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by maze-le 7y ago
Apparently using reason and holding people accountable is too controversial these days. Btw I didn't meant it snarky or sarcastic, I meant it as it stands there. Not doing a medical procedure is not a good reason to drag someone on fro
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by maze-le 7y ago
No I do mean "reckless". It is one thing to have no knowledge about a topic and act accordingly, it's quite another to be in active denial about a topic that has been proven again and again. >> Actually, a reasonable st
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by maze-le 7y ago
It is documented all the way down to a single vote (some voting-computers must implement a paper-trail as a secondary feature, here it is free). Tempering is very hard when there are enough volunteers, providing oversight over the procedure
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by maze-le 7y ago
Right, they shouldn't be fined for refusing to vaccinate, they should be fined for endangering the life of their kids and others with this reckless behaviour.
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by maze-le 7y ago
It may not be a popular opinion around here, but the best election guard is doing them with pen & paper.
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by maze-le 7y ago
No, but when you refuse to unlock it, it could mean that the device is confiscated indefinitely. Where an encrypted container, delivered over a cloud-storage provider is not immediately tied to you at the border.
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by maze-le 7y ago
Ah, I see, abiogenesis is "tunnel vision", but unjustified belief in a deus ex machina which designed life is somehow enlightened...? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. There is no evidence of god, therefore I do
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by maze-le 7y ago
>> Intelligent life happened here, it must happen again somewhere else. This should be made axiom really. You/we/whatever is not unique in the universe. We don't really know the probability of abiogenesis (let alone art
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by maze-le 7y ago
It has hardware kill-switches for Bluetooth, WLAN, microphone the camera and the GSM/Baseband controller (this is the killer -feature for me -- pun indended). Replacable parts (screen, camera, battery, data-storage) -- allowing you to
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by maze-le 7y ago
That is called imposter-syndrome, and it basically is the opposite of bullshittery. All of us have insecurities about what they do -- our field is concerned with very abstract concepts and at the end of the day you have produced something o
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by maze-le 7y ago
>> Solution: >> - stand the F up on every meeting where you hear BS, and call "shenanigans"!. Great way to get yourself sidelined in the near future, and not being able to intervene when it will be your job to implemen
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by maze-le 8y ago
>> If I want to hire someone, how can I tell the good schools / MOOCs from the bad? You probably shouldn't. If you want to hire someone, test their skillset on a small-ish 1-week Project with realistic goals and expectations
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by maze-le 8y ago
>> Meanwhile, for example, a Data Science in Python nanodegree may very well be better prep for an industry job That is the root of the problem isn't it? IMO No institution should train you for a job in the industry except the in
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by maze-le 8y ago
Maybe it's time for a "Secession of Scholars". The university as an institution was founded by students and scholars alike -- as a mutual interest group -- to study and advance the fields of law, theology and medicine. If the
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by maze-le 8y ago
> "We don't really have projects like that anymore." Well, there is the ITER nuclear fusion reactor project. It was planned in the 70ies, construction started in the 90ies, projected construction-finish will probably be ar
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by maze-le 8y ago
>> I highly recommend the guided tour if you're ever in Barcelona. The history of it's engineering and construction is fascinating even if you're not that into Gaudi, or cathedrals. I can absolutely agree on this. As a
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by maze-le 8y ago
Actually, despite the headline the article states it clearly. >> NASA managers listened to the engineers and their PowerPoint. The engineers felt they had communicated the potential risks. NASA felt the engineers didn’t know what wo
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by maze-le 8y ago
>> I understand his point I don't. If at the end of the week, you got your work done (issues resolved, specs written, test cases covered, classes implemented, documentation written), it doesn't matter at all what you have do
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by maze-le 8y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if the stress that this kind of surveillance is inducing leads to lower productivity and less succesful projects overall -- a constant "North Korea" in your head might cause more depression, more overt
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The infamous “AI gaydar” study was repeated – couln't be reproduced(theregister.co.uk)
32 points by maze-le 8y ago|12 comments
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by maze-le 8y ago
I don't know about THC, but I've been tested positively for Amphetamine before and didn't take it or any medication that is a structural derivate of it. This is a problem that is not very well known, even doctors rarely know
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by maze-le 8y ago
Wow, jQuery is still one of the most popular web frameworks. That was unexpected...
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Nasa researchers catalogue all microbes and fungi on the ISS(eurekalert.org)
1 points by maze-le 8y ago|0 comments
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by maze-le 8y ago
>> I do wonder sometimes what would be the best way to protect ourselves as maintainers of open source projects. Well, some of us develop an attitude of contempt towards their userbase (the techincal illiterate and rude part of them
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by maze-le 8y ago
Only if you still belive the cold-war narrative of Freedmon=West vs. Tyranny=East. We live in the wold of a worldwide corporate kleptocracy -- regardless of geographic region. There are of course differences in how the states handle opposit
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by maze-le 8y ago
The correct number of monitors to have is always n+1.
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by maze-le 8y ago
Could also be related to the growing prevalence of chronic inflammatory gastrointestinal conditions. [0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3163673/
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by maze-le 8y ago
Doesn't that mean, that Monsanto and Bayer were both hopelessly overvalued by the time of the acquisition? I wonder which other company-valuations are overblown only by the image a they have ( cough ... facebook ... cough ). Metric
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by maze-le 8y ago
When someone still works for such a company after an announcement this, they are part of the problem!
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by maze-le 8y ago
That is a similar issue Wikipedia has. Being a mod is fine, when your role-profile is clearly defined. But sometimes mods evolve into bureaucrats. And at a certain point, they take over a platform, mostly in a cultural/role-model sens

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