jessewmc

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by jessewmc 8y ago
Reminds me of a project posted here a little while ago for exactly that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13552376
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by jessewmc 8y ago
I don't think the dark patterns are a surprise to anyone who has been paying attention. The machine maximizes input of human attention for the output of money. The only thing really surprising about Facebook is how consistently well th
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by jessewmc 8y ago
I'm struggling a bit with your second paragraph. I think there's something interesting here, but I'm not quite clear on your argument. Data is the opposite of the paradox of value, in that one person's data is completely
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by jessewmc 8y ago
TIL, thanks. That's a more prosaic answer than I was expecting but clever and makes sense.
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by jessewmc 8y ago
> using the latest GPUs and machine learning techniques I have no expertise in either graphics or machine learning, but is this just buzzword for its own sake, or is there actually any way that machine learning is applicable to a mathema
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by jessewmc 8y ago
In fact that's probably a useful way of looking at a lot of systems that may be broken or poorly optimized -- governments and corporations come to mind.
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by jessewmc 9y ago
I don't think you're responding to the point. The point is that speech--methods of communication--are being restricted here, which hurts legitimate users and does not prevent anyone from performing these heinous acts. The whole po
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by jessewmc 9y ago
I think you've just redefined 'deception' as things you don't like. How is it not deceptive to make a user wait longer than the task takes? (Perceived benefit aside) How is it not benevolent to make the progress bar smoo
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by jessewmc 9y ago
Over the last fifteen years there have been three times as many wingsuit deaths as freesolo deaths, for what its worth.
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by jessewmc 9y ago
That's an interesting hypothesis about the economies of home cooked food. I'm not so sure about your conclusion though. Certainly there is no way I could purchase equivalent food that I cook for even a vastly inflated accounting o
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by jessewmc 9y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER -- REMOTE OK, prefer Canada based (I am in Calgary) -- ruby on rails developer Looking for someone to take lead on a small, relatively simple rails app. I've done a bit of ground work, but looking for someone to driv
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by jessewmc 9y ago
Political issues aside, firefox is much less usable as a development tool than chrome. When quantum came out I switched to dev edition to try it out, but I've had nothing but trouble. Page loads of local unbuilt code are 2-3x slower th
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by jessewmc 9y ago
When you say you're going back to 'the good old way', out of curiosity, what do you mean? 'Unobtrusive' JS and ajax here and there, but primarily server rendered templates? Or something else?
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by jessewmc 9y ago
Just as a tangent, the term for this is 'hypergamy' and one can find more research and writing on it searching for that.
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by jessewmc 9y ago
Curious why you come to that conclusion? That study itself says the watches were within acceptable error for their purposes. Why would you need more accuracy than the roughly 2% error on the Apple Watch?
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by jessewmc 9y ago
I wonder if there is a technical reason for that or if they aren't ready for possible cannibalisation yet. I was really hoping it wouldn't require a phone at all.
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by jessewmc 9y ago
Would you not consider shadow profiles a form of imprisonment? Perhaps not quite as strong as voluntarily giving heaps of information, but still a rich source of data on people who do not use Facebook.
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by jessewmc 9y ago
I think that in any comprehensible time scale, accelerationism is an inevitable outcome rather than a desirable outcome. I can see a conscious set of lifeforms that would prefer to burn slowly and enjoy existence in a relatively sustainable
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by jessewmc 9y ago
I don't think the two are mutually exclusive. It is possible to be secular and still learn from religious texts and philosophy. In fact I think that is probably something to strive for. Perhaps I misread you, but it almost seems as if
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by jessewmc 9y ago
Also, use a guard on angle grinders! And keep it in between you and the work! A man was killed by an exploding cutting disk at a company I used to work at. Shrapnel lodged in his chest, he took the guard off to get at something more easily.
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by jessewmc 10y ago
A4s (and to a slightly lesser extent all other Audis) have been, up until very recently, among the most unreliable new vehicles for sale since the model's inception. Combine that with expensive Audi parts, expensive and zealous dealers
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by jessewmc 10y ago
It might be worth pointing out that if you're having trouble finding a console to play this on, refurbished Wii-Us are still an option for $200. https://store.nintendo.com/ I bought one since I wanted some party games
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by jessewmc 10y ago
The temperatures are very moderate in the winter, but the rain is bad. It can, and does, rain for multiple consecutive weeks in the winter. The lack of sun is even worse. It can have a very real effect on mood if you're from somewhere
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by jessewmc 10y ago
When the chiclet keyboards came out, I immediately liked typing on them and thought they were as good or better than any previous laptop keyboard. I ordered a 2016 Macbook Pro, but when I tried the keyboard out in store I didn't like i
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by jessewmc 10y ago
Tangent, but the Freudian id is usually rendered in all lowercase, and your meaning would be much clearer that way.
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by jessewmc 10y ago
Montreal? Very cheap to live, probably the most cultured city in Canada. I'll admit the job situation isn't great there but that's why it's cheap. Calgary and Edmonton both have top notch symphonies, the world class Albe
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by jessewmc 10y ago
Yet another perspective: From http://water.usgs.gov/edu/wateruse-total.html in 2010 306 billion gallons of fresh water per day used in the united states. Volume of Lake Superior is very roughly 3,000,000,000,000,000 g
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by jessewmc 10y ago
A real shame, but I'm honestly surprised it lasted so long after Oink. Being the largest private torrent tracker is having a big target on your back.
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by jessewmc 10y ago
Tangent: I found 1.4M to 1.7M employees for NHS on google. 64.1M people in the UK, 31.42M employed. 1.4M / 31.42M = 4.5% of the entire UK workforce works for NHS? Is this a normal distribution for a developed country?
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by jessewmc 10y ago
Ignorant question: If I manage to buy all outstanding shares, do I not own the underlying assets? If so, why are the assets valued separately from the shares?

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