flashman

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by flashman 10y ago
> One of the top 3 infrastructure challenges in Africa is internet connectivity (the other 2 are electricity and healthcare). What about roads and water? "According to a report for the World Bank, average road density on the contine
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by flashman 10y ago
Maybe those hormones are in emotional tears because that's what's in the blood at the time, same as breast milk containing alcohol if you've imbibed recently. In other words, tears reflect the body's hormones rather th
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by flashman 10y ago
> intelligence is a spectrum To me, saying algorithms are on the intelligence spectrum is like saying the weather report is on the humour spectrum. It's true but ultimately meaningless, because neither algorithms nor the weather rep
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by flashman 10y ago
Is AlphaGo really what we want to classify as 'intelligence'? It is a calculating engine – one which outperforms humans, to be sure, but no more intelligent than a properly-wielded pocket calculator.
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by flashman 10y ago
It's a big sky until you're using the same road as everybody else...
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by flashman 10y ago
I think I see what you're saying here: This story is about young unemployed people who have many hours to spare and use them gaming. There are similar young people who use those hours on the alt-right parts of 4chan, Reddit or other on
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by flashman 10y ago
That's odd, I'd define "dangerous safety" as being unlikely to experience racism, sexism or other prejudice, and thus becoming incapable of realising how those things affect others. "Dangerous safety" is the ki
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by flashman 10y ago
> We almost lost Little Rock & most of Arkansas Hardly. For starters, I don't agree that the risk of nuclear explosion was high, given the electronic precision required to detonate a hydrogen bomb's explosive lenses correct
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by flashman 10y ago
> wiping/selling it on Craigslist after you return assuming it's been compromised. Seems like if you assume a phone is compromised, it would be immoral to sell it to someone else without full disclosure of your concerns.
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by flashman 10y ago
> is there a limit on the number of people that can watch, per box? While it's not fixed, it's generally thought to be fewer than 91,000.
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by flashman 10y ago
The page predates bitcoin by about five years
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by flashman 10y ago
This page is unchanged since 2004: http://web.archive.org/web/20040205045023/http://www.c4i.org...
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by flashman 10y ago
Is an organ really in the 'computer' class of machine? It doesn't "carry out an arbitrary set of arithmetic or logical operations," to quote the Wikipedia definition. A barrel organ could be said to follow a 'p
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by flashman 10y ago
Airbnb should run a promotion for free nights at hosts who live within a mile of a Trump property. He'd notice if someone was trying to take business off him, even nominally.
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by flashman 10y ago
Don't forget that 'virtue signalling' isn't an honest term, either: it's primarily used by the right to shut down the left without addressing the issues raised. (If anyone disagrees with me, take a look at [1] and k
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by flashman 10y ago
Actually yes you can https://www.2d-glasses.com/
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by flashman 10y ago
It looks like this: http://streamable.com/orob8
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by flashman 10y ago
> It's so hard to believe that's only from 2004. It's surprising Holt could still get away with writing "Cornell girls are hideous" as late as 2004!
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by flashman 10y ago
Do any popular Western apps collect the same range of data? I won't install the Facebook app because I don't really trust it. Wouldn't be surprised if they were suggesting friends based on Wi-Fi access points we're both
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by flashman 10y ago
Enzo Ferrari once said, "I don't care if the door gaps are straight. When the driver steps on the gas I want him to shit his pants." So I don't accept the parent commenter's idea that manufacturing tolerances are re
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by flashman 10y ago
One of my favourite breeds of internet comment is "I'm sure five competent engineers could run Reddit at its current scale."
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by flashman 10y ago
I dunno man, I think I'm going to trust the former Reddit admin (/u/raldi)
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The UBI Bait and Switch(jacobinmag.com)
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by flashman 10y ago
Once upon a time there was an affiliate link that paid me $5 per referred sale. I sent them Adwords traffic at 30c/click and a 10% conversion rate ($3/sale = $2 profit for me) until they eventually realised they could just do Adwo
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by flashman 10y ago
Personally I'm looking forward to Deadhold[1] which doesn't involve resource management, focusing instead on unit formations and tactics (a revival of Bungie's Myth series). [1] http://www.deadhold.com
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by flashman 10y ago
Not too bad. I just had to get it in the format of one line per source-target pair. The data came from /u/uglyasblasphemy in SQL format though apparently he's removed the link. Most of the fun was in arranging nodes with the
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by flashman 10y ago
NetworkX is very powerful, however for more hands-on network graph diagrams (perhaps more art than science) I rely heavily on http://gephi.org . (Here's my Gephi map of NSFW subreddits according to their links to each other:
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by flashman 10y ago
There was a magazine called MacAddict which I'm sure some here would remember. One of their mid-90s Christmas gift recommendations was Apple stock! I sometimes wonder how many small fortunes those few paragraphs created.
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Ilan Ramon sought similar advice regarding keeping Shabbat and kosher on Columbia .[1] In the end he kept the times of Cape Canaveral. [1] http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/632169/jewish&#x2F
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by flashman 10y ago
And, we re-hire freelancers who delivered in the past, as well as recommending you to our friends when we want to look useful to them.

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