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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 4y ago
> Free software / open source licenses have effectively made copyright disappear for open source code. And some of those licenses are being rethought by companies as they realize that that Amazon/Google/Microsoft can just
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 4y ago
It seems most of these types of post are about simulated quantum effects which end up being faster to do with quantum computers than with classical computers. However, that kind of feels to me like saying my analog computer (which consists
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 4y ago
Actually I don’t mind big files. It is simpler scanning through it or doing a quick search than if you had a bunch of smaller files. And 5000 lines is not awkward for most editors, especially as many editors have the ability to collapse fun
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 4y ago
The issue is that you will always need some type of infrastructure to work. Maybe we need government investment in infrastructure. Having government infrastructure allows a lot of small businesses to work. Take for example the road system.
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 4y ago
> The concept of democracy was evolved as a system that could distribute social power in order to catalyze the wider involvement of its members in their own social and economic concerns. Even in democracy there is a tendency to centraliz
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 4y ago
> To run Flarum, you will need: * Apache (with mod_rewrite enabled) or Nginx * PHP 7.3+ with the following extensions: curl, dom, fileinfo, gd, json, mbstring, openssl, pdo_mysql, tokenizer, zip MySQL 5.6+/8.0.23+ or MariaDB 10.0.5+
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 4y ago
And also suspicious, that if they had stuck to the original plan, these vaccines would have come out in October, before the 2020 election, instead of just after the election, like they did.
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 4y ago
> By utilizing sound instead, energy is able to be directed to the correct spot, forming a small bubble through a process called cavitation. Temperatures can reach a pressure approximately 1,000 times that of air at sea level and around
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 4y ago
This has the downside that a person can prove how they voted. This opens it to risk of bribery and coercion. Right now, you can prove that you voted, but not actually how you voted.
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 4y ago
Now do videos. I bet YouTube/Facebook/Instagram/TikTok/NetFlix spend orders of magnitude more resources uploading/transcoding/streaming videos than all the AI models training costs put together.
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 4y ago
> I find it much more likely that we would learn new physics by giving 10-year grants to 1000 young physicist of revolutionary spirit, and let them use the tools they could build themselves, than by handing that money to the old guard wh
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 4y ago
Looking at the examples, the step between the last and the second to last of a series is much larger than the other steps. For example the butterfly.
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 4y ago
> What do you propose to do with those of us who, despite your attestations of its uselessness, have deemed it useful and purchased it with our hard earned money? Penalize you for the collateral damage you caused. Bitcoin has consumed a
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 4y ago
> Did you know that Option<T> implements IntoIterator yielding 0/1 elements, and you can then call Iterator::flatten to make that be 0/n elements if T: IntoIterator? I thought this was so cool, being able to treat Option
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 4y ago
Or Baghdad which maybe was the largest city in the world at the time it was sacked.
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 4y ago
> Because of national-security concerns, they couldn’t take work home, or talk with anyone on the outside about what they did all day. I wonder if that would be an advantage. You are a clear separation between work and life. No one is al
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 4y ago
It actually doesn't work for Americans who write: mm dd yyyy
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 4y ago
One other thing you can do for resilience, is periodically (say every 6 months or so) take out a full page ad in The NY Times with the hashes. These newspapers tend to be archived all over the world by multiple people, and are another way t
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 4y ago
When you start seeing Super Bowl ads for it, you can describe it as "early"
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 4y ago
A programmable programming language is one where you can alter the fundamental building blocks of the programming language to make it perfect for you. Unfortunately, once you have more than 1 programmer involved in the project, you end up w
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 4y ago
Anaphylactic shock does tend to keep you from growing old.
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 4y ago
One thing to note that these “posture” studies have a huge issue with reproducibility. In addition, even when they may have statistical significance, the effect size is so small that is is often of no real world significance (other than se
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 4y ago
>Joseph Patrick "Joe" Kennedy, Sr. JFK's father, claimed that he knew it was time to get out of the stock market when he got investment tips from a shoeshine boy. On that moment Joe Kennedy had the intuition that we were
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 4y ago
I too got spoiled by Visual C++’s debugger. Nothing on other platforms combines the power and ease of use.
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 4y ago
And the MiG-25 itself was designed because the USSR was spooked by the XB-70 Valkyrie which was a supersonic strategic bomber that flew higher and faster than any existing Soviet interceptor. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 4y ago
> I don't appreciate the government letting me buy things and then informing me I'm using them wrong. If they feel there is some negative externality associated with the good I'm buying then they should mitigate it there,
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 4y ago
If you are interested in making narrative games or visual novels, another tool to consider is RenPy: https://www.renpy.org/
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 4y ago
> I’m kind of surprised so many people are shocked by this. I know of one company where dozens of people were fired because their email was scanned for external job interviews and the CIO had a report, which he used to prematurely cut st
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 4y ago
If we are looking for stuff that really changed the direction of the web, it is online advertisement. Once you could reliably turn views into money, the web became more and more about “engagement”. Couple that with machine learning that opt
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by RcouF1uZ4gsC 4y ago
> Another creator who teaches physiotherapy made $141,000 with only 61 students, at an average price point of $2,314 per course. This seems like a scam. To be a physiotherapist in the United States, you have to have a bachelor’s degree (

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