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by larksimian 9y ago
3) You're giving them things that cost you nothing to produce which they can then sell for money. I actually think this was a bit of an aha moment for me re: cryptocurrency and government. It's possible for a government to setup a
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by larksimian 9y ago
The lignin/rot delayed evolution hypothesis is just wrong. There were molds that could digest lignin in that period. Furthermore, most of the plant mass didn't depend on lignin. See http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.c
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by larksimian 9y ago
It's been looked into quite a bit in relation to parole hearings in the US which use computer generated scores to advise the parole committees. https://www.propublica.org/article/bias-in-criminal-risk-sco... http
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by larksimian 9y ago
See the top comment in this issue for my setup: https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/29688 Until the fix is released for Rails(the issue is resolved, but I don't think it's published to rubygems) y
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by larksimian 9y ago
Sample size is too small to tell. However, if you ignore that, Tesla's Autopilot is at least 2-3 times worse than the average human in a passenger vehicle. And it only gets worse if you restrict further to middle aged people in expensi
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by larksimian 9y ago
I believe chromedriver 2.30(or maybe an earlier version) fixes these issues. Certainly it is possible to pass chromeOptions: { args: %w[headless disable-gpu window-size=1920x1080] } to the capabilities object and that works. Screenshots als
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by larksimian 10y ago
Mathematics is based on logical deduction. You start with a set of rules and you prove additional rules. Science is based on (lots of things but primarily) empirical induction. You observe some phenomena, decide that they are of the same ty
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by larksimian 10y ago
It's speculated that Pi is a normal number[1]. If it is in fact normal, then I believe the answer is yes. However determining whether a number is normal or not is an unresolved problem according to Wolfram, so the answer is a solid may
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by larksimian 10y ago
But pride did help Butch in Pulp Fiction. He got to win the fight, keep his pride and keep the money(or even bet the other way and make bank? can't recall now). Personally, I agree with your point of view. There is, however, something
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by larksimian 10y ago
If you are retired then in order to cover expenses every month you either a) sell assets b) receive payments from assets. If you are invested in an index fund and the market nose dives for 20 months you don't have the luxury to wait un
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by larksimian 10y ago
As others have commented, the author doesn't seem to understand that computers as Information Processors is also a metaphor. Computers just shuffle electric signals around according to the properties of their circuits. Software is just
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by larksimian 10y ago
My suggestion is to go through some full-stack tutorials. Vary them up to learn how workflows with different library combinations/boilerplates feel for you. For React my quick and dirty intro a few months ago involved: http:/&#x2
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by larksimian 11y ago
Liked the article but it produced a weird dissonance in me. On the one hand I totally empathized with his frustration/excitement at building a cool bit of software for himself. On the other hand I've never had problems managing my
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by larksimian 12y ago
He's verifying his ability to use the terminology of science to justify and legitimate his personal biases about other human beings and the way the world works. Limited sets of data aka personal anecdotes. The plural of anecdote and al
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by larksimian 12y ago
Card value calculation should look not just at mana but also at the card itself as a cost. Something like Wisp might be great value/mana but it's appalling value/card. That's just obvious and simply to fix. Keep in mind
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by larksimian 12y ago
I like the idea of the app, however I can't seem to figure out how do send in a nested JSON object in my request body such as {user:{email:"b@s.c", password:"password", password_confirmation:"password"}}.
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by larksimian 12y ago
At the micro level I agree with Caplan: if you do poorly in high school you probably don't enjoy the academic mode of skill acquisition and your ability to gain from more academic instruction is limited. There are other ways to learn.
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by larksimian 13y ago
tldr: Gaming is like calorie free sweetener, a job is like a (sometimes bland) hunk of roasted meat. If you focus exclusively on 'fake' achievements you might quite literally end up starving. What job would you like to have? What
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by larksimian 13y ago
tldr: gamify your development process and jobify your gaming process. Get good feedback loops going for your programming so you can track progress. Count how much money you are earning for every hour of gaming. Why is gaming more fun than p
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by larksimian 13y ago
Statement 1 is tautologically true.
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by larksimian 13y ago
Initial load seems to be really slow. Takes 5-10 seconds the first time I load the site, though afterwards navigation is snappy. Serving a cached list of articles immediately and updating it after the initial load has happened would make fo
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by larksimian 13y ago
Why use ssl for a fully static site?
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by larksimian 13y ago
Quite frankly not showing me rapgenius results when that's one of the search terms is idiotic. I guess now I have to remember to go straight to their site whenever I'm looking up lyrics. I'm glad I at least know about them an
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by larksimian 13y ago
Playing AAA titles might be difficult if they're badly optimised/don't have low graphics options. Others, like Skyrim, can run on an 2011 Macbook Air if you put the settings to low(though it leaves you with a surprisingly bor
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by larksimian 13y ago
The article's philosophical wankery was way too pragmatic. Random vs deterministic is a spectrum, anyway. Given enough information about the state of the machine doing the random picking/number generation all computer algorithms a
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by larksimian 13y ago
Of all the reasons offered for it I only ever really saw one as legitimate(ish): making it easier for robots to parse your site, whether it's google bot or screen readers for the visually impaired. I think it was a reaction to monolith
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by larksimian 13y ago
I'm guessing considerably more than half the class finds itself wanting to give up on you.
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by larksimian 13y ago
Picking takes time. It might be a small trade-off or you might be able to pay the cost only once by building up a habit of standardizing your variable names but still.
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by larksimian 13y ago
Nuke their conventional forces. They're coming by sea, right? Here, let's be hyper-paranoid and hang on to the drones and about half of the Air Force. It's still more than enough to wipe out any aggressive force before it can
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by larksimian 13y ago
You could probably wipe the whole US military excepting the nuclear program and not have to worry about anything except an internal coup d'etat/assassination spree initiated by the mostly useless contractors/generals that get

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