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by challenger-derp 4y ago
Are there (good) reasons for Telcos to store customers' passport info aside from laws instructing them to? Can telcos do sufficient KYC without? (Edited)
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by challenger-derp 4y ago
Takeaway: Be open-minded about the medium of information transmission. Books and lectures are what we're accustomed to today. Are there other forms (perhaps non-mainstream ones or undiscovered ones) that could be better? For instance:
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by challenger-derp 4y ago
So far, my experience with Samsung products is that they're really badly put together in my experience. In the past, I've had multiple Samsung Note Smartphones (changed every 2-3 years because they would stop functioning), two Sam
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by challenger-derp 4y ago
Firefox has some really good privacy features built-in (some aren't enabled by default and requires minor configuration by users). In contrast, some big tech firms (you know who they are) that have a business model that involves profit
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by challenger-derp 4y ago
I think this is a sensible idea. As a user I feel friction when needing to get in touch with people working on a software that I use. Users don't necessarily wanna join or know how to join a discord server/forum just cuz they&#x27
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by challenger-derp 4y ago
Well put. > ... willing to pay for convenient access ... Convenience as a monetization idea should be considered by more open-source devs: binaries compiled for various OS version, optional cloud compute/storage (e.g. Zotero), prior
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by challenger-derp 4y ago
Singapore authorities claim he has left the country [1]. [1] https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/government-economy/police-s...
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by challenger-derp 4y ago
good point!
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by challenger-derp 4y ago
Calibre for books. Zotero for papers. Both are compatible with common cloud services like Dropbox.
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by challenger-derp 4y ago
A few comments here point the OP/ hint to the OP that a lawyer be consulted. This is likely a good move. 1. Is it possible to explore obtaining an agreement from the company that the lawyer's bill (probably won't be more than
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by challenger-derp 4y ago
I think this line of research is necessary in helping us (society) understand ourselves better. Although I've not been poor myself, the ongoing mental stress/strain when met with challenges in which I feel I stand a high chance of
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by challenger-derp 4y ago
SEA doesn't have annual inflation rates anywhere near 50%.
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by challenger-derp 4y ago
I agree that one is usually concerned with more recent information (hence the effectiveness of the LRU caching heuristic). However, looking back at past endeavours has been a source of new ideas and joy (reminisce achievements) for me. I do
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by challenger-derp 4y ago
^ quite a good way of concretizing the concept of interpolating between training samples.
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by challenger-derp 4y ago
For anyone who's reading the above comment, the additional context that slowmovintarget hasn't provided is that Gary Marcus supports a school of thought in AI that opposes the currently popular school of thought that favors deep n
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by challenger-derp 4y ago
Your allegations of the "wrongs" he did: - shouted at you in a meeting claiming that your opinions are invalid and that he didn't need to explain matters to you. - being abrasive. - blew up a PR review ("insane set of Gi
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by challenger-derp 4y ago
>10 BTC >many on reddit/twitter/fediverse have already started to explore the data set for gender ratio, age composition and frequency of raping cases, etc. Is a portion of it public? Isn't BTC more traceable than Priva
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by challenger-derp 4y ago
>People will have different opinions about privacy when their wives asks them why their business trip to another city showed up as a hotel night 500 meters away from home on the government database. Had a good chuckle. But then it got me
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by challenger-derp 4y ago
Unlike trading on insider information, smoking is legal. One could advice against smoking and continue smoking himself without legal repercussion.
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by challenger-derp 4y ago
I believe it's not risk-free. For example, I read that immuno-suppressed people should avoid consuming kombucha, kefir, etc.
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by challenger-derp 4y ago
Could empathize with your view until you stated: > WFH + sports betting + retail trading on the stock/bond markets have been a huge win for the employee.
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by challenger-derp 5y ago
First thing that came to mind is diffing python notebooks.
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by challenger-derp 5y ago
An assumption being made here is VTV is the kind of value investing you would (personally) define as value investing. I don't know VTV's methodology, but I've encountered ETFs by reputable companies that are quite shabbily ma
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by challenger-derp 5y ago
Another perspective: people are not indifferent to the set of ethics their community subscribes to. Ethics help form a common understanding about what it means to be a part of a community. Sure, morality is constructed and observable choice
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by challenger-derp 5y ago
Read through the takeaways in this thread written by the handful of HN users who attempted similar ideas. These ideas can be generalized and applied to real-time online communities -- have chat & status sections to indicate who & ho
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by challenger-derp 5y ago
Are there more compelling use-cases than creating public-good kind of whitelists? What incentives encourage sharing of websites? I can list some undesirable incentives: marketing, "shilling" products, MLM promotions. Don't ge
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by challenger-derp 5y ago
Looks cool!
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by challenger-derp 5y ago
I like how minimalistic it looks. Families might want a larger sized one to hang somewhere prominent in their home hah.
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by challenger-derp 5y ago
I like these arguments. As a matter of practicality, commercial entities using a maintainers' work should donate to maintainers to incentive them to, well, at least not go rogue, or to be on their good side when they rogue. Companies p
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by challenger-derp 5y ago
Just basing off the title alone: Having a nemesis works if you can figure out / already know the directions to bridge the gap between where you're at and where your nemesis is at. Knowing what you'd like to accomplish != know

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