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by rspeer 9y ago
Oh. That's a dumb reason. Until this it was sounding like you had an argument against UBI from society's point of view, not just based on your own financial interest.
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by rspeer 9y ago
Your thoughts are fine, don't undermine yourself by saying "I dunno... just a thought" like that.
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by rspeer 9y ago
20 entire transactions per second? Amazing! Who has ever heard of software that could do 20 things in a second?
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by rspeer 9y ago
Idle CPUs use very little power.
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by rspeer 9y ago
There need to be more hardware companies putting any effort into ML. (Besides, say, Alphabet, which seems to be acting as a hardware company whose only customer is themselves.) Intel has indicated that they're working on it, and that&#
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by rspeer 9y ago
How many times are people going to try whataboutism on HN? Everyone can recognize it by now. The existence of war does not absolve you. If your standard of morality is "everything that's better than war is okay", you have app
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by rspeer 9y ago
Given the context of the thread is machine learning, you can't avoid Nvidia. CUDA is an Nvidia technology. They have ML cornered right now.
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by rspeer 9y ago
> First off, I hope you realize that in the current paper systems that your "union boss" could literally walk down to the voting station themselves and give them your name & birthday and just submit votes on your behalf wit
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by rspeer 9y ago
Okay, that is true. I am just not satisfied with proof-of-work as a solution there. It makes Sybil attacks unreasonably expensive, by making the entire operation of the chain even more unreasonably expensive. I do like the math behind Bitco
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by rspeer 9y ago
Bitcoin is not the first solution to Byzantine fault tolerance. It's not the best solution either.
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by rspeer 9y ago
This is what the person you are replying to was pointing out, yes, using sarcastic understatement.
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by rspeer 9y ago
I use Haskell for a special-purpose MediaWiki parser, wikiparsec [1]. It extracts information from Wiktionary to put into the ConceptNet knowledge graph. (Does that still count as programming a computer?) I actually do not like the Haskell
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by rspeer 9y ago
Not particularly. Like any sane programming language, Python has an AST. That's code as data. For porting, it doesn't particularly matter to be able to treat code as data while running that code. There are tools that use the AST
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by rspeer 9y ago
It's funny that this message appears next to a cheery pitch offering you a StartCom EV certificate for "Only US$199.90". Yes, I know that changing website templates requires effort, and that's effort that they no longer
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by rspeer 9y ago
Have fun with that?
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by rspeer 9y ago
I particularly don't see your point when it comes to Scheme. The Scheme I learned in 2002 (MIT Scheme) is all but abandoned. I was one of the people hired to rewrite MIT's course code from MIT Scheme to DrScheme, which was defin
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by rspeer 9y ago
You're claiming to know the future of Python better than "Python people" know the future of Python. Python has changed incompatibly once in 26 years, and never plans to do it again, yet you're making it sound like an ong
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by rspeer 9y ago
In the cities with massive housing shortages I'm aware of, everyone -- NIMBY and YIMBY alike -- would seize the non-primary houses of the rich (or at least tax the shit out of them) if they could. The problem with this, of course, is t
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by rspeer 9y ago
Having to pay taxes is "failure"?
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by rspeer 9y ago
I said "nebulous" because it's such a vague line item. It's probably fine that a grant doesn't have to itemize how much is paying the utility bills, how much is paying the janitorial staff, how much is paying middle
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by rspeer 9y ago
I know there's insane complexity here, but why exactly would it be bad to remove a fictitious cost from a grant? The grant can still pay their stipend, for a lower total amount because $50K of it isn't set aside for the universi
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by rspeer 9y ago
This is a pretty misleading response. So, okay, some of the fortunate people who do have access to USD/EUR are trading it for Bitcoin on LocalBitcoins, not just storing it. But you're making it sound like this is a graph of ordina
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by rspeer 9y ago
That's whataboutism. Other harms existing does not make it okay for you to do harm.
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by rspeer 9y ago
Do you know anyone who bought a T-Mobile plan that allows them to "binge on" unlimited Netflix while charging a per-gigabyte rate for other data? That's zero-rating, which is against net neutrality. The scary images of tiered
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by rspeer 9y ago
I have seen fuzzy search work in a few cases, but they are sparse. Most notably, I never remember what the name of Windows' built-in screenshot application is. It's "Snipping Tool". I often mis-remember it as "Clipp
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by rspeer 9y ago
> Accounts using unauthorized badges as part of their profile photos, header photos, display names, [...] Interesting. Of course there's no way to put an actual badge in your display name. But this sounds like it's targeted at
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by rspeer 9y ago
You can decode anything as anything if you are convinced there's a message there and have never heard of a null hypothesis. I saw some of those threads. The methods of "decoding" they were using were worse than the ones the &
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by rspeer 9y ago
> Locales are a generic mechanism for dealing with encodings. What makes UTF-8 special in that regard, and why is an UTF-8 locale a hack? Locales are a generic mechanism for dealing with code that should run differently in different coun
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by rspeer 9y ago
Locales are not a real way of specifying an encoding for standard in and out. They were not designed for a world with Unicode and UTF-8 in it; they were designed for a world with limited character sets where your text data would probably no
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by rspeer 9y ago
The Python developers plan to never break syntax or stdlib compatibility again. Core developer Nick Coghlan wants to see 4.0 within the decade but he wants it to be "uneventful". [1] In that way, it would be a lot like Python 2.0,

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