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811.
by phaemon 11y ago
The article says: "Overall, one year after the intervention stopped, the experiment produced a 14% increase in assets and a 96% increase in savings, compared with similar groups of people not enrolled in the program," And the pape
812.
by phaemon 11y ago
I read over it, but there are a couple of problems with that. Firstly, I never said that computers understand the images, just that the recognition is better than human. When they get it wrong, they do tend to get it wrong in ways that lo
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by phaemon 11y ago
Well I thought that was pretty reasonable. But since you disagree, lets look at what is actually happening now. The youngest MP for a few hundred years was elected the other day. Her name is "Mhairi Black". Google her name, and se
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by phaemon 11y ago
Police and Government should be two different entities, but if you're living in a police state then you're probably right. Otherwise, what Google could do is, say, record your dangerous driving (maybe that one time you were rushin
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by phaemon 11y ago
> Especially since digital image recognition still isn't that great. I believe digital image recognition is better than human, and a lot faster to boot (hah!).
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by phaemon 11y ago
It does leave some people worried, but I think it's just because they don't understand what it means. Maybe adding: git checkout -B lastdeployed to the end of your script would leave them happier!
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by phaemon 11y ago
> "You go to commit some code to a public repo. The maintainer scolds you for using merges instead of fast forwards." Imagine you clone a repo. So your version is identical. You now add a couple more commits to master. Now, to
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by phaemon 11y ago
If you have a branch called "master", whose HEAD is currently "a4300d840a4d01767cb2e768e51f7e88cb40e8cb", for example, all that means is that there is a text file called ".git/refs/heads/master"
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by phaemon 11y ago
This suggestion is simple and lower down the rankings, but it's very much the best. Learning a new language isn't just reading and writing some stuff in a different way. It exposes you to new TV programmes, new styles of music, ne
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by phaemon 11y ago
Actually, it's the former: 7.5% of energy. It's 15% of electricity.
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by phaemon 11y ago
The Without Hot Air site seems to have got its sums wrong. It continually makes the point that we'd need to cover the whole UK in renewable energy generation, and that still wouldn't be enough. However, we already generate 7.5% of
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by phaemon 11y ago
I almost typed "acceptable" in both the first and second usages, which is why I avoided it as equally ambiguous. It's also worth noting that ~99.9% of the English speaking world doesn't have a copy of Merrian-Webster and
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by phaemon 11y ago
I think the problem is with your use of the word "condone". I'm sure you meant it in the sense of "like", but it sounds as though you meant "give permission". I suspect the reply is basically saying, &quot
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by phaemon 11y ago
Creator : PDF Presentation Adobe Photoshop CC 2014
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by phaemon 11y ago
Usually I see the bbc.com message saying I'm blocked from the content because I'm in the UK. This time it had: "This site was created for the BBC’s International audience by BBC Worldwide. Some elements including spelling and
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by phaemon 11y ago
Google Apps is not a free service. The pricing for business is $5 or $10 per user per month. It's worth bearing in mind that when people complain about the service, they are often paying for it.
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by phaemon 11y ago
He mentions this under "Caveats": 'There are several limitations to this assessment since the Hooktheory API wasn’t really intended for this type of analysis. For example, it doesn’t mention whether “6” is “vi” (minor) or “V
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by phaemon 11y ago
It just says "one of the most popular", not "the most popular". The double and triple numbers are Figured Bass notation (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figured_bass ). So, if you have the 6th and
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by phaemon 11y ago
So, in other words, performance did not stop improving in 2005, as it is now "about 3x the performance per core"? Personally, I think that it's too soon to say whether computing power is beginning to plateau. Certainly no-one
830.
by phaemon 11y ago
> so that 'should' give a factor of over 64 No, that's not how trends work. You can't establish a trend from just two data points. And, given a trend, you can't just pick two points and say they should be so far
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by phaemon 11y ago
The fastest CPU in 2005 was (I think) the mighty AMD Athlon 64 FX-57, which PassMark rates at: 731. Meanwhile, in 2015, we have the Intel Core i7-5930K which scores: 13,638.
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by phaemon 12y ago
It does. Though I'm not convinced that it's particularly useful to have such a concept as "an equivalent level of harm expressed in QALYs as killing 100 people" when it's not really that at all. It still suggests th
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by phaemon 12y ago
The post above said, "to be net harmful, the marginal employee would need to be causing the death of a hundred people each year" and you accepted this as a "back of the napkin calculation". So it certainly appeared as th
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by phaemon 12y ago
So if you killed the Goldman Sachs employee, stole $2 million of their savings, and donated half of that to Against Malaria Foundation, then you'd have saved a net 399 lives, and you'd be $1 million richer. Everyone's a winne
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by phaemon 12y ago
I've not heard of this and searching doesn't seem to throw up anything relevant. Do you have more details? Maybe a link to the LKML discussion?
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by phaemon 12y ago
> I would like to note the lack of children working 18-hour days. I would like to note it too, but unfortunately it still exists. Google for it.
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by phaemon 12y ago
Sorry for the delay in replying, I was away. > Dude, this is NOT theory. I watched it happen. No, you thought you saw it happen. "git push" does not remove data, it can only add new commits (and their contents) and update ref
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by phaemon 12y ago
"git push" does not cause data loss. Whoever told you it did was incorrect. Also, a "third or fourth year course in CS" is not a prerequisite for understanding git. I am proof of that :-)
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by phaemon 12y ago
I'm going to take your word for it that you have screwed up unions and that those are the only kind likely in the USA. It's no doubt a political thing.
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by phaemon 12y ago
He presented no evidence at all for any of his examples. If you want backup, you ask for it. I have no idea why you think your link is showing "unions getting out of hand". It shows people being hired at a certain pay for certai

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