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by richmarr 11y ago
I'm really excited to see Blendle opening their doors to the English speaking market. Journalism funded by advertising contains several seemingly-unpatchable incentive structures... (a) the need to promote the advertising to you, break
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by richmarr 11y ago
Trouble is, "unhedged call option" will result in a blank stare from anyone who doesn't work in banking. > He realised that the problem with the “Technical Debt” metaphor is that for managers debt can be a good thing This
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by richmarr 11y ago
> After all, MS gave them a paid job... Is your question whether MS procuring the dancers was sexist, or whether any of the attendees were reasonable in their discomfort? I'd say the second one is true, which makes the first one tru
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by richmarr 11y ago
When a headline says "Out-group X is doing BAD THING" when the in-group has already done "BAD THING" it seems reasonable to assume it's an attempt to leverage peoples irrational bias against out-groups.
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by richmarr 11y ago
Criticising the example of psychological profiling doesn't address my actual point.
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by richmarr 11y ago
> ...a biometric is both a username and a password Appreciate you probably know a ton about this area, but I think you may be too close to it. A passwords work by being (a) secret and (b) changable. Your biometrics are categorically not
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by richmarr 11y ago
I imagine there's a Venn diagram of overlap between what a nutjob thinks is worth hiding and what would be of interest to law enforcement organisations. For example I doubt many of these extremists would both trying to hide information
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by richmarr 11y ago
I've got a decent amount of respect for anyone who gets off their arse and writes; it's not nothing. That said; this article presents a narrow view which can be misleading. Technical debt and "bad code" are entirely diff
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by richmarr 11y ago
Cool. Impressive project by the way; I forgot to say that before. I tried something similar; but with a different approach. I tried creating compound words, a bit like n-grams. I didn't get it working as that was a side-project and I c
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by richmarr 11y ago
You might want to look at Morelikethis queries to boost performance. I worked on a proprietary version of this and at the time Lucene performance dropped off nearly linearly with the number of query terms. We used MoreLikeThis to reduce our
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by richmarr 11y ago
(article was written in 2014) In case anyone missed it; yesterday Mondo completed a £1m raise on Crowdcube in 96 seconds. https://twitter.com/getmondo/status/705378846862876672
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by richmarr 11y ago
Can I add an additional spin on this... HOW are you hiring? What does your process look like?
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by richmarr 11y ago
Considering even just the slice of human history that contained both written history and structured government, the 18th century is very recent. Personally I find it more 'blind' that we don't cite older sources.
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by richmarr 11y ago
Maybe I'm being cynical, but if I were Apple and had just been forced to implement back doors with a gag order, I might be announcing that my new phones were unhackable too. Is anyone aware of anything that makes this more than a leap
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by richmarr 11y ago
...and here again in Poland, also a week ago: http://paczaizm.pl/jesli-zastanawiasz-sie-gdzie-spierdzielil...
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by richmarr 11y ago
Misleading title. He wasn't spotted "skimming contactless cards" he was spotted holding an object and doing nothing else with it.
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by richmarr 11y ago
You're missing the distinction between brand & marketing there. The Situation Room is part of the Whitehouse's brand whether tourists get to see it or not.
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by richmarr 11y ago
> Not trying to imply that vellum should be the only storage method but that sounds like cheap robustness Not to mention supporting the UK's tourism brand... castles and queens and whatnot.
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by richmarr 11y ago
> How would you reconcile the differences between the Western world and fundamentalist Islam regarding the rights of women? Your comment reads like you disagree and are raising a counter-example, but the existence of a difference doesn
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by richmarr 11y ago
I think focusing on algorithms (if that's what you're suggesting) would be tunnel vision, and as a result the output of such a system will be much more weakly correlated with productivity than it should be. Beyond code literacy, t
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by richmarr 11y ago
Personally I don't think there's any such thing as 'irreconcilable differences'. The idea of secession in that instance kinda scares me because it leaves you with a new foriegn nation on your doorstep with the exact same
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by richmarr 11y ago
I feel like I've missed some vital perspective... why is there obviously a bubble? (I'm assuming "obv" means "obviously" in your comment)
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by richmarr 11y ago
> All human beings have equal moral worth Perhaps most of us would like that to be true, but judging humanity by it's behaviour rather than by its stated ideals I'd say we're not there yet.
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by richmarr 11y ago
I'm amazed they manage to write this article without mentioning Nixon's "most dangerous man in America", Timothy Leary... who apparently pre-dates William Richards in the therapeutic study of psychedelics. Garcia-R
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by richmarr 11y ago
> Why aren't we talking about those implications? Assuming I've understood your question properly, my suspicion is that there isn't an easy, one-line, (ideally rhyming) sound-bite defence against accusations of disloyalty.
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How would you sum up the message to be both 'accurate' and consumable?
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by richmarr 11y ago
> LOL. Nice try. If you thought I was a sock puppet for LM, it would only take a few minutes of looking at my comment history. TROLOLOLOLL... your ploy to miss the point doesn't fool me :)
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by richmarr 11y ago
> I'm now convinced you are trolling. Enjoy your evening. I think @greedo self-outed with the "quit reading the press" comment... posturing some secret source of information more authorititive than the damning reports from
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by richmarr 11y ago
Link to the discussion about this a few hours back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10941363
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by richmarr 11y ago
Reading the article I didn't see a mention of a previously hypothesised fifth gas giant... so here's a link in case anyone's interested or knows something more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothetical_

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