murbard2

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by murbard2 11y ago
Yes but Rosetta orbited the comet, whereas in this case the probe would just zoom past the planet
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by murbard2 11y ago
The entire idea of the Bitcoin blockchain is to provide anonymous consensus. This is a tremendous achievement, but it comes at a great cost, in terms of energy consumption, confirmation time, and risk of reversibility. Participants in regul
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by murbard2 11y ago
You don't have to crash/land the entire probe, you could land a lightweight sensor that was carried by the probe and which requires little fuel to decelerate.
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by murbard2 11y ago
The author explicitly acknowledges that relevant factors correlate, in fact he suggests race as a factor will creep back in even if it is excluded as an independent variable. He is thus suggesting that even given genuine group differences,
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by murbard2 11y ago
If that were the best I could realistically do, yes (though that itself isn't realistic, there are many other criteria). Any other technique would, by definition end up unfavorably affecting a greater number of people. Any imperfect cr
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by murbard2 11y ago
You don't seem to be asking that question at all. You seem to be including disparate outcome in the set of "unfair" things, by fiat, and from there looking for the logical closure of that concept under machine learning. That
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by murbard2 11y ago
I think "unfair" implies prejudice and bias. Do you take it as axiomatic that a system that produces different outcome for different racial groups is "unfair"?
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by murbard2 11y ago
Regarding the second issue, Griggs v. Duke Power Co. asserted that requiring a high-school degree for a job that arguably didn't strictly require one was discriminatory because it could act as a proxy to race. If the author is on board
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by murbard2 11y ago
Notice how the article jumps from: "these algorithms are trained on historical data, and poor uneducated people (often racial minorities) have a historical trend of being more likely to succumb to predatory loan advertisements" to
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by murbard2 11y ago
Trivially circumvented with a proxy server, or simply, some other machine on a different network.
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by murbard2 11y ago
Impossible to stop, unless you strictly play heads up poker. Even in the far fetched scenario where you place participants in Faraday cages, they can still communicate by timing bets, changing amounts, etc.
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by murbard2 11y ago
You're right, it's not. More attack surface area. Sure, you could in theory have a highly distributed system with multiple keys, but then you can't use it day to day for monitoring communications, which is the whole purpose o
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by murbard2 11y ago
And yet, tomorrow they'll have no qualms making the case that, of course, the government can securely keep backdoor keys to investigate encrypted communications.
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by murbard2 11y ago
German debt relief came with the creditors rewriting the entire constitution. I think if Greece is willing to go for that, they can probably get themselves a deal!
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by murbard2 11y ago
Sure, but it still makes it harder for managers to screw the shareholders, especially when compared to funds like ishares where there is no accountability.
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by murbard2 11y ago
The company managing the Vanguard fund is owned by the fund holders themselves. It's a closed system and the incentives are aligned.
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by murbard2 11y ago
No, he claimed he thought he was only uploading some open source code he had been working on (with approval) and that some proprietary firm code got thrown in the mix by mistake.
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by murbard2 11y ago
It hinted at an entire class of explanations.
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by murbard2 11y ago
What I've been told is that, while fertilizers obviously help a lot, they aren't a panacea and the plant still needs to do some expensive nitrogen chemistry which will set limits to its growth, regardless of how much energy it get
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by murbard2 11y ago
I didn't exactly get it either, because if they didn't absorb the photons with the extra chlorophyll, it's not like it would go to the other plants anyway... I just assumed there is a more complicated reason involving competi
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by murbard2 11y ago
Yes. Decentralized, mutable, singletons. You almost never need the "singleton" part. Money, assets, titles are the exception.
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by murbard2 11y ago
I was under the impression that nitrogen fixation was still the limiting factor in plant growth. If that's the case, will improving photosynthesis really improve yields?
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by murbard2 11y ago
The article gives at least one answer to that question: the over concentration of chlorophyll can be valuable when competing against other plant. This is a case where evolutionary fitness doesn't align with the goals of agriculture. Th
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by murbard2 11y ago
Status as in having a nature article centered around you and your work? There's no denying that he is a brilliant pioneer, and his accomplishments are indeed incredible, but that does not translate into status which is probably very up
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by murbard2 11y ago
Right or not (I tend to think he is), it's incredibly shortsighted to write such an article which is bound to make him look bitter and low status. If you want to do this, you get a third party to it, come on...
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by murbard2 11y ago
You mean people who are into imperative, object oriented programming vs. functional programming? People who prefer to use IDEs vs. people who stick to plain editors? People who prefer loose, dynamic typing vs. people who prefer the safety o
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by murbard2 11y ago
People have tried to challenge cab monopolies for decades without any success.
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by murbard2 11y ago
First of all, the OP was making a general point about the best way to go about challenging existing laws. Since the point is general, a counter example suffice, even if it differs from the specifics of the situation being discussed. If thos
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by murbard2 11y ago
Can you provide some examples?
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by murbard2 11y ago
Tell that to Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Ghandi...

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