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by linspace 5y ago
I think that in an advanced society people should be able to work with people that maybe think you are going to hell after you die for not worshipping the correct God. We don't discriminate based on religion, at least we shouldn't
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by linspace 5y ago
I couldn't care less about crypto mining and I think, right now at least, it's doing more harm than good. But I'm against putting artificial restrictions on general computing, whether or not I agree on the application. So, ye
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by linspace 5y ago
I have heard this multiple times and I would love some citations because although most of the reduction in life expectancy may come from death at child birth, for obvious mathematical reasons, I cannot believe wars, famine and disease don&#
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by linspace 5y ago
Small customers give more credibility, they cannot waste money and your product must deliver value.
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by linspace 5y ago
I think the very first you need to know is the market. Talk with colleagues, better if they recently moved, and ask for a little more. I think most of my friends know my salary, some earn more and some less, who cares? I'm not sure abo
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by linspace 5y ago
I would say Earth is harsher but we have plenty experience designing things to last here and crucially we don't have weight limitations
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by linspace 5y ago
The book that comes to my mind is the awesome "The Forever War", a classic.
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by linspace 5y ago
A common feature of older people. Time gives perspective. That, and not having to work I guess.
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by linspace 5y ago
I think there is this false stereotype of the DS obsessed with cool techniques and detached from the business. Most DS want their work to have impact, actually like most people. But successfully applying data science is hard. We have incred
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by linspace 5y ago
When I was younger I would systematically read all Linux man pages. I could give much more similar examples. That kind of excitement has vanished, but has been substituted with other things. I try to think longer term. What is limiting me?
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by linspace 5y ago
I don't know what happened to me, lately I'm becoming more and more fascist. I thought you should pay where you live but I apologize. Clearly not paying taxes was with the best intentions, for a better world.
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by linspace 5y ago
But why not move yourself?
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by linspace 5y ago
I don't believe ads are evil necessarily but the "nothing to hide" reasoning is simply wrong. I think most people opting out of tracking is because they feel manipulated. Isn't it the ultimate reason of marketing after a
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by linspace 5y ago
AFAIK there is Pypy that is much faster. Also, there is Numba. But the problem with Pypy is (was?) interoperability with existing C modules.
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by linspace 5y ago
There was a time when we gathered a group of friends to order books from Amazon (USA) to Spain to share shipping costs. We were students and waiting a month to save a few bucks was worthy. I'm buying less and less from Amazon recently.
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by linspace 5y ago
Running desktop applications inside a web browser is bonkers too. And the cloud. It's better to embrace the madness. I recommend watching Dr Strangelove.
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by linspace 5y ago
As an european I find the american legal system baffling. I do wonder if the sentiment is reciprocal. In particular everytime I see a movie about lawyers I think that something must be broken if there is a subgenre about "how the syste
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by linspace 5y ago
Lots of reasons. To start with it is positive for the bottom 5%. School is also not just about academic results but also integration and socialization. I think that ideally you would have one class and several teachers.
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by linspace 5y ago
I think the consensus is that it is better for the whole of society to make sure the bottom 5% makes it through that for the top 5% of the class to fulfill their potential. It's not that I don't understand what you are saying. I w
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by linspace 6y ago
> implicit declaration of variables This is so true. I really like Julia and I know that explicitly declaring variables would be detrimental to adoption but I prefer it to the alternative, which is this: https://docs.julialang
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by linspace 6y ago
We are very far from computers in specialized computations and as a matter of fact far even to some animals in particular tasks. What is general intelligence nevertheless? It's an ill defined concept, there are just results for specifi
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by linspace 6y ago
There has been already a singularity and we call it "humans". In what is a heartbeat in evolutionary time scales we have taken control of the whole planet and we are planning to travel to nearby ones. It's entirely possible t
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by linspace 6y ago
AI is more art than science, but still requires experience. We all know the same happens with SW engineering in general, otherwise we all know how spectacular failures can be, regardless of how much domain knowledge do you have. Unsurprisin
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by linspace 6y ago
I have time and time again debunked fake news sent to me by friends whom usually I would call intelligent, and kindly asked to next time do a minimum of fact checking. It's useless. It's depressing but people don't care about
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by linspace 6y ago
I would love an uncursed bluetooth
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by linspace 6y ago
I think there is a clear distinction. People have a right to live above insane persons freedom. TS people have a right to freedom above people's inconvenience to hear curse words. Law balances these kind of things all the time, that&#x
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by linspace 6y ago
You are right, actually not only for children. But also there is perfect synchronization between the first day of school and the first big traffic jam, at least where I live.
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by linspace 6y ago
Telcos must for example provide net neutrality and are usually not duopolies even on the same country, not to mention world wide. Are there any significant difference between them and app stores? Companies are not people, they don't ha
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by linspace 6y ago
I think that a compiler or interpreter using GPL does not affect you in the same way as a library.
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by linspace 6y ago
I was amazed the first time I used Mathematica. I have used later professionally Maxima to compute some Taylor series and also simpy for some hobby projects. I found simpy less powerful than Maxima (not to mention Mathematica) but the abili

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