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by sprafa 6y ago
You seem to misunderstand human instinct - we’ll do exactly what you’re saying won’t happen.
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by sprafa 6y ago
The YT algo used to be crazy and recommend insane stuff and you could learn from it and do a deep dive, a lot like Wikipedia. Not anymore.
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Isn’t PRISM basically using FB to do NSA work for them anyhow?
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by sprafa 6y ago
I was amazed at the scene at the time, and thought it was unbelievable. But then i read they had NSA advisors and maybe the US govt might have had access to some sort of primitive photogrammetry at the time?
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by sprafa 6y ago
Charlie Munger said "if economics isn't behavioral, what the hell is it?"
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by sprafa 6y ago
As far as modelling goes you can now model in almost anything you want (Blender/Maya/whatever). Maya is the default for animation pipelines, since it has the more robust animation tools. Houdini is for FX and sims, and Houdini is
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by sprafa 6y ago
After Effects also has a competitor with Cavalry now. Beta is out now. Adobe is the Autodesk or 2D world. I’ve heard they don’t even have Dev teams in the US anymore, for the most part they have teams in India. Profit maximisation at its wo
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by sprafa 6y ago
C4D is really good and Maxon has been decent in making updates for it imo. They are listening to their users and updating stuff, even if more slowly than people would like. They’ve also done of the best lateral moves of all time by buying R
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by sprafa 6y ago
How? Their understanding of disease was surely rudimentary?
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I think what Elon learnt from that experience is that manufacturing things is hard, and that building that knowhow and ability to both build and troubleshoot robot factories like this one is not something you do overnight, even if you hire
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He quit exactly because it did nothing else but flag them.
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by sprafa 6y ago
An enormous amount of money going through Britain appears to be money laundering. Look into real estate in london. An absurd situation. Anecdotally - I spoke to a Goldman Sachs guy who quit - he made software to flag “suspicious” transactio
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by sprafa 6y ago
Thats the Nuremberg defence “we were just following orders” and “we didn’t make the decisions”. Hannah Arendt nailed it when she saw Eichmann “evil is when good men do nothing”.
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by sprafa 6y ago
Skype on windows is a disaster. On iOS my girlfriend and I use it (we have to) and I can never connect to her, no matter how fast my connection is, she has to call me.
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by sprafa 6y ago
Yes you are biased. The data shows it.
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by sprafa 6y ago
the 2nd favorite activity in HN is to talk about shit they have no idea about.
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by sprafa 7y ago
This documentary from the first 4 minutes looks very low effort. You can gather any number of “experts” on any given topic to give you any form of a story you’d like to tell... Also the “social democracy” you talk about is still there. Univ
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Covid-19 won’t stop without tech we need digital contact tracing says Oxford(ox.ac.uk)
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Oxford Medical model says defeating covid19 requires digital contact tracing app
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by sprafa 7y ago
All I’m saying is I hope it would help. All your views are valid but all I can think of is this can save lives.
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by sprafa 7y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22516450 I've posted here about the Chinese/South Korean system of a "foursquare" type system for coronavirus seems to be helping contain the spread. How realistic wo
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Making the South Korean/Chinese covid19 containment QR code system as an app?
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Claude Shannon teaching them makes them essentially computer science royalty.
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by sprafa 7y ago
They used to be in the hundreds range, but for a few years now Udemy has been on a constant sale. They used to go up and down from the sale but I haven’t seen them go up anymore for ages.
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by sprafa 7y ago
There are some decent ones. Plus Coursera courses can be endless and dry. Udemy has a more... eeh free market model where the best stuff rises to the top and you have more competition. Even the quality of the video/áudio on coursera is
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by sprafa 7y ago
Having taken both a lot of psych meds are worst for you and have far more side effects than many illegal drugs. A famous talk from a psychiatrist talked about antidepressants vs alcohol and how in virtually every measure, healthy consumptio
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by sprafa 7y ago
No that’s not true at all but sure. The problem with Analytica is it was done without your knowledge as a user. If you had volunteered to share tour data with CA how is that is that different from sharing it with Google or Instagram or any
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by sprafa 7y ago
There is a very simple solution to Facebook - demand that they offer compatibility through an API so that other products can offer News Feed products that are seamlessly integrated with the FB Friends. Same as having a universal messaging p
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by sprafa 7y ago
Id say you’re righty as far as “Northern Europe” being Scandinavia+Germany. The Uk but london specifically is actually a pretty decent example of a contemporary protodystopia (I live there). On one side you have Mayfair which is like Monaco
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by sprafa 7y ago
Nothing like the UK. The UK had very high levels of income inequality. London has both a lot oft he richest people in the world and some 50 000 to 100 000 homeless people (they’re everywhere ). And the opportunity to bridge through that inc

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