josinalvo

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by josinalvo 9y ago
In calm seriousness: Can sb compare the technical feats and the scope of the data collection by the obama campaign and the trump campaign?
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by josinalvo 9y ago
this. it is easier and more intuitive to have a telegram family group than facebook. The interface is cleaner, the messages are clearer. Your aunts and uncles will (might?) thank you
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by josinalvo 9y ago
> I somewhat recently learned about the propaganda from the FBI in the 60's and 70's to discourage hitchhiking. Would love to read more about that... Got anything trustworthy?
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by josinalvo 9y ago
They are also probably considering a number of indirect jobs (say, waiter at a restaurant near their campus) so that 6% figure is incorrect
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by josinalvo 9y ago
> unless you actually think anybody wants the kind of job which is so tiresome it can be done with a machine instead. Journalists are probably gonna be automated. Truck drivers as well. I bet those two categories are not of people who c
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by josinalvo 9y ago
Not one word about automation? We're frequently automating away jobs, in a way that makes capital more productive and shifts the balance of power from worker to capital. It is unclear that the gains in productivity we might ca
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The race to erase Kevin Spacey(nytimes.com)
1 points by josinalvo 9y ago|0 comments
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by josinalvo 9y ago
Fully aggree. In fact, I'd go further: having an engeneering mindset is necessary but not suficient for good leadership
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by josinalvo 9y ago
Very well,then. Lets try to fix that: put a limit on the expenses a candidate can incur in his candidacy.
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by josinalvo 9y ago
Afaik, some of this is possible on a rooted android phone: it is possible, for example, to cut off an application from real GPS data, and instead feed it fake data.
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by josinalvo 9y ago
> I agree that the study of history is [a] method [...] for recognizing the errors which produced those enormities, in order to avoid repeating them. Why? Do we have any evidence for that it helps at all? Here's what I find weird: w
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by josinalvo 9y ago
Would you share those studies? Seems intuitive that there is a minimum threshold of confort for political participation
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by josinalvo 9y ago
I allways wondered why soylent bothered with micronutrients... Isn't it much easier and safer to just find the right mix of carbs/fats/protein and take a vitamin pill? I recall hearing of the soylent creator having somewhat s
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by josinalvo 9y ago
Disaster recovery like recovering servers from crashes/recovering 'lost' databases?
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by josinalvo 9y ago
You got hit by teamliquid's anti hotlinking filter
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by josinalvo 9y ago
> I’ve certainly used both of them a lot, but I simply haven’t read all of them because I use them more as reference texts. If I may ask, what is your line of work? If it requires reading heavy algorithms stuff, it is probably an interes
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by josinalvo 9y ago
> I generally go to Knuth when I'm really stuck--not just how to do something but sometimes how to frame the problem so it can be solved. If I may ask, what do you work in that requires reading heavy algorithms stuff? (sounds like
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by josinalvo 9y ago
Any good/recommended performances available online? Allways heard about the play, but never saw it.
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by josinalvo 9y ago
> https://duck.co/help/results/sources "We also of course have more traditional links in the search results, which we source from Bing, Yahoo, and Yandex." I thought they where re-implementing search.
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by josinalvo 9y ago
Does anyone know how to extrach the raw data list from the site? There are quite a few numbers there that I'd like to know...
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by josinalvo 9y ago
And we just need 140 years to extract it! :P
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by josinalvo 9y ago
I am very interested in the answer key for this homework... In all seriousness, I'd love a breakdown, and references for further study (on how to read medical papers, or scientific papers in general)
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by josinalvo 9y ago
> this "math" of yours (this is a joke, but the point is reasonable)
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by josinalvo 9y ago
The argument is that we should not reward terrorism or further incentivise it. If you want to discuss this "math" of yours, bring it from a source that does not amplify the signal by killing people.
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by josinalvo 9y ago
> for operating expenses that raises some eyebrows :P Why this qualifier? What do they receive tax dollars for?
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by josinalvo 9y ago
Does anyone know if the project releases all its assets in one license?
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by josinalvo 9y ago
For Me the point is not to get rid of ads. To be frank I already adblock them. I just consider can I use a part of Internet infrastructure, and want to reward its creator and maintainer
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Caniuse.com has a underfunded patreon
6 points by josinalvo 9y ago|2 comments
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by josinalvo 9y ago
I don't, but I bet you can find it if you ask to "stack overflow movies". link: https://movies.stackexchange.com/
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by josinalvo 9y ago
It is funny, how we started to use comparisons to mean just adjectives. E.g., 'like no other' -> 'really good'. Funny, and semantics breaking. How could we write a title that just said 'the book is really good&

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