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by jfoutz 9y ago
does that still apply? The stickers aren't a misunderstanding, they're illegal . You can't fine print away crimes.
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by jfoutz 9y ago
also, there's no hand balance on either of the composite symbols. := is my right pinky, <- is different fingers, but bottom and top row. neither exactly flows from the fingertips.
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by jfoutz 9y ago
I got in late, so i'm leaving early to make up for it.
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by jfoutz 9y ago
> Are you saying this is a regularly occurring event and that they deliberately did this? Nah. > Do you have any idea of the scale and complexity and risk of the code they have deployed? No. But apparently neither do they. > ... I
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by jfoutz 9y ago
I love this. This is the ultimate wisdom of crowds hack. Have a thousand people throw in a thousand bucks, each one selects an option play to purchase. Randomly select the purchase. If the play is profitable, keep the money. if it's a
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by jfoutz 9y ago
Yes, and that's a good scaling rule. the person with $50 dollars is likely clueless and stumbling around trying to figure out what the rules are. The person with $50 billion can do serious damage when they screw up. The rules in place
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by jfoutz 9y ago
I sneezed.
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by jfoutz 9y ago
So, if I’m following the cloud act, it sounds like I could find an officer (anywhere in the world) that needs $500 and in exchange get everything stored by Google and Facebook for a specific person. I have no need for such a thing. However
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by jfoutz 9y ago
oh yes. yes there are better ways to ingest nicotine. I, however, don't have the self control to avoid smoking a pack a day. If you're the kind of person that can handle small situational doses to improve whatever you're opti
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by jfoutz 9y ago
Three weeks no tobacco. Stepping down nicotine today. I don’t like vaping much. But it has made it much easier to ramp down. I still want a cigarette every once in a while, but I think that’s going to pass in the next month or two. At lea
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by jfoutz 9y ago
If i remember macroeconomics, a little bit of deflation can spiral out of control quickly. It's hard to guarantee it'll never go less than zero if they target exactly zero. So they shoot for a little bit over. Also a little bit of
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by jfoutz 9y ago
I know very little about learning, but it sounds sorta like multi armed bandit. Put a lot of emphasis on past success, rather than exploring. I would guess a really good tennis player would have a hard time getting good at squash, as oppose
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by jfoutz 9y ago
Stock price or seizure of documents? Not implicated in interfering with a French election? Stronger than ever!!! Called to testify before the House of Lords? Facebook is toast!
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by jfoutz 9y ago
I thought Uber had to have a human take over every 13 miles. It’s more like 10 miles of observation 300,000 times. Or rather an attentive human can be 50x better than average.
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by jfoutz 9y ago
I think knit cloth would do really well with small variations. If the target is form fitting, you want it to just touch everywhere. Knit is pretty tolerant of that.
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by jfoutz 9y ago
.1c is 7000 years. I don't think we know how to build much that lasts that long. machines or civilizations.
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by jfoutz 9y ago
IANAL. I had this talk with a lawyer friend a few weeks ago. I thought there was a way to show the design of the device is faulty - for example a speed gun at sunset reports inaccurate times. But it's a very high standard to get a cour
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by jfoutz 9y ago
> Oh, that's exactly what I want Hah. Existential quantifiers are hard. I’m not an electrician, and that’s who you should talk with. However, it’s way easier to just trip a breaker when the power goes out. The whole neighborhood is
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by jfoutz 9y ago
i have an expert that can explain various methods. Also, please release the device for the defenses inspection.
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by jfoutz 9y ago
If i understand the article correctly, it's illegal when you wire it to the grid. So, powertools and a battery will be fine. i suppose you could have a big switch outside your house that lets you pick local generation or grid generatio
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by jfoutz 9y ago
You're not allowed to use the electricity you generate. _All_ power you produce is sold to the utility at wholesale. _All_ power you consume is purchased from the utility at retail. Two separate meters.
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by jfoutz 9y ago
in case it's useful for anyone who has ever dealt with tagged pointers, - C: 'union' If you've ever dealt with an AST, a sum type is really a wonderful way to represent the nodes. In C you probably want some sort of &#x2
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by jfoutz 9y ago
I've got a $5000 sugar pill for you that will change your mind about that.
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by jfoutz 9y ago
On the flip side, most drugs don't actually do anything. Or have side effects that are worse than the thing they're trying to cure. sure, i'm on board with lowering the cost, but not at the expense of lowering the efficacy. I
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by jfoutz 9y ago
I don't understand why open textbooks aren't more common. Sure, some things are changing quickly, but a calc or linear algebra? Seems like a quality book (or a couple) could be made for lots of courses. Most schools have a print s
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by jfoutz 9y ago
Yeah, ~30 year projects were the longest i've ever worked on. Sometimes it's easier to read the docs about what the old programmers were trying to do - those telephone sized documents explaining requirements. if you're lucky,
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by jfoutz 9y ago
you could also just dust off the original specification. code up whatever it's supposed to do, then special case all of the junk that doesn't match.
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by jfoutz 9y ago
with a medieval diet.
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by jfoutz 9y ago
I think the gp is referring to something a little more general. Let's pretend for a moment that our minds can be modeled by a formal system. Every thought has a chain of axioms grounding it. So, the scary part is, Godel showed us there
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by jfoutz 9y ago
I disagree. The entire anti-vaccine movement is a good example in the medical profession. People refuse to hire lawyers. For any profession, i'm pretty sure i can find you a crackpot who is convinced they know more than the pros.

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