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by jack9 9y ago
> in applied research, we usually build a number of throwaway prototypes before the real system. Those quick prototypes and proofs of concept are often ugly in many ways. So basically you just do normal development? In the commercial wor
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by jack9 9y ago
I'm not sure you know what "literally" and "exactly" means, after that comment. Stop using those words just because you disagree vehemently. Here's the "literal" version you haven't imagined: ht
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by jack9 9y ago
Even after your comment, I do not make that connection. If that was the intent, it fails...e.g, Why not duplicate the site faithfully and just eliminate the comment links? It succeeds in being 'quiet' (less noisy) in design.
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by jack9 9y ago
I gave an alternate characterization and you ran with it, ignoring the core question of what you meant by "little man" to move the goalpost. Good luck with whatever.
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by jack9 9y ago
Video originals, soundclips, text, edited versions, become a tangled pipeline without experience (in the form of seeing it work in a large project context). I backup my multiple TB of data on Dropbox, some on Github (the code and production
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by jack9 9y ago
Terabyte drives are very cheap. Since it's borderline stupid, to simply upload this volume of work to some third party service without backup, I have no sympathy or technical concern. This being an illustration of Google's terribl
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by jack9 9y ago
> This concept predates Americans by a number of years; it certainly wasn't invented there. That happens to also be true.
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by jack9 9y ago
> It's a principle of the US criminal justice system that is derived from a moral intuition of justice. Morals are about value systems. Moral intuition is a paradox, as there is a multitude of moral value systems. Innocent until pro
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by jack9 9y ago
"Little man" meaning what? A generalist in comparison to specialists too timid to put together a sensible conclusion for a publication?
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by jack9 9y ago
It would come to that, if such an ecological catastrophe wasn't affecting lots of other fuzzier animals for promotion. Some fringers will probably do it "to raise awareness".
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by jack9 9y ago
This looks like a lot of elitists trying to grab some notoriety for their niche projects. Inappropriate criticism by people who (quite obviously) want some credit for their time spent, rather bash a casual observer in lieu of that. His crim
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by jack9 9y ago
That has nothing to do with the ethical impetus. Plea deals are baked in to prevent procedural prosecution.
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> Your comments are full of hyperbole. If only that were true
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> The things that no human would possibly design are just silly. I would keep many of them on bookshelves. It's art when its only purpose is to visually stimulate a mind.
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by jack9 9y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/01/climate/china-energy-comp... I don't think so. There's not a lot of evidence "they" (meaning the CPC) are convinced of global consequence to stop. T
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by jack9 9y ago
The bait-sunk-cost approach = get em talking however you need to (including them asking what the hell you actually do) to tell you what they want and sell your solution as a possibility or the best approach. I hate this transparent attempt
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by jack9 9y ago
> Any discovery is useful information. I don't think that's true in the slightest. I had an original thought, which is effectively a discovery of something new. The time to transcribe and validate currently outweighs the value
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by jack9 9y ago
Is there a practical reason this is useful information? Increasingly large prime numbers will be found, so why is this valuable outside bottling up factorization work...for theoretical future division problems? Google has not been helpful.
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by jack9 9y ago
> the US has enough weapons to destroy the planet several times over I think that's very difficult to prove, because it's not true ( https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/ vs USSR Tsar Bomba 100Mt vs US B53 1.
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by jack9 9y ago
Holding up AOL One (Adap.tv rebranded) to represent modern digital advertising is like holding up IBM to represent modern Database design. It's bad context bordering on negligence. Adap developed their ad manager before the IAB produce
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by jack9 9y ago
> They really aren't They really are? The back and forth is tedious. The questions I have are, 1. What is the issue? (if multiple issues, start over one at a time please) 2. Once you decide the role of Government (which is still in
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by jack9 9y ago
Hard to analyze lots of brains of dead schizoids until we had a methodology to diagnose, permission to analyze them, and then looked closely enough. http://www.nature.com/mp/journal/v9/n7/full/400151
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by jack9 9y ago
Shouldn't everyone demand more before promoting ideas without any basis? ( https://vimeo.com/9270320 ) Even if it is just "tribal wisdom", is HN where you recruit a tribe from a vapor posting? I would hope you
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by jack9 9y ago
So no data, no examples, no anything. Full of such wisdom as "Testing isn't as important as it might seem but it's still important" The only thing actually articulated was "you don't need 100% test coverage&quo
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by jack9 9y ago
> Your sarcasm implies that you prefer His sarcasm does nothing of the sort, nor does his statement imply anything similar. I would really check that nerve he seemed to touch. The only interpretation is about the weakness of labeling law
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by jack9 9y ago
> the remedy for a conflict-of-interest is disclosure In what arena is disclosure a remedy for conflict of interest? Recusal is the remedy.
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by jack9 9y ago
> The second one just sounds like a crazy person. There are lots of crazy people, and gaming the courts is way many of them make a living, or garner attention, or just give themselves something to do when they are otherwise put together.
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by jack9 9y ago
> despite numerous respectable legal scholars informing him that you could never get in trouble for not using a person's preferred pronoun because of this bill. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnIAAkSNtqo As mention
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> I did not say that. > I said, if you're sympathize with Nazis, you're a Nazi sympathizer. If a human is wounded, I will render aid. This has nothing to do with ideological sympathy. There can be, and are, other motives. Ma
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by jack9 9y ago
> I think that people who are willing to sympathize with neo-Nazis because a domain registrar refused to process their registration should be considered as just a subset of "Nazi sympathizers," and their views treated according

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