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by dchftcs 5y ago
In places where land is cheap, infrastructure is expensive. Roads, electricity, water, sewers, internet. Higher commute cost is also a cost in productivity.
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Various sources indicate that Google play made >10 billion in revenue, much of that being profit: https://www.thurrott.com/mobile/android/254978/google-play-h... These horror stories would mostly come from
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It's still a meaningless number, because there's no reasonable way to map this to production cost.
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Sometimes, one feature can break the entire experience. If one side decides to do encryption in a particular way, the other side doesn't, they can't talk to each other. Of course, you can choose to not do that encryption, but then
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If one side supports a feature, the other side doesn't, they're not interoperable.
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Spotify has very low margins so it's hard to say 30% isn't fair. Any lower they'd have trouble paying their costs. Streaming in general helped the music industry revenue grow. You can say Spotify might be bad at business for
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by dchftcs 5y ago
I'd like to be able to add modifications to the best games / content that I return to over and over again. Now that I'm older and have money, for some of them I might be willing to pay 10 times just to be able to have it more
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It's fair point that it's hard to spend time on something if it doesn't carry enough promise. I've seen enough crackpots from good universities that don't get called out enough. They still exist on the likes of Neur
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The theoretical possibility of generating unbiased random bits from biased ones has critical practical implications. In computers we need unbiased random bits all the time but often only have biased sources.
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It's a good anecdote, but in some places it tries to generalize a bit too much. This is a person that has an intrinsic interest in science and technology. This is an outlier among the general population. For children who are more attra
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by dchftcs 5y ago
Poor analogy. Stealing is the actual bad behaviour, stealing itself is bad for society, anyone who steals should be punished. Substitute "encryption" for "stealing" then you know why you're wrong.
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I suppose the link missing from the article is von Neumann: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_architecture That von Neumann may have been heavily influenced by Turing's paper, so that we could say Turing
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by dchftcs 5y ago
No, most of STEM should learn calculus at some point. In engineering and physics they are useful; in CS, chemistry and biology they are reasonable foundational knowledge and used in some specializations. Trigonometry is used even in some of
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by dchftcs 5y ago
The person didn't attribute it to racism, instead just used racism as an analogy.
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Yes, it's insane that people who don't necessarily support Putin are deprived of resources and opportunity, all in the name of justice. I think a lot people just want to show they did something, just any random thing, not knowing
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The point is that there are many different universal function approximators, so just that adds no value to explaining why NNs are good. This type of theory is meaningful (because it's harder to have taken anything as complex as multi-l
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by dchftcs 5y ago
I helped training for programming competitions at junior high to high school levels. I also TAed for CS students at a university level. Admittedly both of these contexts correlate to more maturity and stronger motivation in the students, es
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For just a lesson of writing code to achieve a specific functionality, you can streamline the process a lot by just starting with a template and let students fill in the gaps. So you don't necessarily make them spend time on "publ
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That's not the fault of the language, though I'd say maybe Kotlin is a considerably better choice nowadays. If by blockly you mean the visual interface, what you said is going to be true for any language. If by blockly you mean ja
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Edge cases in ideal conditions happen at random. When there's a conflict of interest, or any other systemic problem, so-called edge cases happen more often, because the situation consistently gets pushed to the edge, so to speak. There
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The basic constraint is that if you want to prove something based on purely logical statements, you need to express the problem precisely enough for pure logic, that is without any wiggle room open to vauge human interpretation, and the not
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by dchftcs 5y ago
This is incredible, one can destroy anyone and any organization with this amount of unchecked power.
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No, Babbage's earlier design requires the crank to be turned all the time. Basically human-powered instead of fossil-fuel powered. As long as the human only needs to turn the crank without thinking, the human could always be replaced b
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The result is mildly interesting but doesn't strike me as remarkable. We've always known that overparameterization with regularization can improve performance in certain classes of problems. The comparison with using n-order polyn
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Market making is a business that avoids taking sides over long time horizons. In this business, they need to be hedged in some way almost all the time, so what you said makes no sense.
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With greater surveillance power and the precedence of passing this bill the government gains the ability to push a stronger one, including one that targets general encryption. Your intended effect is uncertain at best, I'm not even sur
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Market making, at least in stocks, is already very well-automated. They are extremely efficient businesses; they need to, because they take million-dollar risks just in hope to make a few hundred bucks each time, and pay a lot of that in co
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I don't believe most productive programmers learned the quantum physics required for representing and manipulating 1s and 0s before they learned out to program. Abstractions are useful and efficient. You're more comfortable with a