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by obmelvin 9y ago
What about the hundreds or thousands of other ads you see each day which have little relevance? It's easy to remember the ad that is creepily accurate, but I don't think it's at all surprising that these ads are occasionally
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by obmelvin 9y ago
As your sibling comment pointed out, we still have a long way to go before we are able to make large amounts of stable and thus truly usable qubits.
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It is hard to make an argument if you refuse to share the 'source of your information' so to speak.
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by obmelvin 9y ago
Those questions won't be representative of the whole population, but it's good to have a population of your users for things like this. I'm aware that Go is a good language, but I've never had a reason to use it and my o
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by obmelvin 9y ago
Just like any large company there is a huge variety of work being done and varying degrees of competency among employees. Sure, there are some people who fit your description, but there are also lots of people doing cutting edge work that i
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by obmelvin 9y ago
For those who want to read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/insider/have-a-comment-le... [not particularly techincal, but given the GP seemed to be skeptical about real world use I think this is
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by obmelvin 9y ago
or maybe single word lookups are pretty useless for most translations? How would you identify those words which can be directly looked up in a dictionary vs those that require the current context for translation?
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by obmelvin 9y ago
Can't you transfer them to another wallet and sell via another means? I agree that's lame on their part, but you should be able to work around it.
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by obmelvin 9y ago
In this case it's mainly attributable to the DEA's scheduling system. People have to rely on personal experience because there isn't proper research being done. This is my greatest frustration around the use of drugs. I think
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Still requires physical contact and cleaning if your hands are dirty from cooking.
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And the people who are affected by and large won't vote for Trump, so they know they can make this political move to offset the 'cuts' to those who will vote Republican. Very sad.
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by obmelvin 9y ago
As I understood it you are making the argument that they will have information about you from uploading this picture even if they delete the actual picture. I'm genuinely asking if it is possible to recover an individual training examp
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by obmelvin 9y ago
Is there any precedent for recovering individual training items from a model trained on 100m+ examples?
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In that case, yes. But they were definitely spying on journalists, law enforcement and other potentially critical users
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by obmelvin 9y ago
Personally, I don't doubt that Snowden caused some damage to the IC community. However, I would argue that the benefit to people who would like to live in a modern democracy far outweighs that damage. I truly believe that the only reas
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by obmelvin 9y ago
I'd like to have a quick shout out to Tom Wheeler. I was very worried when he was first appointed, but it was great to see someone who used their experience lobbying to stand up for consumers instead of continuing to act in corporate i
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by obmelvin 9y ago
Wow, I'm not GP, but thanks for that comment. I was surprised that no one is talking about how this will affect internet quality and price in many regions. Turns out, no one's talking about it here because it isn't the issue
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by obmelvin 9y ago
While it is bad, it is an insult to people suffering from true 3rd world problems to make that comparison
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So yoy shouldn't minimize a problem just because you can't completely nullify it?
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I would reckon that the average user doesn't care for a list of specific bug fixes.
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by obmelvin 9y ago
Well considering corporations aren't sentient beings and are made up of these employees it's the same thing.
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Naive question, why wouldn't someone want a national ID card? From my understanding and time in sweden (granted only 5 months) they seem like a much better system than SSN
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while computers give off heat, they are terribly inefficient creators of heat and in no way make a good replacement for dedicated electric heaters
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Gov money is better spent on fundamental science and research than small business loans, well at least in the sense that if a private investor is very interested in an investment, that means it's too safe for the government. The gov sh
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he was involved - http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/digital-and-mobil...
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In addition to what others have said, Netflix doesn't hire interns or new grads or engineers with low experience. So obviously it's much easier to have a low end of 300k if your most inexperienced person's previous experience
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by obmelvin 9y ago
one shouldn't run up debt in a STEM graduate program. Sure, there is a big opportunity cost with regard to wages, but that's not crushing debt
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You could say something else given that most of Canada isn't french.
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People also bring it up for products like this, which is related tangentially to Ads or google cloud offerings. Google is not going to shut something like this down that enhances their revenue
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Consider the information that Google Now was providing you before. It was almost certainly using this data.

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