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by maym86 8y ago
The point is that doesn't matter or help someone dealing with some unfortunate issue today. It's true but useless information to them coming from someone who doesn't have to deal with it.
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I'm not saying he's wrong by the measures he uses. I'm saying he has the privilege of being able to look at things from a perspective which people who are not so well off do not. I doubt many people dealing with specific issu
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by maym86 8y ago
I'm not saying he's wrong by the measures he uses. I'm saying he has the privilege of being able to look at things from a perspective which people who are not so well off do not.
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To me argument always just seems like someone from a position of privlidge explaining why we shouldn't be too worried about all the people in shitty opressive circumstances. Great, things on average are getting better, but try telling
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What's that got to do with modern workplace sexual harassment.
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No, the dumping part is valid. Free OS with free services to kill competition.
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by maym86 8y ago
Yep actually I retact part of my original comment. Thanks for the correction. The dumping part is still valid because any OS that isn't free and relies on licencing can't complete with an OS that makes it money from a secondary bu
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It's a bad thing. They're actively avoiding tax and hiding profits. It's not accidental and it's not all because they are reinvesting. They have decided that they shouldn't contribute to things that don't direc
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by maym86 8y ago
The romantic notion of a functioning free market where the largest corporations aren't subsidized by the tax payer and lobbying the government for tax breaks? The romantic notion that corporations can be used to run social services mor
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by maym86 8y ago
> It would still make a lot of money without all of that, though. Exactly. They can afford to pay taxes. > Amazon to turn all of that down so they could make less money you are fucking kidding yourself. Do you think the government&#x2
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by maym86 8y ago
Instead of worrying about whether school lunches or libraries should be prioritized let's focus on getting Amazon to pay its fair share in taxes so we can have both. In Alameda county we recently had a vote to raise taxes to fund libra
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by maym86 8y ago
I'm sick of people going after things they don't use or understand that are valuable to people of lesser means while spewing the efficiencies of the free market. Amazon only makes as much money as it does because it manages to avo
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by maym86 8y ago
You edited and added it after I had responded to your original post which didn't have the second sentence.
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> If laws protect people. more laws = better? What is the downside of passing any law? No this is a question about a specific law. Making it a general point about all laws is disingenuous. Why do anything ever?
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by maym86 8y ago
Can someone please explain the argument against passing laws forcing all adverts on advertising platforms like Facebook and Google to be searchable and transparent so we can see who is purchasing them, the parameters used for targeting the
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by maym86 8y ago
> cooperative comparison with other mobile devices in a local meshnet Please explain how this will work?
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by maym86 8y ago
Thanks I'm interested to take a look in detail. From the abstract > In 2006, we presented at DGON symposium in Stuttgart [2] the design and navigation results of MARINS, the first FOG-based navigation system within the class of 1 na
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You won't get close to GPS accuracy with these. The uncertainty from cell tower triangulation is huge (relatively). But yes, some kind of beacon that works like GPS on a local scale or detection of known mapped landmarks could be used
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Velocity can come from dopplar shift of the GPS carrier frequencies. This is very accurate. An IMU can be used for walking speed estimation but it won't be as accurate using a human gait model or direct integration.
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by maym86 8y ago
This is drift for a "static" million dollar marine grade (i.e. highest grade we currently have) INS not in the ocean or moving. Drift is measured in non-moving conditions. These are the fiber optic and laser sytems you are referri
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by maym86 8y ago
> What we need, and will probably get soon, is inertial guidance based on laser ring or fibre optic gyros in mobiles. You get a location fix every week or so and it starts out much more accurate than gps. Corrections every week? This isn
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by maym86 8y ago
They already censor for business reasons. I think their biggest concern is having to spend money on hiring moderators and freedom of speech is useful excuse for their PR.
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Facebook Refuses to Take Action on Anti-Vaccine Pages(complex.com)
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> It baffles me that people say 'give it to charity instead'. You might as well say 'give it to anyone who can fill in IRS Form 1023', because that's all you're guaranteed to get from a charity. This is not
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by maym86 8y ago
This was answered in the other replys to your comment. > It seems like people are just seeing the label 'charity' and are thinking it's undeniable that the charity have any idea what they're doing themselves. It seems
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Believe it or not people actually assess the effectiveness of charities and you can choose good ones. https://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities Some charities are more effective than others and obviously some ar
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Yes but that's exactly the problem. He's focuing on himself. He has huge resources beyond his mind (ego). It lacks self awareness to think only you can solve problems and as a manager of multiple companies he must know other peopl
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by maym86 8y ago
With the Elon musk submarine story all I kept thinking throughout is that he's a billionaire and if he really wants to help people so much give money to people who need it. Charities actually know what to do with it and are far more ef
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by maym86 8y ago
Yeah. Was just sharing it because it's what I used 5 years ago for my PhD. Worked well at the time and I found it useful. I don't think Elsevier owned it then. Got heavily down voted so I'll take the hint :) Reading about Els
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by maym86 8y ago
Looks like https://www.mendeley.com

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