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by mantap 7y ago
In the EU exactly that kind of gender discrimination is illegal. Insurers are not allowed to charge men more than women, just for being men. The question is, do you want to live in a society where prices are set based on one's genes. I
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by mantap 7y ago
A roulette wheel is not a sensible place to invest your money even if it does end up on black. Snapchat is a cautionary tale about investing in fads.
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by mantap 7y ago
Singapore is only dense in the vertical dimension, it's not dense in the horizontal dimensions.
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by mantap 7y ago
Why do they degrade so quickly? I also live in UK and replacing an entire roof is not a common thing to do, every 50 years sounds about right, my roof is 35 years old without any leaks.
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by mantap 7y ago
Just remember, you get what you pay for.
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by mantap 7y ago
That sounds simple to fix by checking whether the tab is playing audio.
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by mantap 7y ago
The answer is simply that yes Safari breaks websites, but users are happy to make that tradeoff. It's common knowledge among web developers that browsers aggressively throttle background tabs so anybody who is designing a website that
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by mantap 7y ago
If I understand his point correctly, it's not the calibration per se that is problematic, but whether the calibration means that it only performs for a small subspace of inputs, which raises the question how large is that subspace?
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by mantap 7y ago
Right but that's kind of the essence of machine translation. You won't always have high quality parallel training data for all languages so you have to find a way to thrive with low quality data. Google has clearly made it their m
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by mantap 7y ago
Absolutely this. Linear algebra has been the gift that has kept on giving since the 1800s underpinning everything from quantum mechanics to video games. Unlike most mathematics where you quickly hit a usefulness ceiling, the more linear alg
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by mantap 7y ago
VPN is just fine if you want to avoid dragnet surveillance, though choose a less popular one. If you are actually the target of a nation-state level adversary then yeah install Tails and use Tor but know that you're probably fucked.
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by mantap 7y ago
It looks useful but the lack of non-European languages makes me slightly suspicious, I wonder if their approach generalises to Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, etc.
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by mantap 7y ago
UK courts are fiercely independent and wouldn't be swayed by domestic or international pressure. There's zero chance the UK govt will prevent his extradition but he has a reasonably good chance the courts will stop it on human rig
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by mantap 7y ago
This isn't a serious proposal it's just incoherent ramblings of somebody who doesn't know what they are talking about.
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by mantap 7y ago
There were absolutely software design failures - to have two sensors but only read the value of one of them and to not even apply sanity checks to check the sensor is working (e.g. is the sensor saying that the aircraft is pointing towards
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by mantap 7y ago
He's joking. Self deprecating.
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by mantap 7y ago
Yeah it's not a puzzle at all. People in committed relationships have more sex than people who are having casual sex.
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by mantap 7y ago
Right because putting people in crippling debt when they fail out of college is going to improve civil rights.
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by mantap 7y ago
Eswatini is a diarchy where the King co-rules alongside his mother. A viable model for corporate America perhaps?
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by mantap 7y ago
It fails very rarely mostly if my hand is wet. Yes you can use the passcode and you are required to enter the passcode at lease once a week by design. But opportunity for shoulder surfing is reduced by a factor of hundreds since I probably
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by mantap 7y ago
I have an iPhone (fingerprints) and Android phone (password only). My adversary: my jealous girlfriend. I found it functionally impossible to secure the android against my girlfriend as she could watch me enter any code or password multiple
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by mantap 7y ago
Jokes are OK on HN as long as they are genuinely funny. Unfunny jokes tend to get downvoted. As most 'jokes' are not legitimately funny this system works well to keep a balance. I've been here 10 years and it hasn't beco
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by mantap 7y ago
Let's be honest nobody really cares about your opinions real name or not. The point of posting on the internet is to get something off your chest. You can also find a like-minded group of individuals on the internet who you can discuss
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by mantap 7y ago
Just don't use your real name. You can post any controversial opinion you like on the internet but don't tie it back to your real identity if you don't want real world consequences. The internet is still a massive improvement
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by mantap 7y ago
I wouldn't be so sure. If this deal passes the DUP could vote to make Corbyn PM. From their perspective Corbyn is preferable to what they see as de facto Irish unification.
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by mantap 7y ago
Yes but it would be a mere formality as they are already part of the EU. Especially for NI which would be joining an existing EU state, not getting independence.
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by mantap 7y ago
People said the same thing about IE6, then IE7, then IE8, then IE9, then IE10. At some point you have to pull the plug on your customers or they will bleed you to death with technical debt and wasted productivity.
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by mantap 7y ago
The plans were also dropped by conservatives. I seriously doubt Boris Johnson cares about banning pornography, he has a girlfriend 24 years his junior (not that there's anything wrong with that), he is about as far from vicar's da
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by mantap 7y ago
In the UK there is no requirement for adults to possess any kind of ID, let alone carry it around. The mere introduction of optional ID cards caused a huge shitstorm. There is no requirement for adults to register their whereabouts with the
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by mantap 7y ago
Dutch people have a very communal value system. Anglo saxon notions of freedom from government interference aren't a thing in their culture.

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