, it provides plenty of clear examples showing automation not eliminating jobs. It changes the available jobs, and generally improves them (ie digger operator instead of hand-shovel &quot
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by John_KZ 8y ago
The WWW is fundamentally broken at this point, perhaps this legislation will completely destroy it and kickstart some other form of network.
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by John_KZ 8y ago
It depends on your goal. If you want to show more ads for longer, it's the local maxima of profit. If you want to provide something like a quick reference guide, then yes, it's terrible. Instead of optimizing for some arbitrary me
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by John_KZ 8y ago
I think it's terrifying how sooner than later the plebians won't even have that miniscule amount of power because all the work that needs to be done will be automated with machines they have no control over.
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by John_KZ 8y ago
That's great, and definitely better than paywalls, but how are we going to fund the work of good reviewers?
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by John_KZ 8y ago
I assume it's not mentioned because everyone knows it. It's very old news.
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by John_KZ 8y ago
Although this method can be used for de-anonymization and fingerprinting, you can't fully reconstruct the screen contents from such a low bandwidth signal. If your private spaces are bugged with microphones or cameras (ie most mobile d
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by John_KZ 8y ago
I don't know if you're quoting this to show the absurdity of the statement or if you really believe it. Nobody understands how a processor is made. Hell, I bet there's almost nobody that truly understands how a plastic cup is
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by John_KZ 8y ago
I don't get how they enforced the temporal coherence criterion on the GAN. How do they evaluate temporal coherence?
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by John_KZ 8y ago
The idea of using (mappable/recordable) public amenities per capita as a measure of prosperity is good. However, even discounting for the massive regional biases in OSM mapping, having 10 universities per capita doesn't mean anyth
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by John_KZ 8y ago
This is the problem. Low quality journalism and lack of trust. How do you know if this article is actually good and worth your time? You don't, and the last 20 articles you read are crap. In fact modern journalism is so bad, that once
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by John_KZ 8y ago
It's nice but I wonder why there's still nobody that tried to create a spatially coherent 3D space from the input before re-synthesizing the output. It's definitely possible and lots of work on this was done in late 2017. The
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by John_KZ 8y ago
Wait, I'm confused. Do native english-speakers intuitively interpret the lyrics as "infant" or as "lover"? "Babe" is common word for "lover" in many languages, including mine, and I never thought
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by John_KZ 8y ago
Actually Toronto is one of the most transit-friendly cities in North America. Or so I've been told by a friend that lived there. That doesn't mean it's bike-friendly though. Or that it should be. Biking in Toronto will probab
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by John_KZ 8y ago
I don't think you understand how CSPRNGs work.
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by John_KZ 8y ago
At first it's funny then it's kind of unsettling. Not even trees can hide from the all-seeing eye. Just go spot fruit trees on your own.
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by John_KZ 8y ago
Why should it be made non-blocking? If you want a large string with little entropy just use /dev/urandom. The political/dogmatic argument is that is should be made non-blocking. The process of acquiring entropy in typical c
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by John_KZ 8y ago
I only use closed platforms like Facebook and Twitter when it's absolutely necessary (ie in case of Twitter, almost never). Why would Twitter even block anonymous users from read-accessing its platform? Whatever the reason might be, it
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by John_KZ 8y ago
Good. Every country needs such laws. From NZ to London to Spain to Iceland. If you live in a place and earn your income there you should be able to buy or rent residential property. Otherwise you have no business exploiting the inflexibilit
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by John_KZ 8y ago
Maybe they didn't ask them nicely enough. Likewise, instead of using technical measures to stop websites from acquiring analytics, we can make them pinky-swear to delete out data. This simply cannot go wrong.
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by John_KZ 8y ago
Diesel's days depend purely on politics. I was shocked to see public opinion change overnight on this issue because some German auto manufacturer cheated on their tests. This should motivate people to fight corruption, not fuels. Prope

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