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by bequanna 2y ago
Obama was charismatic and an excellent speaker. But overall, a pretty middling presidency in terms of actual accomplishments.
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by bequanna 2y ago
Prevention of what? Regardless of what we do, there will be people who are out of control and pose a danger to others. That will never go away.
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'Grading for Equity': Promoting Students by Banning Grades of Zero(realclearinvestigations.com)
1 points by bequanna 2y ago|1 comments
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by bequanna 2y ago
Right, but I believe halving of rewards also keeps the compute growth in check somewhat. I suppose it just depends on how BTC price increases vs the halving timeline.
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by bequanna 2y ago
Well, the rewards for Bitcoin mining are zero-sum so the demand will never really be infinite as the miners need some amount of profitability.
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by bequanna 2y ago
What do the kids have to look forward to? The reality is that homeownership and other pieces of the American dream are far out of reach for many of them and will be for the foreseeable future. Couple that with the constant stream of climate
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by bequanna 2y ago
This isn’t fair at all. Previous Twitter had just as much (if not more) political bias in their censorship decisions as Elon.
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by bequanna 2y ago
I don’t think that’s the case at all. Previous Twitter was receiving a direct flow of censorship requests from Government officials asking them to shadowban or remove users. This was pure political speech censorship.
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by bequanna 2y ago
That is an interesting theory. I think we often forget that most of the indigenous people who died from disease never came in contact with Europeans directly and disease burned through the population moving from tribe to tribe. I’d love to
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by bequanna 2y ago
Right, but doesn’t light travel at less than c in some situations (passing through glass, etc)? Would we say they experience “time” in those cases?
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by bequanna 3y ago
Can you elaborate on the “things are about to get worse” part? Rising temperatures will possibly open up vast areas of Russia for farming. Like the US, they are not a net loser.
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by bequanna 3y ago
This is well established: Generally, women will pursue men with higher socioeconomic status, men do not make a distinction and optimize for sexual attraction.
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by bequanna 3y ago
I don’t think that's true. Most large contracts are cost-plus. Contractor direct costs + some agreed upon margin.
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by bequanna 3y ago
“Slaves built the US” is a silly idea. I hate how you get racial with your comment, but since you want to go there: literally 90% or more of America from the 1700s through the 1900s was physically built by on the backs of Protestant white l
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by bequanna 3y ago
Only issue I’ve had when playing around with Dejavu is the query speed slows linearly as the library size increases.
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by bequanna 3y ago
This simply isn’t true. The Native Americans’ sense of conservation and “living in perfect harmony” is some romantic fantasy. There are many records of large pre-Columbian settlements exhausting resources (like game and trees) and abandonin
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by bequanna 3y ago
> We did rural electrification and telephone decades ago. We used to do things like that, sure. Unfortunately, Government "Works" projects aren't like they were in the 30s-50s. Outside of rebuilding a few crappy bridges, a
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by bequanna 3y ago
You didn’t discuss what tools or languages you’re familiar with. Try adding that to get some more tailored recommendations. Have you considered transitioning to Data Engineering?
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by bequanna 3y ago
SA role might take some time. I haven’t seen anyone in that role with less than 5 years experience. Typically more like 10.
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by bequanna 3y ago
> …forcing desperate sales Are you referring to single or multifamily property? Either way, demand is strong and prices are high. Sellers still have a lot of power in this market and I haven’t really seen examples of anyone selling a pro
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Oh, Schlitz: How a Historic Ad Campaign Helped Kill America's Biggest Beer Brand(vinepair.com)
3 points by bequanna 3y ago|4 comments
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by bequanna 3y ago
Gotcha. So taking n overlapping samples for the song, fingerprinting then vectorizing each. Then doing the same thing for the captured sample and getting nearest neighbors. I’ve used dejavu for a personal project and it is quite fast. Is th
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by bequanna 3y ago
Ahh, I see. The approach here is just getting vector nearest neighbors. I guess I don’t see how this could work like “Shazam” when you’re comparing the vector of some sample to the vector for the whole song.
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by bequanna 3y ago
Does anyone know how this approach differs from the approach taken by the popular(ish) dejavu project? https://github.com/worldveil/dejavu
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by bequanna 3y ago
Different shows with very different tones. Stewart’s Apple show could be considered more “gotcha journalism” than comedy. He is running the risk of embarrassing and really pissing powerful people off. Oliver uses a lot of hyperbole and come
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by bequanna 3y ago
Well, I think what the parent comment is trying to say is that we’ve made it socially acceptable to live in an unhealthy way and many of the “obvious” conditions that are precursors to serious disease like obesity, over medication, chronic
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by bequanna 3y ago
Unregulated data collection = $, use some of that $ for lobbying and campaign contributions to hold off regulation as long as possible. Politicians can hold a couple hearings then throw up their hands and feign confusion so nothing gets cha
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by bequanna 3y ago
How many taxes have been created and since disappeared? It almost never happens. Governments get addicted to the revenue.
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by bequanna 3y ago
It is naive to assume increased tax revenue doesn’t equate to increased power for those who control how that money is spent. It is OK to make an argument against taking power from one group by force and giving to another.
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by bequanna 3y ago
Justice seems to only work when a case is high profile. Every day, lazy DAs are giving lenient plea deals for terrible crimes hoping that no one is paying attention. Unfortunately, usually no one other than the victims are. I don’t know wha

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