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by hodwik 11y ago
(Can't edit.) Warning: This is mere conjecture.
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Thanks! Was just guessing, glad I wasn't too far off the mark.
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This is not a problem of structural semantics, each phrase is itself a semantic atom -- think Zork. It doesn't need to see "What|WP 's|VBZ it|PRP like|IN outside|IN ?|." Just "What's it like outside?", and
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by hodwik 11y ago
They weren't trained to read natural language, and then respond with some programmatic action filtered into natural language: Bot reads "What's the temperature like near me?" Person calls "$get user-local-temp
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But if it buys you time to upgrade your infrastructure it could be worth it.
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First, no, that data is only for full-time, year-round employees. https://www.census.gov/hhes/www/income/data/historical/peopl... Second, employees are working less hours now than before, so if you
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by hodwik 11y ago
From above -- First, no, that data is only for full-time, year-round employees. https://www.census.gov/hhes/www/income/data/historical/peopl... Second, employees are working less hours now than bef
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by hodwik 11y ago
Exactly. There's so much stuff like that going on it's hard to know where to begin with these people. For example, demographics. If you have a large young population and a large elderly population you will have a median income pus
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Uh, what? There's been an almost 25% growth in median real income from 1970 at 21k to 2007 at 28k. And it's not exactly like we're really pushing the Republican economic vision. We have the highest corporate tax rates in the
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We're facing much more competition globally now. Sure, it's a small loss for us, but it's a huge gain for the world. Things had to equalize, we couldn't ride off WW2 forever. And I don't mean that in a Keynesian sen
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Those are roughly 40% and 55% increases. How is that not exciting? And inflation adjusted home prices have only gone up a few % nationally. Sure, there are areas people want to live and pay a premium for, but that has always been true. Thos
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Sure it has, although trickle down is a completely inaccurate way to describe it. Real adjusted income per capita is skyrocketing. The only reason it looks like it is going down is because Liberals always quote the household income. Of cour
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I'm glad, I enjoyed having it. I would note that I was taking a very extreme position for hyperbole's sake, which Ptacek took quite literally, and I was in the mood to argue. Scotch is a fine beverage, it's just not Bourbon.
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You ought not compare a forcibly evaporated Scotch in an overly active cask, to a true SBM that is naturally viscous due to aging in a living breathing cask. It's not just the water loss that matters, but the total evaporation that inc
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I'm talking evaporation because evaporation is first and foremost what matters in aging. Great whiskey is thick whiskey. Why would you throw around NDP like that's a bad thing? NDPs are no better or worse. Pappy, if you're ta
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Glenrothes is a great example. To pick up a 40 year barrel-aged Glenrothes you're looking at paying about €4500 a bottle, and that gets you about 90% evaporation. That's only 6% more angel-share than a $70 dollar bottle of BT Anti
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The Speysides are artificially evaporated because the North Scottish climate doesn't allow the barrels to adequately breathe -- it kills the whiskey. By comparison, the heavy temperature swings in Kentucky open and close the barrels ev
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Try a Buffalo Trace antique collection and you'll see why bourbon is a respected spirit among connoisseurs. The problem is, making real bourbon is very difficult because you have to let so much evaporate off that producers lose a lot
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What incentive does anyone have to contribute to OSS?
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There's a handful of conspiracy theorists who think SELinux is an NSA backdoor. That's my only guess.
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Case in point, Tobii -- market leader in pupil tracking tech valued at only $775m. People have no imagination.
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I think he's talking about GOOG, FB, & TWTR.
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If only the market were that simple.
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Feith Systems & Software, Philadelphia PA, Local only: -Java Developer / Java Programmer -Solutions Architect -Web Developer -Project Manager -Support Engineer http://www.feith.com/about-feith/careers-at-feith&
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What would the attack vector be for something like this?
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No more so than any other science. Difference being that in nutrition you're playing with people's health, so the examples stick out.
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I wish I could trade with you; I love learning stuff but it's not so much about using it practically, as it is that I just want to understand it. Unfortunately, for most stuff, at some point you simply must have a problem to solve to p
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Looking at what China does in Hong Kong is vastly different from what China does in China. By the same token, in the States we get say in the president. The same is not true for places under the control of The Office of Insular Affairs &amp
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Which actually means you have more choice. In the US you generally get one Democrat and one Republican. When you have only one party, it's as though you have no parties, you get to elect from many different candidates.
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In this case they're not totalitarian though. China is a Republic, it's just a Republic with a taller pyramid than our own. You elect district leaders, who elect state leaders and the congress, and they elect the president and pr

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