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by hawkice 11y ago
If only because over 25 years surely he would have made it into the thousands of cases, unless he's doing less than one a week.
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by hawkice 11y ago
I am skeptical about the first part (the second part, about facial recognition, seems good, and at this point might just be a budget issue -- that to comb through the low quality results manually given current software would take too many m
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by hawkice 11y ago
Am I the only person who is thinking... okay, if I am the mob, I'll hack hundreds of these underfunded school districts, and watch for kids with identical grades who transfer in, whose parents have no credit history, and where the (wit
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by hawkice 11y ago
While the overwhelming majority of my professional respect goes to those who are builders at their core, I think you're using 'toast' in a way that demonstrably includes six figure salaries. The only X-factor is how many (N &
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by hawkice 11y ago
Somewhat perversely, Chinese hacking largely _is_ a privacy issue, just not individual privacy. The reason why Chinese hackers in particular are of concern is (1) they seem to engage in substantially higher levels of corporate espionage and
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by hawkice 11y ago
I use Reagent (another Clojurescript React library), and it seems this might widen the gap between the two in terms of ease-of-getting-started. Reagent is dead simple to get going with, and requires you learn basically nothing to build even
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by hawkice 11y ago
True -- you think we are catching less than 1/1,000 of these? There's that old saw about how it's impossible to know if people commit the perfect crime because, by definition, it involves us not knowing. That being said, a co
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by hawkice 11y ago
Good point, but the idea with the fine isn't restitution, it's to create an honest-to-God disincentive for bad behavior. Zeroing out their ill-gotten gains merely teaches them not to be caught. If the fines are 20x, 100x or 1,000x
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by hawkice 11y ago
So, I don't mean to imply that there is a units equivalency -- 1 minute of exercise is not the same or similar to 1 minute of some type of mental activity. It's no good to say "this experiment doesn't use at least N minu
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by hawkice 11y ago
The purpose of the analogy (as I understood it) was that there are important, extremely large effects that are caused by behavior X (in this case, exercise). But if we put exercise to the same test, we would fail to notice those important a
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by hawkice 11y ago
tl;dr It's very likely that first-life creates a lock-out, quickly soaking up all resources that could be used for independent abiogenesis. Let's say the probability of new life is roughly constant (and a relatively low probabilit
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by hawkice 11y ago
Honestly, that might be a different order of magnitude when it comes to speed -- maybe if we have evidence of life within the first ~10,000 years instead of hundreds of millions. We've only been trying to replicate the origin of life f
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by hawkice 11y ago
"People in this neighborhood choose to rob well-defended chain stores (with more resources for possible criminal prosecution, like video tapes) instead of ill-defended, independent one-man shops". Sounds a little crazy, but I am g
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by hawkice 11y ago
So, the generic answer for why we favor income or value-added taxes over revenue taxes is that (1) we want to encourage investment, so marginal business expenses are essentially tax-free, and (2) revenue taxes limit the ability for competit
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by hawkice 11y ago
Took me a while to find actual numbers that could give good approximations of how true this is. http://www.tenement.org/encyclopedia/housing_rent.htm Turns out, it's actually pretty accurate. But food was much mor
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by hawkice 11y ago
> Survey: 3% of Consumers Would Switch Retailers for Burrito Verified member of the 3% here. Oh wait, this is about bitcoins? Oh.
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by hawkice 11y ago
I caught an earlier edit of this comment, and I think it may have incidentally demonstrated (shall we say) a focus on blunt honesty that resonated with the description in the article. I've gone back and forth about posting about the ed
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by hawkice 11y ago
Donating to Bernie Sanders because you believe universal healthcare is important is also spending money to elect public officials who support your policy objectives. Like I said, I disagree with some of the policies they advocate, but unles
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by hawkice 11y ago
They aren't buying their way out of all criticism -- about 6 months ago I saw, on Michigan television, what I can only describe as an attack ad against them. They aren't politicians, they donate their money to charity and other ca
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by hawkice 11y ago
Really simple question: do the privacy settings have any impact on the recruiting stuff? I would love for you guys to poke around my data, I trust you guys, and would love for you to be able to get my name, but I would otherwise prefer to b
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by hawkice 11y ago
There are other reasons to keep code proprietary than fearing a security failure in the event the code leaks.
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by hawkice 11y ago
I keep getting the sense this is some major inside-baseball stuff getting played out in public because moderators and admins on Reddit have giant megaphones. The complaints seem reasonable, the responses seem reasonable, but almost none of
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by hawkice 11y ago
> It is said that hiring a full-time engineer increases your valuation by $1M. I won't dispute that this is said, but every once in a while I get the sense people saying these things should double check which column of their balance
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by hawkice 11y ago
All simplicity is a lie. If I could give a professional hint to my former self it would be: the best employers are the ones who are comfortable making a deal -- paying what they need to pay to get it done, and trying to strike the best deal
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by hawkice 11y ago
Technology has helped curb the absurd pollution that was the product of older processes. We don't have data from industrialization in the US, because we didn't have the tools to measure precisely the pollution at that time. But ba
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by hawkice 11y ago
Honestly, without knowing the exact question it's hard to predict what the numbers will be. For example, there used to be a ~15% spread between people who supported gays and lesbians in the military vs. homosexuals in the military. [Wi
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by hawkice 11y ago
Indeed, this is the critical question. If L. Ron Hubbard secretly but accurately predicted the lottery numbers for last week, it doesn't mean we have to go back and change them. Things can seem wrong/impossible/against your w
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by hawkice 11y ago
Pick one where you have a friend who knows it well, and can help you through the pitfalls. Then build something complicated enough that you aren't entirely sure how to do it yet. "Mastery", "until I know it all", &q
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by hawkice 11y ago
What is actually happening here is not quite what you think. There is a subset of programs for which you can prove it halts, notably lower-bounded by e.g. Idris' totality checker (which is a part of its type system).
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by hawkice 11y ago
If you do N self-joins in a row, creating the index on the fly would be a good move, because they'd have to read through the same data multiple times. The real world example that springs to mind is comments that can nest up to e.g. 5 l

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