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by fg6hr 7y ago
Here is the link to the Nobel prize: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1903/summary/ The distribution of the prize is interesting: - 1/2 went to Becquerel (who's that?) - 1/4 went
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by fg6hr 7y ago
That's exactly why people will ignore the symptoms till they fall dead. This virus will be an interesting lesson for both China and America: China will learn the cost of being too authoritarian, since people there are afraid to seek he
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by fg6hr 7y ago
It's not just the reality of life, it's the essense of reality. Everything "real" is looks like the Ship of Theseus and if something doesn't look like that ship, it's not real.
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by fg6hr 7y ago
I suppose the author promptly returned all the money earned during those 15 years to Google?
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by fg6hr 7y ago
If you wrote this with a double intent, you would be a great politician, seriously. By the double intent I mean that on the surface level this clever speech looks good and convincing, but between the lines it delivers the opposite evil mess
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by fg6hr 7y ago
Why does everyone downvote this comment? Imagine this is master Yoda is asking a naive looking question to make you think. USA is ruled by laws, not people. The laws can serve as a veil between those who set them and those who follow them.
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by fg6hr 7y ago
I'm pretty sure there is a competing botnet that would be happy to override votes of your botnet. If online votes are counted only once, then what matters is which botnet is faster and has a better link to the voting servers. High Freq
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by fg6hr 7y ago
If I was an evil dictator trying to win elections, this is exactly how I'd appeal to the clueless majority.
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by fg6hr 7y ago
Some of these $20 bills would get reported to FBI. The probability is tiny, but it grows exponentially with the number of participants.
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by fg6hr 7y ago
Here is an educated voter who wrote some tech standards and knows a good deal about all this encryption stuff. WA Sec. of State is absolutely right here. We can't secure online systems even when most parties want to make them secure: a
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by fg6hr 7y ago
Then I'd rather believe that you don't keep memories from dreaming because emotions and dreaming are "done" by the same part of our bodies.
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by fg6hr 7y ago
My observation from past 10 years is that 10 years ago 1/2 cops were nice and 1/2 cops were harsh, but professional. These days 1/2 cops are nice and 1/2 cops seem to actively create troubles out of thin air. Each intera
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by fg6hr 7y ago
Music produces sophisticated colorful shapes that aren't visualizeable, yet visible to our mind, so it sees the shapes, appreciates their complexity and order and creates emotions. Classical compositions produce exceptionally complex s
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by fg6hr 7y ago
Connection between music and dreams is a very deep rabbit hole from which there is no return (in a good sense). This article does a good job at bringing attention to the topic, although ideas presented there are naive.
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by fg6hr 7y ago
That's an interesting case. Can you feel fear, anger or excitement when awake? Dreaming and emotions are "done" by a very specific part of us that connects, in some sense, mind with body.
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by fg6hr 7y ago
Rather than studying how to be a good doormat (oh, I meant, how to master the behavioral interviews), it's a much better use of time to read the G. Morgan's "Images of Organization".
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by fg6hr 7y ago
This question sends a message "I'm a boss, you're a rank-and-file employee. Now, when we've made it clear, do a little self shaming." Imagine addressing this question to a senior lawyer that you need to sort out som
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by fg6hr 7y ago
A database with verified phone numbers is worth a lot more than without them.
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by fg6hr 7y ago
This often doesn't mean much because when there are tons of highly capable engineers, anyone could write that library and it's only a question who had a chance to do it.
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by fg6hr 7y ago
(350/150)^(1/20)=1.04. Slightly better than inflation.
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by fg6hr 7y ago
I think it's the people in power are applying the usual divide and conquer technique: they add more women to tech, alienate men and women and keep them busy fighting each other. How to alienate them? By giving special preferences to on
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by fg6hr 7y ago
The power structures are sociopaths' club. If anything, I'd rather say that it's powerful people prefer to be men, than being a man gives one any power. Most of the men are clueless powerless people.
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by fg6hr 7y ago
I think anyone can memorize 32 character passwords every 6 months if one uses some scheme. I usually use long phrases from books: a phrase that means something to me is easy to remember and even if I forget it, it's easy to look it up.
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by fg6hr 7y ago
Wow, 5 posts attacking Google in the HN top right before Christmas. That can't be a coincidence. Someone with money clearly has personal issues with Google, but I don't see what this is to do with Christmas. P.S. I'm not defe
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by fg6hr 7y ago
Actually, J.D. can be the one to organize software developers into a em.. guild: an organization with membership fees, staff lawyers, accountants and all that. The organization could start with the non-compete agreements nonsense. He's
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by fg6hr 7y ago
That's an interesting read. However what it describes looks like a very shallow version of lam-rim chen-mo, volumes 4-5, that explain the concept of emptiness and the danger of falling into nihilism. Edit: the tricks like "powerta
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by fg6hr 7y ago
A web grandmaster see I. Office365/GoogleDocs should be very interested in this stuff and by "very" I mean 50 millions at least (they burn way more money on complete bs projects). It's very likely that the author knows m
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by fg6hr 7y ago
My guess is that what I'm asking for isn't that complex and could be done by a few serious mathematicians in a few years. The dynamics of tanh(Ax+b) is hardly more complex than Naiver-Stokes equation or the modern topology theory.
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by fg6hr 7y ago
ML is more like alchemy, I'd say: mixing components using intuition and experience, but without understanding what these components really are and why they work. In this analogy, AI is the recipe to make gold and the ML alchemists hav

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