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by phdelightful 5y ago
"up from 76 million — or 44% of all taxpayers — in 2019." - TFA
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by phdelightful 5y ago
I've been thinking for a while that it should be mandated that any of the "infinite scroll" websites should have to be able to explain in plain English why they show you any particular item, including ads. "The advertise
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by phdelightful 5y ago
I think the full text of the bill is only a handfull of paragraphs modifying an existing law: https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=&Sessi... I try to summarize below by skipping some extra words: &
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by phdelightful 5y ago
Since I live in the US I don’t have to wonder how effective flu shots are, I can look it up: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-work/2019-2020.html Roughly 25-50% based on the strain. Hardly “waste of time” territor
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by phdelightful 5y ago
Despite the implied "cancellation" of the authors listed (Henry Miller, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth and John Updike), whatever that means, you will find it is easy to get ahold of as many books written by these guys as you want. If y
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by phdelightful 5y ago
The answer to a charitable interpretation of your question: most tech workers don't mind exchanging their labor for money, of course. The answer to the question as written is...of course people want the entity that has outsize influenc
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by phdelightful 5y ago
Does Slack's terms of service allow for a plugin that can just export the contents of the Slack to a public site (like a mailing list archive)? Do Slack plugins have that kind of access?
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by phdelightful 5y ago
I like presenting the correlation of results between different benchmarks - I'd be interested in hearing to what extent this problem exists in more traditional benchmarking. One difference is that ML has this accuracy/quality comp
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by phdelightful 5y ago
The author should consider removing their blog from the Google-owned property they are currently using, lest it also get removed with no prior warning.
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by phdelightful 5y ago
There's no indication in the article that the DDoS and power station failure are connected. In fact, the article says "officials did not initially comment on whether they suspected a connection between the explosion and cyberattac
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by phdelightful 6y ago
Sorry if I misunderstood you, but I don't believe the author is advocating for this particular use of "dropping" to become mainstream. The author is explaining what "dropping a hash" means precisely because it is no
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by phdelightful 6y ago
My first reply was already a bit outside my wheelhouse. I agree it seems...unlikely. Hopefully someone will chime in.
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by phdelightful 6y ago
The government could tax money and then "disappear" it.
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by phdelightful 6y ago
There’s nothing that restricts AMD to compete solely using x86. I think they’re sitting on an ARM core design from the first Zen arch that they never released.
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by phdelightful 6y ago
I disagree, I think the main purpose of reason is to overcome negative irrational behavior. Doesn't mean it's easy or automatic though :)
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by phdelightful 6y ago
I'd expect a car with an automatic braking system to automatically brake when a "weird windmill" or "one of those hot air moving men" moves predictably to intersect its path.
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by phdelightful 9y ago
The parent might be saying that we already have some good techniques for speeding up raw number crunching in parallel, so it's not as desirable to add yet another.