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811.
by judk 12y ago
Someone here didn't like it. Article is deleted, replaced with a redirect to 'Bicameralism'
812.
by judk 12y ago
It depends of you look at it as a "bonus" for low-priced books (to drive volume fornimpulse purchases), or a penalty for high priced books. 35% seems higher than competiting publishers with major marketing power.
813.
by judk 12y ago
Can you debug a human brain? I can't. Is a human brain intelligent? I believe so.
814.
by judk 12y ago
Your criticism is fair, but you fail to explain how an NN or SVM is any worse than how a human mind actually operates. In other words, the incomprehensibility of a modern AI model is not a failing of AI, it is a failing of (AI) psychology a
815.
by judk 12y ago
MtGox customers surely ate not technical experts. Technical experts would hold their own wallet instead of handing it over to some guy in Japan who was publicly known to be unable of running a secure website, let alone a financial exchange.
816.
by judk 12y ago
And to close the point, the US Government doesn't go bankrupt, because they never actually get called out to show their accounts of (fake) money. Their new money is as good as the rest, meaning that their actions dilute all dollars equ
817.
by judk 12y ago
Which means it is illegal for a practitioner to read about this work, and it is best left ignored by the scientific and technical community
818.
by judk 12y ago
They are doing menial labor in China as well (being paid nearly nothing), And most of us here can't reattach rubber to a boot either.
819.
by judk 12y ago
This is also a hardware metaphor for the concept of "open source" software.
820.
by judk 12y ago
Anyone who can't find a pentalobe screwdriver will do more harm than good with an open case.
821.
by judk 12y ago
This adds an annoying complication and would need a significant customer base to be worth the effort.
822.
by judk 12y ago
The top quintile is a useless bucket. It includes the top 1% and top 0.01%, which are of a completely different character from the rest of the top quintile. Those who control vast wealth hide in the watered down average -- Bill Gates does n
823.
by judk 12y ago
Are there reliable independent audits of DeBeers conflict-free claims, or are they just lying about it-- another facet of their monopolistic jewel of a business? Ah, found it: KPCS only covers diamonds traded for weapons, it doesn't co
824.
by judk 12y ago
Destroying the diamond's ability be "prof of disposed funds" will be an unmitigated good for humankind. Only the louts in the diamond business will suffer, in proportion to how deeply they are tied to the vicious evil aspects
825.
by judk 12y ago
Sadly there are too many otherwise wonderful women who suffer from the "diamond dogma" just many suffer from the other great marketing campaigns, such as Christianity.
826.
by judk 12y ago
Your SO would never know the diamond's history if you didn't chose to share it.
827.
by judk 12y ago
What's scary is that in the age of worldwide information databases and machine learning, we rely on a Doctor's 20-year old intuition for choosing therapies. Patients should insist "Citation needed" for their doctor'
828.
by judk 12y ago
This analysis always misses the most important by far for non-yuppies: the housing mix for renting vs owning is very different. In my neighborhood, you can't rent a house, because everything is owner occupied. Rent vs Own is a boring q
829.
by judk 12y ago
Well, Central Park West maybe. You can get a nice small (Manhattan small -- a near-minimal studio) apartment for about $0.5M
830.
by judk 12y ago
The M-M theorem is one of those pretty void theorems that says "in the absence of all real world factors, two abstsct models are mathematically equivalent structures".
831.
by judk 12y ago
> rent spare rooms out, or use part of their home for a business. Renters do this too. they have strictly more options than owners.
832.
by judk 12y ago
Why does significant size matter? Reddit has thousands of subs where users can congregate on a per-interest basis, which adds up to a huge total yet feels relatively relatively more cozy
833.
by judk 12y ago
Reddit partually folds comments based on score, but yeah some JavaScript to be more aggressive at first (and auto expand if you want to go deeper into a thread) mightnhelp
834.
by judk 12y ago
Mods please fix flame bait title.
835.
by judk 12y ago
Or is the last D for "danger" ? Acronyms get ambiguous
836.
by judk 12y ago
Surely there are ways to set up paperwork to separate " FooBar Prodictions" from "FooBarXXX Productions"
837.
by judk 12y ago
Your TOS does not mention the word "adult". What was the problem and how do other adult entertainers avoid the problem. This is also an opportunity to take a stand and invite other payment processors to accept funds from legal ad
838.
by judk 12y ago
Lucky that the Chinese are capable of concern for more than one thing at once. You might enjoy pondering a moment on the connection between open source software and censorship, for example in an email client that encrypts sensitive messages
839.
by judk 12y ago
RMS's ideas don't quite square with Chinese law, and Chinese law doesn't take kindly to that sort of thing, which makes this interesting.
840.
by judk 12y ago
The user makes that assumption. Google offers and promotes Authenticator for users who want a secure connection.

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