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by fvdessen 6y ago
In Belgium a lot of stuff (salaries, rents, social welfare) is tied to inflation, and sometimes we do 'Index Jumps', where we simply don't index for a year.
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by fvdessen 6y ago
Maybe the automated plane cannot do all those things, but on the other hand it will not dive itself into a mountain because it is feeling very sad.
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by fvdessen 6y ago
I haven't watched Stefan in a long time, is he now producing content in the same register as David Duke & Richard Spencer ? It did not seem to be the case a few years ago.
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by fvdessen 6y ago
If the hypothetical API is taking 2 months to implement best case scenario I assume it's doing multiple things and each of those things can be done and tested piecewise.
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by fvdessen 6y ago
I think the point of this would be to protect the EU IT market from American IT monopolies. Because currently EU is completely dependent on the USA when it comes to IT software and architecture, which is becoming a real problem. China'
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by fvdessen 6y ago
Those gardens with pretty flowers and bushes are not the natural habitat of the insects. They look diverse but are in fact as sterile as a monoculture field. Insects thrive in the unkempt parcels between fields where man never goes, and tho
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by fvdessen 6y ago
It is a small proportion of the population (5-10%) but it has a disproportionate effect because they take up the space that previously remained wild because too impractical to farm, and there was not that much of it.
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by fvdessen 6y ago
I think part of it is also the upper middle class moving out of larger cities, and buying a house with a big garden in the countryside, and then turning the garden into a sterile architectural monument.
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by fvdessen 7y ago
It is not "quite laggy", it is unusably slow ... big disappointment because Inkscape is otherwise an excellent software
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by fvdessen 7y ago
The moral of the story is once again that focusing on user acquisition at all costs is an effective strategy. MongoDB disregarded reliability, Youtube disregarded copyright, Reddit faked comments, Facebook disregarded privacy. Yet they were
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by fvdessen 7y ago
People don't buy Belgian biscuits for health, but because they want to indulge. People expect and want them to have fat in it. When you write 'now with less fat' people read 'probably tastes worse than before'. It&
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by fvdessen 7y ago
At the bottom the tube has scoopers to bring the grain inside and those need to move trough the grain. If you keep the tube static the grain would need to go inside by gravity alone and I guess that does not work as well
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by fvdessen 7y ago
Have you heard of Crypto AG ? It's a Swiss Company setup by the CIA that provided intentionally flawed crypto to a long list of European governments.
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by fvdessen 7y ago
Depends where in Brussels, from the southern neighbourhoods (Boitsfort, Auderghem, Woluwe, Etterbeek, etc), it's 30min-50min. There's little traffic in that direction. Did it for years from Boitsfort :)
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by fvdessen 7y ago
Living in Brussels / Leuven / Louvain-la-Neuve and commuting is quite feasible. Lots of smart people working there, I would recommend.
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by fvdessen 7y ago
I do not dislike Greta the person, I dislike the rethoric around her; At face value she is a young, smart and motivated person who asks us to just ‘listen to science’, and I have no problem with that. The problem I have is that there is a p
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by fvdessen 7y ago
> Do boring stuff. Use files. I have the opposite experience. Files are far from 'boring', they have too many gotchas to count. Putting files in the db is for many use-cases actually easier than putting them on the filesystem.
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by fvdessen 7y ago
But that is not how it works universally in Europe. In France for example, you can be condemned for stating objective facts under hate speech laws. For example one journalist was condemned for saying that minorities were over-represented in
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by fvdessen 7y ago
The problem with Taleb's argument is that, as the linked article shows, IQ tests are as good measure of intelligence as of unintelligence. There is no inflection point after which IQ stops correlating with wealth. The slope is constant
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by fvdessen 7y ago
IQ tests are biased for wealth like bathroom scales are biased for height. What you want is an IQ measure normalized for wealth, like BMI is for height, but what would be the point of that measure ?
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by fvdessen 7y ago
> Spoilers: they stay wealthy. But not as much as their non-adopted siblings. Correlation of 0.23 vs 0.33 https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/07/rich-pe...
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by fvdessen 7y ago
Well, yes since IQ is the largest predictor we have for socio-economic achievement, and is highly heritable. Rich parents have rich kids & smart parents have smart kids & more often than not the two happen at the same time, because
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by fvdessen 7y ago
> Without a human in the loop, our current autonomous technologies are woefully inadequate for determining whether or not something smells like a trap. Our enemies are going to learn how to knock these things out of the sky with a $200 S
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by fvdessen 7y ago
It would be nice if it could discriminate between trends that are still in exponential growth from the ones that have passed the inflexion point.
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by fvdessen 7y ago
Seems like a pseudonym; Charlie Gordon is the name of the protagonist in Flowers for Algernon.
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by fvdessen 7y ago
I'm not American but there must be something different about the USA regarding healthcare than market forces as for 1500$/month I can get a private insurance that covers full medical costs in every country on earth ... except the
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by fvdessen 7y ago
Carbon emissions are decreasing in Europe despite economic growth. Nature is getting in better shape as well.
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by fvdessen 7y ago
> Why would you halve the budget of a team that's yielding a more than 400% ROI ? It is easy to achieve success with a fat budget like that. It is only natural that if that team does well, then some of its resources should be transf
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by fvdessen 7y ago
I wonder if the dust impermeability of the mechanism is not a part of the problem. While it would prevent most of the dust to get in, it could also prevent the dust from getting out.
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by fvdessen 7y ago
> Since Amazon’s current employee base skews male, the examples of ‘successful hires’ also, mechanistically, skewed male and so, therefore, did this system’s selection of resumés. Amazon spotted this and the system was never put into pro

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