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by bloak 6y ago
I'd been led to believe that Ksenia Sobchak is the tame opposition while Aleksey Navalny is the real opposition. (I assume this music video features a look-alike rather than the real Sobchak: https://www.youtube.com/wat
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by bloak 6y ago
Perhaps you're being downvoted because it's a tangent. It's a real phenomenon, though, and an interesting one. Of course there are many things that influence which parts of someone's full name get used, and if the tenden
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Nvidia teases Arm-powered supercomputing chip Grace(theregister.com)
1 points by bloak 6y ago|0 comments
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by bloak 6y ago
My immediate thought: the algorithm is wrong! Deciding which film to watch together isn't a matter of both parties saying which films they are willing to watch and then picking one from the intersection of those two sets. It's a n
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by bloak 6y ago
The question is how to define "petty" and "serious".
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by bloak 6y ago
Or "cuck"? Depends on the variety of English, I expect.
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by bloak 6y ago
I once read an interview with an experienced travel writer in which one of the questions was something like: Which is the most interesting country to visit? The answer was something like: Perhaps France, but that's too boring and obvio
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by bloak 6y ago
Other countries don't have a problem with officials getting sued. In the UK there doesn't even seem to be a problem with employees getting sued; cases always seem to end up being against the employer. So why does only the US need
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by bloak 6y ago
I've not read ProfHewitt's argument, so I'm just looking at your summary. If ◻P means "P is a proposition that is formally provable within some implicit formal system" (perhaps there should be a subscripted letter t
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by bloak 6y ago
I've heard it's common in India for people to get a mobile phone contract that gives them the Facebook app and Wikipedia but not universal web access. I would guess that there are a lot of people in the UK who use Facebook from a
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by bloak 6y ago
Yes, but when the soldier dies and drops his weapon, the soldier just behind him, who was sent to the front without a weapon, needs to be able to pick up the dropped weapon and continue shooting. That's how it was during the Great Patr
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by bloak 6y ago
I don't know what definition of "use the internet" Pew Research used, but I suggest that a useful thing to ask would be whether people can easily access a typical web site, or at least one that has been designed to be accessi
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The Voice in Your Head(newstatesman.com)
2 points by bloak 6y ago|0 comments
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by bloak 6y ago
This might have something to do with it: https://cand.pglaf.org/germany/index.html (Thomas Mann and Alfred Döblin are out of copyright in the USA, but not in Germany, but obviously there's more to it than that bec
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by bloak 6y ago
Standard French pronunciation of "Strasbourg" has an /r/ but no /g/. Of course it's a German name, really, but the Germans spell it a bit differently, and neither French nor Germans pronounce the second vo
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by bloak 6y ago
Not a rebuttal: just musing.
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by bloak 6y ago
Typically the capital city has an English name, which is often not just pronounced differently but also spelt differently from the local name. But for almost every other town English speakers use the same spelling, or a transcription of it,
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by bloak 6y ago
I use Debian, not because of the quality of the software but because of the bug tracking system and the mailing lists and because I know how to find the source for any package and rebuild it if I have to. Perhaps some other distributions ha
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by bloak 6y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if most of Turkmenistan's and Uzbekistan's cotton gets sold to China though!
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by bloak 6y ago
It seems to be both.
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by bloak 6y ago
Vaguely related, in that it involves harvesting cotton in Asia: Turkmenistan uses "forced labour" for the cotton harvest. As I understand it, they need a huge number of people for 2-3 months, so people get drafted in. From the poi
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by bloak 6y ago
> Old paper £50 notes will still be accepted in shops for some time. I find that amusing because I suspect that in practice not many shops accept them. It's hard for me to know because despite having lived in the UK for about half a
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by bloak 6y ago
There are some important differences, and the subjectivity of human judgement is a major one. Also, compression is an interesting goal in its own right. But if the Hutter Prize is proposed as a way of encouraging AI research then I still cl
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by bloak 6y ago
The Wikipedia article on the Hutter Prize should have a cross-reference to the Loebner Prize as there's a close analogy and some of the same criticism applies, I think.
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by bloak 6y ago
But those ephemeral session keys can not be determined from observing the handshake because the handshake uses asymmetric cryptographic algorithms which may use exactly the same mathematics as RSA.
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by bloak 6y ago
I think a helpful human translator might use singular "they" in cases where the sex can probably not be known (for example, if it's a reference to a hypothetical person) and there is little danger of confusion with plural &qu
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by bloak 6y ago
That Douglas Adams hated writing is extremely well known. Stephen Fry has a good description of Douglas Adams trying to write. (It's probably in Fry's oddly titled autobiography.)
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by bloak 6y ago
I would guess (from very little practical experience in this area) that you probably want to use "100%" for the main text, because, like you say, that's the user's preference and depends on things like how far away the u
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by bloak 6y ago
There is probably a 256-byte program that simulates a universe in which a superhuman intelligence evolves. Of course the memory and runtime requirements of that program would be prohibitive, and the superhuman intelligence would not know an
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by bloak 6y ago
"Taiwan allows people to officially change their name up to three times." An interesting rule. Of course you can't rely on newspaper journalists to report such things accurately, but it sounds like a bug. A better rule would

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