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by spangry 10y ago
I doubt it would cost nearly that much. I could build something similar in a couple of days, and I'm not even a developer by trade. Just use something like pHash (e.g. https://github.com/JohannesBuchner/imagehash
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by spangry 10y ago
Me neither, but it seems like we haven't even come close to the limit of what people will tolerate. For example, Johnson & Johnson has/had an insulin pump on the market that could easily be triggered remotely (i.e. be used to
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by spangry 10y ago
I wonder if they could be used to improve speech recognition accuracy. So you'd have two models running when someone utters a sentence: the first would generate the x most likely phrases that it thinks were spoken, and the second (the
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by spangry 10y ago
'Chunking down' a piece is pretty much the only way I've managed to learn some harder pieces, at least by my regular-guy standards e.g. Rach Prelude in C sharp minor. That last one was particularly hard as I'm a terrible
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by spangry 10y ago
Here you go, latest Inter-Generational report: http://imgur.com/a/UWFAa Your tax/public expenditure curves cross roughly when you turn 62. By 70 the government spends on you more than twice what you pay in taxes.
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by spangry 10y ago
Well, I tried to stay away... Here are figures from the latest Commonwealth budget, and the latest inter-generational report: http://imgur.com/a/UWFAa Tobacco excise takes in $9.4bn in revenue per year, and is expected
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by spangry 10y ago
You know what? Screw it. Believe whatever you want.
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by spangry 10y ago
Precisely! If you check some of my other comments in this thread, you'll see me putting forward the idea that these social incentives (created by these laws) are the primary cause of reduced smoking rates over the past decade or so. My
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by spangry 10y ago
I'm not questioning that smoking rates have dropped. That's absolutely true , and an easily verifiable fact. What I'm questioning is the assertion that higher taxes on cigarettes have been the primary cause of this reduction
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by spangry 10y ago
Thanks for taking the time to explain this to me, it's definitely helped my understanding. It sounds somewhat 'static', assuming I haven't misinterpreted. Where does the 'learning' part come in? Again, this is
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by spangry 10y ago
Citation? If you're talking about Australia btw (where I live), I'd suggest that's a highly debatable proposition.
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by spangry 10y ago
It's a pity you're being downvoted, because your first paragraph is factually correct. I guess people don't want to hear it if it conflicts with their (mistaken) preconceptions.
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by spangry 10y ago
This sounds like an insanely bad idea. While the goal is admirable (eliminating smoking once and for all), without strong enough social norms in place discouraging smoking, all this will do is create another lucrative black market drug (muc
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by spangry 10y ago
Indeed. In the context of a publicly-funded healthcare system (which Australia has), the direct health costs of alcohol consumption do end up being 'socialised'. While my (minority) view is that this argument doesn't apply to
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by spangry 10y ago
I think the laws that only permit outdoor smoking (a certain distance away from entryways/exits), have been so effective because of the social incentives they create. Speaking as an ex-smoker, having to go outside a bar to smoke with t
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by spangry 10y ago
I think this is the most pragmatic approach. Quite frankly, these players' intent is irrelevant. It's the results of their actions that matter. However, it is useful to understand the incentives that they respond to, particularl
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by spangry 10y ago
I hope (what I have come to term) 'the authoritarian left' realise that this is basically what the military might call 'blow-back'. If you're going to stage a cultural revolution you should at least get that there w
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by spangry 10y ago
Honestly I'm still struggling to grasp with RL is . Can it roughly be conceptualised as: a neural network wrapped in a genetic algorithm that re-writes the structure/parameters of the network at the end of each 'pass'
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by spangry 10y ago
ISIS are more of a threat to the Saudi ruling elite than they are an ally. The Saudis essentially pay their population off with oil revenues to buy peace domestically. If oil prices start to dip, revenues dry up (although they have an admit
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by spangry 10y ago
Sounds similar to 'Musical ear syndrome': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_ear_syndrome Unfortunately most of the proposed causes seem pretty speculative to me. Good old "brain searching for a patte
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by spangry 10y ago
Indeed. In quite a few places (Australia, for instance) the taxi industry is basically a government protected cartel. State governments charge insane amounts for taxi licencing (to get their cut of the cartel rent) and then restrict supply
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by spangry 10y ago
It should not be assumed that they were being unlawfully persecuted - rather that there was a serious reason for them to be under investigation It's probably just my own crazy notion, but I think we should assume they're innocen
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by spangry 10y ago
I think this is the most troubling part of the draft order, given it seems unlikely the Iranian government would be predisposed to co-operating (especially if the 'requested information' is designed to pander to a xenophobic const
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by spangry 10y ago
Thanks for the well thought out reply. I think what you say is sensible in the context of relative growth. I suppose the two factors that might allow relative growth of one country's economy to be net positive growth globally would be
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by spangry 10y ago
Why would growth be bounded depending on the cause of that growth? Genuine question, not trying to be snarky. 50 years might be an unrealistic timeframe for China, but then again who knows? Putting aside my personal view that they're g
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by spangry 10y ago
Why not Bitpay? I'm not associated with them, and have never been on the merchant side of the transaction, but it seems like a 'safe' bitcoin option. And based on my quick read of their merchant TOS[0] bitpay shouldn't (
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by spangry 10y ago
The unresponsiveness might be memory related, though it's impossible to know for sure. Have you tried altering the 'swappiness' sysctl setting? The default it 60 out of 100, where higher means earlier swapping to disk. Anothe
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by spangry 10y ago
Yeah I kinda get that feel as well. The thing that makes me suspicious is the amount of unnecessary and obfuscating jargon that gets thrown about. They've even invented new jargon to replace perfectly confusing old jargon (e.g. your mo
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by spangry 10y ago
Indeed. Although I think one big difference is that Australians are occasionally forced to face reality en masse , the last time being around the late-80s early-90s. I think we're due for another dose of reality, now that the mining b
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by spangry 10y ago
In AES' case at least, it sounds like this is their main value-add. According to the article they don't manufacture their own Li-ion cells, so my guess is they're more in the business of building and installing 'safe&#x2

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