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by ebalit 10y ago
You can't buy votes on paper because you need to be alone in the voting booth. You could disable people to vote, but not force them to vote as you want. As for the value of digital signature, I don't think it's legally equiva
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by ebalit 10y ago
No need for abduction, they just need to hold on to the ID to prevent revoting.
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by ebalit 10y ago
I missed this part. It seems like a good idea indeed but it could be countered. Force or pay a person to vote the last day and then to give you their ID until the vote is closed. Of course, it's still a step in the right direction as i
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by ebalit 10y ago
I checked the Q3 email [1] and while it is indeed about motivating their teams to reach profitability, it doesn't mention any discount.
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by ebalit 10y ago
The first article was discussed on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12773035
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by ebalit 10y ago
Did the Q3 email say that it was to boost sales to show profitability? I think it's fair to assume that they discounted the price because they were close to announce an "hardware" update.
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by ebalit 10y ago
This doesn't explain how you prevent against paying or pressuring people for their vote. If someone can potentially watch you as you vote, this is not an anonymous voting scheme anymore.
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by ebalit 10y ago
Affinity Designer for Windows [1] is currently in beta. Figma is available for Windows too [2]. 1: https://affinity.serif.com/fr/windows/ 2: https://www.figma.com/downloads
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by ebalit 10y ago
For the TGV, you need to be in the train 2 minutes before departure. Of course, you probably want to take a biffer margin of error. It's not "metro-like" but really close to commuter trains.
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by ebalit 10y ago
I think it's that Mac touchpads are really well integrated with the OS. I could never used multiple desktop on Linux. But after one day on a MacBook Air (that a colleague lent me) it became my natural workflow. The three-finger swipe o
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by ebalit 10y ago
Automatically proposing the best bang query would be awesome. It should be doable to predict the best bang from the query. Google does something like this when it shows images or scientific articles on top of other results. DDG could even p
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by ebalit 10y ago
Criticize != Ostracize It's possible to criticize someone without wanting him to be bared from participating in society.
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by ebalit 10y ago
It means it can be trained by backpropagating the error gradient through the network. To train a neural network, you want to know how much each component contributed to an error. We do that by propagating the error through each component in
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by ebalit 10y ago
It should be easy to port using the WebExtensions standard (implemented by Chrome, Firefox and Opera).
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by ebalit 10y ago
This seems like a really cool and useful idea. Are you sure it would be that long to develop a prototype?
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by ebalit 10y ago
In France the tax was raised right when oil prices where down. It eases the pain a little.
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by ebalit 10y ago
I think the article proposition is exactly what you're saying. Raise the gas taxes to cover the real cost of the infrastructure.
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by ebalit 10y ago
That would be interesting to know if the percentage of technical managers changed too. Mayer is a CS graduate that became widely successful in a management position. I would think she values technical management.
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by ebalit 10y ago
Nobody said that in this thread. You're just making things up.
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by ebalit 10y ago
Better still, forward it to alias@yourdomain.com that forward to Gmail or another email provider. Now you own your email address, just in case Google disappoint you in the future.
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by ebalit 10y ago
They weren't any recent breakthroughts. But LSTM and ConvNet are breakthroughts. It just took a lot of times to prove it.
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by ebalit 10y ago
The best bicycle lanes I've seen are painted in green with bicycle symbols here and there. I would think it's pretty universal. I don't know how costly this solution is though.
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by ebalit 10y ago
This poster[1] might be interesting. English spelling-pronunciation mapping is really complex compared to Italian for example. I wonder if Italian would be a better language for speech recognition. Most of speech recognition research is tar
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by ebalit 10y ago
It's really interesting extension and I would love to use it. Is their any plan to take advantage of the Web Extensions standard to offer this extension on Firefox and Opera too?
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by ebalit 10y ago
You mean Twitter-like timeline. At risk of being a bit "pedantic", I think credit should go to Twitter and not Facebook for this idea. Facebook Newsfeed was a smart move. They took the best idea of Twitter at the right time. That
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by ebalit 10y ago
I agree that a lot of processes could be improved and simplified to augment the productivity. But we shouldn't expect a huge productivity gain either. Most of public servant are professors, police officers, nurses and doctors a least i
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by ebalit 10y ago
To be fair, we should probably also take into account the a much higher percentage of the population have a family member or a close friend that works in the public sector.
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by ebalit 10y ago
How many tabs do we have opened in our browsers? I rarely have less than a dozen. I think it's fair to say that "browser as a runtime" isn't incompatible with multitasking. You can say that it would be better to share a
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by ebalit 10y ago
I think the alternative proposed by the article is clear: use the money to provide universal services. The author also mention the fight for Obamacare as more pragmatic. I think his argument are mainly targeted at the US were universal serv
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by ebalit 10y ago
No, they did not start with a UBI. RMI was means tested from the start. The RSA was a reform intended to "smooth the edges". While you would lose you're RMI as soon as you start working, now you can keep part of the RSA durin

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