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by plopilop 8y ago
I overall agree but I'd like to add some nuance: one-liners are hella compact but no way near maintainable in many cases. For instance 100% of code golf competition results should never be allowed in production. Also there may be a bal
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by plopilop 8y ago
That's a nice cherry-picking over the sources you're doing here. From Scientific American, quoting USGS: > According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the world’s volcanoes, both on land and undersea, generate about 200 mi
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by plopilop 8y ago
It's also affecting nutrient absorption. I don't see any quantitative number about this in the paper but it's been mentioned several time as having an impact.
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by plopilop 8y ago
Safe maybe, but still restraining fusion is not something as easy as restraining fission. I'm still betting it won't happen in the next 150 years, even though I'd love to be proven wrong.
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by plopilop 8y ago
My bad, here it is. http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/09/26/1807522115
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by plopilop 8y ago
Sorry, I edited. http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/09/26/1807522115
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by plopilop 8y ago
> Think we're dumping too much CO2 into the atmosphere? We no doubt are but that problem basically goes away immediately if we ever get economic fusion power. That's an enormous "if". Fusion research has been underfun
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by plopilop 8y ago
Not knowledgeable enough for reading the paper but it's been made pretty clear that it's not a valid proof. From what I read Atiyah is losing his mathematical abilities (he's 89), and that by respect for the great mathematici
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by plopilop 8y ago
Honestly, given how the negoctiations led by Michel Barnier on the EU side has been openly skeptical towards Brexit negociations, I doubt it.
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by plopilop 8y ago
Yes but given that prolongations must be voted by unanimity, wouldn't be logical that cancellation should be, too? I really don't know if that would be attainable.
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by plopilop 8y ago
They are in the process of leaving. They activated article 50, which automatically starts a process of departure lasting 24 months. This period can only be prolonged by unanimity vote, I'm not even sure it can be cancelled. Concernin
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by plopilop 8y ago
You're twisting the narrative here. US are the one who decided to quit the deal they signed in 2015. The one defying everyone else is the US, not the EU. So either the EU decides to submit to the US or decides to grow a spine. It app
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by plopilop 8y ago
I'll add that sanctions were imposed because Iran was getting greedy with nuclear power. Now that Iran backed off, there is no reason to continue these sanctions. Moreover everyone voted to lift said sanctions in 2015, and now some ora
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by plopilop 8y ago
Well technically something like 99% of the population lives in zones that map to "theoretical" UTC+7/8, and it's not as if local populations had their word to say anyway--switching Tibet to China's time after its in
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by plopilop 8y ago
"pretty bad code"? That's an euphemism.
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by plopilop 8y ago
I thought most French people did not want to work on Sundays, turns out the majority is not so big (60% according to [0] in 2014, 53% in 2015 [1]). My bad. [0] http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2014/12/04&#x2F
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by plopilop 8y ago
Well, as I said, in my country it's not the case.
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by plopilop 8y ago
In my country, inheritance of more than 2 million € is taxed ~50% (20% tax for 500 000 - 1M€). Copyright inheritance is not taxed in any way.
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by plopilop 8y ago
The best example about this I know is Moulinsart, which holds the rights of Tintin. Moulinsart is managed by Nick Rodwell, the husband of Hergé's former wife. He takes a very strict stance on copyright law, and does not give a shit abo
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by plopilop 8y ago
> to retain these loyal customers these eateries keep the price of their daily set lunches fixed to the value of one voucher I'm a bit doubtful about this point. My experience (2 4-months internships inside Paris, lived in Paris ano
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by plopilop 8y ago
As a European, I'm quite happy the EU wants to protect my personal data from being arbitrarily raided over without any warrant by your government for the simple crime of not being American, but thank you very much for your concern.
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by plopilop 8y ago
I've not read everything yet but the adversarial attacks remind me of an article I read about evading SVMs and perceptrons by a simple gradient descent. Biggio et al., "Evasion Attacks Against Machine Learning at Test Time",
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by plopilop 8y ago
I have a similar experience. Filling in fields and switching with the TAB button then pressing ENTER always brings me to a visual recognition test, while manually clicking on the fields (and adding a bit of sloppiness) is most of the time a
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by plopilop 8y ago
Well, computable numbers are countable, so almost all real numbers are non-computable (also they're dense in R). So while your objection is valid, in practice any truly randomly selected real number is non-computable.
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by plopilop 8y ago
By large-but-immaterial, do you mean the money escaped via tax fraud and illegal tax cuts?
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by plopilop 8y ago
I'm not a biologist, but I'd be surprised that genetic reproduction would be as stable 3 billion years ago than now. I would not be surprised that monocellular beings, which don't need DNA replication to survive, had a more d
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by plopilop 8y ago
Sci-Hub's DNSs often change due to ISP blacklisting and such. However Wikipedia has a pretty reliable list of still alive DNS/IPs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub
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by plopilop 8y ago
GDPR is not about annoying small businesses at all. First, to file a complaint one has to go through several steps, and the fine will be proportional to the offence. No small business owner will have to pay 20M€ for logging an IP (plus keep
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by plopilop 8y ago
Are you sure about (b) and (c)? They seem quite wrong to me. Just looking at the abstract of [0], one can have homomorphic equality test in a semi-honest model, which already seems good enough. The abstract does not point any theoretical li
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by plopilop 8y ago
I think you're confusing several things. About your query example, (F)HE never claimed to be secure against leaked information inherent to the query. This is more the resort of privacy, which is tackled by differential privacy research

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