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by madez 9y ago
You are misusing the idea of evolution. Evolution requires a sufficient number of generations and individuals. I think both are not given in this context.
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by madez 9y ago
When you see a group singing in the street and you want to sing the song with them, do you first sign some legal documents or do you just sing? Copyright and patents have become a cancer.
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by madez 9y ago
> The really impressive feat will be an AI that uses the same sensory information to make decisions (and I really hope that's where the openai will head next) Impressive? Yes. Interesting? Not as much. We consider AI important not b
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by madez 9y ago
I never went to school or university to learn obsolete or unnecessary things. Math, starting from a certain point, is useless for most people, still it is required to be learnt. Math might be a good tool to measure how good a person can thi
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by madez 9y ago
I like having pictures in a text, and exactly where they are referenced. If an image is not necessary for the text, then leave it out, or put it into the annex.
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by madez 9y ago
It's not that I don't like narrative or couldn't appreciate opinion. But I want them seperated from the facts. If the title of the article promises interesting news and facts, then that is what I expect. When I want narrative
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by madez 9y ago
This is an interesting read. It is not intertwined with a story I have no interest in. It links to useful references. It has facts, not an opinion to share.
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by madez 9y ago
I use Debian and I do not like to manage the Debian system with Debian packages. I use Debian because it is the community-backed distro.
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by madez 9y ago
Yes, they do have to do with XMPP. Conversations had for some time encryption enabled by default, but they needed to disable it again. I think XMPP is doomed, because it doesn't enforce the things I listed, and I think it will never do
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by madez 9y ago
Conversations is substantially inferior to WhatsApp. No encryption by default. No sent and read receipt by default. User account and password hazzle. No audio chat. No video chat. XMPP just doesn't cut it.
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by madez 9y ago
But then why again did I get downvoted?
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by madez 9y ago
If we were talking about self-published articles, I'd agree, but we are not. We are talking about self-published journals. Under self-published journals I understand a journal brought out by the researchers or research organisatons. I
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by madez 9y ago
Are there genuine atomic clocks on the market for private computing?
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by madez 9y ago
Where I live the government does compete with private companies. It works good for the people.
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by madez 9y ago
The money for the research does not come from Elsevier nor the journals, at least not in Germany. If they could get rid of Elsevier and go open access, they would have more money for the science.
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by madez 9y ago
> Self-published, unknown journal gives me none of that. How can you know that? Edit: I don't know why I get the downvotes. My question might be naive, but its serious. I think it is not self-evident why an unkown self-published jou
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by madez 9y ago
What I think is even more frustrating is that OMEMO is not required by default. I try to communicate with a group of people without WhatsApp, but I'm not in a position to tell them each which options to check, and what to look for. Tha
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by madez 9y ago
I wouldn't say that your point necessarily offends anybody. My point is that it might be not clever to present it like that. One way to get rid of enemies is to befriend them.
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by madez 9y ago
Sure, I wasn't talking about the legality of burglary, but the legality of video record others on your ground, or house for that matter. If your house has a door, unallowed entry is automatically "Hausfriedensberuch" unless u
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by madez 9y ago
> Ask a Muslim which will change first: their gender, their skin color, or whether Mohammed was Allah's prophet. You are generalizing in a way that will create animosity. There are liberal people which identify as muslims. Even thou
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by madez 9y ago
According to police, all normal entries would need that warning. A windows is not a normal entry point. It is even enough to have a barricade tape around your land. What is important is that there is a visible border that indicates that cro
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by madez 9y ago
Courts in Germany do not generally agree that you can record somebody and use that that recording in court, because of "Recht am eigenen Bild". Even if a burglar enters your house, you may photograph him, but you cannot use that p
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by madez 9y ago
I wonder why you would need a right to do a certain thing. In a non-opressive country everything is allowed, unless forbidden. So one doesn't need a right, it just doesn't need to be forbidden. This little change in perspective me
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by madez 9y ago
I think it's bad to write "woman, or black man, or muslim'. Being a woman or a black man is something that is determined before birth. Your religious views are adopted after birth. That's why I think it is bad to speak o
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by madez 9y ago
An "alternative" is is not necessarily a factual alternative. I'd said if a solution has many users, the freedom of the users has priority.
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by madez 9y ago
Lastschrift works fine for me.
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by madez 9y ago
> for most the card fees are built into the prices that you pay even if you're paying cash. That is unfair, and not all businesses do that. I criticize it and prefer shops that don't.
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by madez 9y ago
I think iteration and recursion can be defined perfectly well. If people unconsciously create a more complex cycle, that might even be decomposable into distict smaller cycles, then thats still a perfectly fine recursion. A program can appl
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by madez 9y ago
They surely do cost money, but you pay it indirectly. Somebody first pays the fees and the card itself, and ultimately you are going to pay. There are alternatives that are cheaper and work just as fine. Thankfully not every country is alre
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by madez 9y ago
Why do you find it surprising? They cost money and provide little benefit (for me). Some vendors accept them but charge extra for it, which I consider fair.

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