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autokad
5y ago
that's not a great way to think. One needs to think if something is possible before trying to solve unrelated issues that some engineering can probably figure out.
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autokad
5y ago
has anyone ever actually calculated that? like what if we used old ASICs to heat our rooms, would they be more efficient than a heater after accounting for the small number of bitcoin you'd get?
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autokad
5y ago
I don't think masters degrees are a scam. However, there are a lot of online only masters programs out there now, and I am not sure they provide the same value. More on that later, Yes, MS are much more career targeted. That's a f
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autokad
5y ago
No that was just in your head.
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5y ago
> "What's the advantage to society of allowing interviewers to lie (to anyone, let alone kids)?" no one would ever get convicted if police didn't lie. If no one can ever get convicted, either we can murder rape and st
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autokad
5y ago
yeah happens to me too and about 15 years for me. I also get that "but I thought you died" and "I got better" dream. I am thinking that's convenient, but still, something seems wrong.
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5y ago
First off, China isn't a traditional communist country, so the idea of corporations is already kind of weird. 2ndly, China is already apart of the companies and run many aspects of the companies. Therefore, much like how companies in t
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5y ago
> "How's that different?" How does that matter? I am not speaking on Biden's actions or intentions, I am speaking on China's. I am also not speaking on what is 'right' or 'wrong'. just that is
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5y ago
birds are NOT dinosours. they are descended from them. as far as I know, there were no birds during their time.
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autokad
5y ago
I didnt say it was a currency, I said the powers that be may prevent us from using our currency to buy / transact with it or what ever they find socially unacceptable.
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autokad
5y ago
so what if your AC runs off solar. so do some crypto miners.
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5y ago
I think bitcoin / cryptos is not as safe from governments as people think. Look at EU banning deposits on binance. I think governments banning ways people can deposit and buy crypto would kill it pretty quickly. We are entering dark ti
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5y ago
dear hacker news community, don't downvote someone for asking a question.
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5y ago
> "This is China wanting to stop foreign influence, and also more importantly protect their own companies. China has video sharing and micro blogging and social networks. Is it really evil intent that China allowed these local compa
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5y ago
> "No, humans did not evolve from rodents. It's more like calling humans primates." Its my understanding humans evolved from a rodent like creature that existed during the time of the dinosaurs. primates did not exist then
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5y ago
> "After all, all current dinosaurs have feathers" that's selection bias. only the avian 'dinosaurs' survived, but calling them dinosaurs would be like calling humans rodents. It's not like birds existed bac
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5y ago
> "Government can be held accountable" LOL. I remember when the city of Philadelphia flooded my house because they were doing some work on a neighboring structure. COP's response "We have a law that says the City of P
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5y ago
this is the real reason you shouldnt mess with / look at bird nests. Its not that the parents will 'smell a human' and not come back, that's not true at all. When you mess with or even look at a nest, you draw attention
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5y ago
i disagree. The US has arguably a better, larger, and cohesive economy. Also EU talent comes to the US because EU companies just dont value their tech workers as much. EU has to pay tech workers more, or else it will loose in tech, 100%. La
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5y ago
Its my understanding that walmart sells at discount prices, not sells at a loss. they have scale that local competitors do not. there's a huge difference
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5y ago
there's also the poor ethics of greenpeace lying about a job interview as well as releasing that content. way to stay classy greenpeace. Also pretty sure that's illegal in many countries.
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5y ago
"No voices should have been silenced, no ideas should have been left off the table. Open Data. Open Science. Open honest scientific communication was the way, not censorship. There are a lot of bad ideas that are wrong, bad, or dangero
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5y ago
Human civilization was probably much more developed back then than 'experts' believe. Look at a satellite map, most of that light blue you see was land during that time. The East China sea was mostly land. You think people, like t
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5y ago
I often see pp keep people poor and stuck. Its interesting they hate where they are in life but refuse to do anything different because perceived risk, and that its better to do nothing. you should save money poor: it doesn't grow fast
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5y ago
back in 2015 or so, I was complaining about how having to study for leetcode is not sustainable for someone to live, thus this makes tech a horrendous life choice as a career. Because having to keep doing this throughout our life when we ge
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5y ago
yeah, especially in 'getting use' to something. if regular air all of a sudden started smelling like roses, it would be immediately noticeable, but it probably wouldn't be long before we couldn't smell anything different
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5y ago
> "Take a labeled training set of documents... Return the label for which the size increased the least." that's not unlike using an autoencoder to score a document as an anomaly amongst the other labels?
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I also grew up in rural areas, and I agree with throwaway. your comments are condescending and also inaccurate. The more 'uneducated' farmers took pride in fixing their equipment, especially their tractors. Your comments are so fa
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5y ago
I am barely paraphrasing, but they want admissions based on skin color. dark skinned people step to the front of the line while light skin people face lottery admissions.
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5y ago
I agree. Its like one of the few things we can give future generations. 'sorry about the debt, but heres some buildings'
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