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by nvilcins 5y ago
What about explicitly bringing up and fighting that mechanism in the first place?
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by nvilcins 5y ago
I think your comment better applies to the tweet being referred to, though, not sure "ad hominem" extends to a group of unspecified people.
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by nvilcins 5y ago
You might be thinking of specific functionality that you find is being implemented in an overly long/verbose fashion.. But generally speaking, how are > long lines of().chained().['expressions'].like_this(0) a _bad thing_?
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by nvilcins 5y ago
A great video explaining how the helicopter works (and why it is indeed a feat of _ingenuity_). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhsZUZmJvaM
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by nvilcins 5y ago
What are good guidelines to tackle this?
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by nvilcins 6y ago
People underestimate how unproductive (or nefarious) one can be in office.
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by nvilcins 6y ago
What fraction of the global "energy throughput" is this?
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by nvilcins 6y ago
An open follow-up question: (Assuming we are indeed living in a world overly enthusiastic about ML) How do you - a professional that doesn't just throw ML at everything but focuses on the "boring stuff" - position yourself i
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by nvilcins 6y ago
> 3. Avoid Machine Learning (on First Iterations) For many years I worked on building data products at a start-up as the data guy (encompassing analytics, ML, data engineering). We started off pretty much all-in with ML, even implementin
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by nvilcins 6y ago
Most of the vegetarians/vegans I know have a pretty shitty diet - lots of highly processed grains (bread, pasta, and other fillers), sweets, desserts, sugary drinks (and other "regular" products with added sugars), and otherw
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by nvilcins 6y ago
See the "benchmarks" section: https://github.com/marmarelis/rolling-quantiles#benchmarking...
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by nvilcins 6y ago
> I agree with your point, but many Asian countrys' pouplaces' attitudes to drugs are deeply influenced by the damage caused by British opium trade. It is more deeply rooted than a problem of education I think, unlike in the We
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by nvilcins 6y ago
> Not all who oppose legalization are from the 'unthinking masses'. Not all are, but which of the two do you think really steer the general perception of drugs more?
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by nvilcins 6y ago
> No one really (really, outside of comical personalities) ultimately cares about "tight control [over others'] consciousness". Many governments are participating in different kinds of censorship as well as organized disin
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by nvilcins 6y ago
> I get dismayed when people think of drugs in terms of social freedom and opposing government. This is quite frankly a highly liberal view. And not one at all in line with the true definition of drugs. (..) > Drug users WHO ARE IN CO
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by nvilcins 6y ago
Make no mistake, drug suppression benefits many parties: governments to have a tight control over the people (their consciousness), and entities that profit from the situation and would be harmed by drug liberalization (both "legal&quo
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by nvilcins 6y ago
Is there a list of companies Apple (and/or other giants) has bought? Maybe even shown on a timeline?
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by nvilcins 6y ago
Death comes from _mis_use, which usually stems from _mis_information ("drugs are bad, let's not talk about them"). People die when they over-dose (which more often than not happens because they don't know exactly what th
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by nvilcins 6y ago
2 cents from someone living in a post-soviet neighboring-to-Russia country. What I hear very frequently (mostly) from Russian people is stuff like "not sure Navalny is clear himself" or "how come a random blogger know about &
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by nvilcins 6y ago
Pretty sure the axis should have the opposite labels in the (only) chart.
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by nvilcins 6y ago
I guess the question is how fast did you arrive at the correct answer compared to switching to a web browser, googling the question, and sifting through those results before getting a "hit" (or whatever your default process would
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by nvilcins 6y ago
This is cool! Simple and solves a real problem. Good job!
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by nvilcins 6y ago
New to freelancing, and while I get the hustle and pricing according to the value for the client, it's still hard to wrap my head around people charging 500$/h+. Like, what is the value an AI contractor can deliver in ~50h that ea
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by nvilcins 7y ago
In no way is this refuting or at least commenting on the original post. > [..] played down the threat, lied, covered up to save face, imprisoned whistleblowers, and refused to let international experts in. Diverting a sensitive topic to
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by nvilcins 7y ago
Latvia: 20 eur/mo, very fast uncapped 4G, no limitations whatsoever.