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by gervase 7y ago
The advantage of removing (or at least, humans actively moderating) comments is that it pushes discussion back to face-to-face (or at least, more direct and personal) channels and restricts the anonymity of commentary. This has a few benefi
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by gervase 7y ago
Ultimately, someone has to make a judgement call whether there is a genuine contribution or not. Ideally, the committee can serve in this role, but there is a possibility that their views are biased or uninformed. This can be countered by t
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by gervase 7y ago
I feel like it's a little disingenuous to list unexercised stock and option grants as part of the overall compensation, since these are directly related to the future performance of the company itself (as led by the listed CEO, presuma
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by gervase 7y ago
It resonates with me, because I view ads as (intrinsically) mentally intrusive. I find seeing any ad, regardless of its relevance, infuriating; the advertiser is paying someone, not me, to place a thought or perception into my brain that I
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by gervase 7y ago
HN intentionally flags and removes controversial comments and posts, with the intention to prevent trolling, flame wars, and other detrimental behavior patterns. This is considered a feature, not a bug [0]. This ensures that HN provides a s
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by gervase 7y ago
Another factor that no one has mentioned is that this approach seems to require invasive brain surgery. This is likely not a large risk for someone suffering from locked-in syndrome, but would be for someone who wants to improve their typin
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by gervase 7y ago
I wouldn't say this is a universal "ARM vs Intel" claim, just a specific heuristic for this company's products. Synology's ARM line is generally underpowered compared to their Intel offerings, in terms of clock spee
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by gervase 7y ago
I wonder if these kinds of painful (from a business perspective) choices will act as a kind of forcing function on their whole privacy push, either by highlighting the hypocrisy if they continue mining customer data while preaching virtue,
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by gervase 7y ago
I think this might be a side effect of the Keybase UI, not the service itself. If you interact with the APIs directly and look at the JSON, you can see that at a high level the proofs are a dict, with each service as the key, and the value
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by gervase 8y ago
> Netflix, Comcast, Amazon Prime and other video streaming service charge you the same as the DVD rental, but force you to watch the entire video within 48 hours from 1st starting it. I haven't encountered this behavior in Netflix;
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by gervase 8y ago
I found this article to be surprisingly nuanced, at least compared to the pre-conceived notions I expected. In general, I veer more towards the "free speech" end of the spectrum, and this article helped to paint a picture of what
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by gervase 8y ago
> an AI to make a judicial verdict? There is some discussion towards this direction: https://www.wired.com/story/can-ai-be-fair-judge-court-eston...
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by gervase 8y ago
That is exactly what the parent was saying. They would not consider a financial product that bypasses the major payment processors (Visa/MC) unless it has similar customer protections built in.
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by gervase 8y ago
I took the parent question to be asking about where the (personal privacy) line falls: - Can an employer search a personal laptop (BYOD)? - What about a personal Dropbox account? Personal emails? What if they are only in the cloud, and not
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by gervase 8y ago
The way I see it, most existing financial transactions are trust- based . Many cryptocurrencies aim to be trustless. I see this as a compromise, with the visibility and implementability of cryptocurrencies, while still being trust- backed .
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by gervase 8y ago
This happens to me constantly. I was going through 3-5 cables per year before I switched to inductive charging.
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by gervase 8y ago
The way this (anonymity) is handled in the Estonian system is that votes can be validated out-of-band for 30 minutes after they were cast, then they're locked. Additionally, a voter can overwrite their previous vote at any time during
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by gervase 8y ago
It seems to leverage the DMA features of Thunderbolt to dump the data, so if no sensitive data is in memory, then it wouldn't be leakable. Fpr the same reason, note that if the computer was booted and locked, it would be affected.
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by gervase 8y ago
My wife and I are both STEM PhDs, and she left research after our first child was born; we could be a case study for this article. For us, it was because her field (immunology) was simply less lucrative than mine (computer science). Given t
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by gervase 8y ago
The scalability problem is fortunately amenable to piecemeal solutions. Some research teams will focus on validation (i.e. novel proof of ____ approaches), others will focus on block propagation, some on bootstrapping (like the OP), novel h
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by gervase 8y ago
You may be confused about the point of the parent; this is not a comparison between H1-B or nothing, it's a comparison between H1-B and permanent residency / citizenship. Specifically, the structure of H1 visas limit the prospects
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by gervase 8y ago
From an outsider's perspective, it seems like an obvious hypothesis that increased happiness is negatively correlated with depression. My question is, is this work assessing whether an existing, confirmed hypothesis (e.g. happiness cou
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by gervase 8y ago
For reference, 300PB (the amount referenced in the article) using the same pricing would cost $25M. Still might be a reasonable one-time cost for migration for a large corporation, though, even disregarding the "bulk" rates they&#
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by gervase 8y ago
According to their research manifesto, they seem to only be interested (at least, at the moment) in blockchain-related research. I feel that there is quite a lot of promising research questions in distributed technologies more generally, so
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by gervase 8y ago
In the absence of on-the-job experience/growth for less-experienced developers, it forces them back into more academic training programs. I personally think this is likely to lead to exacerbated "degree inflation", where MS d
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by gervase 8y ago
Previously, they made a hard push to make sure that their science was "applied" science, but that's softened a bit in their pitches lately [0]. The current iteration has a 4-axis evaluation metric [1], where the value of a gi
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by gervase 8y ago
I've worked in a similar system to what you described, with the top-most PI contributing essentially zero to publications directly. However, their fundraising efforts were singlehandedly paying the stipends/salary of 40+ researche
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by gervase 8y ago
Everyone is focusing on the Maginot Line metaphor, and possible historical inaccuracies in what the author wrote. However, the important word from the title is not "Maginot", it's "Digital". In reading the author&#x
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by gervase 8y ago
I think the article was written in such a way as to trigger the Barnum effect [0], since most people think of themselves as "smart". [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnum_effect
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by gervase 8y ago
> Another reason for their lack of specificity could be the absence of South Asian data in their datasets. In 2016, there was a 100:1 ratio for Europeans vs East Asians in their datasets. I don't know how it was for South Asians, an

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