emmab

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by emmab 9y ago
It can be really hard to get credit/background checks under the new name to work for a couple years after getting a name change. And you sometimes get stuck with having to use new name and old name for the same thing for different reas
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by emmab 9y ago
If it's on the top will it prevent you from closing your laptop lid while it's attached? It seems like if you accidentally closed the lid it might do damage to the screen? I guess you would have to have a rim around the front of
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by emmab 9y ago
> This is accurate. My startup is blockchain funded, but we have a serious money-making business model. But some people still want the sexy smart contract tech decentralized sound clips to get really hyped. Attracting people to invest in
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by emmab 9y ago
Why do so many cryptocurrency projects seem so meta? Platforms for creating platforms, coins for creating coins.
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by emmab 9y ago
> capable of making decisions without billions of data points, just like humans do. Doesn't this ignore transfer learning? Humans have orders of magnitude more than billions of data points over their lifetimes.
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by emmab 9y ago
> Dyslexia is the most common learning disability and occurs in all areas of the world.[3][11] It affects 3–7% of the population,[3][6] however, up to 20% may have some degree of symptoms.[12] https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by emmab 9y ago
Quoted from the linked article: > About 700 million people worldwide are known to have from dyslexia – about one in 10 of the global population.
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by emmab 9y ago
At 10% incidence of dyslexia, wouldn't it be possible to survey whether people blind in one eye for a long period of time or from birth have a lower rate of dyslexia?
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by emmab 9y ago
That could be because it's performing an operation which is atomic to the JS application (e.g. a sort operation can be implemented with parallelism because the JS app is paused the whole time it's running). Or, the JS interpreter
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by emmab 9y ago
The event loop doesn't strictly have to act as a global lock. It just has to appear to act as a global lock to any observer.
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by emmab 9y ago
Some databases are able to provide serializability while not grabbing a global synchronous lock for all transactions. Even if the execution must appear synchronous to an observer, it's sometimes possible to do some async work. That cou
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by emmab 9y ago
If they have this much trouble with security imagine what else they might be failing at unbeknownst to us.
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by emmab 9y ago
They don't mention countersignaling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countersignaling
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by emmab 9y ago
The pilot probably can't afford it. What they need is insurance.
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by emmab 9y ago
You're free to do work over ssh+tmux+vim. That's what I do.
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by emmab 9y ago
> It's very easy for people who haven't worked in software to hear "socialist" when told about "Open Source Software". This message from Oracle seems to try and evoke that sentiment. I think FOSS is more soc
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by emmab 9y ago
I think what matters here is how much effort it would have taken to backport the fix to the older version of their software. If it's trivial then they should be expected to.
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by emmab 9y ago
> If it only takes 1 minute to push a fix, it usually will take about the same amount of time to revert it, if it's broken. Unless it caused data corruption.
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by emmab 9y ago
> Having a couple of dedicated resources to address these ad hoc issues, without distracting the people working on larger projects. Can't people take turns being oncall? It's disruptive to one's life to not be able to be a
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by emmab 9y ago
> Processes could be set up whereby mental health professionals (psychiatrists, psychologists), ethicists, and the judicial system could make determinations that an individual is not competent to make decisions about the substance use pu
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by emmab 9y ago
I'm high functioning but still have sensory processing disorder related to ASD which makes it hard to function in very sensory overwhelming environments. I also had a lot of difficulties relating to socialization growing up related to
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by emmab 9y ago
In Rust, omitting the last semicolon in a block indicates an implicit return of the final expression of the block.
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by emmab 9y ago
> If everyone got the mods, what's the downside? You can't get germline gene therapy if you're not a zygote.
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by emmab 9y ago
Where can people who live in California sign the ballot proposal?
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by emmab 9y ago
> I've used this to my advantage over the past few years, as soon as a "big corporate scandal" breaks the stock tends to fall. Check their financials, buy the stock if it looks good, then wait a few months for it to all bl
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by emmab 9y ago
> Don't host data you care about on free services run by capricious multinationals. But people recommend to me not rolling out my own email domain and/or service to manage my account recovery emails for various websites as it&#
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by emmab 9y ago
An axiom can be wrong wrt the standard model for some first-order theory: http://lesswrong.com/lw/g0i/standard_and_nonstandard_numbers... But, demonstrating an axiom is inconsistent with the standard model of pean
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by emmab 9y ago
> Is it possible to prove that something is not provable? It's possible to prove that something is not provable within some axiom set. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_statements_independent...
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by emmab 9y ago
Something is only unprovable wrt an axiom set. You can add new axioms to an existing axiom set that can be semi-decidably proved inconsistent given the rest of the axiom set. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_cardinal
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by emmab 9y ago
HTML doesn't have a notion of multiple pages within the same document though?

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