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by sytelus 6y ago
I used their online form to void charge which requires me to write justifications. I wrote a paragraph of it explaining that I didn’t authorized that charge and that I can’t even contact Rhapsody, because of bad phone number they have put i
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by sytelus 6y ago
You obviously understand payment systems more deeply but to me this is like someone explaining why I need to deal with mainframes with tap drives in 2020. Many of us don't even need credit cards, we just need a way to transfer existin
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by sytelus 6y ago
privacy.com looks great. I think the only disadvantage is that you lose all the 2-5% cashback, travel benefits and so on. I wish they could produce card while keeping these benefits but still its good card to have for shady websites.
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by sytelus 6y ago
Paypal allows canceling subscription but they have hid this link deep inside. I don't know how well that even works. Also, Paypal payment protection is basically a joke. If you get dupped by someone and try to get refund through their
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by sytelus 6y ago
I have never managed to get iCloud Photos work on Windows. That means I can't even actually download all the photos I have taken. It's one horrible app.
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by sytelus 6y ago
I'm getting charged by rhapsody.com every quarter for no apparent reason. I used their service like may be 8 years ago. They have a phone number in their merchant line which is invalid. When I filed request to void the charge to Americ
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by sytelus 6y ago
When you don't have a viable product, its hard to optimize for long term.
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VehicleNet: Learning Robust Visual Representation for Vehicle Re-Identification(arxiv.org)
1 points by sytelus 6y ago|0 comments
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by sytelus 6y ago
That looks like very bad math. If you are paying $1500/mo in taxes, you are not in majority. And if you get back that money then who is really paying government bills? The UBI is additional expense and needs to come from extra income
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by sytelus 6y ago
What does those 2/3rd do then? Do they lose a year?
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by sytelus 6y ago
Even at $1500/mo, this will cost at least $150B/mo. That’s almost additional $2T/yr. This is still not taking in to account free medical care and education. How do you think govt will pay for this? I think UBI is possible som
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by sytelus 6y ago
Care to share question any way?
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by sytelus 6y ago
I don't understand this... Lift and Grab aren't doing so bad. Also, things are opening back up again. Even their quarterly results looked very bad, it was already priced in and so no benefit there. This reduced focus basically jus
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by sytelus 6y ago
How much of these is really still relevant with now Python quickly becoming new scripting language across all platforms? I now tend to prefer 3 lines of Python vs 1 line of cryptic unmaintanable Linux-only bash. With new great subprocess mo
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Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine [pdf](vtechworks.lib.vt.edu)
2 points by sytelus 6y ago|0 comments
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by sytelus 6y ago
I don't think market is optimistic (ex. projections from pretty much every investment bankers), but instead reality is extraordinarily distorted by massive cash infusion and govt's commitment to not let market go down at any cost.
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by sytelus 6y ago
I'd read some post where Go designers boasted about how they simplified compiler code by cutting down a language feature. It seemed to me they were obsessed about keeping compiler simple which resulted in half-assed language that was
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by sytelus 6y ago
This is very weak argument. Once these restrictions are embedded in language, it cannot be removed by anyone. On the other hand, same thing can be accomplished by using company-wise style enforcers. If you think that is harder, I'd say
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by sytelus 6y ago
Is there really a copyright issue? Mimicry artists and tribute bands have duplicated original voices without a problem. Technically, you are not reproducing any recording owned by anyone. It's brand new synthesis! It would be interes
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by sytelus 6y ago
1 student and 4+ "advisors" aren't uncommon these days. They would show up in meetings, put their attendance and claim their spots. So one can argue its not really "fraud".
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by sytelus 6y ago
This article doesn't do good job describing the gory details. In AI/ML research, this is so unpleasantly prominent that its nauseating. How does workshop speakers at top conferences gets selected? How does keynote speakers get sel
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by sytelus 6y ago
When Spolesky brought on this guy, I was shocked. He had no profile or activity on Stackoverflow. He wasn’t even a developer and his resume indicated he was just generic management talking head. Given how much Spolesky emphasis “product per
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by sytelus 6y ago
It's not. In this economy 3 months will pass by in split seconds and you may still not have job.
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by sytelus 6y ago
Isn't there much better way? Many big cities are projected to start opening up in June. I would expect life coming back to normal around August end. So that's basically 4 months. Why not just keep paying instead of doing severance
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by sytelus 7y ago
I don't remember who but someone (Naval?) had this quote that generations 100 years from now will think of us as utterly barbaric for eating animals. When I look around how we treat animals as if they were just sacs of meat, its amazin
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by sytelus 7y ago
> Huge delivery times are because they're getting so many orders From my limited probing, it doesn't look like that. Instead my guess is that operations are violently broken right now at Amazon. You can find lot of non-essentia
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by sytelus 7y ago
It is surprising that their relevance algorithms isn't able to show diverse results. If you look 4 or 5 pages down the search, you can still find innovating items but they are literally in the sea of almost exact same looking white-lab
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Deus Ex Machina(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by sytelus 7y ago|0 comments
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by sytelus 7y ago
This is quite significant given market is very bullish on Amazon (Goldman is just all over it). The expectations are set sky high to do well during these times. But if you look at things as consumer, it doesn't look so good. Personally
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by sytelus 7y ago
Oculus was sold for $2B in 2014. Adjusting for S&P, I think it would have been sold for $4B today. MagicLeap has much more difficult and stronger tech so $10B seems reasonable. On back of the napkin, I would estimate ~500 people working

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