natmaka

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1501.
by natmaka 8y ago
Top-town authoritarianism has a major flaw: when the Supreme Leader errs and formulates a dangerous order the whole organisation may be in jeopardy. Coordination doesn't imply regulation, conventions (which doesn't imply any chief
1502.
by natmaka 8y ago
An explanation may be true and useful (better than no explanation) even if it is only applicable to some cases. A given case of bureaucracy may have one or even many among multiple potential causes, inducing (for the requester) latency or
1503.
by natmaka 8y ago
On the same vein the lack of an adequate and simple way to assess proficiency let way to very different interpretations of what "speaking a language" implies. According to many being able to talk is sufficient, but IMHO (and AFAI
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by natmaka 8y ago
Why, in such a context, a language is counted just as any another one? Mastering a small set of very different languages (let's say Chinese Mandarin, Arabic, and Hungarian) seems far more impressive to me than mastering more languages
1505.
by natmaka 8y ago
Is the function similar to PostgreSQL's deprecated "Time Travel" https://www.postgresql.org/docs/6.3/static/c0503.htm ? AFAIK this can be a foundation for some form of Snapshot Isolation https
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by natmaka 8y ago
Maybe by forbidding all and any service in this area, including implanting/enabling GSM antennas. The local government is powerful enough. Most remaining RFI would be smartphones emissions, but as they will be nearly useless in this a
1507.
by natmaka 8y ago
235 years after the Persian Letters!
1508.
by natmaka 8y ago
If I understand correctly they displaced people who where very near the telescope, and then created a city 10 miles away from it and behind mountains which interrupt at least some wave propagation(?). The article states that the town lies
1509.
by natmaka 8y ago
Many nowadays ML (and even "IA")-dubbed techniques are in fact borrowed from good ole operational research.
1510.
by natmaka 8y ago
4 (the first figure in this "4888 yuans" price) is an unlucky number in China. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_numerology#Four
1511.
by natmaka 8y ago
It may be a matter of trust and practice. To overcome "intransparency" one may become an expert or trust expert(s) asserting that they did sufficient analysis of the thing in question (here an algorithm) and are confident. In addi
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by natmaka 8y ago
UK discounted provision for decommission costs: £100+ billion in 2013 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/jun/23/britain-... £161 billion in 2017 https://web.archive.org/web&#x2
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by natmaka 8y ago
In some (most?) cases those 10% of the words that are actually used are not the same for all readers. What is fluff to you may not be to me. When it comes to be sure to be understood many express the same idea in multiple ways (discourse
1514.
by natmaka 8y ago
The Center for Humane Technology could use J. Ellul work ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Ellul#On_technique ).
1515.
by natmaka 8y ago
Indeed. Moreover whenever something is wrong, something is too big, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Kohr#Philosophy .
1516.
by natmaka 8y ago
See also https://softwareheritage.org