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by resters 8y ago
Any links to a tutorial on how to do this? I'd love to do that but also don't want to crack the screen in the process.
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by resters 8y ago
In my experience most of what I end up needing ends up cold. Even XCode builds take forever on it due to the slow storage.
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by resters 8y ago
I made the mistake of buying an iMac last year with a fusion drive. I assumed that since it was an Apple product it would have relatively good performance. It is unbelievably slow and negates the high performance characteristics of the res
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by resters 8y ago
My comment was not directed at you personally or at your past views on the subject.
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by resters 8y ago
> Facebook would happily accept their cash It's not so simple, because not all employees would go along with it. It's possible that Zuck is stalling so he can figure out how to deliver what he's being asked for without cr
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by resters 8y ago
> That's why there are engineers at Google right now working on a censorship machine at the directive of the Chinese government It's already been built for the US government, so why not profit by selling a US supervised version
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by resters 8y ago
Ironically the fear-mongering about the propaganda campaign you are describing is intended to turn Facebook into an instrument of US government propaganda. Zuckerberg has been resisting that, which is why Facebook is being attacked from all
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by resters 8y ago
All governments want a great firewall of some sort (and a social credit system too). Facebook is being strong-armed.
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by resters 8y ago
It started after Facebook started getting blamed for landing Trump in the White House, and the pile-on has increased steadily since then. I’m no fan of FB’s extensive use of dark patterns, but the concerted attack on FB is meant as pressure
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by resters 8y ago
Exactly. My point in making the initial comment was not to defend China, but simply to attempt to prevent the knee-jerk "America has great institutions" jingoism that is such a common reaction to stories about corruption in forei
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by resters 8y ago
The fudging was intended at first to make the books look a bit better and juice the profits. Then, once it became clear that there was a lot more risk than they had thought, the goal of the fudging became preventing the markets from finding
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by resters 8y ago
It was not rectified. It is analogous because it was a heavily leveraged lie — lots of policy consequences flowed from it. It’s not the size of the lie, it’s the degree to which you can leverage it. For policy makers, the best practice is t
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by resters 8y ago
I'm quite sure it's true, but I can't seem to find the original citation. There were congressional hearings in 2005 because the GSEs couldn't produce financials.
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by resters 8y ago
Information was omitted: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/03/business/dealbook/why-no-...
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by resters 8y ago
Consider that Fannie and Freddie were allowed not to provide detailed financials to congress for several years in a row preceding the 2008 housing collapse. It's not a matter of "oh wow, a major government fudges numbers", it
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by resters 8y ago
It's obvious that Facebook is having some challenges from the dramatic increase in the number of inline ads (promoted posts). FB is scrambling to generate enough revenue to avoid spooking investors. What the investors will be missing
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by resters 8y ago
I just bought a pair of glasses from the local optometrist. Lenses and frames came to $650. It turns out the eye exam was done so hastily that I ended up with the wrong prescription. So when I went to a different place to have the exam red
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by resters 8y ago
Does anyone know of any mathematical objects that have been created intentionally to defy intuition?
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by resters 8y ago
True, but we are also in a golden age for building things like that and accomplishing scale without a ton of money. It does take time and care, but it no longer takes a massive R&D budget.
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by resters 8y ago
I'm not an expert on the details, but I'm guessing that is a "legacy" finance issue. No reason why a contract couldn't be designed that treated the first week and the rest of the finance term differently, where the
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by resters 8y ago
Tesla could delay executing the loan for the first week to avoid the inconvenience you describe. Typical dealers want to execute the loan immediately because accepting a return is extremely rare, but for Tesla it's part of the busines
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by resters 8y ago
Thanks for the clarification. Going to back-fill and update the rest of the logical conclusions I had drawn :)
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by resters 8y ago
> the minting rate of new bitcoins goes down over time Isn’t the difficulty level calibrated based on 10 mins per block? I don’t see how your statement above can be true. Seems like it goes from one reward every 10 mins (on average) to 0
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by resters 8y ago
What percentage of CPU power do you think will be mining bitcoin 5 days before vs 5 days after all of the coins have been mined? If you think the amount will be roughly equal, then you are predicting that transactions that end up in blocks
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by resters 8y ago
Isn't the environmental concern temporary? Once all the bitcoin has been mined, the computational requirements for maintenance of the network will certainly decrease significantly. One could argue that Bitcoin should reach the limit so
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by resters 8y ago
I think it’s a bit different because the attacks are not entirely clear. The power of many of the attacks would be for them to fly under the radar because nobody was expecting it. So having lots of script kiddie attacks (which would be slop
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by resters 8y ago
Just as many pesticides mimic the hormonal and chemical signals of pests to drive certain behaviors that lead to eradication, this work mimics the linguistic signals of humans. I think viewing it metaphorically as the most sophisticated hu
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by resters 8y ago
While censoring the full data set seems in some way to support the rationale of the OpenAI charter, it also means that only state actors and very well-funded entities will be able to use the work to create models of the size necessary to do
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by resters 8y ago
I would love to know how google determines the value of being the default search engine... estimating it is required to agree to the fee structure.
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by resters 8y ago
> NFL football is a carefully constructed entertainment product that goes to great lengths to remain competitive and engaging to audiences How do you reconcile that with the NFL not wanting Costas to spread awareness of serious injuries

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