OldHand2018

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by OldHand2018 5y ago
Oh excellent. But of course the key addition is handing off this information to lawyers who use it to shut you down and/or extract money from you. If you are using some torrent of a dataset, nobody is indemnifying you, and once you ge
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
I see a completely different attack vector here. Lawyers. If you are selling a product or service that has been trained on a dataset that contains copyrighted photos you don't have permission to use and I can "prove it" eno
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
No no, you are right. However, it was more like white noise than anything else, with the occasional word or sentence that could be recognized from someone talking too loudly. But you know, with a little thought and effort, open spaces don&
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
Hey now, I went to a high school where none of the walls went all the way to the ceiling, or even to the corners! There was only one central hallway, so in addition to not having doors anywhere, you might have to walk through one or two ot
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
Wikipedia says that happened in November 2006. Going out on a limb here, but I am betting that you and your friend weren't hanging out on the balcony at 3AM in winter in Chicago. Can we assume it was the following spring or summer? Be
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
This is on pages 403, 404 and 405 of the bill, if anyone wants to actually look at it. (1) ADVANCED DRUNK AND IMPAIRED DRIVING PREVENTION TECHNOLOGY. The term "advanced drunk and impaired driving prevention technology" means a sys
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
The author of the article states that he rebalances out of crypto because of the growth rate.
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
Keep in mind that these results were presented at a conference in 2017. Both Go and Rust have had compiler improvements since then. Would that change the rankings if rerun today? Maybe! > We analyzed 27 different programming languages
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
A very similar problem as in the organic fraud article last week. A network of organizations trying to do the right thing but stymied by the fact that product entry into the system can and is gamed, with little they can do about it. Howeve
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
Hmm, this is interesting but I come away with the feeling that there is just too much of a flaw here. I think the main issue is that there is no scale on the Y-axis. And ultimately the goal would be to minimize the area below the curve, rig
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
In large cities especially, libraries will have an "independent" charitable foundation attached to them. It is very prestigious in the local community to be on the board or to donate large sums to these foundations. Thus, large
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
It took a little bit of clicking, but I found that the southern boundary of this sanctuary is a little bit north of Milwaukee. It's not very large relative to the entire lake. I wondered why this specific place? What is so special ab
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
Oh yes, you are correct. But seriously, pinch-to-zoom has been around for 10 years now, right? This honestly cannot be the first time it's "reproduction accuracy" has been questioned, can it??? The judge gave him half an h
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
IRS tax regulations do not allow businesses to write off the cost of educational reimbursements that train you for a new job. They would have to add everything to your W-2 as taxable income! A JD or an MBA are big IRS red flags https:&#x
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/fre/rule_1001 Federal Rule of Evidence 1001 (e): A “duplicate” means a counterpart produced by a mechanical, photographic, chemical, electronic, or other equivalent process or tec
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
“In some safety-critical scenarios, such as concerning the integrity of reactor containments, and metal vaults and bulkheads in maritime structures, it can be important to minimise the number of penetrations made through such metal structur
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
The blog entry states: "(For reasons beyond the scope of this entry, we can assume that SMT is worthwhile for us.)" This is also coming from utoronto.ca - so... I guess the question I would have is actually more along the lines o
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
The study you linked to above? I think it is highly informational, but drawing specific conclusions from it should be done very, very cautiously. The page you linked to has a Methods section and a Statistical Analysis section. They are q
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
You are better off paying someone to fix this. But if you are adamant about DIY... This [1] is the study about indoor air quality that everyone cites but nobody reads. If you actually look through the paper, you'll see how they design
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
For sure. If you want a Subaru that lasts forever, get the 3.6R - it's a bulletproof 6-cylinder paired with a heavy-duty transmission. They stopped making them about 2 or 3 years ago.
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
I bought TSLA stock back when the Model S was announced. At that time, people didn't know if TSLA would be able to make it. Their market cap was less than $5 billion. There were less than 100 million shares outstanding. Buying some
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
I looked into buying a taxi medallion recently - they are historically very cheap and would dramatically increase in value if Uber and Lyft fail. Turns out that there are a lot of financial incentives available from city/state/fed
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
I can't remember that last time I saw a public transport bus that wasn't wheelchair accessible. It may not be completely obvious, but the floor at the front of the bus flips out onto the sidewalk and the air suspension lowers the
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
I had an article that had a big list, but unfortunately I can't find it any more. You can do some web searches and see that the brands with the largest price gains are "normal" while the brands with the smallest price gains
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
> However, Jonas said Morgan Stanley clients also noted the company’s larger addressable market, and an opportunity to dominate the internet-of-cars market as other possible factors built into its valuation. Ah yes, the internet-of-cars
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
One of the other oddities of this market is that prices for "normal" cars have increased at a higher rate than prices for "upmarket" cars. There is now some pricing overlap that never used to be there.
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
> Illinois, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Kansas and California. Do these states (aside from California) have fabs, or rather any hope of getting new fabs? What's in it for them?
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
> "Well", he said, "cities are OK, but not little cities that nobody's ever heard of. They ought to be WORLD CLASS cities!" https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=World_Class_Citi...
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
> especially Java programs, developers seems to think it's perfectly reasonable to present the end user with a 100 entries stack trace Try debugging something in Spark/DataBricks. It is so incredibly tedious; stack traces can
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
> On LinkedIn I frequently see Harvard listed on profiles, but upon digging in, it is Harvard Extension School which mostly seems to offer certificates. Harvard Extension started in the 1830s and became a formal division of the universit

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