SeanDav

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by SeanDav 11y ago
Until people actually go to jail for like 30 years and until fines far exceed any profits, companies will continue to indulge in this type of behaviour. The rewards are just too good and the downsides too easy to live with.
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People make mistakes. The customer support person was probably just trying to be helpful and not fully aware of all the ramifications. This is unfortunate but presumably there has been some retraining. Note: I have no direct or indirect rel
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There is a rather interesting science fiction movie, called "The Thirteenth Floor", that explores this concept, in fact if I remember correctly it talks about nested simulated worlds. This makes perfect sense to me, if the theory
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and the check (cheque) is in the mail...
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by SeanDav 11y ago
3x Revenues for the years in question. The current penalty is not much more than a slap on the wrist, because even after paying the fine Goldman Sachs makes a profit from the business for the years in question. People see Billions and think
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by SeanDav 11y ago
> http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/we-experiment-on-human-bei... I found the referenced article to OkCupid rather interesting. It seems that if you can block people from visually seeing each other, until the actual
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by SeanDav 11y ago
I never knew that kids cancers cannot be treated in the same way as adult cancers. I just assumed that the advances in cancer treatment applied to all ages. This message needs to get out. Truly sorry for your loss.
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by SeanDav 11y ago
I am so cynical (or is that realistic?) these days, that I would not trust the encryption on WhatsApp as far as I can throw a large, adult saltwater crocodile.
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Unless I am mistaken, this does not appear to have a way to easily limit upload/download rate, which would be a deal breaker for me. Happy to be proven wrong on this of course.
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by SeanDav 11y ago
Looks like "Nutritional Science" has been an oxymoron for far too many decades, perhaps it should have been replaced by "Closed Minded Egotist".
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If the evidence was planted, then the jury most certainly did not return the correct verdict.
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Agreed. It would likely need a larger basic dictionary of allowed words and would need some ability to override the dictionary for words that just have to be in to make sense due to domain or context.
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If, during the entire history of the USA, some FBI agents had never been proven to be corrupt, if judges had never been proven to be corrupt, if evidence had never been proved to be planted by authorities, then maybe, just maybe this would
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A variation of this is being with people but not actually being present, i.e. texting, updating Facebook status, email, etc. etc. How often do I see a couple at a restaurant, or a group of friends at a social gathering, who are barely inter
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by SeanDav 11y ago
This is a bad case of "the grass is greener on the other side...". I learned long ago never to chase the money. Do what you enjoy and you will never work a day in your life. Obviously, life is never quite this simple and in any jo
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The government can change the rules on how the BBC is funded any time they want. They can also change how the BBC is governed and can influence the actual people currently governing the BBC without changing any rule. The BBC is obviously fu
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I am confused. Why use a dataset to train an AI, when one can just use a decent dataset as a look up table and dispense with the complexity of machine learning, while achieving close to perfect accuracy? Obviously as an exercise in machine
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I kind of suspected I am :)
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OT: > "...advertisers use to convince us to buy shit." Am I just an old fuddy duddy, or does the use of the word "shit" here jar with anyone else? I understand that many people talk this way, but feel that the writt
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> "Imagine a vertical underwater garden with hurricane-proof anchors on the edges..." I love this idea but am sceptical on the idea of hurricane proof anchors. Hurricane resistant more likely. Although, in his defence, havi
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This would have been a far more interesting article if he had spoken more about his thoughts and feelings, rather than the mechanical processes.
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Here is an interesting article: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/04/how-corp...
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by SeanDav 11y ago
I don't see a lot of difference between bribery to get something done and lobbying to get the law changed so you can get something done. Note that I am equally disgusted at both of these.
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by SeanDav 11y ago
> "And, purely subjectively, I think the .ps1 syntax is a lot more readable than the old .bat syntax." The Author does say "subjectively" but in my experience, both personally and with others, the reverse is true. P
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I miss my "Turbo" switch that used to be on older PC's. Just press "Turbo" and your PC is good for another couple of years.
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I have many years experience with all aspects of Excel, including VBA and I understood Excel better than anyone else I knew. At one stage I had the arrogance to think of myself as an expert in Excel. Fortunately, I changed companies to work
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Here is a definition of False Positive from wikipedia: "In medical testing, and more generally in binary classification, a false positive is an error in data reporting in which a test result improperly indicates presence of a conditio
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I wonder how precise the alignment is? Potentially if it is low sub millimetre precision it could be very useful.
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Fear of death is arguably either an emotion, or has a high emotional component and since autistic people do not process emotion well, they may well be far more inclined to see suicide as an option. (disclaimer: pure layman speculation)
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It really depends on how you define "False Positive Rate". There are at least 2 different ways of looking at this: - Out of 1000 tests 51 will be positive, 50 of which are incorrect. - Out of 1000 positive tests, 50 will be wron

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