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by iofj 10y ago
So what you're saying is that this law is really being kept secret for our own advantage ? Politicians can't be held responsible for their actions because they benefit us ? Can't have public influence over the deal because th
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by iofj 10y ago
They can have that. I have thousands of friends, and essentially zero information on Facebook, good luck even filtering out my real friends from the Farmville and Mafia Wars (never seriously played, those games are in there exactly because
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Training a CNN using pictures of faces just got patented(patents.justia.com)
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by iofj 10y ago
Which bank are you talking about ? I'd love to have a bank account like that for nonstandard transactions. As far as I can tell, this is only possible paid.
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by iofj 10y ago
It's not quite 100ms. A bit less. The explanation is simple : if tcp exponential backoff fires, you will have a very bad time on any tcp connection. Site owners, obviously, don't want that. Try this : iptables -A INPUT -m statisti
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by iofj 10y ago
These are the sort of things you could argue in favor of using GWT.
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by iofj 10y ago
Maybe it's the old "have some shares, then pay yourself $1M/year" racket then ?
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by iofj 10y ago
> This isn't the government compelling a viewpoint. Care to elaborate on that ? Administrators, who are very much part of the government (and thus, in the end, ordered around by the executive) are forcing teachers, textbooks and ...
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by iofj 10y ago
> Anyway, do you also object to the measures that were enacted to stop the use of CFCs? Leaded gasoline? Or the work that is currently being done to prevent the global climate change from reaching catastrophic levels? These examples are
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by iofj 10y ago
I see two main problems with that: 1) We are systematically failing in controlling the goal system of humans. Now we'll create something of comparable complexity and we assume we can control the goal system ? The real goal is to create
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by iofj 10y ago
> Key to the GDS’ approach is designing for user needs, not organizational requirements, Terrett says. “That is how good digital services designed and built these days. That is how everyone does it, whether that’s google or facebook or B
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by iofj 10y ago
Well the pub has several problems - social stigma for one, and not being free (and in fact being quite expensive 20/30 euros per evening is not much) And as you say pub attendance is down by a lot too.
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by iofj 10y ago
Doesn't work well at all on my android phone I must say.
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by iofj 10y ago
What's also missing is how to actually make extensible designs. I have seen very, very few designs that were able to accommodate unforeseen changes, and none that resulted from good coding practices. Most often I've observed that
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by iofj 10y ago
I wonder what happened to the infected patient.
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by iofj 10y ago
I feel your pain, but after migration to linux or mac you'll probably be using SaaS apps to do this. And at in this case you could reinstall. In the "future" (ie. web apps and android apps), there won't be any control ab
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by iofj 10y ago
That only works because of another bit of anticompetitive behavior, on the side of Apple. There is in fact only a single browser available on ios (without hacking/sideloading) : Apple Safari. The Chrome and Firefox browsers are skins o
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by iofj 10y ago
There are 2 legal systems in Europe (and the world). 1) "US-style" English Common Law, applies in Great Britain (and former British Empire worldwide, like Australia, Canada, Kenia, ...). Biggest distinguishing features : right to
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by iofj 10y ago
> Sounds like you're conflating GC with Java's limited type/value system. Well, yes. It's the JVM that seems to prevent value objects, not Java per se. Since async GC will need RTTI this is going to be more general th
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by iofj 10y ago
I submit this is only true for equivalent number of things to keep track of. In practice this is not the case. Languages with GC go completely overboard with GC, using it completely everywhere, even when not strictly necessary and certainly
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by iofj 10y ago
I'd love to know what birth rate gap explains a 85% drop in population in 20 years. And the ethnic cleansing is happening everywhere in Europe now. Muslim enclaves with only tiny amounts of non-muslims are a fact in every Western Europ
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by iofj 10y ago
I write automation tools for a living. The problem with this approach is that it's no different from full automation. Things would collapse if the automation fails just like it would with full automation. In this case after management
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by iofj 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ectogenesis
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by iofj 10y ago
Exactly. The hallmark of any mediocre programmer and above is simple : they know the field they're writing software for. Usually pretty well. Most programmers I know simply demand the requirements are "clear". Unfortunately t
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by iofj 10y ago
When somebody says humans don't compute, I like this picture : http://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/posts/computer_w... Let's call it "ipython before computers", or "excel
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by iofj 10y ago
I sort of get you, personally I feel the same. But then I walk around here and see people with dogs in baby carriages. Why ? Because they could never have a child, they're too old, or cannot or don't want to spend the money they t
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by iofj 10y ago
One look at the age pyramid of the world, or fertility statistics, will immediately drive home the point that we will in fact build machines to raise them and love them. I mean even in the places that for some reason currently feel comforta
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by iofj 10y ago
That sounds great until you read the original stories detailing how they arrived at these standards. I mean it's utilitarian attitude on the surface, but the usefulness of medicine will be significantly degraded for everyone if patient
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by iofj 10y ago
Right, I don't see the point of this article. At first I thought it's the yearly "humans have a soul and are better than AI algorithms" story we get. Of course a mere year ago the fact that computers can't get good
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by iofj 10y ago
> sunk cost and shouldn't even matter Shouldn't but does. It has it's own fallacy section: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_costs#Loss_aversion_and_t... Also, not falling for the fallacy means admit

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