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by beefield 7y ago
Not knowing anything, but making an educated guess. Transmission costs?
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by beefield 7y ago
What I would like to understand better is how transferable these adversarial images are from a network to another. I mean is the adversity "deep", like practically all models built on resnet18 (or even completely different models)
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by beefield 7y ago
I'm quite sure there are communists who realize a difference between the communism of the soviet union and the communism they would like to be in. Unfortunately you are not allowed to pick only the good side of the people that supports
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by beefield 7y ago
Monty Hall Problem is to me the single most bewildering and depressing thing when I wonder how come mainstream/basic/MBA economics still keeps rational agency as its central tenent. I mean, if people can't sort this out, ho
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by beefield 7y ago
Buy a dumbphone with wifi hotspot. Remove sim card from smartphone and use it only over wifi. Consider which apps you actually can use on web browser on your computer instead of your smartphone. Leave smartphone at the office/home&#x2F
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by beefield 7y ago
Just do not make the mistake of assuming that the lenovo's next business day warranty means next business day. My current understanding is that they try their best to give a call to you next day but what comes to actual repair, there i
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by beefield 7y ago
Not sure if there is an idiom in english like "nothing gives you confidence like complete ignorance" I am not sure there is any non-trivial skill[1] you can truly master without humbly "understanding" the vast amount of
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by beefield 7y ago
> Self-driving cars are going trigger a new wave of automobile growth, at least in the US. They won't be dangerous, will run clean, be super convenient and unbelievably inexpensive to own and operate. My guess is that you are wrong.
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by beefield 7y ago
I fully agree. If you thought that was what I was proposing you may want to reread my post.
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by beefield 7y ago
So, when the 3 million plus Syrians are starting to walk into EU from Turkey, are these people not willing to aid others going to volunteer to stand in the front line and tell them that they are not welcome? How are you going to solve that
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by beefield 7y ago
I think there is a not so small difference between a camp designed to keep you in and make your life miserable or even kilm you and a city that is trying to offer you a decent way of life and which you are completely free to leave whenever
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by beefield 7y ago
> How do you stop them? We're talking about extremely motivated people here. Fences. Walls. Snakes and Alligators. Guns. I think there are lots of ways to keep people in one side of the border. In addition to these (to be sure that
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by beefield 7y ago
> What happens once charter cities have a large enough population to influence elections and change direction of the country in objection of the citizens of that country? Of course, citizenship in a charter city would not give citizenshi
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by beefield 7y ago
Loaning and investing is differwnt from giving. In my original post I tried to be clear that there are problems in this model. Unfortunately it looks to me like we need to solve them whether we like or not, so might be better to start solvi
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by beefield 7y ago
> That doesn't even happen for actual EU citizens, why on earth would an EU taxpayer allow for this? I am no expert in all of the EU countries, can you give example of an EU country where basic education, basic health care, relative
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by beefield 7y ago
Primary source would be taxes from the charter city citizens. I do not believe that the people moving in would be completely helpless. Then the possible remainning part of the funding, well, at the moment quite a few European countries are
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by beefield 7y ago
What EU should immediately do is to start building charter cities. Either on sparsely populated areas within EU or by making long term rental agreements outside EU. Or likely both. The rules of charter cities would be roughly as follows: -
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by beefield 7y ago
Nice to see that I am not only one hating booking.com with a passion. But what really amazes me is the market failure that hotels and other accomodation providers can't come up with a co-op booking site. I am sure there are issues that
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by beefield 7y ago
Well, I think there might be a point in a bunch of hotels/hotel chains to start a web booking co-op to get rid of the rentseeking rates of the current crop of booking sites. I mean, technology behind a booking site can't cost that
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by beefield 7y ago
Wonder if I am only one thinking Halliday being one of the greatest arseholes casted as semigod in fiction? I mean, it is fine to be into 80's, but using your massive wealth to impose that obsession to everyone else does not score high
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by beefield 7y ago
> I think it's a fatal flaw in the dating site business model, to be honest. I think it is just one exhibit of the fatal flaw of the idea that shareholder value maximization is the correct objective of a corporation. The very origin
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by beefield 7y ago
And these other costs would not apply in bitcoin world?
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by beefield 7y ago
I fully agree that it feels wrong and weird that you would give your money to a bank and get less money back later. But if I stop and think a bit further, that feeling starts to feel less and less justified. Here are a couple of reasons: 1.
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by beefield 7y ago
That was to illustrate that it is possible that people prefer consumption in the future. To your question why to make money rot has many answers. But the easiest one is that if you belong to those who believe that central banks actually hav
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by beefield 7y ago
The real benefit to get rid of cash would be to allow properly negative interest rates.[1] At the same time I fully agree with the privacy worries on going cashless. So, what we really need are anonymous physical tokens whose value can chan
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by beefield 7y ago
Here is at least one example: https://www.ice-energy.com/ For AC applications, though, water is not the perfect heat storage medium. The efficiency would be better if the freezing point was higher. But then again, I do not
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by beefield 7y ago
I'd lika to be able to have a vr app that let's me move in 4D space. I guess at least some kind of sensoring for 4D orientation and 4d acceleration should be developed.
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by beefield 7y ago
And you think there would be no extra qualifications required for the platoon heads?
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by beefield 7y ago
> It's on the nuclear people to figure out how to get operating costs safely down. But boy howdy it'd be nice if their carbon-free nature could be valued higher, or if fracking could be made more expensive. Well, it is not like
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by beefield 7y ago
Well, that sounds pretty much like flying commercial flights or traveling by bus. So I guess based on my travel history, answer must be yes.

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