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by nieksand 9y ago
I have a hard time seeing how this was your fault. It seems like a poorly designed system is the root cause, not you.
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by nieksand 9y ago
Depends on how half-baked. From a PR perspective it's a definite "no". Even a single self-driving fatality would lead to global news headlines and a lawyer feeding frenzy. But from a protecting people perspective? If making
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by nieksand 9y ago
On the flip side, the status quo is killing 40000 people per year in the US alone: http://www.nsc.org/NewsDocuments/2017/12-month-estimates.pdf
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by nieksand 9y ago
I recently went to a GDPR seminar and the presenter claimed that GDPR applies to everybody physically in the EU (even tourists while they are passing through).
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Hunt for Planet Nine Status Update(findplanetnine.com)
28 points by nieksand 9y ago|1 comments
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by nieksand 9y ago
If the authors happen to read this... Please, please darken your font color. The contrast is so bad that it makes my eyes hurt. I actually had to pop dev tools and tweak your css to make this site readable.
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by nieksand 9y ago
A couple of random thoughts as a former WA state resident... * WA omits groceries, prescriptions, and rent from sales tax. So many of the actual necessities in life are already not impacted. * No personal income tax drastically simplifies
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by nieksand 9y ago
Google has slowed the adoption of ad-blocking by not making it a default in Chrome. That's a huge win for their main revenue stream.
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by nieksand 9y ago
Marijuana still can't be legally sold in the US under federal law afaik. So that behavior is consistent with Lutke's stated philosophy. I'm not sure why they block the adult industry. Perhaps extremely high rates of credit
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by nieksand 9y ago
Does this active intervention based on site content put Cloudflare's DMCA safe harbor protection at risk? Given the 9th Circuit's shenanigans I'm not sure the answer is a definite "no". http://www.focuson
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Planet Nine status update(findplanetnine.com)
1 points by nieksand 9y ago|0 comments
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by nieksand 9y ago
How would you deal with an inmate that murders or rapes another inmate?
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by nieksand 9y ago
Furniture is definitely an issue. When I was in Singapore in the early 90s, I remember my family looking at a rental unit in the Draycott towers. It was super cool looking, but lack of places for furniture to go is what nixed it. For the c
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by nieksand 9y ago
If this topic interests you, check out the really awesome lecture by one of the original paper authors. It's both informative and very well done. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMCwezegPNg Forbes does mention the blo
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by nieksand 10y ago
From the blog post, it's very unclear what the positioning is between Redshift Spectrum and Athena.
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by nieksand 10y ago
What if I launch a new fast food franchise that uses automation from the start? I never had employees so nobody is being let go. Your proposal would give me a massive advantage against incumbents like McDonalds, since they'd be trappe
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by nieksand 10y ago
The ACM CS curriculum recommendations might have some nice ideas for you: https://www.acm.org/education/CS2013-final-report.pdf
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by nieksand 10y ago
Scroll down a bit here and you'll ten different example voices: https://aws.amazon.com/polly/ English male sounds surprisingly bad. English female is better.
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by nieksand 10y ago
Incognito mode plus Google search on article title does the trick.
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by nieksand 10y ago
I've updated the repo and README.md to reflect this case. For sorting a struct with (int,string) on it's random integer value, I got the following: [10K elements] BenchmarkLibPotato-4 10000 2166569 ns/op Benc
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by nieksand 10y ago
It seems like what amelius suggests in another thread would work too. I'm not advocating for this as desirable, but I'm thinking about the "possible" bit. It's basically the same as what a JIT compiler does around
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by nieksand 10y ago
That's great feedback. I'll try out this specialization on a simple struct (int32/string) combo later today. We can still get rid of the indirections around slice manipulation (Swap and Len) but obviously stay stuck with th
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Overhead of Go’s Generic Sort(github.com)
57 points by nieksand 10y ago|19 comments
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by nieksand 10y ago
It's been about 40 years since Reagan was governor of California. Using him as an excuse for conditions today is a bit bizarre.
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by nieksand 10y ago
Has anybody managed to find a preprint of the ACM queue paper floating around?
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by nieksand 10y ago
Very excited to see the progress. We're switching over from Github to Gitlab EE in the coming weeks. I do wish cross-repo pull requests could be imported. ( http://docs.gitlab.com/ce/workflow/importing/i
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by nieksand 10y ago
That is a great response and true. What these researchers are proposing does not match the usual meaning of click fraud. Though the harms it causes are similar: * advertiser is paying for clicks/impressions from a bot rather than a us
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by nieksand 10y ago
Umm. They want to commit click and impression botnet fraud without consequences? Do they plan on compensating the advertisers after their studies?
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by nieksand 10y ago
The net profit numbers by themselves don't tell you much about the health and prospects of the company. One big issue is that customer acquisition cost tends to be upfront whereas the life time value lags behind. E.g. you have to hire
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by nieksand 10y ago
Actually, uuid4 as a pkey will cause pathological insertion performance on a b-tree since you are randomly inserting across the tree (having to constantly split pages) rather than appending to a far extent. If you want to use uuids, uuid1 m

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