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by adwf 12y ago
Mostly because of Oracle. They already have a high performance database that they charge a whole lot of money for. All it'll take is a couple of poor earnings reports and they might swing the axe at MySQL as an easy scapegoat. Not so
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by adwf 12y ago
You're probably not missing anything. By my (limited) reckoning, even if they can get their design to work in theory, I think they're grossly underestimating the materials requirements for the fusion reactor. From what I recall,
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by adwf 12y ago
The only taxes I can see them being exempt from are local council taxes, not income/VAT/corporation tax. And whilst they are nominally not subject to the Monarchy, nor is the rest of the country really. Much like the Monarchy, th
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by adwf 12y ago
Seems to be a lot of complaining about the City of London's semi-autonomous status, without actually explaining why this is a bad thing. I've always thought it was just an odd historical quirk. They're still subject to the
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by adwf 12y ago
Not only are they not as recognised as you think, even if it is commonly known there can be conflicting acronyms across different specialities. eg. During the eurozone crisis they frequently referred to the ECB on the news. I kept transla
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by adwf 12y ago
That's because self-driving cars aren't a car problem, they're a computer problem. Why would you think that a car company would be experts in machine learning? Doesn't matter how many decades they've been working
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by adwf 12y ago
The advantage of basic Levenshtein is that it's a heck of a lot quicker (last time I checked) than Damerau-L or Jaro-Winkler in real world applications. And I wouldn't go as far as to say it's useless. Basic Levenshtein only
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by adwf 12y ago
That's a brilliant video. Scottish people and pretentiousness don't tend to go together very well :)
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by adwf 12y ago
Oops, thanks. Should probably pay closer attention! Maybe this highlights the pitfalls of excessively long writing. Or more likely the pitfalls of me commenting at 3am :(
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by adwf 12y ago
I was about to say the exact same thing. A lot of rules of writing happen to be current trends in literature, not actual hard and fast rules. Adverbs are a useful language construct; if you teach people not to use them, they'll end up
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by adwf 12y ago
Exactly right, it's the potential abuse in the future that's scary. In 30 years time I see it playing out something like this: Potential Politician: "I want to run on a platform of reform, government transparency and freedo
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by adwf 12y ago
This was easily my favourite talk. Really inspired me to double down on my efforts with my own idea. I'd previously been under-emphasising the AI aspects of what I was attempting, in the worry that people would think an AI-based start
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by adwf 12y ago
It's still got nothing on the NHS £10bn IT flop... I always wonder when I hear about these projects, where exactly has the money gone? It can't possibly be in hardware, that would make some of the biggest data centres in the worl
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by adwf 12y ago
You've made a mistake there. He says the 49ers are 3:1 favourites to win. Those a strange odds for are favourite team, but maybe they think a draw is most likely... Or more likely he just pulled some dodgy odds out of thin air and fo
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by adwf 12y ago
Don't know why you're being downvoted; I've had too many people deliberately block my merge when I merge late, to ever try it at full speed in the UK :(
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by adwf 12y ago
I'm guessing the moral parable about what happens when you forget that it's not the money that matters, but what you can do with the money that's important.
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by adwf 12y ago
According to the article (near the end), he started a 20000 hectare forest at a cost of £200m, with over 1m trees planted before his death.
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by adwf 12y ago
I sometimes think of comparing it to a kind of voluntary Stockholm syndrome [1]. The important point to note from the wiki is the mistaking of "lack of abuse" as an act of kindness. To elaborate: The customer is attracted by the
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by adwf 12y ago
I'd hope they'd also first think of: (reduce #'+ list-of-numbers) Then using a library like lparallel [1], you can convert it to the parallel version easily: (preduce '+ list-of-numbers) [1] http://lparallel.
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by adwf 12y ago
The tricky part in my mind is determining what exactly a quality of life issue is in the first place. I know plenty of moderate, sensible drinkers who would consider their quality of life lowered if there were any more restrictions placed
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by adwf 12y ago
Yeah, seeing avg. team salary plotted against world cup performance would be interesting. Spain and England would be right at the bottom despite the salaries (or perhaps because of).
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by adwf 12y ago
A study without a control is barely a study at all.
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by adwf 12y ago
I think I objected less to the length of the career, and more to the reason why the career is so short. In sports, you are very physically limited, you eventually hit your physical peak and then get replaced by someone younger and faster.
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by adwf 12y ago
Using sports metaphors is a particularly bad way to go about it in this instance. The average young NFL player is only expecting a career lasting about 5 years, maybe 10 for exceptional guys; The average young office worker is looking for
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by adwf 12y ago
They are pictured on a set of scales. A heavy can will depress the scales more and be lower. People seem to be trying to go out of their way to read deception into Gates' article. Can't we accept it as slightly fuzzy figures, ju
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by adwf 12y ago
I imagine it's just official government procedure. ie. You seized an asset, this is how you sell assets, therefore this is how you sell bitcoins.
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by adwf 12y ago
Well if it's as revolutionary as the hype suggests, they could be looking at all market segments. Given that they're working on an Android version, they must at the very least be thinking of its possibilities on mobile. But you&#
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by adwf 12y ago
I don't think this is really a plan to destroy Windows. Sounds more like they're just working on the open source OSs because it's easier to do while the Machine is still largely theoretical. If it does ever come to market, I
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by adwf 12y ago
Yeah I know what you mean. I sometimes start flagging the wikipedia articles when there are too many on the front page. It really does feel odd when there's too many, as if people are just desperate for karma (a la reddit). I'm
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by adwf 12y ago
Yep, they crack down on stuff all the time. Still slightly worth it as far as I know. You pay standard 20% income tax on the first £32k (with first ~£10k tax-free), then 40% upto £150k, 45% over that. Whereas with dividends you pay 10% o

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