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by _cs2017_ 8y ago
Certainly. But I think the world would be a far better place without hatred than without cowardice. So hatred is much worse than cowardice. IMHO envy, fanaticism, cruelty also cause more harm than cowardice.
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Thanks for pointing out. Even though I don't share your take on this, I find it interesting. I think the first example is just some innocent banter of a couple characters from long ago, who had a very naive understanding of the world b
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Could you share a few quotes or ideas from Master and Margarita that changed how you think? I really liked the book, but mostly because I thought it was funny and had great plot. I fear I missed all the deep wisdom.
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Facebook used the term in the same meaning as the rest of the industry, and in the same meaning that you explained. You can read the original doc linked in the article to confirm that. The article's author lied. They told the readers t
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Uhh what the actual fk, the article reversed the meaning of FB emails. FB encouraged devs to NOT fight the "friendly fraud". "Friendly fraud" is an industry term (just google it). It is when a customer who received goods
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> A complete understanding of quantum mechanics, squared with general relativity, is very likely to have practical applications. But anything observable in the world of reasonable energies (up to whatever modern colliders achieve) can be
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You're probably right. But if I were to try and defend his statement, perhaps he means it's not based on factors such as convenience as a medium of exchange, or public confidence that it will have relatively stable value (so that
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Can someone please help me understand why anyone outside of a small circle of curious science buffs should care about particle physics? It seems the field has advanced so far that EVEN IF new discoveries emerge, they would be of no practica
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It's meaningless to compare realized returns; it's only interesting to compare expected returns. Like if you say you're better than me at poker, it's pointless to play one round and compare our winnings, since randomness
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Agreed. I actually forgot about it, subscribing now. Ironic that the only good publication is free and has no ads.
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So bloody true and so bloody annoying. I started to block the media outlets that do that in my Google "swipe left on pixel home screen" feed or whatever it's called. Until I realized it's a futile struggle and just disab
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WTF with this title. We all agree API shouldn't be licenseable, but now we expect companies to feel like they shouldn't use API for free because without licensing the source code "it looks bad"?
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This naive view is why for centuries we haven't seen any improvement in the happiness of ghosts.
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I understand commit can happen without physical page file being written to. But you say commit can happen even without any increase in virtual address space usage? That seems strange, could you explain how it can happen?
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Can you clarify why branching helps collaboration? In other words, why is it harder to commit to trunk when you have several developers working on a feature?
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Capital controls don't apply, you buy the bonds through HK. Devaluation is always a risk, in any country. USD can fall too, look at historical USD exchange rates to the world currency basket. Foreign bond investors have to live with th
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Wherever you live, there are likely companies with limited liability of the owners. In the US they are corporations or LLCs or limited partnerships. In your country they may be named differently. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org&#x
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Anyone who played Civilization knows how important culture can be in the Great Power geopolitical game. And of course, the US player is generating more culture points, so the damage they inflict on other players is greater than the other wa
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[1] is a claim by some guy without any proof. In addition, the guy is clearly interested in selling his security services. As for [2], [3]: I don't think there's any special law about people who use US dollars being under US juris
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I think the right wing conspiracy groups who made this video couldn't care less if FB and Google respect DNT. https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/19/17878332/creepy-line-anti...
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Your first guess seems correct. This is how the world is today. We have strong opinions, and rarely do we care to actually update them. And it's not only because we are stubborn, but also because most of the public media doesn't a
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Agree with everything you said. And I wish LeCun said exactly what you suggested. On second thought, I wish I myself was always very thoughtful and respectful in responding to questionable statements :)
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I'm very disappointed with the quality of discussion between Marcus and LeCun. First Marcus responds to Bengio's interview with the arrogant and pretentious "I told you so" tweet, instead of simply saying that he agreed
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> Are you claiming Marcus has produced no interesting research results? Not the OP, but I'm not familiar with Marcus' contributions. What would you consider his top contributions? Are they all purely theoretical, or is there so
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Actually the last advantage is very convincing, especially in the technology industry. The equilibrium R&D investment level depends in a very complicated way on the relationship between your market share at any point and the entire hist
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I agree that IP theft hurts countries that don't partake in it. However, I was asking about the effect on the world as a whole. Taking some wealth from one country and giving it to another isn't directly changing the amount of wea
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This makes sense... So IIUC, it's not clear whether government restrictions are a net positive or negative for the US economy: it helps against one source of IP theft, but hurts in the sense of lower global competitiveness due to highe
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From a global perspective (rather than US- or China-specific), what exactly is the cost of IP theft? Obviously, the reduced incentives to do R&D (if you cannot monetize it as well, you'll invest less). That by itself could be prett
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You say Intel decided the risk is worth the reward. Are you suggesting that the trade-off they chose is not the right choice for the US as a country? Why? Wouldn't Intel be the one hurt the most by any IP theft?
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IIUC, you're sharing your personal preference. Specifically, you would like people to indulge in luxuries only to a modest degree, and put a good effort into improving the environment, quality of life for other people, etc. I didn&#x27

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