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by random_upvoter 5y ago
If I decide not to resist an invasion of a stronger military force out of concern for my personal safety and that of my family and friends, and I do not really consider the interests of Moldova. That's just another foreign nation, like
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by random_upvoter 5y ago
In no way this invasion by Russia is justifiable but I'm getting some serious "Don't look up" vibe from the glibness with which the West is escalating.
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by random_upvoter 5y ago
Not so sure what your argument is here. Ukraine is in control of its policy, the West is in control of their policy.
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by random_upvoter 5y ago
That's all very easy for you to say. I can only speak for myself but if I saw a convoy of tanks and artillery approaching the city where I live I would wave a white flag, gladly hand over the keys to the city, let the enemy occupy what
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by random_upvoter 5y ago
There's different ways of not existing, either relatively unscathed or as a pile of rubble. I'm afraid the West for all its rhetoric is still in denial about the seriousness of Russia's intentions. https://en.wikip
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by random_upvoter 5y ago
Arming Ukraine to the teeth, is that in the best interest of Ukraine?
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by random_upvoter 5y ago
I agree it's ok. One time it really bit me in the ass by silently deciding that some random old backup folder of my Desktop, residing on my Onedrive, should actually be my desktop folder and all of a sudden all this old crap appeared o
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by random_upvoter 5y ago
Well you bought into the myth of competition and you have done well in your particular segment of the economy, good for you. But most jobs in this world are just not challenging. Most of the meaningful work in this world is not particularly
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by random_upvoter 5y ago
Don't want to be flippant but every daily user of marijuana that I knew in my life told me that they wanted to reduce their intake somewhere in the near future.
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by random_upvoter 5y ago
More specifically, whenever such an article hits the headlines most comments will gladly assume that the authors are insultingly ignorant about basic statistics and overlooked a glaring confusion between causation and correlation, which the
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by random_upvoter 5y ago
I think you were downvoted undeservedly but what you maybe don't understand is that some people's brains just don't work at this level of abstraction no matter how you break it down and use simple words. Your explanation migh
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by random_upvoter 5y ago
So I'm member of a a religious (yogic) organisation and we have our own little chanting on Saturdays. When Covid broke out this obviously became impossible so we decided to have our meetings on Zoom instead. Now we have one woman in o
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by random_upvoter 5y ago
When StyleGAN2 came out I played with the original NVidia training set for about a week - and when I say a week I mean I did nothing else, day and night, for a week - just exploring "seed space" to see what variety of faces would
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by random_upvoter 5y ago
I'm reminded how Newton invented modern physics after spending a year(?) in seclusion because of the pest raging in London and I wonder if something similar has been going on with the Covid lockdowns.
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by random_upvoter 5y ago
I find it odd that a formal impeachment would be necessary. If NY Democrats just refuse any further cooperation with Cuomo then surely he has no option left but to resign?
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by random_upvoter 5y ago
Great that you would consider this! The format doesn't matter all that much to me... JSON is the thing of the moment, seems the most obvious choice. XML would be fine too.
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by random_upvoter 5y ago
As someone who at one time wrote a parser for the error output of gcc, clang AND cl, I can only upvote this tenfold. It was a minor nightmare with a ton of special cases, and the final result was a heuristic rather than a formally sound met
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by random_upvoter 5y ago
Python, hehe. But I just don't like it that much anymore.
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by random_upvoter 5y ago
One of the reasons I gradually fell out of love with Python. To get Python right you need to remember more protocol than Queen Victoria's master of tea. And it is truly protocol in the sense that there is always this arbitrariness hang
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by random_upvoter 6y ago
It's not because our brains thought up the concept of algorithm that reality must conform to the idea of an algorithm. The only scientific hint that we get on this mater we get from quantum mechanics which says that the universe isn&#x
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by random_upvoter 6y ago
An algorithm is a mathematical construct that exists in reality. But that does not mean that reality itself is an algorithm, or can be modeled/predicted by an algorithm. I strongly suspect that it cannot. Therefor it is possible that r
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by random_upvoter 6y ago
Take a piece of paper and write the words "I FEEL SAD" on that piece of paper. Now look at it. Do you believe that this piece of paper is feeling sad now? In the same way an algorithm can never ever gain consciousness. Just becaus
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by random_upvoter 6y ago
I was in the market for a home router a couple of months ago and I was astonished that 200-300 euro is now considered "mid-range" for a wireless router.
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by random_upvoter 6y ago
Don't underestimate the satisfaction of a job where you don't have to prostitute your brain and where you can send a smile to people a couple of times a day.
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by random_upvoter 6y ago
I worked in a supermarket for a while and there was plenty of old people who came to that shop almost daily just to interact with another human being.
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by random_upvoter 6y ago
Not sure if I agree. Intentionally and systematically guessing URLS of postings and comments that were deleted or intended to be private sounds like computer crime to me. Weak security does not bestow the right to steal data.
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by random_upvoter 6y ago
The thing with IKEA is that most of their furniture looks good at first sight, but when it's been in your living room for a couple of years you tend to become very aware of the somewhat generic blandness of the design, the cheapness of
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by random_upvoter 6y ago
Not everyone you meet has good intentions for you, your projects or the company.
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by random_upvoter 6y ago
I had some flu thing in the beginning of February and I had this weird symptom where anything that contained vinegar (like ketchup) had this terrible acetone-like taste -- I almost brought back the bottle to the store for a refund.
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by random_upvoter 6y ago
I don't like my private sphere getting invaded by a public sphere.

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