JorgeGT

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by JorgeGT 8y ago
> I wonder if increasing adoption of this system will create a black market of 'score hackers' Well, Campbell's law... > "The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more s
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by JorgeGT 8y ago
It depends on the jurisdiction. In some countries like the UK they can be indeed waived, but in others like France moral rights are inalienable -- any contract wherein you give up these rights is null and void by law.
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Regulations forbid us from letting you access the filing cabinet but I can tell you, all of us will be out having a beer between 6 and 8 PM. Oh, and the key is under the flowerpot. Wink wink.
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by JorgeGT 8y ago
Server seems down, but I guess it refers to this? https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lost-circles-socia... I did something similar many years ago, exporting my Facebook data and plotting a simple force-dire
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by JorgeGT 8y ago
It's very plausible. Most answers are concerned with the technical side, but the real difficulty is achieving a stable society with a continued interest in science and research. Organized civilizations have existed for millennia but
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by JorgeGT 8y ago
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but (2^48 possible MAC addresses) / (60000MH/s) / (3600 s/h) = 1.3 h to calculate the SHA256 sum of every MAC address in an AWS p3.16xlarge instance (~$50) https://
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by JorgeGT 8y ago
Which proves that despite the naysayers it's actually easy to fix mistakes in Wikipedia: you just need to become a quintessential American novelist and then have the New Yorker publish your letters to that effect.
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by JorgeGT 8y ago
The writer maybe didn't notice, but in the Nature article Victor Buso's affiliation is listed as Observatorio Astronómico Busoniano, Entre Ríos 2974 (2000) , this is, the attic of his own house: https://ichef.bbci.co.u
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by JorgeGT 8y ago
Exactly, if you're providing a special service that requires logging (financial, etc.) then you need to follow other laws that trump GDPR, same as you need to obey traffic lights except if you drive an ambulance and there's an eme
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Every website you visit can elect not to store IP addresses. In fact if you had German users their IPs were already protected, it's just that nobody cared to comply with individual EU member's privacy laws until they combined thei
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by JorgeGT 8y ago
AFAIK Airbus has a TCAS-capable AP/FD, certified at least for the A380, which can automatically fly RAs by itself: https://www.skybrary.aero/index.php/Autopilot/Flight_Directo...
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by JorgeGT 8y ago
No, see footnote 2 of the NTSB report: > 2 In Uber’s self-driving system, an emergency brake maneuver refers to a deceleration greater than 6.5 meters per second squared (m/s^2). So, Uber's self-driving system has command to b
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by JorgeGT 8y ago
On the contrary: the Volvo system is designed not to fight but to override any other input, including the human driver. In any other Volvo car currently on the road that detects an obstacle, the Volvo system will override the driver and b
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by JorgeGT 8y ago
They disabled both the Volvo system and Uber's own system ability to trigger "emergency braking".
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by JorgeGT 8y ago
Move fast and disable the brakes. They in fact began testing with two people per car, but then decided to go with just one. An Uber spokeswoman stated [1]: > We decided to make this transition [from two to one] because after testing, we
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by JorgeGT 8y ago
Direct link to NTSB preliminary report: https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/... According to data obtained from the self-driving system, the system first registered radar and LIDAR ob
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by JorgeGT 8y ago
But several experts in the bloodshed field.
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by JorgeGT 8y ago
Here's a brief outline of the requirements: https://plugins.qgis.org/ they advertise a 2 weeks review time maximum.
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by JorgeGT 8y ago
This would be fantastic as a QGIS plugin, have you thought about applying to their grant program?
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by JorgeGT 8y ago
> they are described in the Bible as having 6 wings for example. No, a particular high order of angels (Seraphims) have six wings. Your run-of-the-mill, proletarian angels have two wings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by JorgeGT 8y ago
Same story here with Orange in Spain. Fake dual stack through barely-working CG-NAT limited to ports <2000 which many services/devices do not accept and which the router randomly forgot, and no PPTP VPN because the CG-NAT did not su
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by JorgeGT 8y ago
Is this not taught in school in the US? My country (Spain) profited by the slave trade as well, and the general process of how slaves were brought to our colonies was taught. The man of the article was from (or close?) Dahomey, whose Kings
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by JorgeGT 8y ago
> but other than that you have no task. Then give them a task! Install a HUD drawing a box in real time with the classification of nearest detected object (bike, pedestrian, car, mailbox) and put buttons in the wheel for the driver to co
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by JorgeGT 8y ago
This is a fantastic resource, not only because its convenience, openness and reproducibility, but also because of the educative value of the documentation.
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The proof of course is that searching in the corpus of English literature, "in my humble opinion" is found orders of magnitude more than "in my honest opinion": https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?
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Aruba Cloud?
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by JorgeGT 8y ago
> Unlike the Nobel laureates in literature and sciences the peace prize is not awarded by the Swedish Academy (in Stockholm). Note that the Swedish Academy only awards the Literature prize. Nobels in Physics and Chemistry are awarded b
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by JorgeGT 8y ago
This is why I don't get all the hysteria and all the "block all EU IPs!" comments of people in this thread. For years, there have been 28 different data protection laws in the EU that you could be sued with. Now there will be
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
We regularly use Johnson's baby oil for Particle Imaging Velocimetry (PIV) at my lab, it's cheap ans smells nice. Similarly I once was visiting a certain aerospace institution and they were using Durex gel for assembling a drone.
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by JorgeGT 9y ago
A site whose founder banned greetings isn't very welcoming, go figure. https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/93989

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