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by discardorama 10y ago
Acknowledged. Sometimes I get stuck in "reddit" mode after switch from reading reddit to HN. :-/
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by discardorama 10y ago
Chinese are bullies. And bullies pee in their pants when faced with real resistance. That's the best way to describe it.
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by discardorama 10y ago
> ... and still discriminates and kills Muslims on a massive scale, even after partition. As an Indian, I'm shocked to hear this. Did you ever live in India? "Massive scale", my ass. At least India didn't wipe out it
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by discardorama 10y ago
> Deal with Iran that cements the Islamic revolution, Knowing what I know about the MiddleEast, I can assure you that Iran is a much better option than the Saudis. The Saudis basically owned the USG over the last couple of decades. Case
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by discardorama 10y ago
Oh, come on. Yeah, we do make plastics and all, but the main use is for burning.
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by discardorama 10y ago
Serbia and Siberia are 2 different places. Quite different, in fact.
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by discardorama 10y ago
So lets say I take the trained network, and flip the color of the pixels, and make some other cosmetic changes (keeping the game intact). Will the network then solve it in the first try?
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by discardorama 10y ago
Yep, like the Kardashian clan. /s
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by discardorama 10y ago
> is adding 100,000 new jobs every four years at this point. In 20 years, that one industry will employ a million people I think your math doesn't add up. But going along with your line of thought: will UBI be phased in over 20 year
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by discardorama 10y ago
> A UBI will do the good things I claim only if it replaces all other transfer payments and the bureaucracies that oversee them. Unfortunately, I have 2 problems with this: 1. Of the people that I see in SF who could use UBI, almost none
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by discardorama 10y ago
Direct link to the NSLs: https://s.yimg.com/ge/tyc/Redacted_NSLs.pdf
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by discardorama 10y ago
> So where's all this cash going? Is the driver side being subsidized to a ridiculous degree still (this is, actually, my guess)? I was in India recently. The driver said that when Uber started out, they'd give each driver Rs.
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by discardorama 10y ago
> What concerns me the most is that the newcomers might lack the environmental commitment, and tip the scales from valuing conservation to valuing rampant development. Actually, if you care about the environment, dense development is the
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by discardorama 10y ago
> by helping the maoist separatists of the north-eastern part, but bangladesh never does that. A lot of the ULFA leaders were living in Bangladesh and got tacit support from the government of Khaleda Zia.
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by discardorama 10y ago
> given that we now have programs that look at a photograph and say "Women wearing a hat, sitting on a bar stool and drinking wine" That may be; but then there's also this: http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.18
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by discardorama 10y ago
I understand your concerns, and they are valid. However, none of us can predict the future; we can only use the past to fit patterns. For example: even during the worst periods of conflict between India and Pakistan, water continued to flow
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by discardorama 10y ago
You know Bangladesh would not exist were it not for India's intervention, right? And when the Indian Army had occupied all of Bangladesh, it could have just stayed there, "temporarily". But it withdrew fairly quickly, and Ban
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by discardorama 10y ago
I .... don't know what to say. It's not as if the text he plagiarized was top-class writing! It's just observations and feelings; it would have been far easier to just write down what he was thinking! What is wrong with thes
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by discardorama 10y ago
"nroff_b.exe" ?!? Did these guys really have to drag nroff into this?? Better look for an old-school Unix hacker.
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by discardorama 10y ago
In our university, some guy figured out the phone numbers of the phones in the elevators. Sometimes we'd dial that number and have a random conversation with a random person. Other times we'd dial and just listen in. Caught a few
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by discardorama 10y ago
I didn't say you could get any job; just that you could get a job, so it is no longer a question of survival.
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by discardorama 10y ago
It's because once you are highly educated, you realize that you are no longer in competition with your fellow humans for resources: you'll get a job pretty easily, and it's no longer a matter of survival.
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by discardorama 10y ago
Um, if it detects an obstacle, how did it hit the trailer?
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by discardorama 10y ago
How about this headline: Hillary's Nomination Signal an Oligarchy Doing Fine (Hillary is all but nominated, I know)
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by discardorama 10y ago
We are talking 20% ROI, year after year, for the duration of the patent (17 years). That's a 22x ROI. Most SV investors would drool themselves into a pool at the thought.
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by discardorama 10y ago
Google petitioned the Supreme Court to hear its case, joined by allies including Yahoo, HP, Red Hat, and open source advocates, but was rebuffed. Microsoft, EMC, and NetApp urged the high court to let the Federal Circuit ruling stand, and
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by discardorama 10y ago
I'd say that a 20% ROI on the price of the development of the drug sounds reasonable. But the 11B was NOT the price of development; that would have been much lower. Assuming it was 1B (typical number thrown about), then a profit of 2
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by discardorama 10y ago
> then the government should be involved. The government is involved. Most of these drugs would not exist were it not for the NIH.
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by discardorama 10y ago
FTA: there are 200,000 people employed in Xintang, making 300M jeans/year. That's an average of 1500 jeans/employee. Assuming an average wage of 30K/employee, that's $20/jean extra. Surely not a bank-breaking s
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by discardorama 10y ago
> AMD still doesn't have a good answer to CUDA. I don't understand why AMD doesn't just jump on the CUDA bandwagon and support the API?

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