emilgouliev

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by emilgouliev 5y ago
The product is Alexa the voice assistant, not the tiny speaker+microphone. Amazon makes this product. When the child spoke to the device, Alexa made a deliberate decision to look up a challenge on the internet (presumably, from a website it
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by emilgouliev 5y ago
> In the US, we lean toward less regulation than many European countries and we reap different outcomes as a result. Yes, when laws are friendlier to wealthier people, wealthier people end up better of than poorer people, not sure why yo
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by emilgouliev 5y ago
Why are you okay with sectoral bargaining on the employer side but not on the employee side?
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by emilgouliev 5y ago
Yeah, that doesn't excuse using Vietnam as a stand-in for Vietnam war.
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by emilgouliev 5y ago
Also, Vietnam is a country… since when does Vietnam refer to the Vietnam War instead of Vietnam?
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by emilgouliev 5y ago
You might have a point if China was the only country that was able to keep their case numbers low, but dozens of countries did even better than China. Perhaps South Korea or New Zealand is to blame instead.
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by emilgouliev 5y ago
“When HIV/AIDS emerged in the 1980s, it was alleged, with a little Soviet help, that the virus had been developed in an American lab. Between Washington’s inaction on the epidemic and its sordid past of shady experiments, proponents sa
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by emilgouliev 5y ago
> It’s not really about interesting for most people, it’s about is there a market for this and ultimately can I pay my mortage with this? This is so asinine. Just because some R&D project is the most profitable thing FAANG companies
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by emilgouliev 7y ago
you don't need to invoke a concept of area to justify this. you can just think of a grid of dots. since multiplication is repeated addition, each row represents one step of the repeated addition. 2x3 = 3 + 3 ... ... 3x2 = 2 + 2 + 2 ..
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by emilgouliev 7y ago
2 + 2 + 2 = 3 + 3 becomes much more obvious when you think of a 3x2 rectangle and rotate it by 90 degrees to a 2x3 rectangle.
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by emilgouliev 7y ago
They meant 3^2 = 9.