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by dbmikus 9y ago
Check out online courses. Coursera, EDX, etc. Andrew Ng's intro to machine learning course is a nice way to get up to speed with some basic concepts without diving too far into math. It doesn't cover any state of the art machine l
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I agree with you. I'm arguing that if Chinese companies are colluding with the PRC, then having other international companies that provide those services would provide options to choose ones that are not purposefully misleading their u
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by dbmikus 9y ago
Regarding this statement, > "There could be an alliance between authoritarian states and these large, data-rich IT monopolies that would bring together nascent systems of corporate surveillance with an already developed system of st
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Because that decreases the supply of housing available for those that cannot afford secondary residencies. If there is not enough extra housing supply, you end up raising rent prices. If the market isn't creating enough housing for som
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by dbmikus 9y ago
In places with limited rental properties, some people have got leases on apartments and are then renting them out via AirBnB instead of living in them. This decreases the total amount of apartments available for long-term renters. In NYC, y
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by dbmikus 9y ago
Living healthier for longer will not help the healthcare crisis if the tail-end of life has the same health distribution. I think healthspan is a more important first target that lifespan. It's great to see some targeted support for bi
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Or someone can make another audio-controlled device that doesn't sell ads and that can be a separate company. I don't see why you would immediately go towards having the government step in and regulate whether Amazon can make the
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by dbmikus 9y ago
millstone was saying that the president doesn't pay many bills. He can generate them, though.
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Should everyone do their job for free? It's reasonable to try to make money writing. A site can disable access to those using adblock, and it's reasonable to choose to avoid those websites.
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It would be vastly difficult for a mesh network to compete with centralized wired or wireless broadband. I think net neutrality is better solved by better market competition (right now only available in wireless space) or by revisiting the
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A lot of the new technologies only provide ideological benefits for most people. I don't think the concept of decentralization is in itself enough to cause mass adoption. I love that there are strong proponents of this tech,though. It&
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by dbmikus 9y ago
None of these technologies will disrupt big tech. They're niche things that, while awesome, appeal to techies and people being censored. To stop conglomeration of big tech, you need big tech businesses that refuse to or are not allowed
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by dbmikus 9y ago
Yeah, I would certainly be hesitant to allocate a substantial portion of my money to a non-major-brand hedge fund or other investment vehicle. But, I don't have that kind of money to play with anyways, so I've haven't looked
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by dbmikus 9y ago
Didn't Ubuntu give up on making their OS support mobile? What's missing is the demand for a desktop OS on a phone.
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I doubt any Electron-based editor is going to feel as snappy and light as Vi. Have you been noticing performance decreases? I haven't noticed any.
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That's a very hyperbolic statement. Facebook still has merit as a way to organize and communicate with your social group, even if there are some negatives. For cigarettes, I don't know what positives people can claim with a straig
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by dbmikus 9y ago
I like this analogy for why Facebook should be regulated. We have no problem regulating food for health benefits, so to extend that to other items seems like a decent proposal. I believe it is harder to empirically calculate and observe neg
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by dbmikus 9y ago
I use Emacs, VIM, VS Code, and Eclipse, but they all need to have a VIM mode enabled or I'm outta there! VS Code can actually use an embedded neovim instance in its VIM mode for EX commands, which is pretty neat.
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by dbmikus 9y ago
The 20s to early 30s is the healthiest time to have a child, for both the child and the mother. Now, you can have children in your late thirties and beyond, but that can get more difficult depending on the specific health situation of the p
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by dbmikus 9y ago
Avoiding repercussions for bad security is pretty much consistent across all industries.
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The unification-fd library referenced in the article is probably a pretty good example. I have not looked at it, though, and it would be nice to have explicit bits of code pointed out in an explanation.
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I just installed the latest version of Linux Mint and the default graphics card driver had a bug that caused my entire system to freeze after a few hours of inactivity. To be able to replace Apple or Microsoft, not only do you need user fri
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by dbmikus 9y ago
I wonder what system they had to keep things lit up. I imagine if you were somewhere down there without lights you'd have a bad time.
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Netflix is so cheap compared to cable, though. I wouldn't mind paying for a few streaming bundles as long as the coverage is wide enough. I don't know if the industry will move towards consolidation like we've seen in music s
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The idea that one could "pay a little more for manufactured goods" to retain "world leadership, a high standard of living, and control [of] their own destiny" is not necessarily true. It assumes that other nations cannot
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Yeah, I also took issue with the author's point that branding and marketing was so easily swappable. I'd say it's much easier for a global brand to swap where their factories are or who is running logistics than it is to just
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by dbmikus 9y ago
> each prior great extinction was accompanied by a replacement of the "dominant" species on the Earth. As the current reigning "dominant" species, this seems like something that might be very concerning to humans... E
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There's also a much more relaxed work culture. I'd say that's probably number 1.
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You can criticize the editorialization of news sources without falling to outright blanketing them as "fake news" sources. Trump has repeatedly claimed facts as true without evidence or just based on a claim by a singular news sou
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Then you need to send information to agree on a monotonic clock time.

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