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by maaku 11y ago
For me to consider your proposal you will have to explain California's high speed rail system which has been grossly warped from the original vision and promise by purely local interests.
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by maaku 11y ago
Isn't that what Ian said in TFA?
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by maaku 11y ago
Surely you have heard of public transit?
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by maaku 11y ago
Craft/vocational schools are a different type of college that should also be funded.
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by maaku 11y ago
Some would argue that we're finally at the place where most of the pieces necessary for strong AI are known, it's just a massive engineering challenge to put them all together. Like going to the moon in 1958, or nuclear energy in
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by maaku 11y ago
Self-driving cars reducing people-death. Pharmacies not giving out the wrong medicine. Doctors diagnosing the right disease in the first place.
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by maaku 11y ago
It may seem that way from the outside, but once you're actually involved with a leadership team at the top of such an organization, you realize it is 100% a human endeavor.
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by maaku 11y ago
> Roosevelt said 'not one war millionaire' from WWII and it's one of the things that made WWII legitimate and successful. WWII made a lot of millionaires. I suggest you re-evaluate what you've been led to believe rega
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by maaku 11y ago
You don't know what you're missing without a background in calculus. Calculus is the mathematics underlying human-scale physics, and therefore all of engineering, art, and design. It is the fundamental mathematical theory alongsid
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by maaku 11y ago
Removing the law of the excluded middle strengthens the underlying theory. It makes it constructivist...
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by maaku 11y ago
Elon's don't propagate through spacetime. They pull the frame of the universe I the opposite direction.
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by maaku 11y ago
So people with cultural ties never go to war?
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by maaku 11y ago
> Second, this is a batch of documents extracted from one place. It's safe to assume that all they reflect is the views of whoever gathered them. It's the confirmation bias, you know? The point though is that some of these docu
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by maaku 11y ago
Never heard of a prank call?
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by maaku 11y ago
(1) Gas is composed of particles that are not moving in the same direction. (2) Electromagnetic waves come from the movement of an electric charge. Even a single molecule falling into an event horizon is a moving charge (plasma) or dipole (
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by maaku 11y ago
Pretty much everyone is looking at eventual ASIC fabrication. It just takes a lot of money to do that, so people are validating ideas first on FPGAs.
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by maaku 11y ago
There are many other, equally if not more interesting implementations...
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by maaku 11y ago
Subject to many stipulations. One of them being that you are making regular payments...
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by maaku 11y ago
> Education department doesn't have any enforcement arm as far as I'm aware. The IRS will garnish wages for student loans.
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by maaku 11y ago
I was going to call you out on conflating TARP with QE, which bought Treasury bonds , but I now see that was just QE1. QE2 and 3 bought mortgage backed securities and bad bank debt. Disgusting.
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by maaku 11y ago
> Newfoundland is an island! I understand that there may be an implicit assumption that they most likely had to touch the continent before getting there but this isn't neither a fact (only a speculation) nor "much further into
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by maaku 11y ago
Tax records.
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by maaku 11y ago
It'll change if/when you have kids. You'll probably have a half-dozen calls a day coordinating things. And having a high quality connection for those calls is really important.
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by maaku 11y ago
Uh, using what hardware? The 980 Ti is about 11 TFLOP in half-precision (apples to apples). So 16x 980 Ti cards would take up twice as much rack space for $11k. Your estimate (and NVIDIA's pricing) is off by more than an order of magni
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by maaku 11y ago
> I have two kids - I call them the enemies of entrepreneurs Wow. Someone who thinks like that just shouldn't have kids.
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by maaku 11y ago
People are working on that, and it might take less time than you think: http://riscv.org/
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by maaku 11y ago
RISC-V protected mode is still being worked out.
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by maaku 11y ago
I think you missed an Office Space reference.
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by maaku 11y ago
People would be more sympathetic if peer reviewers were actually paid for what they do.
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by maaku 11y ago
I am confused by the entire premise of this piece. That agile is some sort of developer-empowering methodology of the people is entirely a new concept to me, and I have run multiple agile and waterfall projects. Agile is a bottom-up strateg

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