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by dexen 7y ago
That's my point: it would enforce an automated two-tier system. If you are "ingroup", you would be allowed to post virtually anything. If you are a regular citizen, good luck.
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by dexen 7y ago
>Couldn't violence (both towards animals and humans) be detected in an automated fashion? Even if it could (and parallel posters argue it cannot), there is a meta-problem: "Who is allowed to post violent content?". Viole
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by dexen 7y ago
>In a lot of cases they'll be required to collect identity documents. This may very well be the major reason for Facebook to introduce & maintain the cryptocurrency. The "real name" policies were tried across the soc
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by dexen 7y ago
The Guardian article[1] provides more details. The case is a bit unusual, and thus the title may build wrong impression. In particular: - the donor/biological father brought the legal case - the pregnancy was performed through ar
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by dexen 7y ago
>forcing the user to change modes is bad Congratulations, you named the very reason this technique is effective. I am not being facetious here. The whole idea is to make the user perform disruptive, unfitting actions -both in the mind
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by dexen 7y ago
While the parent comment is getting downvotes, probably due to the somewhat accusatory form, the facts behind it are universally true: our civilization is improving. If you took several metrics and weighted them by people's concern, yo
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by dexen 7y ago
"The EU is still allowing many dangerous toys[1][2] that are banned in U.S." /s [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Surprise [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neodymium_magnet_t
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by dexen 7y ago
Here's a snarky reply, because I've laughed out loud upon reading your "they're on their way out" and the "we need stronger policies that cannot be swayed by public opinion" posted in one of responses.
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by dexen 7y ago
Yes of course. Both for technical and for social activities. Side note, there's a very nice IRC log service ran by Whitequark [1] - yes, the one of Glasgow fame. The source is available[2], so you can set up your own too. [1] https:&#
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Plot twist: the worth of shares in the hands of the investors is highly dependent on Zuckerberg being at the helm & maintaining Facebook on the course. If they ousted Zuckerberg, or curtailed his power to make decisions, the shares&#x27
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by dexen 7y ago
>Yet living standards aren't improving >There's a housing bubble in virtually every major city of Europe The former stems from the later, and from the lags inherent to markets. Wage adjustments lag behind employment numb
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by dexen 7y ago
>all formal models are proven to be wrong Your point certainly holds true for any physical entity as far as we know - probabilistic quantum effects, Heisenberg's Uncertainty, chaotic systems, and all that. However if you were to
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by dexen 7y ago
Thank you for the thorough and practical write-up. About the only thing I would add to it is i18n concerns. A few quick ones off of the top of my head: - Words are separated by whitespace or dashes. - Customers only ever enter ASCII.
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>The benefit can simply be in making these tradeoffs consciously, so you can judge your model better. Very much so; engineering is all about choosing the trade-offs, and hopefully improving them in the future. The list also helps with
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by dexen 7y ago
>>> A customer using the same query twice expects the same results for both searches Of course this is false; please consider: - customers expect to see in search results whatever new information they added/updated in the sy
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by dexen 7y ago
Trying to fix every single problem in the search module/layer/service is an anti-pattern by and of itself. There's an anecdote[1] from early days of Google Search where a certain domain was ranking 1st for an unrelated query
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>the function newspapers are intended to serve isn't to generate profits, nor even to be cost-effective By disclaiming profit you're ditching both the measuring tool, and also the motivation. With profit motive gone, the &quo
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by dexen 7y ago
Yes and no. The theoretical "regular expressions" are indeed Type-3 grammars in Chomsky's hierarchy. In practice, the common "RegEx" implementation implement a lot of extras, that break the theoretical backing, and
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by dexen 7y ago
"All models are wrong, but some are useful" (generally attributed to the statistician George Box). A belief, or a system of beliefs, is but a model. It's virtually guaranteed to be wrong. It also may very well serve the impor
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TOSsed Out: Highlighting the Effects of Content Rules Online(eff.org)
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by dexen 7y ago
>2) relation between women's education and total fertility Going by this map from 2018 [1], we can safely call it tested and confirmed in pretty much every country where women's education is the rule rather than the exception
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by dexen 7y ago
Thank you for the informative comment. Through the years I've seen various far fetched explainers about U1...U6 supposedly obscuring the real state of the economy. You made it clear for me, as practical & pragmatic measures.
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by dexen 7y ago
>anyone who isn't verified and using words like tax, election, vote etc can be sent to a moderation queue chuckle Do you propose that in earnest in order to save the democracy[1]? Or are you being ironic and it's simply los
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by dexen 7y ago
I wholeheartedly recommend the 2006 An Inconvenient Truth [1] as it shows nice animations of expected flooding of, for example, the Manhattan. [1] ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Inconvenient_Truth )
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>Public transit enables higher density, (...) pushing rich and poor people closer together. The later doesn't follow from the former - there's nothing about public transport that inherently clusters the affluent around it. Go
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>My guess is that technology allows cities to buy such labor from low-COL areas. Improved communications (...) The very reason for the persistent, vocal push for mass transportation. This allows centrally-planned, carefully routed infl
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The flipside to it is, during slow hours you still have the robot at the ready to help the odd guest. The robot just sitting there generates virtually no costs (bar the minuscule amount of electricity to maintain situational awareness), whi
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by dexen 7y ago
>A smartphone is a full fledge computer, which is a massive change from a dumb-phone (which capabilities were limited to calling and SMS). I'm sorry, but this is the very blindness the old smartphone manufacturers exhibited. Nokia
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by dexen 7y ago
Thank you for the excellent explainer. A minor nitpick: >A real world fusion power plant ("nuclear") Certainly you meant to write fission power plant (splitting of heavy nuclei) as the real world nuclear we're presentl
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by dexen 7y ago
For more shooting, and also discussion & commentary on weapon ergonomics & action match shooting, check out the InRange TV channel[1], where Ian is a co-host with Carl Kassarda. Sadly, the InRange TV has to self-limit on Youtube

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