jkyle

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by jkyle 11y ago
Microaggression is, by definition, to casually denigrate others by repeating or affirming stereotypes for the purpose of discounting contributions or establishing the dominate class as normal and the minority class as aberrant or pathologic
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by jkyle 11y ago
The answer to the begged question of the New York key escrow example is that it is impossible to guarantee a backdoor is 100% secured and only accessible by the intended users. I'm not sure the camera analogy will carry weight. It soun
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by jkyle 11y ago
> so the publisher can recoup its costs. Given that peers review a paper for free and it costs fractions of a penny to host a pdf, why should we care about the publishers? What value do they ultimately bring to the table? We should be r
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by jkyle 11y ago
Looks good in desktop browsers.
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by jkyle 11y ago
> You don't pay annual fees for your credit cards? Nope. Actually, they pay me at a rate of 1-5% cash back on all purchases made on the card.
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by jkyle 11y ago
> Personally, the idea of going into dept for private consumption is completely foreign to me and most people I know, so the idea of a credit card is very unappealing. Though I know many don't follow this rule, I never purchase anyt
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by jkyle 11y ago
I don't think these companies ever considered Bitcoin as serious currency. More likely it's more about publicity and maintaining an image of being on the techno hipster edge.
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by jkyle 11y ago
> I suspect not enough of these people who got rich by holding bitcoins were using their bitcoins to justify having it as a payment method in the Microsoft store. That's the problem with fixed, deflationary currencies....no one want
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by jkyle 11y ago
Honest question. Why not get a credit card? They don't cost anything and would open up a new market for you.
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by jkyle 11y ago
Sure, but I don't consider most of those life altering events. The new safety features on my current car, like collision detection and dynamic cruise control, have certainly changed the way I drive and so altered my life in a small way
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by jkyle 11y ago
You don't have to get a Titan X to get to work. People were doing good GPU work prior to 2015 and Titan's didn't even exist then. You can get the 980 Ti w/ 6GB of ram for $600 and some change. And if that's too much
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by jkyle 11y ago
Considering I write exactly 0 lines of any sort of web based code on my median day it hasn't altered my life at all.
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by jkyle 11y ago
This does come up a lot. But I think it's more telling if a programmer knows how to profile his program and find the performance bottlenecks, recognize them for what they are, then fix them appropriately than if they can recall a speci
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by jkyle 11y ago
I'm probably jumping into shark filled waters considering the point of the article is that defining p-values intelligibly is incredibly difficult even for experts, but here goes.... > Is the p-value really not the probability of you
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by jkyle 11y ago
While I find security fascinating I would not consider myself expert in the low level implementation details or hard limitations of these specific systems. Perhaps someone more knowledgable could clarify, but.... Isn't the entire point
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by jkyle 11y ago
I'm not sure either, perhaps the sense of duty, training, having your job rest on being cool headed, and being constantly observed. But I agree, I've had normal, every day people you'd see in the coffee shop line try to murde
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by jkyle 11y ago
Busses here have been natural gas for a while.[1] We don't have many lorries here, mostly very large 18 wheelers and local deliver trucks...I count the delivery trucks amongst the regular car drivers. I wouldn't say they're m
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by jkyle 11y ago
I've been cycling as a primary mode of travel for about 10 years now in LA and in the Mountain View area. So pretty broad depth of experience from bat shit insane metro traffic to the bucolic in comparison suburban commuting. Car drive
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by jkyle 11y ago
It's a Glass Bead Game. [1] One of my favorites. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Glass_Bead_Game
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by jkyle 11y ago
> Sure, but then the city better start spending some billions to improve the infrastructure and public transportation Now you're onto the crux of the issue. People, generally, don't want to commute more than 30m each way. The f
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by jkyle 11y ago
Most severely mentally ill are not violent nor a danger to anyone, except perhaps themselves through neglect. > A widespread belief that the afflicted are violent contributes to the stigma of mental illness and as such may interfere with
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by jkyle 11y ago
It's sort of the Raison d'être of the wall in the first place...
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by jkyle 11y ago
> A CS student who knows Java (4+ years of experience) is going to turn out very different programs from a 20 year veteran of Erlang who is just learning Java. Perhaps. But I would take contention with a CS student claiming 4+ years &quo
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by jkyle 11y ago
To pay off a town house in my area in 10 years, you'd have to carry a $10,000 monthly note.
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by jkyle 11y ago
Rent is a tax on the poor by the rich.
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by jkyle 11y ago
> I expect a programmer to be able to pick up a new language or database within a couple of weeks (tops) in most cases. They may be able to hack around, write a for loop, track down a bug....but you're not going to get the same cal
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by jkyle 11y ago
I may be in a unique position in commenting on this phenomena. I graduated from a well regarded university as a undergraduate (too man) years ago and have been working in industry for approximately 12 years or so. As my career evolved, I re
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Journal Editors to Researchers: Show Everyone Your Clinical Data(npr.org)
2 points by jkyle 11y ago|0 comments
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by jkyle 11y ago
My tongue was firmly in cheek.
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by jkyle 11y ago
Done. [1] 1. http://www.google.co.ug/patents/EP0881577A2?cl=fi

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