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721.
by mantap 7y ago
Remember that 7am in one place is not the same as 7am in another place. Time zones, latitude, seasons combine to cause big differences in what a time "means". For instance on the equator sunrise and sunset is very consistent and s
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by mantap 7y ago
I actually see it the other way around. This action to appease China is extremely cynical and they only reason they are emboldened to take it is because Blizzard have immense financial security. Most normal corporations would be way too sca
723.
by mantap 7y ago
IQ is a model. Models never perfectly match the thing they are modelling. In the case of IQ people seem to have forgotten whatever it was that they were trying to model in the first place and it has been promoted way beyond its station to t
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by mantap 7y ago
The point is the contrapositive: if your idea is not initially rejected, it's probably quite pedestrian.
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by mantap 7y ago
The highest score obtainable on an IQ test is achieved by realising it's complete nonsense to project the entirety of human intelligence onto a one dimensional value, and refusing to waste time on it.
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by mantap 7y ago
I don't think Tesla can claim credit for development of collision avoidance. They have been vocal proponents of it, but so have Volvo. Tesla just happened to start manufacturing mass market vehicles around the time of the ML revolution
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by mantap 7y ago
What kinds of accidents is autopilot going to prevent that automated accident avoidance cannot? Why does it have to drive the car to achieve the safety benefits? If you watch videos of autopilot preventing accidents on YouTube, it involves
728.
by mantap 7y ago
Pilots still have a lot to do, they must monitor the radios, the weather, fuel, etc. Since plenty of accidents have been caused by not paying attention to these things, I don't think you can say that having more time to do them is a
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by mantap 7y ago
If you live in the EU you could threaten them with GDPR, also you have a right to not have decisions made by algorithms without recourse. If you live in US you are pretty much fucked.
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by mantap 7y ago
I find it perfectly plausible that Google would suspend someone's account arbitrarily. Even if it's not true, it is a reminder that Google can and will suspend your account and fuck up your life because of some algorithm, and you
731.
by mantap 7y ago
In the UK coal is becoming obsolete, we use natural gas turbine generators instead. "Better than coal" is damning with faint praise.
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by mantap 7y ago
This is probably a good thing. Google is declaring war on adblockers, uBO is their first target but not their last. Tech savvy people are going to end up dumping Chrome en mass. Chrome has dominated the browser market by being so good, but
733.
by mantap 7y ago
I think you must not have watched the broadcast because they made pains to point out that 1) it wasn't valid conditions for a world record and why, 2) it wasn't a race, 3) they were doing it so that when he and others run their ne
734.
by mantap 7y ago
A device like google glass wouldn't be much heavier than their usual glasses.
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by mantap 7y ago
Much is said about the FAA's relationship with Boeing, but the failure of other worldwide authorities to question the FAA's line after the first crash was also a tragedy, because if they had been a little bit less deferential an
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by mantap 7y ago
I have many epiphanies on the toilet. I'm not sure if it's extra blood flowing to the brain or what but the throne seems to add extra IQ.
737.
by mantap 7y ago
Through practice and experience you can reduce the amount of time it takes to make routine actions and decisions. But the bottleneck is making good decisions about matters that are not routine, and every new project has plenty of those.
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by mantap 7y ago
I am using a slightly older version of MacOS on an older MacBook Pro and everything is perfect. My keyboard works. My OS works. My apps work. I have USB-A ports, even an SD card reader! Apple seems intent on driving the Mac off a cliff - bo
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by mantap 7y ago
There isn't really, you can hit 60fps on both, especially on current iPhones. The main thing missing on the web is an equivalent to Metal (they are working on it) so it is not possible to built 3D apps without sacrificing a lot of perf
740.
by mantap 7y ago
It really hard to get an app-like experience in iOS Safari. I don't know if they intentionally cripple it, but they certainly have no incentive to make it good.
741.
by mantap 7y ago
It's no surprise, he is a bear of very little brain.
742.
by mantap 7y ago
No, for instance you can perfectly describe the rules of Conway's Game of Life, and if you were an artificial intelligence living in the Game of Life you could presumably figure out the rules quite easily through experimentation. You w
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by mantap 7y ago
People do give a shit about Palestine in Muslim countries , to the extent that Israel is not recognised in those countries and/or Israelis are banned from entry. China risks making Hong Kong into what Palestine is to the Muslim world.
744.
by mantap 7y ago
If Hong Kong becomes a Palestine-style cause celebre it will be bad for China. China is trapped. They are stuck with this democratic appendix attached to a communist body. China can't keep Hong Kong under a democratic system as they ha
745.
by mantap 7y ago
You do realise this forum is run by a venture capital firm? If you're being downvoted it's not because HN is a communist stronghold.
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by mantap 7y ago
One time pads just push the problem to the random number generator (which has to be 100% perfect, free from correlations and bias). How exactly does one prove that their hardware RNG is uncorreleated? e.g. what you thought was RF noise coul
747.
by mantap 7y ago
Pretty much all layers of the American justice system are fucked, from the corrupt legislators, gamified prosecutors, bigoted juries and automaton judges. A normal justice system has multiple checks and balances to keep undeserving people o
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by mantap 7y ago
Conversely when both left and right are pushed towards extremes (compare this story to Trump), it becomes hard not to stigmatise both.
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by mantap 7y ago
Only if you have infinite memory. In theory there's no difference between folding left and folding right (if associative), in practice there is a right way and a wrong way.
750.
by mantap 7y ago
Can't you ask your bank branch to print a cheque for you?

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