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by avz 11y ago
I'd rather have them arranged by root cause category (e.g. bad service config, bad network config, units mismatch, inconsistent binary version, software bug, etc) than by which company it affected.
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by avz 11y ago
It isn't that we value the dollar over anything else. It's that the dollar is a proxy for whatever we value. That makes it universally desired by all people with their highly diverse ambitions and goals.
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by avz 11y ago
This is what puzzled me, too. One explanation is that the media prefer to write about subjects and people that are divisive and polarizing. This way they maximize discussion, linking and visits. I this particular case our "victim"
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by avz 11y ago
This need to be worshipped is what I found to be the most bizarre characteristic of deities. Seriously, why would someone who can create space, time, universe and everything care the slightest bit about whether or not a bunch of Homo sapien
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by avz 11y ago
One step towards the proposed idea would be for a tech-savvy government to build a platform and offer APIs. Just imagine: an API to file your tax return, to vote, to register marriage, to open a business, to register a child, to get governm
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by avz 11y ago
Nitpick: > Comparing them [chip manufacturers] to press release-pushing biomedical researchers is tantamount to a slur. No, it isn't. Slower progress in biomedical research isn't a result of biomedical researchers exhibiting an
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by avz 11y ago
The fundamental idea of algorithmic trading doesn't really fall into the category of screwing-people-over. However, some techniques employed by institutions engaged in it can easily be seen as outright cheating. One common example is f
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by avz 11y ago
From the page: "For employment lasting longer than three months, a residence permit is required." I named their permit incorrectly: should be "residence permit" instead of "residency and work permit". The point
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by avz 11y ago
You cannot always invest in what you choose. Generally, illiquid assets are both difficult to sell and difficult to buy. In particular, investing in pre-IPO startups may be hard unless the startup chooses to do crowd-founding, you know the
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by avz 11y ago
Options and equity are financial instruments. Like mortgage, but with different rules. With a mortgage, you're buying a present house with your future income. Presumably because you cannot afford to pay for it in cash right now. With o
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by avz 11y ago
> I can't pay my rent with options. This indicates that what you're looking for at the moment is cash, not ownership over assets. This is fine. However, this preference is by no means universal. I imagine that beyond certain am
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by avz 11y ago
Never met any such rational and well informed people. How could all fat possibly be bad? Cellular and organellar membranes all over the human body (and any other organism on this planet) are built from fat [1]. These membranes conduct neu
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by avz 11y ago
Nope. There are many different types of Schengen visa [1] and it generally does not allow you to work. For this you need a national visa from a specific member state [2]. So, no, if you get a work permit in France, you are not free to live
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Putting “arts” in STEM: STEAM(elearninginfographics.com)
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by avz 11y ago
Some benefits of a functioning railway system: - increased throughput compared to highways due to lower volume per passenger (something the US is trying to achieve with carpooling lines), - increased reliability (there are no train-jams), -
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by avz 11y ago
> Non-European citizens can't use Interrail. Not true. You have to be a resident to use Interrail. So if you don't have a European passport, but live there, you can still use Interrail. Note also, "European" here me
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by avz 11y ago
> Their editor wrote me that 'higher degree polynomials', 'infinitesimal vectors' and 'complex space' (even complex numbers) were things at least half their readership had never come across. It appears to me
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by avz 11y ago
There seems to be a fair amount of reservation or even animosity towards maths in many areas: * among the general public people feel it is acceptable to admit lack of basic skill or understanding in mathematics (at times even arithmetics) w
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by avz 11y ago
It still protects against spammers that cannot deploy such AI. Which is probably very close to all of them.
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by avz 11y ago
> The person is retrieving their information from another's head. They're using a social storage mechanism. This works fine in the classroom, it works OK in the workplace. It works well in most situations. The only place it bre
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by avz 11y ago
One of the "tadpole" operators is actually on the cover right above "Delight".
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by avz 11y ago
This is of course a joke. Here is why it holds in general. If x is signed number in two's complement representation then x + ~x = -1 because x has a 1 where ~x has a 0 and vice versa and because all ones 11...111 in two's
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by avz 11y ago
Basic Income is not "Quantitative Easing for people instead of banks". Quantitative Easing is the creation of money to buy assets and therefore carries the risk of asset price inflation. It is used when the central bank intends
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by avz 11y ago
Collective bargaining grew out of the need to strengthen the weak negotiating position of labour with respect to capital. Labour's negotiating position is weak when labour is abundant and/or capital is short. In many industries (e
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by avz 12y ago
Human selfishness is a weaker guarantee than programming. Human can still chose to abandon or misinterpret their self interest. Strong emotions, hatred, prejudice or a belief that punishment won't be performed or that the deed can be c
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by avz 12y ago
There appears to be a strong opposition to weapons systems that can autonomously decide to open fire, but it is rarely explicitly evaluated against the alternative. I wonder: why does it appear preferable to have a human control a weapon? I
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by avz 12y ago
Unless they invent time travel before that.
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by avz 12y ago
I guess it boils down to how one defines "choice". The minimal way to think about choice is to require the existence of an agent that is capable of producing binary outputs. Each output signifies a decision the agent has made. The
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by avz 12y ago
> "financial innovation" Yes that worked out well in the past. Actually, if you look beyond the recent crisis, oftentimes it did. Examples: the invention of money (make O(nm) pricing problem into O(n+m) pricing problem), invent
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by avz 12y ago
I disagree. Many advanced books on any subject would end up being huge volumes with 90% of the pages serving as introduction to the core idea discussed by the book. Not every book about programming needs to begin with detailed description a

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