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by pekk 10y ago
In a democracy, giving some people a "real say" means denying other people a "real say."
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by pekk 10y ago
Apple has been pulling tricks for many years to lock down education, but I doubt this was ever described as "weaponizing." Sheesh.
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by pekk 10y ago
While this was bad by US standards, it is in no way comparable to the Stasi or the Gulags.
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by pekk 10y ago
To be fair, due to the nature of neural networks, there are a great number of domains where they can be applied in some way without that fact actually explaining anything about how the domain works. For example, TD-Gammon plays a mean game
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by pekk 10y ago
He has one hypothesis?
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by pekk 10y ago
It depends on which milestones you look at. Of course, if you pre-select milestones which kids hit at about the same rate, then all of those taken together will seem to approximately argue in favor of UG.
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by pekk 10y ago
This is a good criticism of a number of Chomsky's polemical papers.
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by pekk 10y ago
Hyperlinks are a form of interactivity. That aside, there is no reason why one cannot have many individual pages which each have their own interactivity. If you are going to argue that this is about "hacker bias" you will have to
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by pekk 10y ago
Someone somewhere uses elvis, but it doesn't make any sense to assume an elvis-centric point of view.
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by pekk 10y ago
Almost nobody is using Bill Joy's vi and most systems don't have it. They might have a symlink to vim named 'vi'.
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by pekk 10y ago
> Wouldn't you object to my restaurant serving you Angus beef when you actually ordered the Wagyu? If I cared enough to order such a thing. But it isn't a safety issue, it's a truth in advertising issue. Hard when the trut
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by pekk 10y ago
I assume you support increased funding to FDA so they can hire more people and facilities to go after these cases, and that you are persuading others to also support this.
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by pekk 10y ago
"Ordered sets" are coherent in the sense that you can make a data structure like a set and then define an order over its members, and call it an ordered set, but "ordered sets" are not sets. There are certain purposes
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by pekk 10y ago
If you think offering every variation of data structures is doing usability right, then C++ has done a lot of usability right. So much that its usability has suffered.
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by pekk 10y ago
It isn't right, but popular personalities like the creator of Flask have been demanding it for years so here we are. Welcome to Open Source.
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by pekk 10y ago
Why doesn't anyone ever think of the pimps, spies and terrorists who want to comfortably practice their trades in the US without being warned that the US is not keen on such activity?
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by pekk 10y ago
It isn't really fair to posters of a neat open source project for the top reply to be a hijack pointing people at a competing project, even if it does say "don't mean to hijack."
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by pekk 10y ago
Do you have a mobile phone OS based on OpenBSD to share?
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by pekk 10y ago
If only there were hardware to run it on.
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by pekk 10y ago
Nixon had more domestic incentive to act crazy than there was geopolitical advantage in acting crazy.
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by pekk 10y ago
You're not responding to the point of the post you are replying to, you're just talking about how the Bay of Pigs was scary. Nobody is saying it wasn't scary, but that isn't the sense in which the word "plan" i
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by pekk 10y ago
And of course, even if you delete the byte you still have a derived work.
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by pekk 10y ago
What do you mean? Do you want to use peanut butter to save endangered Oklahomans, or persecute Kansans with an aerial food assault? Or do you want to increase the ferret population of Nebraska? Do you want to trick Michiganders into consumi
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by pekk 10y ago
The cost of drones, including associated equipment and personnel, will be much higher than just paying locals to move goods in the normal ways (truck, boat, donkey, wheelbarrow, etc.) Less risk that you will squash houses and children or li
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by pekk 10y ago
What do you think the difference is between "performant" and "fast"?
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by pekk 10y ago
The fact that C-style ternary is hard to pick up doesn't really excuse this kind of thing in new languages.
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by pekk 10y ago
Yahoo isn't offering healthy competition anyway, really.
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by pekk 10y ago
What do you actually want them to do? Should Amazon forbid inexpensive products from being sold?
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by pekk 10y ago
> Those experiences have transmuted me into a full throated advocate for democracy. And if a majority of wolves vote for a sheep dinner?
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by pekk 10y ago
A remarkable number of people with impressive resumes don't just lack these insights, they will actively argue with them.

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