piiswrong

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by piiswrong 4y ago
Since the government benefit from more children (i.e. form more tax revenue in the future), how about let the government breed and raise childern with donated eggs & sperm, surrogate pregnancy, and public school & daycares?
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by piiswrong 4y ago
I wonder if bats get a lot of allergy problems
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by piiswrong 5y ago
Has anyone noticed that Apple tracks your app installs and use that data to show app Ads to you? While Apple doesn't allow others to track users across apps, they themselves can do it because they have a monopoly on app store so it doe
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by piiswrong 5y ago
Epstein would be a better comparison
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by piiswrong 5y ago
But if you really think about it, flipping rocket is a trivial toy problem in simulation. But useful humanoid robot is very hard even in simulation. Just look at some of the SOTA control theory research. Their simulated robots looks stupid.
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by piiswrong 6y ago
https://theintercept.com/2020/03/31/rikers-island-coronaviru...
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by piiswrong 6y ago
blacks are vastly overrepresented in the prison population and NYC just forced them to bury COVID bodies with scarce protection.
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by piiswrong 6y ago
> and, more importantly, is part of the same intelligence alliance that's exactly why you shouldn't use American network equipment. The Canadian government cannot spy on Canadian citizens due to legal restriction. So instead it
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by piiswrong 6y ago
US also used German companies for spying. So I guess there is no escape.
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by piiswrong 7y ago
Because of fractional reserve banking. 90% of the money in your bank account are in fact credit created by the private banks out of thin air. If the banks fail, 90% of the money in the entire system will suddenly disappear. Imagine that.
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by piiswrong 7y ago
but after the crisis do you give it back to the shareholders and let them brood for the next crisis, or do you remain a socialist forever?
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by piiswrong 7y ago
But nationalizing private business is the symbol of communism! How dare you say such a thing!
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by piiswrong 7y ago
Because they are more important than the goverment. If the big banks die the entire US economy dies with them. Why Americans would let a few bankers wield such power and be accountable to no one is another question.
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by piiswrong 7y ago
1. Next economic crisis will break down world financial order because interest rates cannot be lowered and QE is no longer effective. 2. Total meltdown of social & political order in middle east and latin america. EU and US face larger
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by piiswrong 7y ago
Meaning while Trump is trying to make other country buy more Boeing planes?
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by piiswrong 7y ago
Traditional media should ban compaign ads too. They have been lying for a century.
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by piiswrong 7y ago
Are you referring to the PRISM project?
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by piiswrong 7y ago
more than 1/3 of Americans are obese. the US is one of the fattest countries in the world. Does that mean Americans are poor people who can only afford empty calories? wake up. people just like to eat unhealthy stuff when given the ch
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by piiswrong 8y ago
The firewall will disappear when China has a strong enough propaganda machine that can counter the western propaganda machine (think Hollywood & BBC). China has been working on it for a few years. Shouldn't take too long. Maybe a d
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by piiswrong 9y ago
the US is already shutting down "Russian-backed" twitter accounts that tries to "sabotage the government". Who is to decide what's backed by Russia, eh?
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by piiswrong 10y ago
https://developer.nvidia.com/cudnn Alex did it on 2x580 in 2012. Took him 1 week. It's 60x faster now even compared to K40
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by piiswrong 10y ago
Amazon probably used P2 because they want to advertise it. We can get almost linear speedup on 10 8xM40 machines using MXNet. Batch size is linearly increased with # of machines but empirically it doesn't hurt convergence, at least on