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by jdoliner 8y ago
The best things to look at are the gold difference (below the top bar) and the towers remaining (on either side of the top bar). But neither fully captures who's winning. Dota is remarkable for how possible comebacks are, so it's
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Cornell University did a similar thing one year, needless to say, they did not resolve it the same way.
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Sure seems like it would. A big part of DOTA balance these days is Icefrog (DOTA's BDFL) talking to pro players and about the meta-game and observing pro play to figure out what should change. Having pro-level AIs that you could just s
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by jdoliner 8y ago
I'm also very excited about what these bots can tell us about DOTA but I think a certain degree of skepticism is necessary due to the bots not actually having been trained truly tabula rasa. The training contained lots of little "
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C programs tend to call nil-pointer panics "segfaults" even though go runtime doesn't print the word "segfault" anywhere. I'm guilty of the same thing.
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I think I remember reading that the DoD deserves credit for the entire field of plastic surgery, it was originally pioneered to help soldiers who had suffered disfigurement in combat. Only later did it become something for civilian augmenta
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I was assuming there was some limitation on the amount you could get for free and that some addicts would want more than their allotment.
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What happens when people start claiming to be drug addicts so they can sell the free heroin to real drug addicts?
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by jdoliner 8y ago
Universal basic income is so 2017. Universal basic stash is clearly the way forward.
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Any idea how much NYTimes gets for this deal?
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I have no problem imagining absentmindedness of this sort. It's the deafness to the people around him that I find astonishing. Throughout the story anytime Aaronson was presented with a social interaction that would have allowed him to
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I think the amount stolen here probably precludes prosecution in most jurisdictions. But I have trouble believing that if it was a larger amount he'd be able to just say: "I was mistaken, I thought their money was my money."
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Yes... stealing money is a crime in the US. You're allowed to take from tip jars in England? That doesn't sound right to me. But I don't know much about English law.
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> he was presumed to be a hardened criminal and no attempt He was presumed to be a petty criminal by police because they're required to do so when someone reports a petty crime. And in this case they were correct in their presumptio
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> He went through a traumatic experience with aggressive, armed officers not knowing why. Talking to police officers for 5 minutes after you commit a crime is the cost of being part of society. It seems very reasonable to me and I wouldn
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The inability to see from anyone's perspective but his own is astonishing here. Starting with the title "Beyond fiction," the only part of this account that strikes me as fictional are Aaronson's explanation of why he di
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Yeah it's hard to see how Peter can reconcile: > Russ failed to convince the committee that it was necessary, and we therefore didn’t outright agree to modiying dep to leverage/enforce it. and > The community of contributors
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by jdoliner 8y ago
I'm not sure why this author thinks this is because of the way tech is covered and not just the way business in general, and particularly tech businesses work. Seems a very self centered view of the world.
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Pachyderm founder here. We're not really a data hosting provider, although we may offer that in the future. Right now Pachyderm is more like intranet data hosting for companies. You have to spin up your own Kubernetes cluster and deplo
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This actually seems just barely within the realm of possibility of something a privacy bulwark like Richard Stallman could support
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Adding my own anecdote: I cancelled Netflix a while ago, I hadn't been watching it for a while but assumed the rest of my family was. Eventually got around to asking them and it turned out they hadn't used it in a while either. Tu
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You've answered neither of my questions though, just given me reasons that this doesn't disprove your "active collaboration" claim. I don't think any of this does disprove it, but you claim that he "actively co
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> It's not; the issue is that a US Presidential campaign actively collaborated in an influence operation by a hostile foreign power directed against the US That's a bold claim given that this indictment is exclusively of Russia
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> This is horrible at scale. This can work fine at scale, Google does it with however many tens of thousands of engineers they have these days. Having everything in a monorepo doesn't solve the communication problem, it doesn't
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For this to actually give a bandwidth advantage I think the browser would have to be running on a server somewhere... so the browser has become the server.
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Follow this author's advice and a generation from now you may find yourself in a world where none of these virtuous labels have any meaning at all. That's the real hell right there, imagine a world not where everyone is dishonest,
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Tweets, which people seem to find horrific, but they do seem to come directly from leadership.
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Well, there are certainly some non-cynical reasons. But one obvious one is that if you sell 10 Million of your token to A16z I bet you won't have much trouble selling billions of your token to the masses. I'm sure A16z is perfectl
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I am definitely suffering from smush hype delirium, I won't even try to deny it. And I think your skepticism is well placed. I would be surprised (pleasantly) to see Nintendo offering anything close to Riot, Valve, Blizzard levels of s
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I don't think there's much need for you to be nervous. First I think Mario Kart is pretty safe, the competitive scene there is pretty negligible so I doubt Nintendo will prioritize them at all. For Smash, all the stuff they'r

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