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by indubitable 9y ago
Much appreciated! One clarification, since my own language was sloppy. C# did not get open sourced in 2014. That was the date that Microsoft open sourced just about everything (and that's a weasel word there - to my knowledge, it is ev
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by indubitable 9y ago
> At the end of the day, someone has to 'waste' money, in order for companies to earn money I also used to feel this way, but I no longer think its accurate. This is most obvious in digital business-consumer goods today. Imag
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by indubitable 9y ago
This is not my field, but I have used Accord.NET ( http://accord-framework.net/ ) while learning machine learning and have no complaints, but also have little room for comparison. Any C++ library you'd consider as defini
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by indubitable 9y ago
Why do you think it's been closed source with minimal cross platform effort? Most of everything from Microsoft related to C# is open source. This includes their compiler, the runtime, and the framework and libraries. And it's been
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by indubitable 9y ago
Something I often wonder in these sort of discussions is why C# is generally omitted. Its performance is comparable to C++, with none of the trappings. It also does an excellent job of integrating some of the most useful features of functio
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by indubitable 9y ago
First one quick aside, Wikipedia tends to fare very poorly when we get into contemporary issues or issues involving social matters. And that is certainly in play here. The "Historical Accounts" features such amazing information as
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by indubitable 9y ago
You don't find this to be bias confirmation? What we have is a female skeleton buried with a couple of horses, some weaponry, and some games. That's it. They use this to declare the individual a warrior. It's possible, but it
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by indubitable 9y ago
The thing that strikes me about these discussions it that if female viking fighters were at all common, discovery of possible evidence of such would hardly be news. The vikings are not some mythical or extremely ancient entity. They thriv
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by indubitable 9y ago
I'm surprised to see so few mention a more direct ostensible 'fiduciary duty.' Going public, especially without share tiering aimed at letting the owners keep control, involves yielding control of your company to shareholders
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by indubitable 9y ago
As America becomes increasingly polarized and driven towards echo chambers, political violence continues to emerge across the political spectrum. For instance the recent attempt of an individual randomly murder congressmen after verifying t
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by indubitable 9y ago
Your numbers are both technically wrong and misleading. The federal government is currently spending 120% of our annual revenue. Even if we somehow cut enough programs that 18% of our revenue became disposable (which is itself completely un
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by indubitable 9y ago
I don't think the actions and the goal are inconsistent. As you quoted it's all about 'ending big government.' Taxing and spending increases the size of government. And it arguably has no end. Government is the ultimate
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by indubitable 9y ago
This is false. The entire story of the petrodollar is lengthy and involves an understanding of economic arrangements in times past, how they worked, how they collapsed, and the details in between. Rather than try to write this all out here,
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by indubitable 9y ago
Companies are able to attract investors and lenders because of the reasonable expectation of future profits. For the US there is no expectation of ever breaking out of our debt. There's a term for private entities whose only means of e
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by indubitable 9y ago
I think it's a perspective problem. Since this issue is more complex, I'll use a simpler one - nuclear weapons. There has not been major unrestrained warfare directly between modern nations in what's approaching a century. Ve
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by indubitable 9y ago
Negative generalizations are, at best, tangentially related to racism. Racism is most fundamentally, "I think blue people are better than green people, because they're blue." Speaking negatively, or positively, of blue or g
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by indubitable 9y ago
Wolfram Alpha [1] is another tool from them that's simply phenomenal for a multitude of purposes, including research. It's what I'd really like to see in a search eventually. It tries to actually directly deliver answers inst
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by indubitable 9y ago
One of the big reasons I find it interesting is because I expect there's probably more news outlets now than ever before, yet we see such a peculiar level of homogeneity in the views they espouse - perhaps even more so than in times pa
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by indubitable 9y ago
You have to distinguish between fatal crashes and all crashes. Here [1] are the data for the US if you can tolerate that site. What is the typical condition for a fatal crash? It's extremely counter intuitive. It is driving straight, o
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by indubitable 9y ago
That is rather humorous on the red flag traffic laws. Had never heard of that before! One thing that's nice now about self driving vehicles is that it seems that more or less the entire automotive industry is hopping on board. For some
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by indubitable 9y ago
I find it more interesting that the media coverage has been, predictably, completely one sided and sensationalistic going so far as to strongly imply 'suspects.' It's a great reminder of how, in the past, we slipped into 2 re
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by indubitable 9y ago
We've already had fatal self driving crashes while the self driving system was in operation. The media irresponsibly, but predictably, tried to use it to drive people into a terrified frenzy - which surprisingly did not work. And even
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by indubitable 9y ago
Out of curiosity, where do you see the future of ads going as free ad-driven services, such as Facebook, start to approach market saturation? Increasing revenue further would mean that product would need to increase ads, or somehow increase
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by indubitable 9y ago
You have to keep in mind that prices are, generally, not magical. The price is a balance between what people are willing to sell something for and what people are willing to buy it for. Of course that's elementary, but thinking about t
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by indubitable 9y ago
Sure, but in reality opinions are the one thing we ought scrutinize the most, right? Facts are either true or false, but are unchanging at given any moment in time. Opinions are not necessarily true or false, but can and arguably should con
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by indubitable 9y ago
Check out the Utah Data Center [1]. They are already creating storage on the order of exabytes in a single facility. As storage technology improves, we can expect to see that capacity grow rapidly. Assuming they retain the data, over time i
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by indubitable 9y ago
As an aside here, I would be cautious of attributing declining growth on Facebook to pretty much anything. They are the first company in the history of our species to take market saturation to such extremes. They have more than 2 billion ac
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by indubitable 9y ago
And the NSA. They are creating one of the most in depth and far reaching collections of human interaction, all the way down to the most private and intimate level. Long after we're all dead, and presumably technology is developed to tr
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by indubitable 9y ago
You don't find it ironic in that you're judging people for what they find enjoyable and arguing it misses the point of doing something for enjoyment? I receive immense pleasure and enjoyment in improving at things -- something I a
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by indubitable 9y ago
Expressing dismay out at the audacity of somebody to even dare state something, as opposed to stating why either it's wrong in the case of a fact or why you disagree in case of an opinion, is language policing. In other words it is att

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