lunula

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by lunula 10y ago
Even when you're not in your 20s anymore this problem continues. That said, I'm much happier to learn from someone directly about some event, or directly invite friends to do something. I want to spend time with people who are soc
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by lunula 10y ago
I think his point is that you may feel this way now, but in the long term it will become apparent that the balance is not in your favor. If it is in your favor, then all the closed source systems and social networks have miscalculated and a
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by lunula 10y ago
It really sounds like there is a need for more integration but of the democratic kind. A prime minister who screws things up at home should have no shot at being "elected" to a position in Brussels. This doesn't mean that the
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by lunula 10y ago
You should run the whole of Freebase, or really the biggest thing you can get your hands on. Hope you do. I'd love something that can comfortably handle billion order graphs!
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by lunula 10y ago
Do you have a link supporting the DNA damage and alcohol relationship? That's interesting. Lung cancers are particular in that they feature an incredible amount of somatic mutation. If I remember its at least 10x as much as the next hi
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by lunula 10y ago
A ray of light. MLPs can approximate any nonlinear function in the domain they have been trained on. What is is about the depth that makes DNNs more tractible to train than shallow networks? Is it that the particular tricks that have been d
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by lunula 10y ago
This could be rigorously studied. A group of people could attempt to plant false advertising opportunities in their speech and then measure the frequency at which related ads/posts arrive in their feed. I would trust something like thi
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by lunula 10y ago
If much of ice age human settlement was along coasts (as it is today) we would expect many if not most possible evidence of human settlement to be submerged. This could mean that we are underestimating the scale of human habitation of vario
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by lunula 10y ago
All the talk about encryption and privacy seems to ignore this basic point. Association can be dangerous and this does not protect people from exposing themselves in that way.
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by lunula 10y ago
Do you have a link describing how the E2E encryption in telegram been broken? For what its worth, the client code where all the encryption happens is open source. It'd be so nice if whatsapp would do the same.
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by lunula 10y ago
I'm not sure if the pendulum can swing any more in the direction of centralization. I expect genomic appliances that are disconnected from the internet to become common with advances in sequencing tech like nanopore sequencing. Imagine
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by lunula 10y ago
What's GRG? Do you have a link to the comment?
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by lunula 10y ago
Here the co-linearity is that of them being applied to the same body. Now, I think it is still useful. At the first you always have N of one, and obviously there is no control. We at least know you don't die right away when your WBCs a
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by lunula 10y ago
I am trying to understand the sentiment that leads to this perspective. Perhaps people abhor the inefficiency of democratic systems. Or maybe this is a sign of social decay.
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by lunula 11y ago
There are a lot of generalizations there. Do you have example of an audit showing that they have never misguided their users or represented their product and motivations?
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by lunula 11y ago
> There are huge benefits to having a new class of technically able, socially aware, financially successful, and highly energetic people like Mark Zuckerberg taking over functions and economic power from some of the staid, politically en
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by lunula 11y ago
This is written by substack, who is among the most prolific (if not the most prolific) contributors to npm. Node.js has benefitted from the power of standard packaging. It is really incredible how easy it is to work in that ecosystem. Provi
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by lunula 11y ago
I assume they do it because other people do it. Because Facebook, LinkedIn, whatsapp, twitter and instagram are supposed to make you cool. Why would you break your site usability this way just to remove the need to copy the URL when you pos
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by lunula 11y ago
On what grounds would you guess that walk be taken?
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by lunula 11y ago
The name "Scientist" is about as good as "Engineer" or "Programmer." In other words, extremely confusing when used as a product name in a technical domain!
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by lunula 11y ago
> I should spend some time partitioning the disk and installing Linux. That hour spent might save you twenty. But if you want the best experience you need a laptop that was certified for OEM Linux, like some of the Lenovo boxes. The user
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by lunula 11y ago
I don't know about Linux influencing Microsoft on the desktop, but surely it has lit it up on the server. You are 100% trolling by claiming 0.02% of PC folks use Linux. It is at least two orders of magnitude higher than that, and then
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by lunula 11y ago
You could do it with a rooted phone and adfree android, which is like adblock plus but rewrites /etc/hosts to route all ad serving domains to localhost. This one simple trick convinces even ad supported apps that they are offline,
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by lunula 11y ago
Obviously this is purely anecdotal. I have the same habits as the author with respect to light exposure regulation. I live in England and take an hour walk every day around noon regardless of weather. At night I avoid computers for about tw
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by lunula 11y ago
Fascinating. Where were you in school?
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by lunula 11y ago
Apparently we shouldn't mention this here because he said it when he was young and likely to say reprehensible things. But, has he ever apologized? I am discontent to watch the world lay power at his feet, and proud of Indians for stan
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by lunula 11y ago
It does seem that people in India are speaking up against this. Now you will quip that these activists must already have internet access, otherwise they would not even know to speak up. But the activists are at least from the same communiti
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by lunula 11y ago
Email is still p2p, but it is true that it gets harder to run your own server all the time. Reddit is mostly publicly accessible, and run like some kind of low-profit community-directed social benefit corporation. But... It is increasingly
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by lunula 11y ago
> Either way, it is better than No Access. I see this as a false dilemma. Internet access in India is already cheap enough to be near the cost of a phone over its effective lifetime. To quote the linked post: > Given that data package