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by sgk284 12y ago
> should not be used as a growth promoter and only used to help sick animals The issue is that a lot of animals get sick from being crammed together in small areas, unable to move, while living in their own feces and urine. If we regulat
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by sgk284 12y ago
The algorithm implemented here appears to be based off of this paper: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mr10/backtrk.pdf The paper goes into far more detail than the comments in the code.
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by sgk284 12y ago
> It's also unacceptable to wait 2 days to get what I order. In Seattle, there is often an option for same-day delivery. I suspect they'll eventually roll that out to most cities, assuming it's a successful experiment. I h
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by sgk284 13y ago
This does impact a person's federal rights in the democracy that they participate in though. Specifically, over 1,100 rights are denied to couples who love each other but happen to be the same gender. All men are created equal, right?
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by sgk284 13y ago
Is there a fundamental reason why Person A can't get both? Equity costs nothing to give out (excluding legal / accounting overhead) and could serve as a great incentive. Effectively, a project would say "Hey! Give us $300 dol
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by sgk284 13y ago
Who says we need to move off of this planet and on to another? See the Stanford Torus[1]. We could live in stations such as that and hop down to planets to mine new materials (or from asteroid mining) when we had to. The entire world's
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by sgk284 13y ago
Yep, you're right. I had read something about Google paying Mozilla $1B, but upon trying to re-dig up the info all I'm getting is non-conclusive and/or misleading articles. $300MM is still a giant number.
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by sgk284 13y ago
Mozilla has publicly stated that they make at least $300 million per year from Google (as of 2011) [1]. Although there are reports that this is closer to $1 billion per year now (including all search-related revenues). [1] http:/&#x2F
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by sgk284 13y ago
We may not need to replicate the mind. We've built planes that fly, yet don't flap like birds, and submarines that swim, yet don't have fins. I suspect whatever ultimately ends up being true general purpose useful AI may not
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by sgk284 13y ago
Read any history text on the American Revolution to see why that's a bad policy. The opposite policy is interesting though, following from "all men are created equal", we won't kill American citizens without due proces
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by sgk284 13y ago
You're assuming that we're at capacity on spending, but we're not. Instead, we can afford to bring 11 individuals into the world. The absolute gain to society is still greater than simply bringing 10 into the world. Maximizin
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by sgk284 13y ago
> That's still a terrible argument. It was one of three points made, the last point being the most significant. Our humanity should take priority over negligible costs. > there's absolutely no reason to expect this hugely pr
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by sgk284 13y ago
Still makes sense at the margin. Updated wording slightly to clarify.
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by sgk284 13y ago
If the child lives to 80, she only needs to contribute an additional $12,500 worth of value to civilization per year for this to make economic sense. Another way to look at this: the government has various estimates for the value of a human
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by sgk284 13y ago
Not sure that's fair if the United States is exporting a larger percentage of it's agriculture (as in, that water is indirectly being consumed by other nations). So we'd need to account for who exports / imports from eac
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by sgk284 13y ago
Every square meter of Spain could be farmland and the United States would still have 3.5x as much farmland (that is, Spain's total landarea is less than a third of the United State's cropland). As it stands, the United States has
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by sgk284 13y ago
Microsoft, Google, and others seem to be behind FIDO[1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIDO_Alliance
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by sgk284 13y ago
Re: finite resources - Constraining the human race to a single planet puts a pretty small upper bound on our species' potential. Humans evolved a desire to explore and adapt to new environments as an evolutionary advantage, this advant
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by sgk284 13y ago
Nah, that's pretty standard if not a little low. Without any change in experience, you could probably get up to $120-$130k with a little shopping around.
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by sgk284 13y ago
Their salaries are actually still fairly low. An engineer in SF can easily make more than $150k base per year. Venture backed companies should pay their employees well though. If you're worried about food / shelter or constantly w
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by sgk284 13y ago
Leak a rumor that there has been a fundamental vulnerability in it's crypto implementation and/or a fundamental problem in it's protocol that allows anyone to steal anyone else's funds and/or trivially mine bitcoins
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by sgk284 13y ago
For sure, you could have multiple wallets. My point is, the second you spend from one wallet, that wallet may be forever "tainted". Admittedly, governments can already request credit card data, under court supervision (ideally...
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by sgk284 13y ago
If Amazon ever accepts bitcoin, you're effectively allowing Amazon to track all of your non-Amazon bitcoin spending too (via the public ledger) since they'll know your address and/or name. You'd have to go through a thir
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by sgk284 13y ago
Yep, definitely should have noted that. It's an interesting mental exercise though.
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by sgk284 13y ago
If your sort is lazy enough, the `(sort xs) !! k` approach will work fine. Haskell's default sort isn't lazy enough, but you could certainly make it so. You don't have to fully sort the list before determining the kth element
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by sgk284 13y ago
You can add multiple fingerprints to the phone.
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by sgk284 13y ago
I agree, the thought of merely holding money being a taxable event seems weird (speaking as an American). That said, it's a great way to ensure that people don't hoard cash and instead spend it or invest it (in theory, keeping the
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by sgk284 13y ago
Pure functions handle state without any issues (quite elegantly, actually). They simply can't have mutable state that is globally observable. For instance, you could have a struct, and every time you 'mutate' the struct, you
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by sgk284 13y ago
I have general issues exceptions. I've seen too many developers use exceptions in place of conditionals, and in the worst abuses, use exceptions as some hacked form of GOTO that lets them jump to different points of execution within th
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by sgk284 13y ago
It's just a different (arguably better default) to have to explicitly ignore errors and/or explicitly bubble them up the call chain. You'll always be in control of your code's control flow that way. You'll never hav

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