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by dpwm 8y ago
Just out of curiosity, what is your country? There are many countries at the moment that this could apply to, but most are already in the Euro which so far is a one-way trip. > I won't trade sovereignity for convenience, regardless
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by dpwm 8y ago
> As Hollywood was originally mentioned, I did not think it needs clarifying that I am talking about professional careers. The majority of Hollywood actors are good at being Hollywood actors. Much of that seems to be more about maintain
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by dpwm 8y ago
> the vast majority of people who want to be actors suck at being one. It's difficult to reduce the dimensionality of people down to one continuous variable, let alone one binary variable; though some actors, I will concede, could a
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by dpwm 8y ago
And this is probably the origin of most political disagreements.
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by dpwm 8y ago
> A much stronger rebuttal of the hype would have been based on the technical limitations of deep learning. I'm not even sure how you'd go about doing that. You could use information theory to debunk some of the more ludicrous
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by dpwm 8y ago
There was a little bit of pain but it was nowhere near as bad as some make out. I migrated all my arch boxes at the time just fine and the main work was writing unit files -- which compared to writing init scripts was mainly trivial. Is sys
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by dpwm 8y ago
That sounds like it's setting an RTC timer to wake up. You may be able to disable that. It may be called wake on timer or wake on RTC.
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by dpwm 8y ago
Only recently -- probably in response to the GDPR. I was showing a non-technical colleague only two weeks ago how doing a whois query on our company's .co.uk domain showed our company address and the individual responsible for registra
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by dpwm 8y ago
I think it's more likely that "to make Medium make money," they engage in tracking for advertising purposes. Medium works perfectly well for my purposes without that banner being displayed. I can open up developer tools and d
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by dpwm 8y ago
Not sure I agree with you on that. I read it as Mary's career being steered away from film-making and into studying "DRM and copyright law with regards to film." Even if you personally believe that a career defined by studyin
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by dpwm 8y ago
> The irony is that some the figures complaining about User:PhilipCross openly take money for regularly appearing on Russian state media, and yet I still believe their politics isn't shaped by financial incentives. Because they are
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by dpwm 8y ago
Why not mouth off on social media? Yes, it draws attention. But it also adds legitimacy to the operation if he is not an individual. If a PR firm is making edits to Wikipedia, they get heavily frowned on. If it appears that an individual is
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by dpwm 8y ago
If indeed it is one individual. With the intensity of edits it would not be at all surprising if this editor was in fact more than one individual masquerading behind a single account.
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by dpwm 8y ago
I'm an outsider to the JS world but find it absolutely fascinating the direction the language has taken. It's clear that a lot of the new language features enable more concise functional programming. I see this as a good thing. I&
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by dpwm 8y ago
That would be fairly neat, although I think there might be some problems. Who is to blame when a voice assistant fails to pass on the call when somebody speaks with the wrong accent? On the other hand, I imagine a system where you could spe
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by dpwm 8y ago
One point which I haven't seen made here is that perhaps economics is a reductionist approach to something which cannot be easily modelled in a reductionist way. Nobody here expects everything we know about Physics to become largely ir
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by dpwm 8y ago
Article in fact claims police force said no-one was arrested after an incorrect match. > It also said no-one had been arrested after an incorrect match.
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by dpwm 8y ago
I was going to state that I had read from a differently biased news source that nobody had been arrested, but the telegraph hasn't really reported it any differently to any other news outlet and contains this: > It also said no-one
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by dpwm 8y ago
> I sincerely doubt the argument that dragnet surveillance has no effect. It almost certainly does. Whilst congress makes some pretty ludicrously predictably bad decisions, there must be some reports of the NSA's effectiveness. It&#
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by dpwm 8y ago
I'm all for seeing items with random distribution inside as gambling too. I recall the monetary value of some pokemon cards caused my school to ban them. This didn't really have any effect other than to allow the school to say, &q
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by dpwm 8y ago
Having just got back into RSS in the last week, I tried newsboat and found it does at least what I needed it to, from the terminal, without it adding features that get in the way. I haven't looked for anything else.
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by dpwm 9y ago
I wasn't even thinking about public data. There's a lot of data that law enforcement already collects. What about license plate data, data from IMSI catchers, and leaked data. Add in the publicly available online data and you can
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by dpwm 9y ago
Let's say I'm law enforcement and I have some information obtained in a way which wouldn't stand up even in the most farcical of courtrooms. What I can do is use surveillance tools to find a way to effectively entrap you, to
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by dpwm 9y ago
I remember there was a paper regarding scale-free networks. I believe it was discussed on HN a few months back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16144867 But I also (perhaps falsely) remember a discussion that seemed to
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by dpwm 9y ago
To me the biggest thing that made event sourcing click was when I was working on an internal app that needed full auditing. With event sourcing the audit log is the authoritative data source. Learning that there was a name for this and that
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by dpwm 9y ago
Right. This makes sense as to why it is a problem for Kafka users. I must admit I was in a bit of a hurry when I looked into Kafka to see if it would be a better fit, but it seemed to be more about the scaling than I cared for.
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by dpwm 9y ago
I'm not a Kafka user. However, I am a long-time keen implementer of event sourcing and log-derived data stores. Many of these involve per-user or per-individual sqlite databases. I cannot understand why Kafka is causing people problems
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by dpwm 9y ago
The exclusivity of BBM was one of the big selling points for blackberries. That and their integration with corporate IT infrastructures. For a while that worked really well, and BBM was the reason to buy a blackberry after the keyboards and
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by dpwm 9y ago
The thought did cross my mind. But there's something that feels weird about claiming an account that I never set up, especially where it's not clear if the service allows payment or usage with an unverified email address. I person
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by dpwm 9y ago
I actually have dots in my Netflix account email address because somebody who wasn't me had previously started to register for Netflix using my email address. I have had to do this with some other services as well. Some services won&

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