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by otoburb 10y ago
>> Which uses Whonix as a VM [...] Sorry to nitpick, but I believe you meant to say something along the lines of "Whonix runs on top of Qubes as a VM (virtual machine), just like any other typical OS does in Qubes."[1] [1]
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by otoburb 10y ago
Church was the original probabilistic programming language used for the book, and as per another comment in this thread and a draft PhD dissertation[1], WebPPL is the successor to Church. "Niche" is probably in the eyes of the beh
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I'm not an accountant, but since the OP is moving at the beginning of this year then they'd have at least 9 more months before having to sever their residential ties to Canada (i.e. selling their house). If the CRA believes that t
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by otoburb 10y ago
I heard anecdotally that drivers with ratings below 4.6 have their Uber driver accounts shutdown. In this instance, how would the rating work for drivers in an UberPool? Does each person's vote count for only 1/n, or is each one a
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by otoburb 10y ago
Poker enthusiasts hang out at the TwoPlusTwo forums[1]. After reading up on combinatorics and learning the rules for numerous poker variants, diving into the forum posts will give you better insight into how players view the game, the situa
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by otoburb 10y ago
I know your comment was sarcastic, but NAFTA has been around since 1993, which precedes Obama by several administrations.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Free_Trade_Agre...
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by otoburb 10y ago
The song "Everything Old Is New Again" by Peter Allen & Carole Bayer Sager from the 1974 album Continental American seems apt.
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by otoburb 10y ago
>> So we figured what the hell, jumped on in, got some iPad bundles from Square to use for this [...] Did your employer at least ask for a refund from Square?
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by otoburb 10y ago
>> For example, we figured out how to run our own global anycast network for "cheap". I would love to share how to do that with people, there is approximately zero information online or in books on operating anycast networks
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by otoburb 10y ago
Accenture is trying to augment their Financial Services[1] practice arm with blockchain capabilities and expertise. [1] https://www.accenture.com/us-en/service-blockchain-financial...
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>> Canadian here, as far as I know you can't pay into the CPP if you're not working in Canada (I have a friend who is in the exactly that situation) I came to the same conclusion unfortunately. Would gladly pay to contribut
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by otoburb 10y ago
Do you have the option to pay into the French state pension as a non-resident French citizen? For example, in Canada I'm not aware of any mechanism to voluntarily pay into the Canada Pension Plan for a strict Canadian non-resident. Thi
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by otoburb 10y ago
Perhaps you're referring to the term "leapfrogging", the topic of which Kevin Kelly offers a differing viewpoint from the mainstream acceptance despite explaining this in 2006[1]. [1] http://kk.org/thetechnium
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by otoburb 10y ago
>>English is most of the times more concise than my mother language (Polish) [...] If one were to pick Polish variable names, would the default be the neutral forms[1]? I'm sure this applies to other languages that also have form
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Coinbase and the IRS(medium.com)
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>>I would go so far to say that knowledge of certain sci-fi tropes, plot lines, and even quotes is a requirement for working on certain teams. In other words, know your shibboleths[1] to enhance in-group cohesiveness. [1] https:&#x2F
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by otoburb 10y ago
While deplorable from an accessibility standpoint, at least the data is available and out in the open to the public. One small step in the right direction. EDIT: Tabula[1] is an open source tool to extract tables from PDFs into CSV/Exc
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by otoburb 10y ago
The article author Charles Marohn addresses this question in the comments section. His entire comment response: " They are the ones with a very dominant urban core, where the urban fabric overwhelms the horizontal, auto-oriented stuff.
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by otoburb 10y ago
Curious how China's escalating displeasure with the THAAD system will affect the 2M Korean-speaking Chinese known as Joseonok[1]. One would have hoped their fortunes were on the rise, even if only slowly, but national attention on &quo
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by otoburb 10y ago
At some point CalPERS and the city of El Monte aren't going to be able to cover the costs of the defined benefits pension packages - there will literally be no money left to fund the ongoing costs especially given the demographics list
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by otoburb 10y ago
Note that the cyber warfare programs mentioned in the article seem to be military programs, so a better comparison would be comparing skill levels of people working in comparable elite branches of the military. The existence of highly train
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by otoburb 10y ago
Confirmed that links are inactive on my phone as well, probably because they don't seem to be prefaced with URI schemes (i.e. their http:// and https:// prefixes).
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by otoburb 10y ago
As a complete layman reading that paper, Skilling's arguments seem quite damning of IG. In particular, Amari's fundamental assumption seems to be refuted: " For inference, the only acceptable value for the Rényi-Tsallis param
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BlackBerry Accelerates Push into Tech for Self-Driving Cars(wsj.com)
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I believe SpaceX is also gunning for a similar satellite constellation for internet service[1]. The more serious players in this space, the better (no pun intended). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_satellite_co
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The author acknowledges this paradox at the bottom of the article: " That’s where the irony lies. I know that the way you get jobs is by getting out there and telling people you’re looking. Using your acquaintances as a network and str
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by otoburb 10y ago
Only on the island of Manhattan. The other boroughs of New York City do not have the same concentration of households making this much. The article's sources are listed at the bottom of the page, and they are primarily household income
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Another term is "Chesterton's Fence".[1] [1] http://www.theconceptsproject.com/chestertons-fence/
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>> One of the odd things about business in the US is that most people can't even conceive that there are other approaches to business beyond the standard US MBA dogmas. Even when those other approaches clearly are successful, and
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Now if they can combine this object tagging capability with audio-track tag extraction (speech-to-text), mash the two meta-index-tracks together and expose this as another Watson API they'll be able to tap into a more media-savvy and l

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