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by elisbce 5y ago
"Can we render some rental listings?" "No, we need to first design a completely new programming language, a new compiler to compile the new language into universal low-level byte code that can be translated by LLVM to run on
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by elisbce 5y ago
If you worked for 10 startups and haven't had any equity that can be worth of something, you should question your own judgement and choice of startups instead of telling people don't join startups. Don't join BAD startups.
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by elisbce 5y ago
Linux RAID-6: RS(10,8) Google File System II (Colossus): RS(9,6) Quantcast File System: RS(9,6) Intel & Cloudera’ HDFS-EC: RS(9,6) Yahoo Cloud Object Store: RS(11,8) Backblaze’s online backup: RS(20,17) Facebook’s f4 BLOB storage system
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by elisbce 5y ago
It's inhuman and barbaric to sentence criminals to death penalty (usually very quick less painful), and yet, the usually much worse criminal acts (cold-blood torturing, mass murdering, beheadings, etc.) that they ACTUALLY conducted on
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by elisbce 6y ago
Like the unions didn't already destroy America's auto industry. Now they want to do the same to the tech industry. Supervisors can't talk directly with union workers, they have to go through unions first. Who on earth think t
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by elisbce 6y ago
It's so simple: You need to be credible to make valid claims. If you get caught for faking photo evidence on a story accusing China bugging the motherboard, your story is done. And even if they did, they are getting away with it becaus
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by elisbce 6y ago
The democracy and freedom of political views and speech in the US is now dead. It is like these days the Democratic Party represents the good guys and the GOP represents the bad guys. Anyone who agrees with some of the conservative ideology
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by elisbce 6y ago
People are confused about the differences between creativity and copyrights. Is API design work creative? Absolutely yes. Is all creative work copyrightable? Not necessarily. Copyrights have to be limited to very specific categories of use
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by elisbce 6y ago
Any affirmative action is by definition discriminating on the basis of race. If you want the best candidate for the job, you don't look at race, you look at their abilities to do the job. Period. Any bias towards hiring one race implie
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by elisbce 6y ago
1) Why is unfair? If there is one speech, but 3 candidates. And the AI predicted based on past performances, why is it unfair? (It is a bad decision for you, or the AI could be making a poor decision based on data/algorithm limitations
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by elisbce 6y ago
It has nothing to do with AI/ML. If you see someone repeatedly stealing from your yard, you can't predict he would do it again with high probability, because it would perpetuate the trend instead of trying to change it? Why would
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by elisbce 6y ago
You are deliberately twisting it. The crime stats says "violent crime is more prevalent in black communities...", but no AI/ML will produce the conclusion "...and therefore black people should get longer criminal senten
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by elisbce 6y ago
Your argument is exactly the problem. The fragmentation is what would happen, and the consumers suffer from it rather than benefit from it. This has been proven over and over again by history. When AT&T was broken up, there were like a
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by elisbce 6y ago
> The foundation of Liberalism (I’m not saying left wing here) is that no one owns knowledge This is complete BS to begin with. "No one owns knowledge" is a typical ideological statement without any merits or proof. It is an id
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by elisbce 6y ago
You have the right to determine your own fate. You can blow yourself up at home. Fine. Nobody cares. You don't have the right to come out and put everyone else at risk, esp. when it comes to a highly-infectious and potentially deadly d
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by elisbce 6y ago
Based on observations, your assumption that people on the beach are: 1) practicing proper and effective social distancing, 2) properly wearing medical masks with at least a water-resistant layer with high enough (e.g. 95%) filtering capabil