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by allenz 9y ago
Why is it terrifying? I am a programmer and I use csv/Excel as the single-entry financial database for a small healthcare business ($500k revenue). The accountant is fine with it. Filtering and pivot tables are a joy in Excel, and I ca
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by allenz 9y ago
http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2017/10/20/bad... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2014/12/15/cel...
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Not necessarily. To share blobs, GitHub would need to replace the standard git filesystem blob storage with a distributed database of blobs. All Git repos would share this distributed database.
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There is another persistent exploit, by GeoHot, that earned $150,000: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=351788
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One nice thing about ChromeOS is that persisting an exploit is nontrivial even after gaining root.
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Google names DuckDuckGo as their competitor. I think it's taken seriously.
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You're taking them out of context. Marx didn't want revolution for revolution's sake. He had a specific change to the social order in mind, namely the cause of socialism. He wouldn't approve of the US.
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The Gates foundation allocates funds based on dollars per Daly (disability-adjusted year) impact. Alzheimer's is important research but it doesn't meet that criterion. Unlike metabolic syndrome (under the traditional definition),
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I guess it depends on the phone. Scrolling is smooth on my HTC One.
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I prefer FF over Chrome on mobile. FF mobile allows extensions such as uBlock Origin and Google Link Fixer which I find essential. FF supports sending tabs to other devices, if that's what you mean by Chrome tabs.
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I don't think that school's will "just" be able to raise the overhead on grants. Congress has no plans to increase grant funding. Instead, grants will become more competitive. The net effect, then, is (1) unnecessarily i
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I disagree that it's a money laundering scheme. Universities provide real value to students. If anything, they are highly inefficient at capturing that value. Being forced to set tuition at $0 would be the real accounting gimmick. And
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Do you also believe that cancer survivors should be taxed $100k+ on their income from health insurance?
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Colaboratory is just a collaborative version of Jupyter/iPython, which is just a notebook-based editing environment. It's not specific to ML. Presumably, you can run just about any Python code in Colaboratory, such as these exampl
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by allenz 9y ago
The leak shows substantial Russian cash going to US commerce secretary Wilbur Ross; Twitter and Facebook; and Arsenal and Everton. It also shows the usual tax avoidance by powerful people including Lord Ashcroft and Trudeau financier Stephe
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To the extent that the humanities are not "rational", whatever that means, they are a valuable and useful complement, and the world need not be driven by rationalism alone. The humanities teach how to look from multiple perspectiv
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Summary: SciPy added Windows binaries for pip and formalised their organizational structure.
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I consider DL to be a technology. Of course there is DL theory, but most people doing DL are engineers. To say that most advancements are in hardware really trivializes the engineering breakthroughs made in computer vision, language underst
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by allenz 9y ago
Investing in Bitcoin to diversify is fine. Buying Bitcoin because it's been rising? That's the definition of speculation. Most people are not qualified to be speculators because they are insufficiently critical. It's easy to
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Also, I use luci.criosweb.ro/riot
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That is a matter of political interpretation. You aren't wrong, but your solution of reducing the availability of loans has the direct consequence of reducing access to education for poor people and reducing university budgets funded b
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It isn't clear to me. Your links only show that student debt and tuition costs are correlated. I think that costs cause debt rather than vice versa.
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Yeah, it's all about framing. Subconsciously, I want titles and comments to reflect the world as I see it. I'll comment if I feel that the title is overly generous, or overly critical.
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Also, maybe 10% of chefs view their work as art, rather than as a way to earn money.
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For a realist, the question is whether people with power benefit from your proposed change, or whether they are invested in the current system. If the system doesn't change, then robots may be detrimental.
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Yes, sadly, junk food is more tasty and more convenient. It's a problem in cities and rural areas alike. There's lots of room for creative solutions without going communist. I support a tax on junk food and a subsidy on healthy fo
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Negative results are real science, and science is collaborative. When we don't incentivize negative results, scientists don't take the time to analyze and share those findings, which results in a shallower understanding and possib
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Food deserts don't apply to people who are well off. A food desert is a place where healthy food is much more costly and less accessible than junk food, which is true in most slum areas. Poor people generally can't afford delivery
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In an ideal world, scientists would be judged solely on their study design and execution without considering the outcome. But that takes a lot of effort. It's much easier to judge based on the results that the scientist achieved (&quot
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No, you have the causality backwards: the high value of BTC is what incentivizes large investments of electricity and servers. The value of a currency depends only on supply and demand. BTC has the highest demand among cryptocurrencies main

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