taoistextremist

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by taoistextremist 7y ago
Ford was working on autonomous stuff before Argo though, from what I understand. Argo was bought I think in hopes that they could significantly advance their tech with startup ingenuity. It's a bit disappointing because I think it&#x27
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by taoistextremist 8y ago
Amtrak isn't a government agency though. It's a public-private partnership AFAIK
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by taoistextremist 8y ago
So, according to your article, 29% of Canadians had to wait 4 or more hours, whereas 24% of Americans did, so I'm not seeing much comparative improvements and I'd hypothesize that long ER wait times are not to do with which health
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by taoistextremist 8y ago
No, they have an actual product. It's just pseudo-science. It's a different sort of fraud that would attract a different type of buy-in
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by taoistextremist 8y ago
Yeah, but I think they have a point about the variable names. Really hard to tell the significance of anything there.
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by taoistextremist 8y ago
It's more convenient than pagination for the user. At least up until they want to share a specific section
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by taoistextremist 8y ago
Well, only if you unlock your phone, too.
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by taoistextremist 8y ago
How useful is the info gathered from an attack like this? Does it depend on the specific method (e.g., contactless card versus something like Google Pay) how compromising the information is? I was under the impression that by having virtual
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by taoistextremist 8y ago
Unfortunately, virtually all CS programs have become Software Engineering programs save for their names. The actually thinking and theory behind it is often more of a side note as educational institutions focus on teaching students how to u
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by taoistextremist 8y ago
Yeah, this seems pretty dodgy when they're showing just pure bolivar expenditure. I think cryptocurrency could probably be a good deal for Venezuelans right now, too. It avoids being subject to poor economic decisions by their governme
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by taoistextremist 8y ago
I get this feeling that the displayed images just won't be the same, not the least because they'd just be flat images instead of what you see when you normally look out. As someone who regularly requests window seats this doesn&#x
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by taoistextremist 8y ago
Well, it is a fun name. Do you plan to support this down the line? I feel like compilers that compile down to Rust could become really good tools depending on how the popularity of the language goes.
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by taoistextremist 8y ago
This isn't a really important question, but why the name Cannoli? I feel like you missed an opportunity here to call it "PycRust". (c standing for "compiled to" of course)
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by taoistextremist 8y ago
I personally don't like relying on my browser for notifications. I like having native apps because usually fine tuning notifications for them is easier in that respect, things that while I imagine are possible through the web browser,
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by taoistextremist 8y ago
Yeah, there's certain things that native apps make a lot more sense for (e.g. messaging apps like Facebook Messenger where you want notifications to come up similar to text messages), but certain things really don't need anything
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by taoistextremist 8y ago
Any cancer is related to age in the sense that the older a person is, the more opportunity they've had to encounter it. I suppose the best way to look at it is see how many cumulative years a population represents: if a population is g
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by taoistextremist 8y ago
Yeah, but they were saying in math related contexts, in which orthogonal is almost equivalent to perpendicular.
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by taoistextremist 8y ago
Nah, that would be skew. Orthogonal crosses but goes in a different direction.
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by taoistextremist 9y ago
I think it would be more like Google couldn't sell advertising to European companies, nor provide other paid services like licensing and the sort.
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by taoistextremist 9y ago
That's a different take on mathematics than many people I've met who study it. For me, mathematics is an extension of philosophy, geared towards finding intrinsic truth in a quantitative domain, and it just happens to have applica
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by taoistextremist 9y ago
> By that logic, we should limit owning and operating a motor vehicle to special car parks because we're scared of the mental fitness of our fellow citizens. Why take the risk? We do regulate where you can drive a car, though. Large
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by taoistextremist 9y ago
That's a problem with the model, though, not math itself. People who attribute divinity to mathematics aren't considering these types of things as its the application of math into another field, not an intrinsic truth within the f
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by taoistextremist 9y ago
> And then one can ask “what is the domain of mathematics?” or even “does mathematics have a domain?”, questions which lead us into a “philosophy of science” discussion with no end in sight. I think these are useful conversations even if
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by taoistextremist 9y ago
I see you have not watched La Casa de Papel (or, as they have recently creatively rebranded it in English, "Money Heist"). Yeah, it wasn't produced by Netflix, but they stick their branding on it and have numerous errors in t
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by taoistextremist 9y ago
In my opinion this is less of a gap and more of a misapplication of what mathematics is. Mathematics isn't a tool for describing human behavior, though social sciences may use results of mathematics (and I would argue to much greater a
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by taoistextremist 9y ago
What kind of gaps do you mean? As someone who studies mathematics, I feel like this is a vague criticism I've seen some make without any concrete justification.
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by taoistextremist 9y ago
Nobody is suggesting they're doing that. They're saying Uber cuts corners to save a dime among other unethical practices (like stealing research from competitors).
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by taoistextremist 9y ago
Lots of universities use similar or identical acronyms. UM can refer to a few different universities for example depending on where you are regionally Also for the record WSU in Google brings up Wayne State as the first thing for me, but pe
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by taoistextremist 9y ago
I would argue it's also useful for new team members in general, or for teams that have in the past been unorganized. At my current job I've spent a lot of time refactoring code so that there's some more unity among everything
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by taoistextremist 9y ago
Kind of makes me think of the divide in opinion on modern wage inequality. I'm still not sure whether to think it's purely because of women not being in as well paying positions or whether discrimination within the same job is a s

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