kartan

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by kartan 10y ago
> Fresh ideas tend to pay off big in Sweden, even as the current government is less business-friendly and has imposed labor taxes that could crimp business investment Maybe it is that high taxes and citizen friendly social system the res
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by kartan 10y ago
Yes. And as such it has obvious artistic value, as images look better. But I can see that people can misuse them CSI style. You can add more detail to an image, but it is mainly an artistic interpretation that is not the real original image
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by kartan 10y ago
I see your point. But it is like if you say that if someone is shot while buying healthy food is good in a way, because he was shopping healthy food. Not false, but worth a deeper discussion. ;)
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by kartan 10y ago
I prefer to know. If intelligence agencies are collecting data of citizens without their knowledge, how can they protest it? What was noteworthy about Edward Snowden leak was the confirmation of the data collection. He made public something
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by kartan 10y ago
> It was really really difficult. I think that this was easier explained in "The Selfish Gene". Individual altruism is an emergent characteristic of a selfish gene. I risk my live 10 times to save others until I die without off
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by kartan 10y ago
They also present their car service as "car sharing", but it is just another taxi service. So you don't share your care, but just go where the client tells you to go whenever you want to go there or not.
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by kartan 10y ago
> Earlier in the week one of the cars was filmed jumping a red light, an incident Uber blamed on human error. Usually the definition of human error is related to an action of override from part of a human over the normal actions of a mac
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by kartan 10y ago
> And they'd like to have a minimum of screening so that they don't have to deal with people with severe mental issues on the way to work. For me this is a big social issue, and it is only slightly related with public transport
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by kartan 10y ago
> If you do something newsworthy enough to make it into a newspaper, I can go find out what you did The goal of the law is to be able to remove your drunk picture from 5 years ago from the engine results so a prospective employer will no
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by kartan 10y ago
> The rebuttal is that it is an interaction between skills and environment That's the main point. It is not. You need society: > Suppose any rich man wakes up in the Amazon jungle with nothing to his name, no clothes and no mon
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by kartan 10y ago
I asked one time to my teammates why we had test. They just didn't answer. For them it was just a dogmatic approach. That doesn't means that you should not have them. But you at least should be able to answer that question to be a
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> my wife and I do not rest easy until we either pick him up or he gets dropped home. That fears are completely normal. Been able to track your kids not so much. Please, think twice before using a technology that you don't know whic
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by kartan 10y ago
> and calling it C++ We used to call it C+. It was code that could not be compiled by a C compiler. But at the same time was painfully obvious that it was not proper C++.
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by kartan 10y ago
I will say that if the system scales well horizontally the important metric is how many resources you need to achieve that amount of transactions. If they used 70 4-core m3.xlarge that means that they can attend 114 transactions/second
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by kartan 10y ago
It all depends how much politics are involved, or how much public workers can freely do their jobs: https://www.nasa.gov/ http://www.darpa.mil/ And is Healthcare.gov developed by the government or just boug
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by kartan 10y ago
> If they get any narrower there wouldnt be any room for cars. Relevant: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-36791485 "A spokesman said the project would contribute to the mayor's aim of improving ai
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by kartan 10y ago
> such as protesting against binary gendering on toilets > So if I support binary gendering on toilets, I'm not welcome at Google? Why do you think that allowing employees to protest male and female only toilets means that you ar
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by kartan 10y ago
> One monkey says to a group of other monkeys, A monkey can live for himself, in a modern society no human is an island. You need extremely complex systems on place: Communications, education, law, law enforcement, infrastructures, etc.
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by kartan 10y ago
> They are culturally anti-business and anti-entrepreneurial. http://www.technologist.eu/sweden-the-land-of-unicorns/ Neo-liberalism has gone too far. Anything that limits the company power to do everything is seen
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by kartan 10y ago
> b) constantly subsidise a system that will keep on losing money If you take into account the total cost of car ownership you will see that also is heavily subsidized. From car production to roads, parking spaces, oil production... if t
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by kartan 10y ago
> "* It’s much better to read the best book on the topic 5 times, than to read 5 different books on the topic once." I agree that it is expressed in a too strong way for me. I will probably say that it is better to read twice t
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by kartan 10y ago
> People trusted each others and the state. All that seems to be disappearing. I completely agree on that. Why is where we look at different measures. A lot of hard working people is seeing their income disappear. You can blame Wealth In
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> This flurry of stories about 'fake news' looks more like a coordinated media nariatve then anything else. I have seen this fake news first hand. I live in Sweden and time to time my friends contact me to ask me how bad is her
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by kartan 10y ago
> I'm surprised they aren't split testing the reward frequencies Of course this is done. It is just slower than in the web as other people has pointed out you can't change things on the fly. I worked for the gambling indus
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by kartan 10y ago
I really like that video. Dehumanizing Trump supporters is as bad as dehumanizing any other group. The answer is good reasoned discussions instead of harsh out of place answers. Playing nice has its reward in the long term.
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by kartan 10y ago
> Unfortunately almost all his inventions were for entertainment value only. I read somewhere that one of the problems in antiquity to develop useful machines was the abundance of slave/captive labor. Why do you want to create a com
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by kartan 10y ago
This technique is akin to hire an artists to draw a high resolution version of your pixelated photos. A good example of this is "They Of The Tentacle Remastered" ( http://dott.doublefine.com/ ). The new game looks e
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by kartan 10y ago
> the increase in innovation only healthy competition can bring I think that you misspelled collaboration. And private research is not always positive: http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/insight/public-research-pri..
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by kartan 10y ago
> If you remove the incentive to avoid, it'll be less worthwhile to avoid Taxes are needed to pay for hospitals, teachers, firefighters... what happens if the amount that the 1% think is fine doesn't cover for that expenses? Th
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by kartan 10y ago
> "Remember when cancer was a thing people had to worry about?" As bacterial resistance to our antibiotics is growing we could get to this point where some one will say "I was really worried that it could have been an infe

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