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by hebdo 11y ago
Consider this: a) at some point our energy budget will exceed total Sun radiation reaching Earth, and b) indefinite "re-usage" of energy is impossible (entropy).
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by hebdo 11y ago
The point was that exponential growth is probably impossible, not just any growth. The most serious objection to the propositions in the article is refuted at the beginning, when they agree that our future will be tied to one planet - &qu
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by hebdo 11y ago
Well, technically speaking any multiplayer game is a distributed database, except that more inconsistency is tolerated ("lag"). But all of the classic results, such as CAP or FLP, apply here as well. And given how hard even the si
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by hebdo 11y ago
You mean like the "Google tax"?
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by hebdo 11y ago
The point was that it is probably much less CPU intensive to decode such a stream in 1080p than to render it from a compressed 1k of Javascript.
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by hebdo 11y ago
It is so easy to forget how did the term Public Relations come into wide use. > Due to negative implications surrounding the word propaganda because of its use by the Germans in World War I, he promoted the term "Public Relations&q
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by hebdo 11y ago
Now you will also see the uplink usage go up, potentially much higher, since Windows 10 is torrenting updates from client machines without asking the user.
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by hebdo 11y ago
Not quite sure what is your point here. The amount of megabytes transferred each month does not have to be any particular fixed number to become a burden for the user, or the ISP. We can see that at least in one case (and probably many more
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by hebdo 11y ago
This seems to be one of the real costs of upgrading to the latest version of Windows. In this case your mom has to pay the bills, but in general I'm curious how long will it take for ISPs to launch a solid campaign against Microsoft, l
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by hebdo 11y ago
Awesome! Kind of similar to the Viterbi algorithm, except that Kalman is on-line, while Viterbi works on the entire observed sequence at once, after it is fully known.
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by hebdo 11y ago
Yes, for example. Any resource you can think of. Be creative: unbounded exponential growth would mean, for instance, that at some point in the future the global yearly energy consumption would be higher than what E=mc^2 suggests for m=mass
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by hebdo 11y ago
Given that any resouce you can think of is bounded, no, it is impossible.
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by hebdo 11y ago
Especially if you realize how quickly is the public sector growing in many (most) countries. Not to mention centralized efforts, such as QE, which are literally aimed at jobs creation, regardless of their value.
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by hebdo 11y ago
Yes, but the underlying mechanism - the deletion in the CCR5 receptor coding fragment - is a known source of HIV immunity in humans. The bigger problem here is that bone marrow transplant is by itself more dangerous than an antiretroviral-c
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by hebdo 11y ago
It is worth to remember that there is a way to completely cure HIV, but it is very dangerous, requires a very specific bone marrow match, and does not erradicate all subtypes of the virus. Still, it is interesting: https://en.wik
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by hebdo 11y ago
By error source you mean false positive source? Because according to the analysis doc the rules 1 and 6 have way higher false positive rates.
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by hebdo 11y ago
Shouldn't new year be every year?
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by hebdo 11y ago
You have a valid point. It is, indeed, possible and often quite easy to misclassify abuse as criticism. However, I disagree with this part: > Considering consequences, it's probably even more important to be able to take criticism
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by hebdo 11y ago
Exactly. It is not abuse to honestly review a patch or an idea, and block its progress pointing out serious deficiencies. This is just a way to assert quality, and apparently it is a very effective way - we do trust Linux. You are not the c
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by hebdo 11y ago
Quite different. To achieve the effects of "Incremental" you would need lazy evaluation coupled with a caching layer, so that successive calls to pure functions with same arguments are not re-computed. This optimization technique
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by hebdo 11y ago
Fortran is the language of high performance computations because it forces programmers to use static memory layout, and has real arrays. It is easier to emit (SSE-)vectorized assembly from Fortran code than from C. You can of course achieve
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by hebdo 11y ago
Tell that to people doing machine learning!
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by hebdo 11y ago
> Only in films. Are you trying to say that the current Germany is not the direct descendant of the Nazi Germany? Then how did it come into existence? Is it a brand new nation conjured out of thin air after the Yalta and Potsdam confer
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by hebdo 11y ago
It is a common thing in many legal systems in Europe. Nazi/Soviet/Other victims and their descendants consider it defamation to deny various genocides or to promote particular symbols. The law you have mentioned is essetially a sh
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by hebdo 11y ago
Thanks! I will run my own experiments in R on this data.
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by hebdo 11y ago
The x direction explains 70.1% of the variance. y direction explains 8.5%. > In our case, three initial left-singular vectors contribute 70.1%, 8.5%, and 3.6% of the total variance of R, respectively.
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by hebdo 11y ago
Interesting. So what is, in your opinion, the percentage of earnings an average Chinese spends on maintaining/extending his "Guanxi" and on supporting his parents/presents for relatives? I am asking about these two speci
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by hebdo 11y ago
Wait, what. I've lived in Beijing in 2013. You can live off 3000RMB/month = 500USD/month. That's far from being rich, but also not barely survivable. Everything was cheap for me, and I'm from Poland.
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by hebdo 11y ago
I think most Europeans do know that, even if only at some subconscious level. The rest is just propaganda, which is strong these days in every country. But to be fair, the risk is not minuscule - for example the murder rate is 4-5 times hig
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by hebdo 11y ago
A relevant read: Whaddaya Mean, You Can't Find Programmers? http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000050.html

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