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by dorgo 7y ago
Is the tree thing viable? Can we plant enough trees and keep them long enough from burning or rotting?
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by dorgo 7y ago
> small sacrifices My impression ist that people are talking about sacrifices for the sake of sacrafices and not to solve the problem. If the global warming (and related problems) would be (magically) solved tomorrow, they would be disap
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by dorgo 7y ago
And don't forget to check the compiler code too..
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by dorgo 7y ago
> requires a willingness to go down with the ship IMO, it would have lessened the impact if he went down with the ship. Otherwise I agree.
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by dorgo 7y ago
If I could pay 20€ per hour maybe I would advocate for the same thing. Let's build more (underground) parking decks which could be afforded by more than the richest 1%?
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by dorgo 7y ago
>Reduce parking/make drivers pay for parking. They did that. 2€ per hour. One of the reasons I don't have a car. But I would rather walk two hours to the office and two hours back before I go by tram / public transport. Th
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by dorgo 7y ago
afaik, passwords are not stored in databases. Only the hash of the password is stored. The database doesn't know and doesn't care about the length of the password.
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by dorgo 7y ago
> as a form of protestation Me too. It's like a game: choose the easiest possible password given constraints.. My theory is: for each set of constraints there is always exactly one such password. Hard to prove, I know.
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by dorgo 7y ago
>Say it takes a few hundred identical spammy emails to trigger a filter Wait, is this really the way how spam filters work? All I need to do is to add a random number to all emails to bypass spam filters?
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by dorgo 7y ago
ähmm, no? Counterexample: 1/3 >every nonzero TERMINATING decimal has two equal representations
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by dorgo 7y ago
I did that and they kept calling me twice a day from different numbers for months (without leaving a message). Solution was to buy an app for 2€ and block the whole range (Vorwahl). Android should be able to block ranges of phone numbers bu
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by dorgo 7y ago
>GPS,[1] is a satellite-based radionavigation system owned by the United States government and operated by the United States Air Force .. so it's national defence...
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by dorgo 7y ago
in comparison to wind and solar nuclear power - is more centralized - is a better target for terrorists - favors monopolies - uses fuel which could be used to build bombs? Just speculating, but I guess nobody will be happy if some of that s
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by dorgo 7y ago
Interesting. I used a similar trick to compute a lower bound on the levenshtein distance. I was able to skip the real levenshtein distance calculation, if the lower bound already exceeded a threshold ( I used it for clustering ).
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by dorgo 7y ago
>if we ever found a contradiction in the ZFC axioms, we wouldn't throw out math, we'd just throw out ZFC. It's like saying: if we ever found a contradiction in the base case of a mathematical induction, we wouldn't th
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by dorgo 7y ago
Hmm, let's call "buy nothing" a neutral strategy. Then a combination of “buy stocks A, B, and C” and “short stocks A, B, and C” has the same effect as the neutral strategy. But the combination of “buy stocks A, B, and C” and
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by dorgo 7y ago
> To them, a logical, well reasoned, and UN-emotional argument is persuasive, and far more likely to help you achieve your goal. I'm not so sure. Know your audience. On hackernews I agree. But there are forums where nobody reads or
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by dorgo 7y ago
It is possible to pay with credit card (which also takes %).
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by dorgo 7y ago
>"more what you call guidelines, than actual rules" they can index without scraping. It is enough that other websites have links to you site. So the google bot follows the rules in robots.txt to the letter. "no-index"
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by dorgo 7y ago
>but why should I bother with weird mathy things in my imperative language that has side effects and global state There are good reasons, like encapsulation, etc. But the real reason is, it just dosn't feel right and there is this u
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by dorgo 7y ago
> https://trackthis.link/ It opens 100 tabs? With third-party ressources and javascript blocked, it will do little in terms of shaping my ad-profile. But maybe 4GB are not enough to open 100 tabs, so I skipt this.
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by dorgo 7y ago
"statistical significance" - it has too many problems. A colleague complained once, that his test kept alternating between statistical significant and not significant back and forth. I know it's not how it is supposed to work
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by dorgo 7y ago
I don't know. My former ML profs do a lot of science too...
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by dorgo 7y ago
>machine learning skips the explaining part and goes straight to making predictions what? Then we should call it machine oracle. It uses magic to make the right predictions without any understanding. It's like seeing a strong AI bea
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by dorgo 7y ago
> Go on a 5x5 board would be a very straightforward game I think it is not a good comparison. A small board calls for simpler algorithms: just try out all possible games and choose the most favorable one. For larger boards this simple ap
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by dorgo 7y ago
Why don't we do online learning? Each failure is a new training sample. Why dont't we do active learning? Or adversarial networks, or.... Sure it is easy to fail in machine learning. But it doesn't mean that we need to undsta
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by dorgo 7y ago
> We're all basically fine with ads per se. Speak for yourself. I'm pretty allergic to ads - stopped watching tv, reading newspapers etc. a decade ago. No way I accept ads on the web just because they are in more traditional fo
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by dorgo 7y ago
>That's probably not completely incorrect Far from it: From https://revenuesandprofits.com/how-google-makes-money/ : >68.3% of the total, from the advertising over the Google websites >21.2% of the total,
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by dorgo 7y ago
Just tried: [].slice.call( document.querySelectorAll( '.togg' ) ).forEach( x => x.click() ) It's really slow. Takes 5-10 seconds for 100 comments. Maybe I just need one of these new AMD processors.
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by dorgo 7y ago
API?

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