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by opminion 14y ago
Do not forget that live media organisations, which promise yet another update of the "event" in a few minutes, are effectively promoting themselves, and profiting from it.
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by opminion 14y ago
We've had hundreds [...] detonations None of them intended to kill other people, which is kind of the whole point of the taboo, not the detonation itself. Plus, currently there is a kind of informal moratorium.
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by opminion 14y ago
Yes, taboo. I suffer a bad case of EuroEnglish.
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by opminion 14y ago
By the way, it's worth pointing out, to those who want to make a judgement on the reasons project Orion could not be implemented nowadays, that nuclear detonations are effectively a modern tabu. This tabu is effective, has proven extremely
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by opminion 14y ago
C#, regardless of its merits, serves more Microsoft's commercial purposes than anything else, so it requires factoring in whether Microsoft's interests are aligned with yours.
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by opminion 14y ago
TypeScript comes to mind. It's for a different purpose (jsig is meant only for humans) but formal annotations, if successful, will be read by machine.
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by opminion 14y ago
Have you reported this to them? Perhaps it's best not to wait for them to go into public beta in order to report it publicly.
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by opminion 14y ago
As if depression were a Boolean label.
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by opminion 14y ago
It seems pretty much a trie implementation. Wouldn't the library be better served by having the word trie in its name?
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by opminion 14y ago
Colouring the author's username in green indicates that, most likely, the content of the comment has not been been influenced by the scoring system. The scoring system serves two purposes: presentation, and feedback to the author. Feedback
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by opminion 14y ago
Information theory and its relationship with probability, learning and inference, and with theory of computation. The reason is that Algorithmic Information Theory provides a unifying view. Not terribly practical, though, but neat.
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by opminion 14y ago
Yes, viewers are watching the video as it is broadcasted. Transcoding allows you to upstream it in one format, and the viewers to downstream it in a different format. This dissociates you from the format expected by the end users. The upstr
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by opminion 14y ago
Like closing down a URL shortener.
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by opminion 14y ago
Buried inside, is a reminder that diversifying risk is good.
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by opminion 14y ago
Furthermore, correlation in a feature != correlation != causation
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by opminion 14y ago
People do not believe that their email and identity is in any way linked I think that you might have to explain that a bit. I think that others try to argue that people use email at least as temporary identity, in the sense that at time t
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by opminion 14y ago
The implication, in this context, is that the man and the woman would have very unequal shares of financial responsibility (or expectations). That's why she would be perceived as a gold digger.
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by opminion 14y ago
This was not meant to be a silly joke, but a serious statement. The use of capitals is warranted by the language's syntax.
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by opminion 14y ago
Wait, Guido is proposing implementing INTERCAL'S COME FROM? (as yield from)?
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by opminion 14y ago
So, silly idea here: would reducing the government guarantee improve anything?
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by opminion 14y ago
Why good financial management is not a competitive factor amongst banks? As in: bank with us because we are financially sound (instead of: because we pay higher interest, or whatever). It's not happening yet.
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by opminion 14y ago
The past 60 or so years have been pretty good for those fighting for civil liberties, though recently we seem to have reached a tipping point. It does not look like the tipping point has been reached yet in developing countries.
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by opminion 14y ago
the real test is to see how many [predictions] make you stop and say, "wait, they didn't already have that back then?" This is a better test because puts the onus on the original author writing honestly about what exists at the time of wr
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by opminion 14y ago
is it wrong that c# is a highly sought-after skill in the market? I wouldn't say "wrong", but certainly the fact that C#, in most people's minds, is glued to Visual Studio (and .Net), is more to the advantage of Microsoft, than to the soc
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by opminion 14y ago
I am also curious about the open source CLR world. It appears to be tainted by some weird "commercialism" which I find obvious yet difficult to explain. By the way, Mono has a C# interpreter and parser (Mono.CSharp, Mono.Cecil) which do (di
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by opminion 14y ago
F#'s greatest understated value might be in not being part of the Visual Studio ecosystem. Yes, it can run on Visual Studio, but in principle it is not tainted by the "give me a job" C#/Visual Studio/.Net mentality. As such, F# developers c
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by opminion 14y ago
Interesting talk about how the role of growth and non-profits. But I was put off by the very weak argumentation and the reactions by the sympathetic audience to unwarranted claims. This case is suitable for a debate, rather than a monologue
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by opminion 14y ago
FPV = control the remote controlled airplane by seeing through its camera in a "first person view". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Person_View
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by opminion 14y ago
It's consistent with "centre" vs American "center"
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by opminion 14y ago
but your opening was about a completely different story The second paragraph starts with: "It’s a parable about what happens when you’re always solving the problem right in front of you rather than questioning whether this is a problem yo

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