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by Radim 9y ago
Unfortunately not. Not even close. EU is a political union -- it subsumed the European Economic Community and (partially) the Schengen Agreement and gradually added a lot of political centralization on top. Scary how people equate those,
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by Radim 9y ago
Not at all. Especially if the free trade and free movement agreements stay in place, or are expanded (EFTA, Schengen). These are not the same thing as the EU. In fact, smart businesses will new open offices in UK (outside of EU), just to he
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An international list of “fools errands”(messybeast.com)
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by Radim 9y ago
Reducing expenses is a commendable effort, but your comment is off-topic in this discussion. It is completely orthogonal to levelling the playing field when it comes to paying taxes (you can do both).
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This is an interesting point. I was born in East Europe "behind the iron curtain", but lived in the west for a long time. And then East Asia for even longer. There are huge differences in how people perceive "civilization&quo
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by Radim 9y ago
Used to be 9h per day for decades. Any more and I'd feel strangely groggy (unproductive), my body cannot deal with oversleeping. Lately I experimented with a 1h nap after lunch (I'm getting old!), and can report that I feel equall
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by Radim 9y ago
If I understand correctly, Feynman implies there exist other defining properties, better than names, that are preferable when thinking about animals (or objects in general)... unless one is communicating with other people, in which case a n
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by Radim 9y ago
...since we're trading anecdotes, I'd much prefer juice to wine with my steak. Although I typically go with my favourite drink of all -- plain water.
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by Radim 9y ago
the shaman in order to learn from the plant what his patient illness is and how to go about healing it. And how was that working out for them, from what you could see? Did patients there prefer the "traditional" or the
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by Radim 9y ago
Plenty of successful freelancers make good money just by themselves (or maybe 1-2 junior people). Great point. The underappreciated thing is how much stress bringing a few other people to your freelancing brings. Suddenly, you
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by Radim 9y ago
Worse! "The machines themselves condition the users to employ each other the way they employ machines." - God Emperor of Dune Frank Herbert was a genius.
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by Radim 9y ago
By making the association with cockroaches so explicit, they're placing a bet: *People will change their perceptions and "cockroach" will assume a new meaning. Instead of "something disgusting and negative", peo
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by Radim 9y ago
Humans want to win, so losing every time wasn't fun. This needs to be a bit more qualified. I personally love games where the skill gap is SO HUGE it seems impossible to win at first. I get my ass kicked for months and years be
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by Radim 9y ago
It's not your problem only in the sense that it shouldn't be your problem. E.g., in theory. Some people can be quite belligerent about their FOSS entitlement. I've also seen folk publicly bash open source projects just beca
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by Radim 9y ago
You misunderstood -- the parent said this is already the case . A lot of FOSS is already heavily subsidized, from grants and tax money. No "would"s needed. And yes, it definitely makes it harder for indie developers to "comp
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by Radim 9y ago
I find your idea of "ethical" and "fair", highly unethical and unfair. Such social engineering has a long and bloody history of turning around and disproportionately hurting the poor and the weak, in unexpected (sic!) wa
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by Radim 9y ago
For a good (if scary) insight into the "hidden bias" and "forced diversity" culture inside Google, have a listen to the recent James Damore interview at Joe Rogan's podcast: https://www.youtube.com/w
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by Radim 9y ago
And for good reasons! Fish meat -- especially large fish like salmon -- are notoriously riddled with worms [0]. Freezing helps kill (most of) them. [0] https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2017/m
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by Radim 9y ago
Makes winning so much sweeter: no need to concede bullshit "acknowledgements" to absent profs and grant agencies and supervisors who sit the entire project out, only to inject themselves into the final credits and collect the post
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by Radim 9y ago
An astute observation -- applies to more than just open source. Doesn't it seems to sum up the western society in general these days, or am I becoming a grumpy old man? The sense of automatic entitlement, with no expectation of recipro
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by Radim 9y ago
The (iterated) prisoner's dilemma is a massively simplified but nevertheless (therefore?) interesting topic. It has captured our human imagination for decades, for better or for worse: https://www.wired.com/2004/10
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by Radim 9y ago
Mark my words: this will all come crashing down. I can't tell you when or why, but it's not sustainable. The irony: lots of people feel the same way about the "real" debt-based modern economy. A ridiculous Ponzi
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by Radim 9y ago
East Asian countries, Japan included, see ethnic and cultural homogeneity as a good and desirable thing (and are quite openly racist and xenophobic as a result). OP is making a joke -- if you want to call Romain Britain ethnically diverse,
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by Radim 9y ago
Mandatory insight-vs-bruteforce-in-science essay: Peter Norvig, 2011: On Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning http://norvig.com/chomsky.html
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by Radim 9y ago
The article doesn't mention many specifics, but I'd say when it comes to national security, Sweden has bigger (and more apparent) long-term issues than a handful of known IT professionals from Eastern Europe having access to priva
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by Radim 9y ago
Sure, the nature will adapt, but will humans? For us, it's not a zero sum game of universe-wide optimization. We have skin in the game, so to speak. Mandatory George Carlin link: "The planet is fine; humans are fucked" https
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by Radim 9y ago
I feel you. The time spent discovering a new domain is high-value but also very creatively demanding. Often underestimated by technical folk used to "coding to specification". That stressful period, full of uncertainty and half-ar
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by Radim 9y ago
We also found a mild negative correlation between "years spent in academia" and "can get shit done". But rather than whinging about it, we opened a free "Student Incubator" program [0], where we work on ML proj
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by Radim 9y ago
Yep, that's the one. By the way, this "local-changes-only" approach crops up in many other places too. In CS and nature, because it's just so damn energy-efficient. For example, check out this (recent, July 2017) paper
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by Radim 9y ago
Reversible state updates have nothing to do with IDA. The concept is completely orthogonal to choosing which node (next state) to expand next. It's about managing the internal representation of a state.

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