im4w1l

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by im4w1l 10y ago
The point is that the theoretical problem, interesting as it may be, doesn't matter that much in practice. The marginal utility you could get by fine-tuning the trade off is low. It's another type of bike-shedding essentially.
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by im4w1l 10y ago
I would say it's true if a little reductive. Democracy has to give the best outcome overall and economic growth is a major factor in that.
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by im4w1l 10y ago
Systems programmed by humans typically have coding standards. The human body on the other hand has been haphazardly developed over billions of years by the principle quick hack on top of quick hack on top of quick hack. It's a complete
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by im4w1l 10y ago
Hillary is more war eager than Donald. Look at her mails regarding Syria. Also, she hates Russia (meaning that the proxy war there would continue) while Donald do not (meaning he may work to find a solution).
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by im4w1l 10y ago
> I remember meeting a guy who had a degree as a food chemist. I asked him what jobs he was after, and he said ... food chemist. Could someone explain this to me? Like I assume lordnacho had expected that guy to apply for a wider categor
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by im4w1l 10y ago
With a Martian colony, we could - if worst came to worst - start a zero-child policy, and "go silently into the night". That would be unacceptable if it meant the end of humanity.
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by im4w1l 10y ago
Maybe I'm overthinking this, but wouldn't a better solution be to say that server1.localhost doesn't have to be loopback, but that it must be resolved by asking the DNS server at localhost (or alternatively defined in the hos
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by im4w1l 10y ago
One of the meanings of mark is "victim of scam / swindle". See definition 15 (!) http://www.dictionary.com/browse/mark
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by im4w1l 10y ago
They could live in the same house.
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by im4w1l 10y ago
There are many companies (should be familiar to anyone in tech) and well funded organizations working hard to give more opportunities to women. Well, they succeeded and this is what success looks like. Their work hasn't stopped either,
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by im4w1l 10y ago
That he feels depressed and lonely?
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by im4w1l 10y ago
If they actually made that policy, that they will buy any <500k widget that promises the world, then I bet the market could churn out pseudoscience at astonishing rates.
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by im4w1l 10y ago
Why would you start a new company when you can join and enhance an existing one?
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by im4w1l 10y ago
Some players are fine with a community that only consists of the devs themselves playing a few hours a day.
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by im4w1l 10y ago
>The classical problem is more or less designed to be a utilitarian thought experiment. Are you willing to be actively unethical for a greater ethical action? That may be what it is designed to do. But maybe the design is flawed, and i
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by im4w1l 10y ago
What does this mean for a TBB user?
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by im4w1l 10y ago
Meme
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by im4w1l 10y ago
I completely agree that those are not gameable. The thing I wondered about was why there can't be any other ungameable algorithm.
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by im4w1l 10y ago
Rather than resizing to 320x240, pick that number of pixels randomly. For even better results use some method of variance reduction e.g. divide the screen into n squarish rectangles and pick N/n pixels from every rectangle.
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by im4w1l 10y ago
> Moreover, there are only two algorithms you can't game - one that perfectly addresses and solves explicit and implicit aspects of the problem (impossible in practice), and one that is perfectly random. Care to explain?
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by im4w1l 10y ago
1. Because the hash is in the blockchain, certificates cannot be created retroactively. 2. The notary could make their archive public, so that any interested party could go through and verify that it is legit. 3. By using many different not
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by im4w1l 10y ago
Are you saying that if black people live in one society and white people live in one society, then the black one will necessarily be hundreds times worse than the white one? Because that's what it sounds like you are saying.
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by im4w1l 10y ago
> automatically execute an arbitrary file download Your phrasing could easily be misread. A downloaded program would not automatically run.
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by im4w1l 10y ago
Who will Trump bring physical harm to except ISIS?
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by im4w1l 10y ago
Are you opposed to violently stopping the ISIS? Do you want the genocides they commit to continue?
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by im4w1l 10y ago
To further clarify: The teacher is considered the "parent" of the student in their analysis.
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by im4w1l 10y ago
Stereotypes have great predictive power. The reason we sometimes avoid them is they can lead to outcomes that are seen as undesirable.
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by im4w1l 10y ago
>everything beyond the terminator should (?) be equally cold I don't think so. Winds, diffusion, conduction, refraction probably come into play.
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by im4w1l 10y ago
Nim in disguise
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by im4w1l 10y ago
No matter the strategy Ava will get the right answer 50% of the time, and Bob will get the right answer 50% of the time. What the strategy can influence is the correlation between Ava being right and Bob being right.

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