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   by spangry 9y ago

   Hilariously, the conservative government currently in power made the following election campaign promises [0] [1] in 2013 (the election where they won government): - Every household and business to have access to broadband with a download
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   by spangry 9y ago

   Not sure about the rest, but doesn't the Australia and New Zealand Food Standards Authority just adopt the USFDA stance where appropriate? I don't know. What leads you to think that?
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   by spangry 9y ago

   Why the downvotes? This is true to an almost absurd degree. The following food / health standards agencies have found aspartame to be safe for human consumption: - World Health Organisation - US FDA - British Food Standards Agency - Eu
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   by spangry 9y ago

   Fair enough, I agree that we could be here all day if we opened the value-judgement can of worms (though I do wish we did this when discussing public economic policy). Economists generally claim this outcome to be "unrealistic" b
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   by spangry 9y ago

   IMHO, perfect price discrimination is not usually a good thing. It's often discussed more in the context of monopolies . Under simple market models (e.g. no externalities, downward sloping demand curve etc.), a profit-maximising monop
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   by spangry 9y ago

   I suspect you're right; I've noticed we also like the 'news' media again. I guess it's only a problem when it's not "your side" invading people's privacy, spreading false propaganda, destroying l
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   by spangry 9y ago

   I'm a little surprised about the HN reaction on this one. You guys didn't seem to care about collection of passive biometrics a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11172652 . What's changed?
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   by spangry 9y ago

   This idea isn't even a particularly new or unusual one. When faced with a superior enemy, fighting opportunistically is an old as dirt strategy. People have continued to use it for literally millennia because it's effective. Forc
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   by spangry 9y ago

   One could also view good maintenance as the antidote to bad design. Or the antidote to "not 100% perfect" design and execution. Nothing's ever perfect. Innovation is to maintenance as inspiration is to perspiration.
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    by spangry 9y ago

    I don't know how google 2FA is implemented, but I'd just assumed the initial code is akin to something like an initialisation vector / nonce for a counter or CBC mode block cipher. With the counter being 'time', mea
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    by spangry 9y ago

    Cheers. Do you know if these kinds of filters will remove fluoride from water? I ask more from the 'dental health is good' perspective rather than the 'mass mind control' one :)
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    by spangry 9y ago

    I did. Ended up going with a 'Rabbit Air Minus A2', which I think mostly uses components from a popular Korean brand (can't remember the name). Good customer service too; they've been pretty accommodating given I'm
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    by spangry 9y ago

    I didn't even know these existed until reading your comment. Finally, a new topic to obsessively research :) The last one was indoor air quality and air filters. It sounds kinda lame but it's a really fascinating topic (with a ver
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    by spangry 9y ago

    What i found out is that i rarely take the time to lern something in depth because i mostly learn stuff to use it and tutorials seem to move at a way to slow pace, so i mostly skip them... i started out with C/C++ development but am u
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    by spangry 9y ago

    Thanks for this! It's funny in a way: I'm trying to learn the basics, but don't have a clear idea of what the basics actually are. This looks like it could be just the ticket. Cheers!
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    by spangry 9y ago

    Usually just simple data analysis, really nothing far outside of the 'statistics' lib. Currently it's more the exploration and discovery part of the exercise I'm struggling with. I've got a few hundred thousand csv
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    by spangry 9y ago

    I haven't tried this yet, but am praying that it delivers even half of what it promises. For whatever reason I just can't get my head around pandas , despite multiple attempts. If this also turns out to be inscrutable I may be fo
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    by spangry 9y ago

    Worth noting that there's two axes here as well: - Positive vs. Negative - Same-side vs. cross-side Network effects can be negative: if more people dine at your favourite restaurant you have to wait longer for a table. That's a ne
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    by spangry 9y ago

    Sorry I'm late to reply. This looks perfect for what I have in mind! Thanks!
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    by spangry 9y ago

    Yeah tried that one a while ago but didn't have much success. I'm a bit of a dummy when it comes to ML. That said, it looks like they've updated the documentation or something, so might be time to give it another whirl. Thank
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    by spangry 9y ago

    Fair enough. Sounds like, in all probability, it's just an 'overly twitchy' algorithm somewhere; no system is perfect I guess.
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    by spangry 9y ago

    Reading through l3m0ndr0p's comment history is quite a surreal experience. Almost every one of their posts is downvoted to grey, even the extremely uncontroversial and mundane ones. I can get how, with a comment history like that, what
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    by spangry 9y ago

    I am a complete machine learning noob, so this could just be my lack of skill. Having looked at most of the popular ML frameworks, none of them seem to provide an easy, functional way to implement a custom 'neuron'. That is: f
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    by spangry 9y ago

    I have to admit I'm a little confused about the relationship between OpenID and OpenID Connect. At any rate, OIDC is a restricted, but still standards conformant, profile of OAuth 2 designed specifically for authentication: Whereas in
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    by spangry 9y ago

    I can't figure this out myself. I could swear that budget accounting is designed to be as unreadable and incomprehensible as humanly possible. Take a look at http://www.budget.gov.au/2016-17/content/bp4/h
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    by spangry 10y ago

    Well, you're correct in that taxes usually create dead-weight loss. But this is not always the case (e.g. taxes that price in negative externalities). And tax dead-weight loss varies depending on the type of tax: http://i.im
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    by spangry 10y ago

    I honestly can't tell if you're being ironic/sarcastic here. If this is seriously what the US wants to do, no amount of domestic tax reform is going to achieve it. Military conquest would be the only option (at least for unil
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    by spangry 10y ago

    I think it would. I'm starting to get that familiar 'realities are diverging' feeling reading some of the comments on this post. Other than the options you have suggested to deal with the regressive nature of consumption tax
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    by spangry 10y ago

    I realise that the US has a progressive personal income tax scale, but my impression (as a foreigner) is that it's severely gamed at the upper end. Didn't Warren Buffet once point out that he pays less tax than his secretary, desp
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    by spangry 10y ago

    Thanks. And now I feel ill.