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by glitchc 1y ago
> There's a lot of money in academia for curiously ambitious people just starting their careers so it's an odd thing to say. No, there isn't. As a new researcher, if your proposal challenges an established line of reasonin
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by glitchc 1y ago
Yet another crypto-bro attempting to dodge taxes. When will they learn?
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by glitchc 1y ago
The academic funding model was long overdue for a change. As others have pointed out, there was no room in the current model for the curiously ambitious scientists, the ones responsible for ground-breaking discoveries. Rather, the bulk of t
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by glitchc 1y ago
Does this mean "open source" is really "market capture before becoming closed-source"?
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by glitchc 1y ago
Yes, that is correct. Persistent hunger behaves in a manner very similar to addiction. The drives, behaviours and outcomes are the same.
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by glitchc 1y ago
Gradients would impose a significant burden on the bureaucracy. It's already complicated enough to figure out where a person's unique circumstances place them on various thresholds. Add gradients and the complexity grows exponenti
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by glitchc 1y ago
Tony Judt. "Reappraisals" and "When the Facts Change" should be on top of everyone's reading list. Few indeed are those who can write prose as crisp, succinct and erudite as he did.
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by glitchc 1y ago
Yes, but now tell us how you really feel.
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by glitchc 1y ago
It sounds to me that Google started this payment scheme precisely to avoid anti-trust legislation. By propping up competitors, Google could always point and say "Look, there's the competition and they're thriving. How can we
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by glitchc 1y ago
Whole (or raw) foods are tax-exempt in the US. This is NY, other states are roughly on par: https://www.tax.ny.gov/pubs_and_bulls/tg_bulletins/st/listin... There are about 10 that still charge taxes on grocer
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by glitchc 1y ago
I dunno. The latter part sounds like a number of humans I've interacted with. They're all nice people though.
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by glitchc 1y ago
Wait, you expect a concert pianist to be a good software developer... on average? Most of the time? Not at all?
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by glitchc 1y ago
Given that the lower and middle classes pay a disproportionate amount of income tax, with no mechanisms to avoid a tax before the paycheque even arrives, I think this is a net win.
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by glitchc 1y ago
Consumer goods that on average are of lower quality and do not last as long, forcing consumers to make more frequent purchases, ultimately costing them more. In the 1950s one could buy a good quality toaster for life. It's very difficu
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by glitchc 2y ago
I'm not sure how capitalism crept into the discussion, since neither the article nor my comment and its parents touch on it. But since you have, absolutely, capitalism only works well when there are guardrails in place. Our greatest su
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by glitchc 2y ago
I read Hacker News on the toilet.
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by glitchc 2y ago
I suggest reading The Selfish Gene. A system where only the selfish can thrive is shown to collapse with certainty, no matter how many times one runs the experiment.
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by glitchc 2y ago
What 3 words ( https://what3words.com/ ) solves this problem, but it doesn't seem to be popular. If anyone has experience, I would be curious to know why.
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by glitchc 2y ago
This is incredible work, congrats!
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by glitchc 2y ago
It's great that we can finally turn over a new leaf. I'll see myself out.
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by glitchc 2y ago
Why not just use free fonts? There are so many available that are perfectly good for most use-cases.
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by glitchc 2y ago
Yeah but the article is about a pixel, which has different meanings. Making blanket statements is not helpful in resolving definitions. Truth is, a pixel is both a sample and a transducer. And in transduction, a pixel is both an integrator
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by glitchc 2y ago
> Integrated into a single color sample indeed. After all the integration, mosaicking, and filtering, a single sample is calculated. That’s the pixel. I think that’s where the confusion is coming from. To Smith, the “pixel” is the sample
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by glitchc 2y ago
This is written from a rather narrow perspective (of signal processing) and is clearly wrong in other contexts. For an image sensor designer, gate length, photosensitive area and pixel pitch are all real-valued measurements. That pixels are
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by glitchc 2y ago
It's never a point source. Light is integrated over a finite area to form a singke color sample. During Bayer mosaicking, contributions from neighbouring pixels are integrated to form samples of complementary color channels.
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by glitchc 2y ago
The power disparity is an emergent property of monetization, not the other way around. Once it is possible to make money from it, someone figures out a way, and that large pool of money accrues power.
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by glitchc 2y ago
This can't happen unless we find a way to demonetize private information. And since digital information is trivial to duplicate/copy, that's a tough hill to climb.
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by glitchc 2y ago
The solution is to change the license ASAP, add some must-have features from the pull requests (or your own imagination, you know best what's missing), and continue on your merry way. Eventually the MS fork will be so far behind yours
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by glitchc 2y ago
I would be thrilled with AI assistive technologies, so long as they improve my capabilities and I can trust that they deliver the right answers. I don't want to second-guess every time I make a query. At minimum, it should tell me how
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by glitchc 2y ago
There are always two charging circuits for Li batteries, one in the battery and the other in the charger. They pair together to negotiate the voltage and current. There's a dedicated protocol to do this.

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