dbpokorny

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by dbpokorny 11y ago
Sexual surveillance and repression goes back to the dawn of civilization and the origin of language. Everybody wants to know who is having sex with who. This is, I fear, the ultimate question of Douglas Adam's Hitchhiker's Guide t
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by dbpokorny 11y ago
Your computer has to download the tweet before it runs the tweet. It will be cached on your computer. Compliance with twitter TOS means you have to clear your cache when twitter says the tweet was deleted. Since you're using the tweet
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by dbpokorny 11y ago
Yes, it goes from Excel to Microsoft Project to the plotter to the wall. And then beings the multi-year process of watching the baseline and targets drift away from each other like ships at sea...
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by dbpokorny 11y ago
It sounds like suicide by cop, which is a real thing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_by_cop
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by dbpokorny 11y ago
The Guardian and Salon are two of the worst offenders. I learned a little while ago that Sam Harris took on Salon. I always thought Sam Harris was a blowhard and annoying to listen to, but I have a lot of respect for him now. We need more h
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by dbpokorny 11y ago
You have left out a very crucial fact which completely destroys your argument: Twitter has no verification process that the tweet was deleted because you're NOT ADVERTISING THE TWEETS. You're using them as source code. So the publ
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by dbpokorny 11y ago
If you can get a good toolkit for writing a GLR parser, then people will write their own tokenizers, BNF formal grammars, and plug it into your parser. It would take a single person about two to six weeks to get something thoroughly polishe
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by dbpokorny 11y ago
I can't stop laughing. I think you have to admire the elegance of the concept as performance art though: this is cheap insanity. In fact, I've got to hand it to them, this is the most fun I've had looking at something program
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by dbpokorny 11y ago
These facts are just wrong. Google and FB both received massive funding early on.
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by dbpokorny 11y ago
Don't say "we", say "a few very wealthy and powerful individuals who do not represent anyone other than themselves"
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by dbpokorny 11y ago
I can see why you think that, but I think you're wrong. Blocking ads just means that advertisers will have to get better at providing their audience with quality content. It's the invisible hand of the free market at work. I'
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by dbpokorny 11y ago
> In the current situation, it seems that at the very least we are going to see an increased use of ad blockers, resulting in further damage to internet advertising and national economies This is absurd. Destroying my focus so you can se
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by dbpokorny 11y ago
> Capitalism has been hijacked by a lucrative surveillance project that subverts the “normal” evolutionary mechanisms associated with its historical success and corrupts the unity of supply and demand that has for centuries, however impe
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by dbpokorny 11y ago
What problems would you rather attack with C + Go vs. a somewhat more mature C + Python?
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by dbpokorny 11y ago
I'm just posting to say that I agree, and I have nothing else to add to this conversation.
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by dbpokorny 11y ago
This isn't quite correct; it should go > Then we go to war in order to make sure some other country can't create artificial scarcity of resources, which would reduce the number of people we have against our wishes It is about p
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by dbpokorny 11y ago
> Implement thunderbolt? Sorry, that's Intel proprietary, no can do. Sounds like Intel is guilty of "illegal tying". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tying_(commerce) On top of that, the DMCA has interop
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by dbpokorny 11y ago
> implement a set > don't use a hash table > use the stack > complain when language doesn't have tail call wat
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by dbpokorny 11y ago
> As a matter of fact, the need for proving existence theorems was not felt until the end of the nineteenth century, and I refuse to believe that someone like Cauchy or Riemann did not think of them. More probably, they thought about the
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by dbpokorny 11y ago
I was under the impression that the problem was a corrupt and impenetrable legal system built to erect barriers to entry and protect insiders, the virtue in whose hearts is boiled away in the fires of greed and lust for power. This is a sor
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by dbpokorny 11y ago
Orange! I remember that language. It is the language which produced what I consider to be the all time #1 hacker news comment: > Let me put your mind at ease: If you are serious, and if you attain any success, I solemnly promise you the
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by dbpokorny 11y ago
Not if you start with a small compiler
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by dbpokorny 11y ago
more like a "fuse" that cuts off power to X and Y when Z fails
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by dbpokorny 11y ago
> You’re doing option A already, right? This is just standard operating procedure when it comes to finding code on the internet – a hyperlink comment ensures you’ll be able to debug down the line. XD
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by dbpokorny 11y ago
I'm not qualified to continue this discussion further. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GicWZl9HmU4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_truths_doctrine
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by dbpokorny 11y ago
The answer to that question depends on whether or not a robot is pointing a gun at your head. Might makes right.
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by dbpokorny 11y ago
In theory we could rig up a quad copter with a machine gun, loudspeaker, and AI, with programming that demands that every human it encounters be interrogated with the question, "do I, a mechanical computer, have the ability to think?&q
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by dbpokorny 11y ago
> many journals consider it an ethics violation to use a control group, the logic being that in denying your experimental method to the control group you're putting them at a disadvantage > doing education science is unethical le
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by dbpokorny 11y ago
you are missing: "A Shorter Model Theory" by Hodges "Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction" by Sutton and Barto "Neuro-Dynamic Programming" by Bertsekas and Tsitsiklis "Set Theory An Introduction To Inde
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by dbpokorny 11y ago
I like "How to Make Wealth" because he doesn't beat around the bush, he just come out and says that "wealth" is nothing more than an "object of the desire to possess" and if you can do something that incre

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