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by ggggtez 7y ago
Buying land isn't like owning some stock. The government has the right to tax you for the land, to buy and sell land, etc. So ownership of land in your community is a matter of the government, sure... But it's also a matter of the
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by ggggtez 7y ago
You say I'm missing the point, but then you go in to literally just agree with me that you are calling everyone in tech a sheep and a drug user. That's intellectually lazy.
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by ggggtez 7y ago
While I've heard rumors it was unsafe in the past (requesting too many permission etc), I'd think that if PayPal bought it, they would at the very least make it /safer/ than it was before. Maybe /safer/ doesn&#
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by ggggtez 7y ago
That's not "malware". Adware maybe, but malware does assume something more ... malicious. Asking for consent is annoying, but we are talking about stuff that doesn't ask for your consent.
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by ggggtez 7y ago
I thought malware was the business model of low-end smart phones. Random game company pays them to install their game on x000 devices. It's really a question of when, not if, those companies would ship malware. You can't imagine t
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by ggggtez 7y ago
The author uses "the lotus" to refer to everyone who is working in tech that isn't running their own start up. By suggestion such people are incapable of introspection, at best you are using that as shortcut to dismiss anyone
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by ggggtez 7y ago
That sounds like a convenient way to ignore anyone who disagrees with you.
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by ggggtez 7y ago
I dunno, the guy basically says that several million people are all nothing more than drug users just because they don't want to work in a startup. If that resonates with you, good luck...
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by ggggtez 7y ago
> it's exactly the same sort of debate that is occurring in newsrooms I'm going to have to contradict you there. Anyone who was following the 2016 Russian Interference campaign, and related news stories, would know that Faceboo
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by ggggtez 7y ago
I think this is a good reference for anyone who touches computer graphics. It's not really clear enough for Physics (see all the comments here), but as tips for understanding how computer tend to model things, it's fine. For examp
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by ggggtez 7y ago
I think this is called, "knowing enough to be dangerous". You clearly have some understanding of light, but you are missing some key facts that would lead you to the correct understanding. >Light can reflect off of transparent
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by ggggtez 7y ago
I think there is perhaps a dozen reasons why this is an incorrect comparison. If we want to measure the information limit of DNA, we can argue the DNA is the program input... sure, so far so good. But then what is the "tape"? The
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by ggggtez 7y ago
Obviously, we are discussing immortality of non-human species. However, we more or less understand that morality of larger lifeforms is encoded in our DNA (e.g. telemers). Mortality seems to be a defense against cancer. There is no particul
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by ggggtez 7y ago
Physics might be bumping up against limits of knowledge, but I think it's quite short sighted to claim that this means all of Science is bumping up against fundamental limits. Just because many of the questions we want to solve today a
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by ggggtez 7y ago
>why life is evolvable Sorry, could you explain why you think life is not evolvable exactly? Assuming you take the existence of a single celled organism with DNA as a given (we still don't know the origin of life), evolution gets
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by ggggtez 7y ago
I think this shows a fundamental misunderstanding of multiplayer games, to be honest. Consider games like WoW. Ask anyone what the game is like, and you'll find that the game "doesn't really begin" until you are already
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by ggggtez 7y ago
I personally had not seen the eyeless gene information. While I don't find the outcome surprising, I do find the images breathtaking. It's also very interesting that including the similar (but not identical) gene from the mouse ha
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by ggggtez 7y ago
eh... Information theory wise, at best you can say you've compressed the knowledge to the action to the steps required to construct the geometry. But you've still encoded it on some level. So there is an information-theoretical li
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by ggggtez 7y ago
The average video game developer makes a lot less than the average tech worker. You'd be hard pressed to find anyone lower than a Director hitting $300k from what I figure. Glassdoor indicates a "Senior Software Engineer" at
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by ggggtez 7y ago
News flash! They already did buy specialized hardware that you need to be over 18 to buy! It's called a smartphone with a data plan! There is pretty much 0 way that you could say that purchasing a universal communication device is cart
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by ggggtez 7y ago
That's not my reading of COPPA (but I'm no lawyer). Just because you can't individually track a user, doesn't mean you can't store a cookie with a single flag for "under13=true" or something like that. COP
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by ggggtez 7y ago
As far as I know, no website in the world uses ML to decide that you are under 13. They can't by law, afaik, though ianal. My reading of COPPA is that you need to have the user tell you they are under 13, or via a parent. If you thin
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by ggggtez 7y ago
>I suspect they don't want to tip their hand I think that's a bridge too far. Unfortunately, I don't think anyone would actually want a world where ad-targetting data could be used as a form of ID to prove your age... If
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by ggggtez 7y ago
Anyone who takes the 'Buffet Indicator' at face value, is themselves a fool. Anyone who thinks that Buffet got rich buy dividing one number by a different number, and that he would give away his golden-cow for free? Come on now...
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by ggggtez 7y ago
Consider the website is Crypto Coin News, I'm sure they want you to do exactly that. It's not "nonsensical" if it's essentially targeted propaganda put out from someone who would do quite well for themselves if peop
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by ggggtez 7y ago
I think you misunderstood the above poster. Diving stock by US GDP at best needs to be defended with a real argument, not taken as the word of investment divinity. Maybe there is an argument there, but "The number was big and then it w
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by ggggtez 7y ago
Assuming by "park" you mean just sit on it, then no. Money that isn't spent is not part of GDP. GDP is the total of all private investment + goods + services + government costs, basically. Dividing one number by another numbe
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by ggggtez 7y ago
Actually I think it's a terrible chart. The stock market is a lot older than 1998, so why does it only begin there? "The line was high, then it was less high!" What happened to "we're not investing in wiggling lines
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by ggggtez 7y ago
It's interesting. There has been lots of ways to explore Word2Vec, but maybe this helps people get an intuitive understanding of the strengths and weaknesses better. (hint, the farther the words are from the target, the more meaningles
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by ggggtez 7y ago
You are basically correct. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word2vec Essentially, all words are embedded in an N-dimentional space. Then you can simply measure the distance between words in the word-cloud. The exact metho

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