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by hpoe 6y ago
Real Question Time: Assuming that CMSs are really Content Management Systems, intended largely to serve relatively static content, and not be an app development platform do we need another? I'd say for 90% of people Wordpress for all i
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by hpoe 6y ago
Saw an interesting video on the military channel a couple of years back that pointed out something important about these super powerful, super fast, super expensive aircraft. You'd be better off from a cost perspective running a swarm
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I'm just going to point out that to people that have a concern about wealthy people funding research that is how science has been done long before research grants or anything like that came on the scene. For a long time art and the sci
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by hpoe 6y ago
Matt Levine explains it well by summarizing that in the US. "Everything is security fraud".
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by hpoe 6y ago
This hits me in the feels when I realized shortly after getting married that I realized what a workaholic is and that I am one. Just like an alcoholic uses booze to avoid the problems they face in the rest of life I use work to avoid proble
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by hpoe 6y ago
One thing I found was interesting > The effects of a wage floor can also be felt outside low-pay sectors. A preliminary study in 2019 of the impact of Germany’s minimum wage found it led to more reallocation of workers from smaller, lowe
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by hpoe 6y ago
Nope, you're thinking of Family Search that is owned and operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
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by hpoe 6y ago
So I live in Utah been here for most of my life and been involved in the Utah start up scene, and quite frankly I've been wondering why Utah has been at the top of more tech hub lists. The fact of the matter is you have a very edicated
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Supreme Court Rules on Faithless Electors in the Electoral College (2020)(youtube.com)
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by hpoe 6y ago
So, I would be interested to hear more of your legal theory for this as it could be argued. However in the United States Constitution the 10th Amendment states that all powers not explicitly delegated to the federal government are reserved
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by hpoe 6y ago
It is an important concept of federalism to have that separation of authority between State and Federal. Besides given the federal government's track record of transparency do you really think if they had authority over local PDs they&
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by hpoe 6y ago
So I know Moore's law is "dead" (dead as in Cobol or dead as in Elvis?) and progress is definitely slower than it has been historically however we have only began to really start leveraging parallelization at scale from a sof
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by hpoe 6y ago
I know this will be very unpleasant and will entail a lot of hardship for a lot of people but I can't help but wonder if in the long term this will help to start reversing the "brain drain" problem that many developing nation
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by hpoe 6y ago
>Those who protested stay-at-home orders were “rooted in white nationalism and run contrary to respect for Black lives,” the letter stated. I feel like we've gotten to a point where "white nationalism" has become a code wo
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by hpoe 6y ago
So here's a question how are they going to prevent people from sharing the online courses? Like is there anything that stops someone from sharing or restreaming their classes? I mean given what the value of a Harvard education is consi
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by hpoe 6y ago
Saw a similar article about the same thing on hn a few weeks ago. It pointed out this is actually a good thing. This was leaking before and being factored in to calculations but now we know where it is coming from and it turns out it isn&#x
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by hpoe 6y ago
Nope I'm taking issue with this maybe in large cities NYC, Chicago, LA they do, but remember most cops aren't in those cities the majority of them are paid for by small municipal budgets and aren't having hours and hours of O
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by hpoe 6y ago
This article hints had why I am always suspicious of "UX" and "UI" engineers. As it notes there is a strong resistance to formalism of any sort, and working with and considering the user doesn't seem to be the first
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by hpoe 6y ago
For those interested in learning more about the City of London there is a youtuber, CGP Grey, who has to great 10 min vids on what it is why it exists and how it operates. Link here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrObZ_HZ
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by hpoe 6y ago
I don't disagree with you there. I believe the sheer scope of the task is overwhelming but those who want to hide their sins a will ensure the resources never come to pass.
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by hpoe 6y ago
So I read how they get their data which is from city court systems that allow their data to be extracted programmatically. Then I wondered why dont we just put in the effort to standardize on a common data format and start making government
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by hpoe 6y ago
I don't think using the facial recognition is necessarily wrong to help identify probable suspects, but arresting someone based on a facial match algorithm is definitely going too far. Of course really I blame the AI/ML hucksters
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by hpoe 6y ago
Playing Devil's advocate, let's imagine I pour my life savings into opening up a fruit stand, it does well I move to a fruit store that is popular and everyone loves, at this point everything has been bought with my personal funds
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by hpoe 6y ago
I really like the author's response after he closed the request and people kept commenting on it. > Disclaimer: I'm starting to write this at 7 am in my morning, so my thoughts are a bit incoherent. > I wonder how all of you
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by hpoe 6y ago
I don't mean to imply that there wasn't discussion or advocacy around the issue but rather it was not an issue that was high in public awareness or concern.
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There was a discussion on HN last week that I can't find where I was enlightened to find out that one of the big problems around doing facial recognition is proper lighting and without it you can't really build good models and be
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by hpoe 6y ago
I see this as an extension of the Facebook <moderating/censoring> discussion, which is really a broader question of what moral obligations do corporations have beyond following the law and trying to provide the optimal product to
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by hpoe 6y ago
So having seen many ground up rewrites of code I have to ask how do we make sure that when we redo the police we avoid the problems we got this time around?
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by hpoe 6y ago
I've reread the Abolition Of Man recently and found his conjecture that there may yet come a time when using psychology and technology a small group of people may be able to control everyone else eerily reminiscent to the way ML is bei
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Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankel, it is his experience of how he managed to survive the concentration camps. Book of Mormon The Stormlight Archive series (Way of Kings, Words of Radience, Oathbringer) - Brandon Sanderson, I&#

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