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by frank2 6y ago
>is it suggested to just deploy [variolation] without testing? Yes: the blog post by economist Robin Hanson suggested deploying it without waiting for the results of testing. (Of course, it would be good to test as fast and as much as po
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by frank2 6y ago
I am not an expert (but neither are you, I am guessing). >Anybody making the case for variolation without validation would be better off making the case for vaccination with one or several of the 30 vaccine candidates under study for SAR
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by frank2 6y ago
A vaccine is months or years away whereas variolation can be deployed right now.
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by frank2 6y ago
>Compare it with Youtube: the content which does well there is inflammatory by nature Except that Rogan's 3-hour-long interviews are massively popular on Youtube, which undermines your point. (The interviews include video.)
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by frank2 6y ago
Last time I looked I couldn't find decaf that didn't have significant amounts of caffeine in it. The lowest amount of caffeine I could find was a product that said it had about half as much caffeine as regular coffee. Has that cha
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by frank2 6y ago
Don't remember. This was 30 or 35 years ago. There was a long tradition in English and maybe also in other European languages of choosing punctuation depending on how long a pause a speaker would take at the point, with a comma denotin
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by frank2 6y ago
Yes they were. IIRC at least one of the major manuals of style endorsed them at least in some situations.
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by frank2 6y ago
To a first-order approximation, engineering is about minimizing costs, and a large fraction of the cost of creating and running a fab is the cost of the time of the employees able to understand things from first principles. So, just because
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by frank2 6y ago
We disagree then. I consider the US government's performance during the Cold War to be more impressive than its performance during WWII. In particular, the US managed to avoid using nuclear weapons in anger, managed to prevent its adve
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by frank2 6y ago
>they both are close to and will have mainline support Do you mean support in the mainline Linux kernel?
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by frank2 6y ago
Does it also terrify you when code running in a browser does it?
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by frank2 6y ago
>is it more effective to scrub the CO2 or just to increase the partial oxygen pressure? In all nuclear submarines (which stay submerged for months at a time) and spacecraft I know about, designers have chosen to scrub CO2. I think they h
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by frank2 6y ago
One of the main barriers to writing things down in organizations is the knowledge that anything written down can be subpoenaed. At least in the US, management of legal liability is a major part of running most organizations.
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by frank2 6y ago
>Follow progressive enhancement. . . . This is advice for a web site owner, and I don't see giving advice to web site owners to be an effective way to help internet users who are very annoyed with the web like I am. Web site owners
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by frank2 6y ago
Creating it is the easy part, IMO. The hard part is to get people to publish on it. I fear that most authors (and most creators of images and links) are not knowledgeable enough to see the web's shortcomings and that it will be very ha
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by frank2 6y ago
Spotted the adman.
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by frank2 6y ago
Interesting. Do you know any software whose source code is available that uses such an abstraction to paint the screen?
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by frank2 6y ago
My 2011 Mac mini was extremely slow for a while (early in its life) and the cause turned out to be the hard drive's slowly failing.
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by frank2 6y ago
Maybe he uses a script to make commits to give the appearance of working all the time.
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by frank2 6y ago
>gitpod.io . . . works great on . . . iPads gitpod.io is tightly integrated with the Monaco editor; is it not? I ask because the top of https://microsoft.github.io/monaco-editor/ says, "The Monaco editor is no
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by frank2 6y ago
>I think Chromebooks are going to be a great use for this. A great use for this if you don't mind losing the ability to run Ublock Origin and similar extensions when Google "upgrades" the software on the Chromebook to exte
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by frank2 6y ago
That's mostly because a Federal judge (specifically, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in Martin vs. City of Boise) ruled that a local government cannot punish the homeless for camping on public property unless the City is able to
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by frank2 6y ago
>If those states don't get federal funds, they will not be able to have a functioning judicial branch Your phrase "GDP draining" probably refers to the fact that some states receive more in federal services than their popu
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by frank2 6y ago
I'm much more skeptical of decorations on web sites because of how hard it is to exert control over them compared to how hard it is to exert control over the decorations in my home or office.
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by frank2 6y ago
In response to your comment, I tested Microsoft Edge on my iPad and can confirm that yes, indeed, it does block the ads on youtube.com -- mostly: out of about 7 videos, an ad was shown to me at the start of one of them, but that is much bet
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by frank2 6y ago
I always thought that the post-WWII German government is federal because it was designed mainly by the US government, which is federal.
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by frank2 6y ago
The Saudi royal family can make a profit at $10/barrel for a few years, then they lose control of the country and the oil because they had to stop most of the bribes (social services, etc) they were paying the population to continue to
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by frank2 6y ago
Trademarks that use camel case are much easier to defend in court than those that do not.
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by frank2 6y ago
IANAL, but it strikes me as pretty obvious that the owner of the NN is the owner of the copyright on any works created by the NN with the important qualification that training the NN on works copyrighted by others could possibly be consider
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by frank2 6y ago
Mostly systems programming. In particular, he wrote its graphics system, then rewrote it, then rewrote it again. He led Plan 9 for many years. So, he has plenty of experience in systems programming. What he seems to lack IMHO is sufficient

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