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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
"an operating system is a collection of things that don’t fit inside a language; there shouldn’t be one" I've wondered the same thing about databases. Just like an OS, a database has to manage data on disk and figure out whe
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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
>The fundamental failure of this logic of trying to go somewhere and built a new city to escape the policy failures of the old city, is that those conflicts are intrinsic problems of large scale human organization. If you bring people, y
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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
I don't understand why this problem would be self-perpetuating. It seems to me that if the cost to ship items rises, that would incentivize investment in building more containers, deploying more ships (perhaps converting abandoned cru
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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
I think you'd be better off using a Gaussian process than reinforcement learning
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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
Thanks!
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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
Thanks! I'm curious why you think the JVM is a net loss if you don't need it, if you want to elaborate on that.
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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
>Domains worth over $8 have already been namesquatted. You mean "domains worth over $8/yr". That's a big difference.
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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
I don't follow. For context, I've been thinking about learning Clojure. I'm pretty new to the Lisp world--I went through most of SICP in Scheme years ago, but that's about it. In 2012 Clojure was HN's second favorit
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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
>The problem with wanting "controversy" in "hard" sciences is that if there's a "controversial" theory of physics or biology, that's really just another way of saying "there's not convinc
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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
Why not just use Clojure?
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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
Just to play devil's advocate here--if domains were cheaper to own, there would be more namesquatters
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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
>Unfortunately, the results showed a true-negative rate of 78%. i.e. most of the time the model failed to predict when a meaningful conversation was about to occur. >... >The model is significantly worse than a coin-flip. Obviously
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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
Fair points, but I'm not sure how this ties in with twitter's image cropping algorithm. Not saying chest crops are ideal, but IMO twitter has other issues which are at least 100x more important that they should be focused on. If
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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
That's easily explained by internalized homophobia ;-)
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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
https://aipaygrad.es/ Average total comp for a novice AI engineer is about $300K. That's over $1000 per weekday. If they made it so the expected value of entering was comparable to the amount someone could make in the
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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
Indeed. And reddit is one of the angriest social media sites IMO. My suspicion is that FB and Twitter are actually tuning their algorithms to dampen anger nowadays--I'm almost certain Youtube is (with terrific results). I see reddit a
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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
That's crazy.
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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
I don't buy it. My intuition here is that Benford's law is a thing because for pretty much any statistical distribution, large numbers are less likely than small numbers, and small numbers are more likely to start with 1. But I&
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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
In the long term you could develop some best practices around killing pests. I always thought something like Pabio for used mattresses would be great, so people could easily try lots of mattresses and find one which really helps them sleep.
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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
>spending some time with one vendor will give you some habits that are sure to not work as well with another It seems like having multiple vendors is only valuable if their products are to some degree differentiated, no?
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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
My local Dollar Tree offers 12 eggs for a dollar, a loaf of bread for a dollar, a decent sized bag of frozen berries or vegetables for a dollar, 2 pounds of rice for a dollar, a 26oz can of baked beans for a dollar. That's not exactly
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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
Composting releases CO2 into the atmosphere. Despite the treehugging vibe, it actually makes global warming worse.
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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
How about a super soaker instead of a pistol? Especially one of the CPS soakers that got banned https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=resgaF7MeR4
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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
Why is fusion better than traditional nuclear reactors?
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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
See http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/whowriteswikipedia/
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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
I would guess this reputation is based on a few high-profile charity cases optimized for maximum PR impact.
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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
Supposing my pocket is picked in a cartel-governed part of Mexico, what remedies are available?
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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
That was about 100 years ago. Do you have more recent numbers? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_fallacy
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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
>Some cartels in Mexico govern way better than the Federal government there. Do you have a citation for this?
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by qPM9l3XJrF 5y ago
I think it's a bit more complicated than that. First, just because the state loses its monopoly doesn't mean some other entity gains a monopoly. In Mexico, cartels aren't just fighting the state, they are also fighting each

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