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by seren 8y ago
I am reading Charles Darwin recounting of his travel on the Beagle, and in Argentina he mentions the Gaucho diet that is essentially only eating beef and drinking mate. From wikipedia [0] >The gaucho diet was composed almost entirely of
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by seren 8y ago
If you look at the simple but extreme case below (someone named Null) : https://www.wired.com/2015/11/null/ Maybe you want to be able to appeal to a machine made decision and that it should be reviewed by a h
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I think the more generic questions is how are we going to assess that an algorithm is fair or not. Since we are going to have our lives more and more influenced by the results of algorithms, should we regulate them or not ? If yes, how ? Ho
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by seren 8y ago
Could be a bug. If you look at wikipedia for a category american inventors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_inventors There is a sub category called "African American inventors". Since the sub
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by seren 8y ago
I do occasionally add opening hours to OSM but the interface is a bit clunky in id editor. I would recommend using Street Complete, that has a really easy interface to add that kind of information to osm. https://play.google.com&
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by seren 8y ago
OSM is generally richer in term of what can be documented. For example, you can describe a bench, how many seat it has, what color is it, is it in metal, wood or stone, and so on. This is not necessarily displayed on osm.org, but could be o
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by seren 8y ago
I am working on critical medical code. I don't necessarily trust my code more that any other places where I used to work, but I trust the overall organization with proper QA, testing, robustness tests, HW tests, etc. It is not like I c
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by seren 8y ago
What does "non-giver of Ether" mean ? This is Vitalik's twitter handle.
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> I don't think you should think about the risk in isolation like that. I don't disagree with the sentiment but FDA asks you precisely to do this analysis piecewise by what they call "SW units". And for each SW unit,
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Great write up ! I am working in medical devices but I am more familiar with the FDA regulations. What I wonder regarding risk management is how you justify the safety of QT /iOS / Android. In its risk management, the FDA asks yo
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It is a corollary but it is an application to people in large numbers. Since, in the long term, there is always less people in on the joke than new followers, you are guaranteed that the community is going to be taken over in the end.
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Compelling reading. There should be a name for the phenomenon of a satirical, ironic or trolling community turning into the real deal, by aggregating people taking the issue seriously. This seems to be a repeating pattern. In this case, it
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by seren 8y ago
So this is a violation of GDPR as well ?
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by seren 8y ago
$16B is an estimation of the value of the imported goods in recent years that will be affected by that tariff.
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Is it an accident that Advance starts with Ad ? I don't think so. The screenshot with the top100 restaurants exactly looks like an ad placement. It is probably not bad that Mozilla gets other source of income, but please call a spade a
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by seren 8y ago
You need to find a place out of fluvial plain or near a cost, because you'll have a hard time dealing with floods.
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by seren 8y ago
I have a hard time imagining how societies would not collapse with a sudden drastic population reduction. We would probably lose a lots of skills. Our financial systems would not survive. Unfortunately, our civilization is addicted growth.
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by seren 8y ago
Same potential damages from source code leaks : revealing secret projects in roadmap, security or privacy malpractices, lack or respect of SW licenses.
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by seren 8y ago
Who would have predicted 30 years ago that a Saudi sovereign fund would invest in an electric car company ? Symbolically that is a pretty potent signal.
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by seren 8y ago
Not buying meat might be to hard to attain, but not eating lamb or beef, and only eating chicken is a step in the right direction. http://uk.businessinsider.com/the-top-10-foods-with-the-bigg... However, to be fair, if you
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by seren 8y ago
I think this is the fine line where the limit should be drawn. I am entertained as anyone by conspiracy theories, and I am free to believe them or not. But if tomorrow morning, I would wake up with my name on infowars, saying I am part of t
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by seren 8y ago
Parents of Sandy Hook victims are attacking Jones in a defamation lawsuit this year claiming they are harassed by people believing they are paid actors and the children did not even exist (or are still alive). So this is raising the profile
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by seren 8y ago
> In late 2017, GE discovered he had saved about 400 files on his desktop computer using encryption software not used by the company Encrypting personal file on your laptop is probably an improper use of the company resources. Bu
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Thanks. Seems like a good enough reason to not have a domestic market then.
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by seren 8y ago
Is there a reason why Chinese smartphone seems to be successfully exported (Xiaomi, Huawei,...) and I have never heard until then of a Chinese console ? Is it an issue with the games available ? A matter of taste ?
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Whatever the solution we could find to turn CO2 into C back it would require to roughly spend as much energy as it has been already spent in the XIXth and XXth century combined burning coal or oil to go back to pre industrial level of CO2 i
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by seren 8y ago
I remember reading that blog post a few years ago : https://jancovici.com/en/climate-change/acting-individually/... It is relatively practical and takes into account the ratio cost or difficulty vs impact It
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by seren 8y ago
Even if there are some charitable explanations possible, the least courtesy would be to warn you that your comment had been removed and why. You could mark the comment as "outdated", it won't bother me (assuming something has
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by seren 8y ago
Prompted by this post, I wanted to check what happened to the 1-star review I have left 6 months ago. (Product worked for 3 days and then stopped, and after a replacement, the same thing happened). Sure enough, I have 0 comment in my profil
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Interesting dilemna for FOSS : you can use a store to generate some revenue, but you have to comply with byzantine store owner regulations.

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