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by ominous 9y ago
It is an argument in the sense that it is a chain of facts and a conclusion is implied. "x% of all A have property X. We have been taking A's for the purpose of Y. The record shows the y% of our A's have property X". A =
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by ominous 9y ago
This post has 5 comments. (mine is the sixth). When you placed your comment, did you think it fair for the rest of the population to try and take control of 1/5 of the opinion expressed on this website? Do you speak for 1/5 of the
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by ominous 9y ago
"While roughly 1% of the US population is of the South Asian race and national origin, roughly 93%-94% of Infosys’s United States workforce is of the South Asian national origin (primarily Indian). This disproportionately South Asian a
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by ominous 9y ago
The creator said it took him 11 months. http://www.billwurtz.com/questions/questions.html
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by ominous 9y ago
In Ultima Online you could write books. While those were fun to find, would you say they were part of the open web? What if those books were in Ilshenar, guarded by two stone gargoyles? Hey, let's just meet and talk there. I sure love
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by ominous 9y ago
The planet will be fine.
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by ominous 9y ago
Can you please enlighten us as to what kind of legal restrictions apply here? It is always interesting to see how these «little» legal details get in the way of running software. Congrats for getting the app out!
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by ominous 9y ago
> "if you indeed liked something about ThunderCrypt and would like to donate" ~ in their reply What? The owner of the ransomware is asking for donations? This is hard to parse.
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by ominous 9y ago
Can you please find me an opinion piece that is anti-NN? Honestly, I would like to read that side's arguments.
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by ominous 9y ago
And there's always pen and paper. ahah, silly article, worrying about such nonsense. /s
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by ominous 9y ago
Related xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1425/
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by ominous 9y ago
No, from your perspective as a consumer Google is making it harder to go to the source. And if you learn to trust the snippets, Google is making it pointless for sources to cater to customers, rather than to please Google. Then you will jus
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by ominous 10y ago
Used ANTLR for something similar. Quick googling yields: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24935419/antlr-4-taking-d... Further reading, you seem to do quite a bit more. > I came across this paragraph while st
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by ominous 10y ago
All true. But one extra step and the most important one: users need to know that is possible. Otherwise they'll never get to point where they know what to google. Most people see websites as they see movies: they type facebook.com and
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by ominous 10y ago
Teaching the Ape to Write Poems James Tate, 1943 - 2015 They didn’t have much trouble teaching the ape to write poems: first they strapped him into the chair, then tied the pencil around his hand (the paper had already
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by ominous 10y ago
offtopic: Is this a new thing? Double clicked a word to try and select it, and the text changes size. Windows 10, Firefox. Up there with "smooth scrolling", "clipboard hijack" and making me type something in the browser
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by ominous 10y ago
"Zello, an app that allows users to talk one-on-one, like a walkie-talkie, or in broadcast modes that can reach hundreds or thousands of people at once" Is this a protest app?
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by ominous 10y ago
Evolution does not select for (y)our ideas of "importance".
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by ominous 10y ago
"hated", as if it were a thing to enjoy.
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by ominous 10y ago
Yes it is. And so is google, and table. https://youtube.com/watch?v=J7E-aoXLZGY
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by ominous 10y ago
"legitimate software" sounds a bit like "legitimate ideas"
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by ominous 10y ago
People talking, apparently.
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by ominous 10y ago
You remind me of my friend, 'ollet', a close typo. Your username has been reported. I was about to discuss sensitive information with you. Luckily ycombinator will act. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_eng
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by ominous 10y ago
> high end AI What does that even mean? You say it as if it were an end unto itself. You don't even mention a single usecase. Without that, how is that different from saying "general purpose computer" or "turing compl
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by ominous 10y ago
And this one was aged for a while before showing up. What is your point?
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by ominous 10y ago
If a confession can be evidence of being guilty, refusing to confess is to withhold evidence?
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by ominous 10y ago
Isn't the question "Why should we pay a basic income" instead of "Why should we receive"? No amount of "should receive" can balance zero amount of "should pay". The ones that pay are the ones tha
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by ominous 10y ago
> I agree it needs to respond faster, but this is impressive and cool. You did the same thing. Nothing wrong with being objective.
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by ominous 10y ago
trying to go to meet.google.com yields: Your browser doesn't support Hangouts Meet To join this meeting, install the latest version of Google Chrome Thank you, Google. I do have Chrome installed. I have other browsers ins
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by ominous 10y ago
"Technology doesn't create itself." well, we might end up telling the story of how Amazon internal microservice culture created AWS, or the war created GPS. In that sense, on some level, technology (or ideas or culture) does

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