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by hodwik 11y ago
That would depend on the atmosphere causing a predictable and uniform distortion no matter what angle the sun was at, weather patterns, humidity levels, etc. I've been playing with LUTs a bit in the video realm, and find myself having
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by hodwik 11y ago
Actually, it does imply there is less of a problem. Calling it "The Government" exaggerates the strength of the forces for or against something. It becomes a dystopian 1984-esque war. When instead it is described as "some str
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by hodwik 11y ago
There are 4,185,000 members of the Federal government. According to the Bureau of Labor, there are 22 million people on the payroll of government nationally. That's like saying it makes sense to say that all Muslims are terrorists just
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by hodwik 11y ago
I think you overestimate how many of us agree with you.
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by hodwik 11y ago
>"That's an interesting take on it. " You say that like it's novel... It's been the almost universally accepted opinion in philosophy for the last 100 years or more that post-Enlightenment man is Nihilist because
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by hodwik 11y ago
> "Eventually they grow out of this phase and play games like mature people do." I don't know. I know several adults who watch countless hours of Let's Plays but don't actually play anything at all.
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by hodwik 11y ago
It would not help them. The kids would be up in arms if they threatened litigation.
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by hodwik 11y ago
To be clear, I'm not arguing they'd become advanced. I'm arguing they'd never become advanced. I think the Drake Equation solution that Sagan proposes puts values that are orders of magnitude too large for most variables
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by hodwik 11y ago
I would argue very few, if any, purchases are purely rational, non-addictive, and non-manipulative. Most products play off of our own varying degrees of "mental illness" and addiction -- be that video games, coffee, high-calorie c
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by hodwik 11y ago
I think most of us just assumed it was a bad design change. I don't normally search every time a website makes a bad design decision, just in case it has secret and very obscure meaning.
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by hodwik 11y ago
It's especially meaningless for those of us who use Hacker Vision. http://i.imgur.com/c81G9a6.png
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by hodwik 11y ago
I tried this in two browsers, both in private windows, and still get HTMLview. If someone has downloaded this, could you put it up somewhere else please?
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by hodwik 11y ago
Ain't nobody got time for that.
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by hodwik 11y ago
Nope. https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=extract%20transform%...
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by hodwik 11y ago
Right. Meanwhile forward-looking tech like gaze detection, word vectors, LPWAN, FPGAs, and so on, are lucky to get a couple posts a month.
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by hodwik 11y ago
When you're first getting started in tech I think HN seems much more serious than it is. Once you're a bit more experienced you realize it's a bunch of hipsters talking about simple and insignificant technologies, and complet
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by hodwik 11y ago
Along the same lines -- In bars occasionally young women will come in who will give you free packs of cigarettes in exchange for scanning your ID. I've heard, mind you, this could be completely false, the cigarette companies sell that
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by hodwik 11y ago
Yes, technically. In the US your SSN, your mother's maiden name, and all of your school records are public data under many circumstances. That doesn't mean they get used or treated as such.
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by hodwik 11y ago
I'm not talking about marketing systems. I'm talking about systems full of PII -- like Thomson Reuters CLEAR -- which was designed for law enforcement but can be purchased by private companies as well. http://r1.officer
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by hodwik 11y ago
I disagree. From what I've seen, Dominoes and Target sell your PII to companies who make systems primarily marketed to law enforcement, but are also available to private companies.
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by hodwik 11y ago
He's on the right track, but absolutely wrong about where the bulk of this data comes from. It's not shady "Take a free trip!" websites. It's your Dominoes Pizza order, it's your trip to Target, it's every
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by hodwik 11y ago
Well, then let's clarify: For almost all Americans -- who produce essentially nothing of value, yet consume a lot of very real, imported goods -- balanced trade would be a complete disaster.
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by hodwik 11y ago
Japan's QE was in response to deflationary pressures. That's a far cry away from QE while inflation is already happening. Further, I don't see why you can't have two completely different reasons for the same effect. And
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by hodwik 11y ago
Which, for the US, would be a very serious downgrade from our current situation.
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by hodwik 11y ago
> "Expanding the money supply lets people buy more locally produced stuff, but not more imports." Right, so for most developed nations this would be disastrous.
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by hodwik 11y ago
Ignored for years? What? From what I can tell that's how we got into $19 trillion dollars of debt. The only reason it's now being defended as a systematic theory is that it's become embarrassing to still believe it in the fac
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by hodwik 11y ago
We've run it without supervision for about a year now at multiple sites, and have not had any major issues.
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by hodwik 11y ago
Is that right? From the Google stream you couldn't actually see him leave, that's just what the commentators said.
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by hodwik 11y ago
Not genes, memes.
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by hodwik 11y ago
Sedol said that it was doing tactics he had never seen before -- like the now infamous move 37 that caused Sedol to get up and walk out of the room.

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