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by gburt 10y ago
This unfortunate obsession with new and shiny in the Valley is why we have to learn lessons like the benefits of relational databases over and over. Most of the new stuff isn't improved, it is simply different.
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by gburt 10y ago
You should put an email address in your profile if you're serious about acting as routing service for "lost" GC support.
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by gburt 10y ago
Yes.
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by gburt 10y ago
How do supporters of the UBI deal with the real estate valuation problem? It seems that assets that are highly immobile and have elasticity that is directly proportional to income would eat up all or almost all of the transfer. It is possib
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by gburt 11y ago
I agree now that it is not likely to have been a mere coincidence of RNGs or timings.
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by gburt 11y ago
I think this is just a coincidence. There's probably co-incident timings that cause his duck motion to happen at the same time as the punch.
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by gburt 11y ago
Sorry, I intended to quote your last sentence, applying a confidence interval to a reinforcement learning system, especially with respect to multi-armed bandits / adaptive experiments, but if I have to dig in to some signal processing
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by gburt 11y ago
Any chance you could point me to a reference? I'm doing research in this space and currently working on a paper which does exactly this for diagnostics of testing processes.
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by gburt 11y ago
$30/ton CO2e in BC, in effect today: http://www.fin.gov.bc.ca/tbs/tp/climate/A6.htm Of course, that's probably not enough. See Greg Mankiw's "invitation to the Pigou club" where he di
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by gburt 11y ago
I would be eager to find an analysis of how Amex lost the Costco account. What a painful loss that must be...
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by gburt 11y ago
>The most intersting fingerprinting vector I found on Tor Browser is getClientRects. Is strange that reading back from a canvas has been prevented but simply asking the browser javascript API how a specific DOM elements has been drawn on
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by gburt 11y ago
I think he meant the financial managers.
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by gburt 11y ago
What does this mean (in laymen terms)?
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by gburt 11y ago
No authentication. The only sort of authentication token is linearly predictable and printed in plain text on the outside of the car. No rate limiting. They successfully used the linear nature to collect a list of valid VINs and validate th
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by gburt 11y ago
This sounds like a bug - a business is not clearly safer or less safe a credit risk doing the movement described. Perhaps a business opportunity there.
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by gburt 11y ago
That is awfully confident for someone cautious. I am much closer to 95% than 100%.
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by gburt 11y ago
I'm glad you've got paying customers and absolutely do not wish to interfere with that. This might be a bit of a faux pas, but, it is good for the community: I developed some code to build a service like this back in 2012. It is r
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by gburt 11y ago
If and only if you live near an Apple store. Otherwise you might be without your machine for a week or two during that period: that is a serious cost for many people in our profession.
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by gburt 11y ago
From the perspective written in the article, I don't understand why the seller is portrayed as upset: they did the deal at a price they agreed upon. Just because another buyer came in "after" that had a better price changes n
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by gburt 11y ago
1.3% is a HUGE percentage of companies that have to make a 100mn "exit."
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by gburt 11y ago
I don't buy it. I think being a disturbance is just much easier than one realizes.
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by gburt 11y ago
Taxing consumption doesn't work unless it is somehow international.
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by gburt 11y ago
Bad advice. And by advice I mean this is an ad.
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by gburt 11y ago
Icons, but not text, can be language agnostic and probably more resilient to cultural variation. Obviously well-recognized icons like arrows fit this property more so than time and culturally dependent things like floppy disks for save butt
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by gburt 11y ago
Almost every one of these criticisms I have seen of "self-driving cars" posit world situations that don't happen under the current regime despite nothing limiting them. Why is this a problem unique to self-driving cars? Is it
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by gburt 11y ago
Can you share some of the arguments in favor of involuntary unions? (I'm even willing to invest some time digging if anyone has some pointers to potential sources of literature, I am genuinely interested.) My personal experience has be
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by gburt 11y ago
At those numbers, it could easily be seen as a price cut. ($1500/$30) = 50 months / 12 ~= 4.16 years. More than 4 years to break even, not including time-value of money. --- Edit: The actual prices are probably closer to the actua
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by gburt 11y ago
Isn't this a pretty significant copyright infringement?
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by gburt 11y ago
Also, a thought: if you have a huge amount of records in that table, they're probably transients or other cache material from a somewhat misbehaved plugin. A way to "handle" that (other than the obvious and important techniqu
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by gburt 11y ago
This is an ok angle for dealing with well-behaved (prefixed) plugins that are no longer in use. Perhaps a better solution is to write a custom implementation of get_option (and update_option, etc. if you feel necessary) which logs uses -- r

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