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by dorgo 9y ago
>Just imagine one day, some algorithms completely take control of/help us decide what we eat, who we date, where to travel, who we talk to or make friends with, what job offer to take, what subjects to study in school, what startup
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by dorgo 9y ago
Many possibilities to overcome this. Tell N friends about us and you get a month free subscription. Deals, coupons etc.. There are ways to achieve price discrimination. Who doesn't can/want to pay can get the service for free but
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by dorgo 9y ago
how does adtech industry hurt people? Btw there are ad blocker for those who don't like ads.
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by dorgo 9y ago
Don't you get problems with equal Signatures but different meaning or different scale? Example: interface SomethingWithAge{ age(); } class Person{ age(); // age in years } function classify( SomethingWithAge item ){ if( it
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by dorgo 9y ago
On the other hand high counts of invisible tabs may be a hint that the code needs refactoring..
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by dorgo 9y ago
Germany has privacy protection laws and a privacy protection officer warned that 99% of WhatsApp users act illegal by not asking their contacts for permission before giving WhatsApp access to their contact information.
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by dorgo 9y ago
It was an example of a job which can be automated (and as you pointed out, is already automated), but which is still dominated by human workers. You suggested that all the jobs done by humans can't be automated. My response is: most (o
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by dorgo 9y ago
There is no market for fathers and uncles. Nobody wants a roboter as father. Mentor of friend sounds more interesting though.
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by dorgo 9y ago
I said two things. Which am I wrong about?
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by dorgo 9y ago
Like the collector in the supermarket who scans the products and takes my cash? Surely it must be impossible to automate such a complex task. Industry/Economy lacks behind state-of-the-art technology by decades.
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by dorgo 9y ago
Show this leopard sofa to 100 humans for 1 second each and see how many will make the same mistake. We are 99% there and you point to the 1% to prove how bad we failed. Sure, the error rate will go down even further in the next years. But w
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by dorgo 9y ago
>So there doesn't exist any more efficient strategies to find the maximum number, than linear or random search. For classic old school computers yes. I'm not so sure about quantum computers. Consider: https://en.wiki
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by dorgo 9y ago
> My gut feeling is that it is hubris to think that we are going to "figure out" intelligence with increasingly sophisticated mathematical models anytime soon. We did it already. Compter understand language, translate it, react
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by dorgo 9y ago
Something like this? https://imgur.com/Y9CkxEh I don't know how to do it. I can only start a recording and reload the page. But it is not the same as to open it in a new tab (which much slower).
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by dorgo 9y ago
I don't know. Firefox 59 needs about a second to load a small local html file with 3 small pictures (100x100 pixel) from SSD. How is this possible? Most windows games load instantly. UI in most games works instantly. Why is it so hard
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by dorgo 9y ago
>when they can look up all the personal info and private pics of themselves and their neighbors and friends on some public webserver. I always thought this webserver is called "facebook", isn't it?
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by dorgo 9y ago
lol, just add a captcha to the trap page :D
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by dorgo 9y ago
I clicked the link, but I'm not a bot, I swear!
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by dorgo 9y ago
Strange. I feel only a slight negative connotation of "greed". Nothing to be ashamed of or to condemn. Maybe some meaning is lost in translation to my language.
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by dorgo 9y ago
I don't get your math, but (I+P) - (I-P) = 2P. It seems wrong that that the difference between the two scenarios is 2P.
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by dorgo 9y ago
I guess he proposes to increase the VAT for big players instead of creating an all new form of taxation.
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by dorgo 9y ago
I suspect some corruption going on when I hear something like this. I have no experience with biochemistry, but in my university they showed us a (selfbuild) 3D equipment consisting of one or a couple of computers, 3 (good) beamers and a ga
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by dorgo 9y ago
Most people don't vote at all. Find a big group of poor people, give them 10$ each for voting for your candidate and hope that they do what they were paid for.
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by dorgo 9y ago
Wait, what? Why does my bank need to talk to (share information with) PayPal?
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by dorgo 9y ago
Dear customer, we may betray you in some of these 600 ways. This is just the "worst case" scenario. You are very unlikely to hit any significant fraction of these posibilities for any single given Transaction. At least we hope so.
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by dorgo 9y ago
Really? Interesting. People are social to an extent that they think isolation is hell?
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by dorgo 9y ago
I'm cursing for about a year about this. I spent days searching for workarounds and stopped short of hacking into firefox. Maybe I should just install firefox 50 and disable updates.
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by dorgo 9y ago
If you hire 50 random people (uniform distribution) the probability to get twice (or more than twice) as many employees of one sex as the other sex is about 3.5%. If you add ethnicity, age, sexual orientation etc. to the mix you will rarely
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by dorgo 9y ago
In my opinion, decentralization is not the point of crypto-tech. Maybe it's some minor feature, but not the selling proposition. The major feature is the formalisation of the concept of consensus. Forks are a manifestation of this feat
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by dorgo 9y ago
>You don’t have to be irrationally exuberant to succeed in the market, even if it’s irrationally exuberant. Yes, but it is risky. If you don't follow trends/buzzwords you have two threats: 1) You bet that many people (the marke

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