iofj

44 ms·

271.
by iofj 11y ago
Very interesting discussion on the subject : http://www.wired.com/2012/01/can-you-walk-on-lava-falling-in...
272.
by iofj 11y ago
It will be around, for sure. But it will also be so expensive it might as well not be.
273.
by iofj 11y ago
If we hit -5% inflation you will have counter party risk for the US government to take into account. Not that I think it'll destroy the US govt, but it would make them declare your treasury bond invalid (and many others) rather than cu
274.
by iofj 11y ago
Neural networks with the direct objective of creating a "conscious" animal. Right now AI architectures are focusing on prediction, classification, pattern recognition. And this is very, very different from what nature does with AI
275.
by iofj 11y ago
In case anyone wonders who would buy these and why, the government has made it mandatory for banks to buy these themselves if they have deposits or loan. So this is effectively a tax on banks.
276.
by iofj 11y ago
However the excel solution has a lot of things going for it : 1) applications/reports built by the people designing and understanding the underlying needs and inner workings of whatever they're offering. Whilst very good programme
277.
by iofj 11y ago
And if you're a country you keep going : 5% turns out to be too much -> you lower it to 4%. You simply legislate this. You loan more. Until 4% is too much as well ... 4% too much ... 3% ... 2% ... 1.5% Once you go below a reasonable
278.
by iofj 11y ago
I wonder what happened in their 4th quarter though. They seem to have seriously clamped down on expenses. I wonder if this is an actual policy effect or just somehow they skipped building datacenters in Q4.
279.
by iofj 11y ago
I imagine that for many people, having a detour via another European city would be a big plus, rather than a minus. Going to paris, even just to have coffee, when they're leaving London for the weekend would appeal to many people I ima
280.
by iofj 11y ago
>>> "".join(c for c in x if c == c.upper() and c.isalpha()) 'WACTTATTCITIWAIBCT' ?? and the .com doesn't resolve, nor does Google find anything ...
281.
by iofj 11y ago
Even if you're right. The issue with coding to optimizations is that it's really, really brittle. You change the position of a variable and suddenly your application runs 10x slower. Why ? Because it just went from O(N) with no al
282.
by iofj 11y ago
As a consultant I have very different experiences. Even in Java development you find shops that refuse to upgrade their JVM for various reasons. RHEL 5 is really common.
283.
by iofj 11y ago
Lua and Luajit are small embeddable languages. They link into a single executable, including if you want the program they'll run.
284.
by iofj 11y ago
Maybe I'm unclear on some of the details here, but here goes https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se8/html/jls-12.htm... "Whenever a new class instance is created, memory space is allo
285.
by iofj 11y ago
The Go authors had a pretty good article on what's wrong with Java's performance : pointers everywhere. Every last little thing that isn't a primitive type is a pointer. Everywhere, in every bit of code. That means a "ne
286.
by iofj 11y ago
So everyone gets to look forward to average yearly pay of $1480 or equivalent while the world equalizes... granted it'll go up a bit while the US one goes down ... let's be kind and say it'll be $2000 (ie. about 3000% inflati
287.
by iofj 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Warm_Period The good thing about climate change is that 20% or so more of the planet is inhabitable, which has a list of advantages that is incredibly long.
288.
by iofj 11y ago
What's wrong with named capture groups ? http://www.regular-expressions.info/named.html
289.
by iofj 11y ago
And to think I'll be "getting a pension" (or so I'm told) in 2047, or 18 years after Social security is broke, assuming 4% average return, which we're not getting.
290.
by iofj 11y ago
That doesn't change anything. Cash on hand, even outside of the US lowers cost of capital, potentially almost to zero. Paying the money to shareholders would imply double or triple taxation before the money is with the shareholders. (o
291.
by iofj 11y ago
Making an argument that not having kids is an extremely bad decision for whatever subgroup you are part of is trivial. The only exception would be if all possible subgroups agreed this, which seems impossible. Any group of people choosing t
292.
by iofj 11y ago
This is how George Soros became a billionaire : http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/08/george-soros-bank... Of course he's pro-massive bureaucracies. He thinks it'd be excellent if he could repe
293.
by iofj 11y ago
You seem to advocate lowering the interest rate. The interest rate is currently -0.3% and we've just heard Draghi promise (over 10 times in a single meeting) that he'll lower it further. What makes you think Greece could lower it&
294.
by iofj 11y ago
Powered by code that you download every time you use it, and that therefore can leak your keys and conversations at any time, just as centralized chat can.
295.
by iofj 11y ago
To be fair, if you look at the video, you will see that they landed on the moving barge just fine. It was standing still on the platform, stable, with engine disabled. Of the locks keeping the landing gear in place, 3 out of 4 succeeded. Wh
296.
by iofj 11y ago
You should treat disease transmission vectors as subsets : air > contact > sharing food/toilet facilities > sexual > blood Any disease, say the flue, that can be transmitted by "sharing air" can be transmitted by
297.
by iofj 11y ago
There have been many studies refuting that. If anything it's the opposite : the poorer/uneducated someone is the less likely they are to become a terrorist, as there are far more poor than rich. e.g. http://www.economis
298.
by iofj 11y ago
> It's good for scripts but I really don't see how you could maintain any sizeable project purely in Mathematica. The same is true for MATLAB projects. Yet people do maintain sizeable projects in that. They're horrible, un
299.
by iofj 11y ago
The thing about Mathematica (and any other math product) is that it lets you increase the abstraction level of your thinking. If you have a smaller problem, first type it into mathematica, and see if it comes up with an answer. It means tha
300.
Google built special censored version of YouTube for Pakistan(thenextweb.com)
10 points by iofj 11y ago|0 comments

More ›