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by lstyls 10y ago
Point conceded, but it still doesn't take away from the broader point which is that the parent makes a false assertion: > David Moser also arguing that the Chinese writing system is objectively inferior
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by lstyls 10y ago
Pinyin Chinese is an international standard and keyboards would be basically unusable for writing Chinese characters without it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin .
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by lstyls 10y ago
Not sure if you're trolling or not, but I'll bite. Did you even read the article you linked to? The author makes so such argument. The point of the article is that it's extremely difficult for non-native speakers to learn wri
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by lstyls 10y ago
Yep! His native language is English I believe. I read this article as promoting phonetic languages. The entire premise of the article series is things that should never have been invented, so I don't think that's a leap here, even
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by lstyls 10y ago
Care to add anything to the conversation, or are you just here to stereotype?
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by lstyls 10y ago
Color me shocked that somehow the author found the alphabet of his native language to be superior. This article takes as a given some assumptions that I don't understand at all. China being resistant to change? There are few cohesive s
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by lstyls 10y ago
As an existence proof: the infamous apple "rounded corners" patent[0] that was granted in 2012 is based entirely on design merits. There is nothing in the patent about details of manufacture from what I can tell. IANAL. [0]: http
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by lstyls 10y ago
You're right about scale, but I think forgetting that the model training is on very different hardware than what production web and storage servers use. Unless the have the need for dedicated GPU hardware at scale paying by compute uni
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by lstyls 10y ago
This is a great analogy, but doesn't cover the set of recursive algorithms. It describes depth first search exactly.
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by lstyls 10y ago
I think you nailed it. I live in NYC and work too much, meaning I live and die by trading money for time. And every time I use instacart I regret it for the exact same reasons you describe. The idea of hooking into some kind of warehouse ma
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by lstyls 10y ago
Just realized that this is not even close to "like I'm five". Least bad thing I can come up with: It's math for lazy computers talking to each other.
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by lstyls 10y ago
What I got from this paper is that the authors are using a flavor of symbolic logic called "temporal logic" to formalize concepts fundamental to the event-driven programming paradigm. The notation seems to make intuitive sense as
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by lstyls 10y ago
I don't know those platforms, but Scuba doesn't support relational operations. It's not as much of a limitation as it sounds like because you can log your data in a denormalized way.
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by lstyls 10y ago
Scuba made decisive tradeoffs in the functionality that it provides. Notable ones include that it doesn't support joins within a table, and doesn't provide any cross-table operations. Mostly it is used for basic filtering on const
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by lstyls 10y ago
> simplifying the connections to all external add-ons The problem is that Apple did not simplify the connections. They unified them. The focus on a single hardware port is all well and good, but in this case it's just glossing ove
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by lstyls 10y ago
Did anyone else notice the test string at the bottom of the article?
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by lstyls 10y ago
I have TWC in Brooklyn and for a while was on the phone with Level 3 support often. Every time they had me use speedtest.net. So even their network engineers trust that site more than their in-house one.
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by lstyls 11y ago
A suicide or homicide will almost certainly trigger a post-mortem. In the US the quality of the process varies widely by state. Some states have medical examiners, who are appointed and generally expert clinicians. Other states have a coron
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by lstyls 11y ago
No, one would not be better off making these arguments in court. > Cannabis has demonstrated medicinal value, directly contradicting statute. Statue provides no evidence of, nor ability to verify, its claim that there is a lack of eviden
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by lstyls 11y ago
Facebook pays its bills via selling ads, which is not the same as selling data. Snapchat can do same - I'm sure they have plenty of resources to help them do this, and Twitter is an example of a company with a similar user base that ma
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by lstyls 11y ago
> The issue, like every other person with a company like this, is that if there is even a hint of commercialization, the users will jump to the next "cool" thing. Like what happened when Facebook monetized?
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by lstyls 11y ago
I'm surprised nobody has pointed out yet that the headline is mistaken - no code was stolen in this incident. It was hardware designs that were stolen, as the first line of the article states: >> "The Obama administration on
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by lstyls 11y ago
Agreed, without details for others to learn from this post seems little more than self-promotion.
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by lstyls 11y ago
Even if this was the case (this was poor wording in the original PATENTS which has since been fixed) you are only subject to these constraints in any code you provide that includes the source code. Since this is a shell tool, that is largel
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by lstyls 11y ago
I grew up in central MN, and I agree that strong support of public education is likely the driving factor.
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by lstyls 11y ago
I don't think there's a great opportunity there. Cloud storage is at this point a commodity product, so a new business would be differentiating entirely based on user experience and would be at a competitive disadvantage in storag
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by lstyls 12y ago
I don't know much about crypto. This is bad I assume?
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by lstyls 12y ago
I 100% agree that there has always been sensationalism in journalism - that's nothing new. But back then the volume of print media was limited by physical factors - it was expensive to get an article in print. The new economics of medi
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by lstyls 12y ago
I agree to a point, but would qualify this to the problem being unfettered capitalism in a vacuum of social investment. The growth in the knowledge economy has such a huge potential to level the playing field - but it can only do so if ther
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by lstyls 12y ago
Its so ironic that the author is a journalism professor. This article would make for a perfect Journalism 101 case study on cheap rhetorical tricks: appeal to anecdote, straw man, etc.

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