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by mseebach 9y ago
New York went through the same transformation. It's a "general" culture shift, suburbs went out of fashion for generation X. No sure what the exact underlying dynamic driving it was, but it's happened, as you note, more
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by mseebach 9y ago
Is it really though? I've lived three places in London and made sourdoughs with tap water in all with no trouble. If it can't kill nacent yeast cultures, I wouldn't expect it to have many chances against sewer bacteria.
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by mseebach 9y ago
> They pretend their system actually solves machine translation, for real, like AlphaZero solved Go. The post you linked to makes no such claim. The strongest claim to, well, anything, is that it produces "reasonable" translati
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by mseebach 9y ago
This is absurd. You keep insisting on perfection or nothing at all. There is such a thing as incremental progress. Google Translate is supremely useful in the absence of a better alternative . Nobody is contesting that human translation is
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by mseebach 9y ago
The answer is probably the same as it is for Starbucks et al: execution is a lot more difficult than it looks like from the outside, and nailing scalable execution is an order of magnitude harder yet.
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by mseebach 9y ago
Sure, I don't disagree with the essence of that, I disagree with how much of the usefulness of the translation that is negated by that 1% (or whatever the right number is). No, you shouldn't make important high-impact decisions o
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by mseebach 9y ago
Yes, human translation is better, that's a trivially simple point, but irrelevant for deciding whether machine translation is very good and amazingly useful in the absence of a human translator.
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by mseebach 9y ago
I don't know if Google Translate is "good enough", that's an arbitrary scale. What I do know is that it's a lot better than what existed before. Yes, I'm human and know language, but Google Translate exists to
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by mseebach 9y ago
This seems like an example of letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. Translation without any loss of veracity is extremely difficult, even for human translators, and failure to clear that bar doesn't constitute nonsense. If inst
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by mseebach 9y ago
It's from the Christmas edition. The tradition for that issue is to have a number of essays with no particular journalistic purpose, just to be interesting and lightly intellectually stimulating.
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by mseebach 9y ago
> 3. Tact > undiluted truth This is correct, but it's important that you never dilute the truth so much that you end up not delivering the whole truth. Obviously, you should avoid ever being in such a situation, but if circumstan
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by mseebach 9y ago
"Happy to help, are there any of the technical details you specifically need my eyes on? Otherwise, I trust your judgement." Are you being approached because you are the only only around who actually remember working on the Foo Wi
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by mseebach 9y ago
"registered basically nowhere" != "moving its HQ to China" Registration is a matter of paperwork. Incorporation is a legal fiction. IKEA is a Swedish company for all intents and purposes, except tax liability. Taxation i
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by mseebach 9y ago
> I have heard "attractive nuisance" used (not in a legal context) Well, you linked to the legal context, so you'll have to excuse me for misunderstanding. > "well, what else did you think was going to happen?&quot
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by mseebach 9y ago
Being Swedish is about a lot more than paying taxes and maintaining the welfare state. What you're proposing basically amounts to the welfare state and its needs owning the Swedish nation, rather than the other way around.
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by mseebach 9y ago
The Swedish flags predates the Swedish welfare state by several hundred years (and IKEA predates it by a couple of decades).
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by mseebach 9y ago
No, this does not apply at all . > It states that a landowner may be held liable for injuries to children trespassing on the land if the injury is caused by an object on the land that is likely to attract children. The doctrine is desig
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by mseebach 9y ago
You basically outline why that's an unsatisfying answer. It didn't prevent Trump from entering the political arena. The "Access Hollywood" tape surfaced a month before the election, why not during the primaries, when h
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by mseebach 9y ago
Neither. Successful anti-terrorism is about nipping this stuff in the bud before the potential perpetrators get close to having specific plans. You can easily think of tactics that would disrupt recruiting, financing and supply chains quiet
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by mseebach 9y ago
There's a simple, political answer. If you're the MP for, say, Manchester after the Ariana Grande bombing, you're (probably) not going to survive politically after trying to make philosophical points about privacy to angry, g
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by mseebach 9y ago
There’s something wrong with your numbers. 120kph for two minutes is 1km, or 250 4-meter cars, bumper to bumper. Four lanes, 4.2 occupants, that’s 16,800 passengers per two minutes, which is a full order of magnitude more than a 12-carriage
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by mseebach 9y ago
Governments aren’t generally cash constrained at the core (they often are at the margin, though) so if you can substantially contribute to solving a problem government cares about, it can be quite lucrative.
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by mseebach 9y ago
Sorry, fair point, it’s not battery chicken then. Not sure what the correct term is, but it’s certainly nor free range organic animals we’re dealing with here.
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by mseebach 9y ago
Yes, there are different regulations, famously chicken in the EU can't be washed in chlorine as it can in the US. But your average EU supermarket selection is a flavourless, watered up battery chicken. It's not "much higher q
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by mseebach 9y ago
There's another variable here: clothes are immensely cheaper today. It was much less affordable to own a huge batch of clothes at all back then.
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by mseebach 9y ago
There is a certain rather loud, rather fashionable kind of "activist" who are if not directly claiming that everything is awful, then strongly evoking symbolism and imagery to that effect. To fix this, they want to take broad, r
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by mseebach 9y ago
I think it's safe to assume that pratical mitigations will eventually surface, the biggest issue is probably around the cost in performance. Shaving 30% (or whatever) of the worlds computing power in one fell swoop is kind of a big dea
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by mseebach 9y ago
Has AMD processors been confirmed as not vulnerable? As I recall the original investigation only covered Intel processors, but hypothesized that AMD would be affected as well, as they more or less have the same fundamentals around branch pr
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by mseebach 9y ago
Even the purported difficulty of assembling the furniture: When we moved last time, we decided that it was time to invest in some “proper” furniture (at, uhm, decidedly non-Ikea prices) and all of it needed to be assembled in some manner or
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by mseebach 9y ago
The chaos monkey is pointedly unsophisticated, but a system that can reliably survive its attack is likely to be very sophisticated. Airline pilots are effectually faced with a chaos monkey in their recurring simulator trainings and as a re

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