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by jwatte 8y ago
The article starts out with a "correlation causes causation" argument, and the unsubstantiated claim that the biggest driver of inequality is banking regulation. Then it implies that business financing matters to the 50-90 percent
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by jwatte 8y ago
This is so true! It sounds like a caricature, but it really isn't.
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by jwatte 8y ago
You need to network. Unfortunately, networking means talking to a lot of people not like you, and giving a lot of yourself freely, which to a maker feels like both exploitation and a water of time. Gotta kiss 99 frogs, and suddenly, frog nu
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by jwatte 8y ago
What you want is snapcraft.io
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by jwatte 8y ago
Except, if you need to pay rent and put your kids through college, shipping source tarballs is going to significantly reduce revenue for a small developer. (It's sad, but it does.)
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by jwatte 8y ago
Chip, thanks for sharing! Could you have solved the same problem ("deploy apps with dependencies in a single file") using snaps? (snapcraft.io)
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by jwatte 8y ago
Reducing Union power probably counts as "stacking against workers," as does a minimum wage that is not enough to actually live on. But there are much deeper injustices. The zip code you're born in predicts future success bett
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by jwatte 8y ago
But why?
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by jwatte 8y ago
That's not new. Journalists aren't experts in any profession, that's always been the case.
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by jwatte 8y ago
It's only the claims that matter, but the claims typically draw on vocabulary and context established in the disclosure. Often, part of getting a patent granted is clarifying the disclosure such that the examiner can understand the ide
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by jwatte 8y ago
Or, one source of patent troll fodder.
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by jwatte 8y ago
Isn't there a new cathode material promising manyfold improvement announced about every three weeks or so? I'd like to see one of them actually deliver in new batteries. But instead, the 50% or so improvement we've seen over
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by jwatte 8y ago
As the pedant will note, neither Newton nor Heisenberg actually allow "non-invasive" power monitors. Your current sense transformer will draw some minute amount of power :-) Separately, you might be able to use a second transforme
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by jwatte 8y ago
I don't think this construction works, for the same reason that rationals are lower cardinality than reals. I e, I think your program proves the rationals, not the reals.
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by jwatte 8y ago
I think you're suggesting that "real" numbers are an abstraction that is convenient to model with, but aren't actually fully representable in the universe, because of Planck and Heisenberg and such? I would agree with th
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by jwatte 8y ago
Because no cabs were actually available at that price: they were all taken. When there is scarcity, there are three ways to solve it: - allocating to those who exchange (pay) most - allocating based on lottery - allocating based on nepotism
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by jwatte 8y ago
If it is ONE thing a free market actually does well, it's setting the right price for commodities based on people's wishes. And that ONE thing, the politicians think they can do better? I'm all for a supportive state, but reg
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by jwatte 8y ago
Yes. It's long been my belief that the actual sociopaths cannot be cured, and they need closed psychiatric care for life. For everyone else, places like prison just cost money and ruin lives that can totally be turned around much cheap
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by jwatte 8y ago
I think GA is great at pointing out models that are overfitted and/or undertrained (not enough perturbed input in training, for example.) However, everyone who says "this shows deep learning models can't work," or draw a
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by jwatte 8y ago
5y is about finding ways to prevent the conditions that let incidents happen, not just preventing incidents, tough. That's kind of the point of asking 5 why questions. "We fell over because we lost a database server and didn'
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by jwatte 8y ago
A good 5y is run after all immediate damage has been patched and triaged, and preparation for the 5y is gathering all the evidence needed for the various theories. 5y is expensive to do right. It means that organizations with lots of failur
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by jwatte 8y ago
This article feels very straw man to me. First, the 5y I've learned and run in the last 10 years takes pains to identify a fix or mitigation at each step - not just the root. In fact for small failures and big costs, the root cause is
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by jwatte 8y ago
What is "an attack?" You need to define this better to get more focused answers. Log monitoring is good for finding bad access patterns, but can't be trusted to find a problem as it happens. Look for repeated errors. Hitting
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by jwatte 8y ago
The #1 important need in math education is repetition. Repetition with understanding. If you don't internalize all the simple rules, you can't do it for yourself when you need to. Which side of the division line do you put each qu
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by jwatte 8y ago
My guess is the objection lies in "Have to manage the index myself." Also, the main draw-back of "indices as data" in NoSQL is when you need to add a new index -- suddenly, you have to scrub all your data and add it to t
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by jwatte 9y ago
Most Enterprise CRM like solutions store tables of customer-property-value instead of using one column per property. This leads to lots of unions in advanced queries, and makes filtering harder. Some databases even calculate column block st
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by jwatte 9y ago
Oh, look, another image format without support for stereo, cube layout, or MIP maps! I mean, it's not as if media is going 3D and VR right this moment (or even in the last few years) or anything...
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by jwatte 9y ago
With Bitcoin or ether, I can hold the currency on paper wallets without Central storage, and immediately spend it if needed. Not as easy with cash, and impossible with checking/credit accounts.
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by jwatte 9y ago
A fully public, fully transparent, immutable ledger is "useless?" Only if you don't believe in accountability and transparency. What with modern voice and face morphing technology, I'd expect major news organizations to
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by jwatte 9y ago
The Razer blades are more like MacBooks both in shape and in inability to upgrade the hardware. Much faster GPUs, though.

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