Kenji

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by Kenji 10y ago
Look at all the media attention to her hair I am not gonna lie, Trump's hair got much more coverage. She is not treated fundamentally different than a male candidate, except in a positive bias as in "I want to see a woman lead
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by Kenji 10y ago
The goal is a better future, after all, not maximizing fairness in the short-term. That's why you shouldn't judge by gender, but by performance of the candidate. That just proves my point. If your goal is a better future and you
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by Kenji 10y ago
And of course, I think that a woman should have a chance at leading our country, even if she's not the one that I'd chose typically. This I find the worst argument for her presidency imaginable. "I am so virtuous and anti-s
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by Kenji 10y ago
Not to mention that it should contain an epilepsy warning before it starts. The screen flashing and how it's done is very unprofessional.
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by Kenji 10y ago
The problem is more like 96% CO2 in the air. Yes, plants need CO2. But I read that if the CO2 concentration is too high, plants stop being able to perform photosynthesis well.
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by Kenji 10y ago
Does that transfer to code? Should I write bad code for a month and seek to read the worst code samples imaginable? I'm pretty sure whoever will be confronted with my code will not be happy =)
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by Kenji 10y ago
So, we the people are essentially children and the state is the parent? Nice metaphor, you just proved my point that the state should not interfere.
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by Kenji 10y ago
Things like principal component analysis, eigenvalues and filtering are timeless and fundamental tools that won't go away in the near future. Even if you don't go into computer vision - these have a wide range of applications, for
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by Kenji 10y ago
I don't understand why the state has to become involved. Let the free market work and people decide for themselves. I stopped using WhatsApp the moment I read that facebook bought it.
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by Kenji 10y ago
It boggles my mind how certain countries are becoming safer day by day, yet people feel compelled to vote for pervasive surveillance and control. I think it is a mental disorder, a complete disconnect from reality, bordering on schizophreni
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by Kenji 10y ago
You have to stop discrimination from first principles downwards: Identify the discriminating policy or behaviour and stop it. You cannot assess discrimination from the other side, by looking at percentages and then conclude a systemic bias.
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by Kenji 10y ago
This is very impressive, I love it when code has minimal (or no) dependencies, you really see what's going on under the hood. Could have used some more comments in the code itself though (there are basically none but the code is clean)
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by Kenji 10y ago
The real issue is that the cost of living hasn't scaled with those occasional consumer goods purchases. Housing, healthcare, utilities, transportation, food, education, etc. are constant necessity expenses, and costs are increasing in
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by Kenji 10y ago
Me. Someone is wrong on the internet and I am right ! Yes, that was a joke ;)
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by Kenji 10y ago
There is barely a company that visits the white house more than Google. I wouldn't be surprised if the American state has direct access right into Google's data center - it wouldn't be the first company whose server building
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by Kenji 10y ago
So, does that mean Google (and thus the American State) MitM your website traffic to protect free speech? I am thrilled! I am so happy that at least large corporations that cooperate with the ever-more pervasive surveillance state care abou
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by Kenji 10y ago
I think you underestimate how much energy it takes to cool down and freeze water and how inefficient it is to simply place that near the server.
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by Kenji 10y ago
They didn’t plan for ventilation for all the hardware, so they cooled the server room with a garbage can full of ice! In the video, he said they had no money for it, but that is quite possibly the most expensive way to cool a server.
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by Kenji 10y ago
If you don't punish the leakers, you'll look bad when more whistle-blowers reveal more of the evil stuff you've been up to. If you do punish the leakers, you confirm your guilt. The only way out seems to be to not do evil, s
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by Kenji 10y ago
Your time is valuable. Never spend it with people who bring less value into your life than you would have got if you spent this time alone. Never ever (exception: if you are responsible for someone, like a child or elderly person). It'
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by Kenji 10y ago
We will look back at the late 20th century/early 21st century and facepalm about all the horrific stuff we've done in the name of 'psychology', 'education' and 'safety'. I feel like there has never be
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by Kenji 10y ago
This is not really related to WhatsApp but I feel like it was also a mistake of Oculus VR to be bought by facebook. When I first read it, I thought that VR in general took a big hit, and I still think that, simply because the motives and in
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by Kenji 10y ago
It's just interesting to see the opinions shift over time.
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by Kenji 10y ago
I remember that time when I said on HN that most meta-analyses are complete garbage because of statistical/mathematical effects that weaken the result and that the conclusions are necessarily as flawed as the underlying data. I got dow
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by Kenji 10y ago
Just a few days ago, I noticed a bug in IE11 that destroyed a layout of a site of mine that used absolute position on a div. It worked in Chrome, Firefox, Edge and on mobile browsers. Things break just like in the 90's unless you const
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by Kenji 10y ago
No, he's right. The browser incompatibilities are incredible. The devil lies in the subtle things. Relative spacing and heights, absolute positions, divs that have to line up, etc. As soon as you require precision on all browsers, it b
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by Kenji 10y ago
When I read this kind of stuff, I feel like it never makes sense to sell out if you care about your company unless you wanted to get rich all along. I just feel like the majority of companies that get bought up die a slow and painful death
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by Kenji 10y ago
You composed this email at a rate of more than N.NN cps It is generally not possible to think and type at a rate faster than A.AA cps, and therefore you reply is likely to incoherent, badly thought out and/or emotional. I triggered m
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by Kenji 10y ago
Not wanting to dive deep inside the code but make a complicated website is like saying "I want to modify the engine of my car but I don't want to look under the hood a single time" Well, I guess that works if you have a VW Be
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by Kenji 10y ago
at the end of the day, things do exist, move around, interact whether I care to ponder them or not How do you know? Maybe things out of your sight that you don't ponder about cease to exist for brief times.

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