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by ronaldx 12y ago
Current thoughts on strategy: You shouldn't care how you are affecting your opponent's board (you are affecting it randomly). So just play for your own board. On an empty board: The centre square is the most valuable, crossin
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by ronaldx 12y ago
To clarify: it seems to me that you're using the term "ultra-feminist" to belittle and to trample the points being made.
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by ronaldx 12y ago
I feel uncomfortable that you have implicitly associated the parent article and its goals with extremism and hatred, which I don't observe.
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by ronaldx 12y ago
Typically in poker, you win quickly and lose slowly. This is especially true of tournaments - finishing in the money suddenly does wonders for your balance. So, I would guess that more than 1 in 28 players would show these results, havin
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by ronaldx 12y ago
I genuinely have some concerns about what you're saying - I believe you need to try to look at the stats critically or conservatively, without the influence of poker marketing itself to players. You're saying that 5,000 games is e
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by ronaldx 12y ago
IMHO, and with respect, poker results have a very high variance which may yet overwhelm your good results. According to back of an envelope calculation, if there was no skill in poker, and you were just coin flipping, approximately 1 player
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by ronaldx 12y ago
>His study of more than a billion hands of online Texas Hold’em found that 85.2 percent of the hands were decided without a show of cards. In other words, players’ betting decisions were of overwhelming importance in determining the out
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by ronaldx 12y ago
My concern about the "internet of things" is not discussed here. My concern is that "internet of things" is really a synonym for "things that used to work great independently but now have external dependencies that
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by ronaldx 12y ago
MetaFilter is a site which I always value, when I read it, but am rarely directed to: I don't remember ever noticing it in a search engine result. I'm sorry to hear this and I will endeavour to more actively support MetaFilter a
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by ronaldx 12y ago
> I guess the only downside is that if your client has NoScript, they just see the raw Markdown. Correct, which is pretty awful. But, curiously, 100% better than any other 'static site' solution I've seen here.
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by ronaldx 12y ago
Privacy policy says: "Personal information does not include anonymous or aggregate information, which after processing may not be associated with a specific person or entity." But I find this a dishonest definition of personal inf
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by ronaldx 12y ago
I see it differently: Ads are a net negative for me, my friends, and for society as a whole. I believe they are psychologically punishing. Services which add value to people's lives, or to society, will be able to survive perfectly wel
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by ronaldx 12y ago
The issue here is that a link is not supposed to say "I vouch for this site". A link is supposed to be a hyperlink. Google creates a false incentive to link/not link, and then complains when people link in a way that they don
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by ronaldx 12y ago
This is exactly what I object to: they present themselves as privacy campaigners on their front pages, but when push comes to shove they roll in favour of Google and against the individual's right to privacy. This harms privacy campa
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by ronaldx 12y ago
If you believe that an (American style) right to free speech overrides the right to individiual privacy, you are not a privacy campaigner. If you believe that Google and Facebook deserve full marks on any measure of privacy, and that deserv
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by ronaldx 12y ago
The EFF apparently cares a great deal about government surveillance but does not comment on corporate surveillance. Is it a coincidence that some of the 6 star corporations who supposedly "have our back" are funding the EFF? Sigh.
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by ronaldx 12y ago
I would wager that you'd end up being handed a can of Coke at good proportion of the time. "Oh sorry, they don't serve Pepsi here." Richard Stallman's way makes it clear that he does not want to support Coke. He doe
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by ronaldx 12y ago
The problem is that your sarcastic position sounds pretty good to me. The product is naturally high margin because there is a small, niche market. The first mover has a massive advantage, if they do a good enough job. It's unlikely tha
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by ronaldx 12y ago
I read this as marketing bluff: Testing one difference guarantees that one side will beat the other (whether or not there is a true difference). Multiple testing has a danger of the results appearing inconsistent/random (again, whether
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by ronaldx 12y ago
I'm really interested in this project: a request from a particular industry to provide a valuable, bespoke product. I'm ready and willing to work on something like that. But the above questions are important. "Track Changes&q
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by ronaldx 12y ago
If you intend to use your work commercially, you should be aware of licenses when you select what tools you are building on top of, or you may get bitten later. You may also wish to license your own work for others to use. If you have an op
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by ronaldx 12y ago
Absolutely not so. That's not how free speech works in the EU, and that's not what the court ruling says. EU citizens have a general right to information privacy. The original publisher was "...legally justified as [the publi
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by ronaldx 12y ago
> I think placing the onus on google for this is the wrong precedent and I think it speaks to the public and the court's misunderstanding of what a search engine does. I also think it's wrong that they didn't sanction the
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by ronaldx 12y ago
I will try: Imagine flattening the 3D space (Figure 5) down onto the 2D space of the floor. Then, the image is trying to illustrate which sections of the 2D space have been selected as 'cat' by the classifier (green plane). Visual
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by ronaldx 12y ago
Yes, and I recommend the article: it confirms that life expectancy was 38 and only 8% of people reaching adulthood lived to be 60. The article is trying to say that life expectancy is reduced by high child mortality, but that's a prett
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by ronaldx 12y ago
Life expectancy was 38. http://ffxlearn.zf4.biz/index.php?title=Life_expectancy_in_t...
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by ronaldx 12y ago
If your private financial information was published online, you should have the legal right to have it removed. Private financial information does not belong online. Do you believe, for example, your bank should have the legal right to publ
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by ronaldx 12y ago
Ah, I see that you are ignoring and misrepresenting the point that I made. Good for you. Anyway, to respond to your point: I do not welcome advertising as an extension of social interaction, no more than I welcome someone shouting at me in
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by ronaldx 12y ago
>out the European Union. This is IMHO highly unlikely in practice. Succession/secession law regarding EU membership is untested, but the simplest suggestion is that rest-of-the-UK retains membership, and Scotland has to reapply as a
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by ronaldx 12y ago
The wayback machine seems (to me) to be breaking EU law before we get to data protection; there is a copyright issue as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine#Legal_status

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