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by averagewall 9y ago
Yes. It's the voters' fault so I don't have sympathy for them. If they did their research instead of being so sure that their favourite party is better than the evil enemy party then they could make intelligent decisions that
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by averagewall 9y ago
Indeed. Which means they have the worst of both worlds - hard to hide your identity and no common standard for everybody. So now there's all kinds of alternatives - licence, passport, 18+ card, birth certificate(!). RealMe is pretty ni
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by averagewall 9y ago
New Zealand is a bit funny because people don't (or didn't) want a national identity system. There was public concern when photo drivers licenses were introduced because they might become a de-facto national ID card. The privacy c
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by averagewall 9y ago
Does it matter who entrepreneurs are? They exist to serve society by providing new products and services that didn't exist before. We pay the winners well to motivate them to do that. It's not charity for their own good so it does
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by averagewall 9y ago
As long as parents do their best to help their own children, rags to riches will be a fairy tale. For poor and rich kids to grow up and do as well as each other, rich parents will have to treat their kids as badly as poor parents do, becaus
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by averagewall 9y ago
How can you identify the irrational segment?
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by averagewall 9y ago
Couldn't the idea that ancient people were bad at art just come from their small populations, small quantity of discovered artifacts and not teaching each other their skills? Surely a single person could figure out how to draw on his o
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by averagewall 9y ago
Why separate them? It sounds like they're so deeply interconnected that it would be a destructive as separating your own arm from your body or having a lobotomy. All humans have difficulty living. We have to walk and eat and sleep and
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by averagewall 9y ago
It sort of is widespread. Some of my engineering classmates were flown to other countries for job interviews at the employer's expense. It's probably most significant for poor people like students and Ethiopian clerical job applic
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by averagewall 9y ago
The distance to the satellite has nothing to do with it. You're using big numbers to exaggerate the problem. Decrypting and demodulating have be as fast as the data is coming, otherwise the delay would grow until you never saw the end
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by averagewall 9y ago
How long ago? My color CRT TV took a good 10 s or so to warm up the tube before you'd see much/anything. But at least it responded instantly, so you could spend that time walking back to the couch instead of waiting for some stupi
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by averagewall 9y ago
Please don't talk about murdering the person you're talking to. It's intented to provoke painful emotion. I'll clarify my comment though. The object is really a model that's shaped like a turtle but with pictures of
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by averagewall 9y ago
A bunch of armchair devil's advocating here, but is it really the NN that's fooled or the humans? The adversarial turtle isn't a real turtle, so the human is wrong in judging it as that. The NN is presumably seeing features o
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by averagewall 9y ago
People have pets all the way from ants and fish through mice and cats to dogs and pigs. This might be closer to a fish than a dog but those are all common pets for normal people. I think if it can learn and interact, it's going to be a
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by averagewall 9y ago
Are you saying proponents of quackery might misread somebody's home ultrasound or give misleading advice on how to read it? That doesn't sound any worse than what could happen with thermometers, stethoscopes, blood pressure meters
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by averagewall 9y ago
Not warranted. From the article: "CNTK is new and it's hard to find easy-to-use code examples and tutorials for learning by doing!"
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by averagewall 9y ago
At the same time, hundreds were killed in road accidents. Why care about mere property? And that's only Americans. I don't think humans are well equipped to apply our feelings of caring to strangers we hear about on the news becau
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by averagewall 9y ago
I agree we should respect people and no mock them for making mistakes that they pay the ultimate price for. It doesn't matter that they're doing it for fun instead of some desperate survival need. Early aviators gave us aeroplanes
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by averagewall 9y ago
The abstract says depth-3 means a NN with 1 hidden layer. So I guess the 3 refers to one input layer, one hidden layer, and one output layer. Polynomial time roughly means "fast enough that it could be practical at large scale if you h
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by averagewall 9y ago
I'm going to get smashed into the ground for saying this, but a lot of psychology research has found that East Asians have a higher average IQ than caucasians. That's known to be a strong predictor of success at math at school and
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by averagewall 9y ago
Yes. I have to use a VPN for all Google services and it's a complete mess. Youtube shows me Japanese and some European language ads depending on where my VPN server happens to be at the time even though everything I actually do on Yout
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by averagewall 9y ago
Why does it matter if RT or Russia advertised for the US election? Doesn't the US notoriously have no restrictions on who and how much advertising can be done for elections? What's the difference between an American doing it vs a
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by averagewall 9y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if a bit part of it was just contrarianism to the "arrogant liberal elite". If people stopped being so forceful (even to the point of dishonesty) in their global warming demands, maybe it woudln't
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by averagewall 9y ago
That's part of the will of the people. Their will is influenced by those parties you identified but it's still their will. It's like saying Christians go to church against their will because because their parents brainwashed
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by averagewall 9y ago
An anecdote, but I know of a factory that's had severely limited production for about a year due to pollution. The enforcement is ongoing. They do get away it breaking the rules a bit because the inspectors are corrupt, and there'
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by averagewall 9y ago
Cheaper because they're worse? Doesn't that just mean cheaper because they have too many poor people and poor people create problems for their neighbors? Those same individuals are always going to live somewhere, and always going
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by averagewall 9y ago
A problem with that is people will be desperate enough for those now higher-paying jobs that they'll spend hours commuting from distant cheaper places. All that time spent commuting is equivalent to getting a lower hourly wage. We&#x27
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by averagewall 9y ago
Solutions are the easy part. Getting people to agree with it when it hurts their financial interests is the hard part. The same NIMBYs that are keeping prices high in those areas with strict zoning rules would also never allow any such chan
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by averagewall 9y ago
Humans make those mistakes too. Once, while talking to somebody about money, I asked "do you know what inflation is?", meaning what the rate is,to help make a decision, but they were offended and replied that yes, of course they k
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by averagewall 9y ago
Earphones aren't regulated and have all the same risks. In fact neither are all the cheap not-quite-hearing-aids. I have one that looks just like an old hearing aid but cost maybe $50. Safety really isn't a risk here any more than

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