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by terminous 3y ago
Bad headline. What is dissolved is the non profit organization that exists in Russia to host events for Russian Wikipedians and other tasks. ru.wikipedia.org != Wikipedia Russia.
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by terminous 3y ago
> that a social media site can have such enormous influence on one's perception of "reality" is staggering and it should die and die quickly. You say this as if humanity has not been fighting over the long-distance communi
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by terminous 3y ago
You must be new to the wonderful world of patent law.
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by terminous 3y ago
> There are federal regulations that prohibit operating a GPS at faster than xx mph speeds, basically to prohibit guided missiles, and this would kick in first (may even trigger an error state in the accelerometer or OS, I'm pretty
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by terminous 3y ago
Because the SV VC business model isn't to build a traditional profitable business that beats the competition by providing a superior product/service for a competitive price. It is to dominate the competition by subsidizing the rea
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by terminous 3y ago
Real time voice translation is getting really good. Standard text translation is pretty much perfect for technical details, but just may miss idioms. You just have your smartphones out, type your message, and show the translation to the oth
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by terminous 3y ago
Is this supposed to just be a 2 page PDF, am I missing something? Kind of ironic to call out bad research with such a sparse paper.
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by terminous 3y ago
*In the state of Utah
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by terminous 3y ago
So there is upstream spam filtering. Thiss seems to contradict what you said: "There is no administrative ostracism. Nobody gets kicked out by brownshirts for expressing their view." Spam is an expression of views.
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by terminous 3y ago
> nobody gets kicked out by brownshirts for expressing their view. What about spam? Is the expectation that it's your obligation to filter it client-side?
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by terminous 3y ago
First author is a postdoc, second author is director of the institute and probably gets last author even if they did no work. The same criticism applies, even moreso for a postdoc than a grad student. They're probably under huge publis
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by terminous 3y ago
Stop. This kind of low effort comment needs to be a violation of HN rules, because it never contributes to the discussion. See to me personally, I don't think this feels like it was written by AI. But this isn't going to be a prod
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by terminous 3y ago
At one point in time, nothing about New York City or Hong Kong said "high rise living." Then they became popular and demand changes the nature of the city.
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by terminous 3y ago
If there are 5 houses in an area, populated by 1 family each for a total of 5 families, and those families have 1 child each (50% below population replacement rate), then with no new houses, there is no way for any of those children to have
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by terminous 3y ago
> I always wonder if people really want to live in high rises forever or see this as some kind of temporary solution until they find their "real place". Santa Cruz is a university town. Most people are there temporarily until
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by terminous 3y ago
> How exactly is it bad for consumers to get products below cost? Because it is necessarily a short term strategy, and when the subsidy ends, it is incredibly disruptive (in the bad way). It is good in the short term for those consumers
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by terminous 3y ago
It is literally anti-competitive, bad for consumers and competitor startups. How can an average startup compete if a rich company or VC backed startup has a business model of selling below cost to get market share? The fact that the big pla
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by terminous 3y ago
Are you seriously asking this question or are you completely disconnected from the dictionary? What does "unlimited" mean? No limits. If you don't intend for a customer to make use of unlimited storage, with no limits, then u
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by terminous 3y ago
> taking advantage No. 100% wrong. If you advertise and sell "unlimited" then you should deliver unlimited. If you don't build in acceptable use limits into the contract, then that's your fault, not the customer'
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by terminous 3y ago
Yes. Any customer service agent (human or chatbot) is supposed to be heavily censored.
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by terminous 3y ago
Except this is just like in outsourcing, where it seems like pure cost savings, until you need to hire more people to manage the low inconsistent quality from those cheaper workers.
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by terminous 3y ago
Denial of service is a crime, even if you do it to criminals.
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by terminous 3y ago
The obvious question: do you watch a lot of TV shows on Netflix? Because these are all [edit: not all, but mostly] Netflix originals/exclusives. I ask because as a Netflix user, these titles are constantly being pushed to me when I ope
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by terminous 3y ago
This "peer reviewed algorithm" is basically PageRank, or close enough for the following critique to apply: None of these algorithms are models that infer trust from raw content, aka there is no special sauce for trust here, it&#x2
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by terminous 3y ago
It is clear you haven't even clicked on the article. Shame on you. This deserves a ban from HN. Just reading the headlines and contributing to a discussion about that article as if you actually read it is deceptive and wrong. It's
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by terminous 3y ago
Policies against {uncivil interactions | personal attacks | harassment | abuse | spam | denial of service} all of these in their most fundamental form, are vectors for language & behavioural control. People who desire to control the lan
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by terminous 3y ago
> I sometimes feel like those algorithmic challenges at interviews are more for making developers feel they work at the "top team" than filtering the candidates. I think that's partially correct, but a side effect. I think
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by terminous 3y ago
> possibly an enlightened parent or a role model This is typically the 'secret sauce'.
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by terminous 3y ago
Important aspect: he had been fired and cracked passwords while no longer an employee, to try to get rehired: "Rather ill-advisedly, the Perl-programming guru (who's written several books on the subject) tried to prove his worth b
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by terminous 3y ago
Software engineering is also not a credentialed field, at least in the way other engineering fields are.

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