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by amitport 5y ago
First of all I didn't say 'bedouins' are 'uncivilized'. Bedouins are not just about what we discuss here and they are not all violent, unlawful, or "robbers". Second, I see very well where people are makin
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by amitport 5y ago
State taxes and violent robberies. Not a marginal difference, but I give up. You need to discuss the matter with people who went through the latter.
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by amitport 5y ago
There is a prison, there is a state. Not just a violent group that wants your money for themselves. Fundamentally Hugh differences.
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by amitport 5y ago
You don't pay them to have safe passage through their territory. It's not their territory, similarly to how guerrilla groups in Columbia/Nepal do not own the Jungle/Himalaya/etc, and you don't get a choice whet
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by amitport 5y ago
I know he didn't say that. I tried to say (perhaps unsuccessfully) That this is a different between taxes and "protection" by crime groups. Rubbers like the one we're discussing shot you where you stand there is no &quot
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by amitport 5y ago
And even in the middle ages there were criminals. People that rubbed villagers on the side of the road. People that brunt down their fields and asked for money. There is a difference between violently robing people and taxation. This discus
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by amitport 5y ago
You risk being murdered and your business put on fire? Stop romanticizing it. Yes, some states started from violent protection based tribes (not all of them). This was not taxation. There were/are states and actual laws in the places B
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by amitport 5y ago
It is not taxation. They "protected" against themselves not anyone else. And I emphasis, protection is not the only Bedouin occupation. But it is one and there is no need to sugar coat it.
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by amitport 5y ago
It depends on the specific tribe. But absolutely, yes, some of the Bedouin tribes were (and still are) in the "protection" business (in the criminal sense). Some tribes have other professions.
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by amitport 5y ago
Yes, junior devs and (and students) "get" classes much better than they do prototypes. This is a Hugh win when you care about productivity. (Also note, => is not just a different syntax for function)
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by amitport 5y ago
Helpful, interesting, yes. BUT not a real critique on this paper which specifically does not claim anything regarding similarity with the original. This happens a lot with junior peer reviewers, they focus more on what the paper isn't
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by amitport 5y ago
? Any references?
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by amitport 5y ago
In Hebrew (with subtitles in English and Arab), worth a mention I think (free to watch) "VeHaaretz Hayta Tohu vaVohu": History of the Land of Israel from prehistoric times to the Ottoman period. https://www.kan.org.il&#
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by amitport 5y ago
I think the point was that some employers may pay you more than enough for you to pay for your own health insurance (even after tax deductions). (I'm not in the US, you seem to have your own hell there, but still, every 'benefit&#
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by amitport 5y ago
To be fair, numpy's use case, is just a small portion of what pandas tries to solve.
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by amitport 5y ago
Reading the first part of the titles, I thought maybe it is about poor career choices of fashion models...
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by amitport 5y ago
CORBA is complex and SOAP is simple, people argue about which one is “best” there is no new thing under the sun
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by amitport 5y ago
The fact that they ask this question does show some bias but it may not be as much as you think. I can interview a person and be interested in finding out how much he/she fits like a glove for the tech stack and still put more focus
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by amitport 5y ago
The anchors are often far apart, especially in trad climbing. If the first one failed the next one will have to absorb a bigger hit... so, it can be more than unpleasant... The common advice when you don't trust your anchor is don&#x2
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by amitport 5y ago
Well "to do mainframe development" is more than just the casual learning part.
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by amitport 5y ago
"Sounds like it would be fun." Interesting at times but really really not fun
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by amitport 5y ago
And "The Congress" movie https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Congress_(2013_film) (It's inspired by a book that I haven't read, so I'm not sure if the same idea we're discussing is also in
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by amitport 5y ago
more specifically, there is a list of such projects in: https://www.reddit.com/r/nosyntax/wiki/projects
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by amitport 5y ago
They're both IMO. You can do much but if you're inclined to learn it will help with some concepts
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by amitport 5y ago
Well it was just an anecdote, but in any case, there are a few strategies in this codebase, and I think if you look at https://github.com/amitport/senet-ai/blob/master/SmartUtilit... you'll find it
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by amitport 5y ago
(Fixed link: https://github.com/amitport/senet-ai/blob/master/SmartUtilit... )
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by amitport 5y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27890183 on this thread
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by amitport 5y ago
It was around 2010 before all the reinforcement learning madness :) It was a university student competition in (mostly computer science bachelor and master students). The core algorithm is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by amitport 5y ago
Well it's more like backgammon
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by amitport 5y ago
I once won an AI tournament for senet :) so for me this post relates to AI... But still... it's a mystery how this gets to the top of HN

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