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by theaeolist 5y ago
You also don't have to worry about owning anything that is, you know, useful in any way.
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by theaeolist 5y ago
Agreed, if there were sleeper trains available. But finding a sleeper trains from A to B is much harder than finding a plane from A to B.
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by theaeolist 5y ago
In this case the game is not building 'electric airplanes' but 'better batteries'. If you have the power plant at a reasonable power output / weight building the airplane is not such a challenge.
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by theaeolist 5y ago
Additionally, I can find 6am flights, which means that I can be at 8am at the destination and have a full day ahead of me. By train the whole day will be dedicated to travel. Same on the return. Losing 2/3 days on a business trip is a
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by theaeolist 5y ago
There is one aspect where flying beats trains: checking luggage. If you have big suitcases it's a PITA to get them on and off the train. And changing trains means taking the bags with you, unlike flights where bags are (usually) transf
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by theaeolist 5y ago
If only. There's a nice flat-earth documentary on Netflix. Some scientifically-minded flat-earthers designed and carried out not one but two experiments to "prove" the earth is flat. Both of them came conclusively on the side
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by theaeolist 5y ago
I saw a keynote by Bill Dally when he was promoting the then-new CUDA framework/language. His message was that if you want a new language to be adopted it needs to do something (something reasonably important) 10x better than the compe
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by theaeolist 5y ago
Not impossible. The longest sightline on Earth is 400km or so https://calgaryvisioncentre.com/news/2017/6/23/tdgft1bsbdlm8...
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by theaeolist 5y ago
As someone who is research-active in this area: The differences between graphs and hypergraphs are wildly overblown in this article. A hypergraph can be represented as a graph using a Poincare-style duality. This is not something esoteric,
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by theaeolist 5y ago
At the university where I teach we used to have two year 1 intro to programming courses: Java and OCaml. The weaker students overwhelmingly preferred Java and the stronger students OCaml. I don't think that was a statistical anomaly in
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by theaeolist 6y ago
This. Having the company (aka shareholders) pay for the crimes of the executives is a hugely skewed incentive.
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by theaeolist 6y ago
This is not by some accident of history. It is a deliberate decision of euro-skeptic countries to avoid turning the EU into a superstate. It is usually the same countries who then go to complain about the "democratic deficit" of t
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by theaeolist 6y ago
How is 1/350,000 a LOWER risk than 1/567,000? I don't get it.
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by theaeolist 6y ago
As far as "concerns" go these are not even allegations, these are rumors and slanders. There has never been even one shred of evidence that Huawei have done that.
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by theaeolist 6y ago
"Fractional banking" is not a philosophy that can equally apply to cash and stocks, or oil, or sheep. These are different things.
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by theaeolist 6y ago
Cash is fungible, but it's unclear whether stocks should be fungible in the same way.
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by theaeolist 6y ago
That is a generic and ideological objection. If that was the case we would never need any regulations, just T&Cs. I get that some people believe that, but equally some people believe such a world would have way too much friction.
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by theaeolist 6y ago
So far of all the answers this seems to be the only relevant one: > And one little privacy issue: what targeted ads display can give out information about you that you don't want made public to people who may see your screen. The ex
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by theaeolist 6y ago
That is begging the question: WHY is it a "horror-show"? What bad things will happen to you when the 'estimated persona becomes more detailed'?
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by theaeolist 6y ago
Is this different in principle from non-targeted advertising? Isn't all advertising trying to manipulate you?
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by theaeolist 6y ago
Agreed. But sort of besides the point.
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by theaeolist 6y ago
Is there any circumstance in which "SAFE AND CHEAP 100% GUARANTEED MEDICALLY SUPERVISED KETAMINE INJECTIONS IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!" are acceptable to advertise? Is this a problem with targeting or with the product itsel
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by theaeolist 6y ago
Not a single answer explain why targeted ads, legally and competently used, are in principle bad. Of course, like any technology it is not perfect and can be used for bad purposes or straightforwardly abused. That is obviously not the issue
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Ask HN: Why are personalised ads bad?
29 points by theaeolist 6y ago|51 comments
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by theaeolist 6y ago
Nevertheless, it is impossible to say why a 'neural network' would be better than some other model function with a large number of parameters. It's true, there are some significant successes achieved with NNs, but there is no
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by theaeolist 6y ago
Indeeds, sorry. I searched for "handler" and saw no hit. It's a very interesting topic for me. I wouldn't call them 'algebraic' anymore because the way they are done in OCaml the algebraic aspects are fairly ob
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by theaeolist 6y ago
I was surprised they didn't discuss a recent major change to the language, effect handlers.
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by theaeolist 6y ago
No idea. According to Google these phrases only appear in this blog post. A strange kind of common knowledge.
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by theaeolist 6y ago
Fake Twitter bots are also a form of censorship. Censorship does not work just by imposing silence, but also by overwhelming with noise. Free speech is valuable because it leads to a contest of ideas. If it degenerates into a contest of who
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by theaeolist 6y ago
Academia is a market. Your customers are reviewers and your income is citations. You have to pander to this market with everything that you got.

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