parrotdoxical

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by parrotdoxical 13y ago
TL;DR: Grad student naval gazes about + waxes philosophical on occupation he feels predestined towards but actually has no real world experience with
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by parrotdoxical 13y ago
Yeah, my thoughts exactly. It looks like the problem and solution don't exactly agree -- if your problem is someone having access to wire details for your bank account who should not, the solution should be fixing that compromise ASAP.
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by parrotdoxical 13y ago
"Not a single breakthrough product was unveiled" Probably the most damning line in the piece. It was indeed a year marked by cryptocurrency mania, NSA scandals, and worst of all, mediocre tech. Anyone think 2014 is going to be any
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by parrotdoxical 13y ago
When I see a hypothesis which is THAT sweeping, there's no reason to waste the time of trying to find data to support the hypothesis or a refutation of it. I mean quite literally it is so sweeping as to be meaningless. The more broad y
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by parrotdoxical 13y ago
Nah, I understand all of what you've written, I just find it sophomoric and pretty poorly thought out. I'll be glad to engage you in discussion once YOU mentally mature past the age of fourteen.
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by parrotdoxical 13y ago
I'd argue that a such a sweeping hypothesis as one made by the "paper" is so broad so as to be meaningless, and that you couldn't actually come up with enough facts to prove it one way or another. Just seems like troll b
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by parrotdoxical 13y ago
Someone REALLY likes the sound of their own empty rhetoric. While that's all fine and dandy, you should probably be aware that you don't necessarily get a choice as to "subsidize" people who contribute nothing to society
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by parrotdoxical 13y ago
Uhh..not always. The work is balanced out, but often, there is a net loss of jobs. There may always be a need for mundane labor, but that doesn't mean it will be priced at a point that makes living very sustainable. And no, technology
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by parrotdoxical 13y ago
This is awesome. While it's great how performant the approach is, I also really dig how elegant the whole solution is -- using Postgres FDW with Numba is very pragmatic and clean, while at the same time potentially extensible to GPGPU.
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by parrotdoxical 13y ago
I'm not sure -- OP mentions the guy is a musician and specifically a pianist, so perhaps he just intrinsically has developed great spatial reasoning from learning and practicing with his piano for so long -- that along with him being f