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by nfoz 10y ago
Who do you think is not allowing people to try out big ideas?
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by nfoz 10y ago
It's been a vacation spot for Canadians for a long time :)
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by nfoz 10y ago
As user "highd" suggested, I think you are confusing two words. I refer to Wiktionary for definitions: Statistics: A mathematical science concerned with data collection, presentation, analysis, and interpretation. Statistic: A qu
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by nfoz 10y ago
> Just have an audited code and its verified executable run in a physically secured system. Do any of those exist? Is this possible in practice, in this decade?
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by nfoz 10y ago
> Yes, I think we've all seen how much of a "voice" we have in government. And as a Canadian, I feel that it is pretty reasonable. Maybe governments can only be effective at a certain scale. But also, some systems are mor
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by nfoz 10y ago
I'm a bit annoyed by the name "Blink Shell" because I think this is a Terminal Emulator and not a shell? But maybe I'm wrong? But maybe I'm just being too restrictive in what I mean by the term "shell", w
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by nfoz 10y ago
An exception is Waterloo.
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by nfoz 10y ago
Laptops are extremely subjective, so it's an awkward question. If your primary concern is Linux support, then look to the places where you can buy Linux laptops: - https://system76.com - https://puri.sm/ -
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by nfoz 10y ago
I bet they're using you to try and find differentiating factors between the different dating sites. You've already told them that you're willing to provide useful information about dating sites -- now they're just extra
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by nfoz 10y ago
Huge fan of your work; thanks so much for what you've done on this topic, and maintaining a clear website that I can refer back to easily :) I've been wondering if perhaps there's a "trusting trust" problem where we
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by nfoz 10y ago
Who put a talking robot in a park full of kids and gave control of it to the Internet???
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> In one example cited in the lawsuit, the Labor Department says Palantir hired 14 non-Asian applicants and 11 Asian applicants from a pool of more than 1,160 qualified people, 85% of whom were Asian. The likelihood of that happening fro
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by nfoz 10y ago
A better comparison would be the formation of Canada, or better yet: the Quebec referendum to separate from Canada (put to a vote of the people, but narrowly lost: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_referendum,_1995 )
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by nfoz 10y ago
Or we can just allow secession without a civil war.
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> There are cues and phrases to drop which can alert a competent server as to the experience level - and possible expectations - I will have of the meal. I typically do the opposite. I underplay my experience level, and gloss over their
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by nfoz 10y ago
Interesting. Did you try to include some emoji in your comment? They did not get included: > characters like and or even good old ︎ (which
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by nfoz 10y ago
I specifally followed the PS3 market carefully, and made sure to buy a used PS3 that had the capability to install Linux. Installing it was a fun side-project, although I didn't use it much. Then I bought a game I really wanted to pl
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by nfoz 10y ago
Tap-pay with my Visa card is commonplace in downtown Toronto and faster and easier than doing the same with my phone. It's enough faster than chip+pin to make a difference. But the weird thing about chip+pin is that it's much slo
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by nfoz 10y ago
This prompted my interest in what's the history and regulation behind taxi laws, particularly for Quebec. So I searched, and found this document extremely enlightening. Note that it's from 1995, long before Uber, and gives many p
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by nfoz 10y ago
I think a statistical view of that dichotomy is "parametric statistics" vs. "non-parametric statistics": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonparametric_statistics I see "machine learning" as
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by nfoz 10y ago
I've been playing a lot of CIV 1 lately. Because I happen to have it installed on my travel-laptop in DOSBox. I'm sure I've clocked over 100 hours of CIV1 in the past year. It would be fun to upgrade to a new CIV and see ho
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by nfoz 11y ago
I think that problem has been unsolved for ~500 years? More?
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by nfoz 11y ago
When I see Unicode-hacks like this (is it a hack? is Unicode supposed to do this?), my instinct reaction is that maybe Unicode is bloated beyond a reasonable mission scope. Maybe it tried to do too much, or maybe it just made some mistakes
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by nfoz 11y ago
This is a great example of creative work that is not allowed to exist in a system with copyright.
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by nfoz 11y ago
I regret mine. Keyboard is missing so many keys, speakers are garbage, getting Debian to support the hardware was nontrivial and stuff continues to break. So few ports. And if it's plugged in when the battery gets to full charge, it
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by nfoz 11y ago
The "spam" we're talking about here is from LinkedIn itself . That is, you give them your contacts, and it will spam them to sign up too. If gmail started emailing your friends because you used gmail, that would be a good r
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by nfoz 11y ago
Broadway Technology | Software Engineer | New York, Austin, Seattle, Waterloo http://www.broadwaytechnology.com/careers I love working here! We’re a technology company, built and run by engineers. Stable and growing fast. E
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by nfoz 11y ago
Sounds like he would like a Blackberry (running BBOS 10). My bb Passport has excellent battery-life, no bloat, extensive customization of the messages "hub" and minimal notifications, privacy and per-app per-feature controls, e
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by nfoz 11y ago
> CRISPR, for those of you who do not know, is an anti-viral immune system found in archaea and bacteria, that until a few years ago, was all but unknown outside the small group of scientists have been studying it since its discovery a q
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by nfoz 11y ago
You shouldn't have to "beg" website authors to "play nice" for you, as a user. Web Standards and browsers have failed you by putting that much control into the authors' hands. It is reasonable to consider that

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