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by ggggtez 7y ago
And... what if you don't have a smart phone? Did you forget that there are other kinds of cellphones too? The issue is that the telephone system basically has no security/privacy/abuse defense mechanisms, and phone companies
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by ggggtez 7y ago
> That means we have to double our sales to make up for it. I don't agree. You need enough money to pay an artist, but you don't need to give the artist a 50% cut of your studio! Full Disclosure: I personally think the art is
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by ggggtez 7y ago
I'm becoming more of a fan of Everett. Wave collapse feels like nonsense, and requires arbitrary notions of "observers". I don't fully grasp the ramifications of the Many Worlds interpretation, but if it means reality is
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by ggggtez 7y ago
I don't get it. Aren't they just describing a neural network... Is it even correct to say this is new?
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by ggggtez 7y ago
The wikipedia article on this topic also indicates that there is some reason to suspect that the crossword author was not being entirely truthful about it, but at the end of the day, who knows.
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by ggggtez 7y ago
>senior undergraduate student in mathematics Yikes. The student is only now getting around to first year ideas that everything they know might be a sham. I mean... come on. I mean, what does the student think will happen? We'll all
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by ggggtez 7y ago
What if the reason is they were scraping all your private data against the Terms of Service, and hiding it in obfuscated dynamic bytecode loading... if that was the case, you think it's still bad that they can be kicked off the app s
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by ggggtez 7y ago
> dynamic bytecode loading from a local app resource I'll bet you 5 bucks it's this. Your "anti-piracy" is their "evading our malware analyzers". From the Terms of Service: "The following are explicitly
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by ggggtez 7y ago
Do you really think reporters just state facts and call it a day? How do they know which facts are the important ones to say? Why not list the shoesize of everyone they interview, along with the name of their dog? Obviously, I'm making
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by ggggtez 7y ago
>Home Depot employees can’t change national attitudes I'd say you're wrong on two counts. The first is that no one is saying it's the Home Depot employees that should be doing it. The article makes it clear that the media
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by ggggtez 7y ago
I think that's a healthy outlook. It's not your job to educate your coworkers. Though, I think people should feel ok discussing it. The idea that white people would "never" understand is a little bit much, but it's
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by ggggtez 7y ago
Exactly, or the "crying baby/stressed out parent" example that made the rounds a few years ago. Hackers don't need to monitor every public comment you make, just trick 1 minimum wage call center worker for 5 minutes.
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by ggggtez 7y ago
>weighted average No, the averages ignore input order. Reality is order dependent.
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by ggggtez 7y ago
Am I getting a false dichotomy here? Why do we need false narratives at all in the mainstream news? It didn't used to be like that, and there is certainly some reason to expect falsehoods are not inherent and unsolvable.
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by ggggtez 7y ago
The author says "this story isn't about me" and yet spends 10 paragraphs telling a personal anecdote. Who said the problem at Yale is free speech? Is the audience supposed to know what he's talking about? I may never kno
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by ggggtez 7y ago
I'd rather people said what they mean, instead of trying to be witty. Also typos.
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by ggggtez 7y ago
I essentially agree. The internet is not the public square, until you legally make it so. And that essentially is not going to happen. Companies are "people too". They are allowed to express their free speech by not doing busine
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by ggggtez 7y ago
I think you are trying to turn the above argument on it's head, but honestly I have no idea what point you are trying to make. "The free speech of muslims"? It's almost as if you think 9/11 was caused by a domestic
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by ggggtez 7y ago
E-mail isn't even a utility. Please educate yourself on the law here. Most everyone in tech wants the internet to be a utility, but it's not. An individual internet company's product offering is definitely not a utility .
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by ggggtez 7y ago
Average seems like a weird measurement. Some Forbes article claims by 2030 the world needs 68 million teachers (I had trouble finding how many currently exist). So, the scale of numbers of teachers and number of engineers is hardly one to o
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by ggggtez 7y ago
Assuming it was in the form of: You pay the total value in rent, and each month $500 is added to your amazon balance (I'm assuming that's how such a plan would feasibly work in practice)... then, yeah sure. Of course, the devil is
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by ggggtez 7y ago
There are us companies that do this too, on a limited scale. In my opinion, there is no real reason you can't learn this way. Teaching math this way is likely perfectly fine for middle school
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by ggggtez 7y ago
I don't want to get caught up in arguing what is noise in the mathematical sense. I think the parent is refering to the fact that the arbitrage traders are not adding any real value by making these trades this fast. The market would
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by ggggtez 7y ago
>Would you prefer that prices update only once a day? Obviously you are being hyperbolic, but some people have proposed literally laying excess cable to slow down the speed of automatic trades, which can be highly volatile. That's
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by ggggtez 7y ago
No error for me, what exactly is the complaint here?
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by ggggtez 7y ago
"Security sensitive context" are the key words here. On mobile devices, you get, what, 300 pixels across to show the URL? You want to show as much relevant info as you can, and if you can summarize " https://www.&qu
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by ggggtez 7y ago
So, you are "pretending" to pretend? Is that differentiation really meaningful in practice?
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by ggggtez 7y ago
I'd argue that you're wrong, because you are drawing upon your personal experiences instead of scientific inquiry. Here is a study showing the same behavior in Kenya, Malawi, Nepal and the Dominican Republic. I didn't fully r
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by ggggtez 7y ago
> personally use Chrome extensions that fill in my passwords, help me read Japanese kanji, simplify the visual design of Gmail, let me highlight and annotate articles, save articles for later reading, play videos at 2x speed, and of cour
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by ggggtez 7y ago
Just one more reason to hold corporations accountable for pollution and global warming. The free market is not going to solve this one, even when you give people warm and fuzzy feelings for "doing the right thing". It's just

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