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by timbre 13y ago
Different societies have determined different things. Indian society in particular has determined that reducing this reward to risk-takers in order to widen access to drugs is a worthwhile trade.
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by timbre 13y ago
It's really the wrong approach. Supervised learning is the way to go. For example a paper by Kumar et al.[1] shows how to build an "attractive woman" classifier that is 83% accurate. [1] http://homes.cs.washingto
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by timbre 13y ago
I don't see why you read this as belligerent, unless you think altering and changing designs is inferior to coding and original design. There were a lot of articles after Tim Cook took over that described Jobs' genius as that of
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by timbre 13y ago
Jormundir didn't say Amazon "ought to" do anything, but his comment seemed to generally support pasbesoin's comment, which was not (only) a fist-shakin' comment, but a rule-changin' one: > If you don't
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by timbre 13y ago
It is frustrating that quotation marks have come to have two, almost perfectly opposite meanings (the traditional "words someone actually said" and the new "words no one actually said"). I guess the battle against the
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by timbre 13y ago
Stitch a few of those into a panorama.
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by timbre 13y ago
That surprises me, since it says "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" would take about 10^28 years.
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by timbre 14y ago
The Geforce 600-level cards are all terrible for scientific computing, which surprised no one as Nvidia has been slowly removing CUDA features from the Geforce cards since the 200s, trying to get everyone to upgrade to Teslas.
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by timbre 14y ago
> Their code of conduct also states that you may not take pictures of people without their express consent. Where is that? The only code of conduct I have found is here: https://us.pycon.org/2013/about/code-of-conduct/ The only menti
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by timbre 14y ago
There's not much augmented reality in glass; only the turn-by-turn directions sort of qualify. I think the key thing about glass is that it's hands-free. As handy as smartphones are, it's remarkable how much of a difference not having to
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by timbre 14y ago
That's pretty much what "OEM license" means. The whole point of the retail license was that it wasn't tied to hardware; what's news is that this is no longer offered.
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by timbre 14y ago
For a professional reporter writing in the New York Times, I think it's right to lump "semi-true" with "flat-out lied."
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by timbre 14y ago
An unintended consequence of the "https everywhere" practice.
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by timbre 14y ago
Has Microsoft ever produced a good version 1? Maybe XBox? I don't know much about games. But for the most part I think what MS is good at is slowly improving a turd until it's really quite nice. DOS, Windows, IE, Office, and Visual St
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by timbre 14y ago
At least one court, in US vs Lori Drew ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Lori_Drew ) has determined that violation of terms of use does not qualify as "unauthorized access" under the CFAA.
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by timbre 14y ago
The author makes the point more effectively when he writes "It's blown everything else away to the point it's moved the bar and redefined what we think of as a low level language."
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by timbre 14y ago
Youtube is respecting the claims of copyright holders a lot more than it has to by law. 1. The entire pre-DMCA-takedown process (the first round of complaint and appeal) is not required by law. I think it's a good idea in general (it's nic
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by timbre 14y ago
"Girlfriend" in particular is ambiguous for women.
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by timbre 14y ago
I think it's you who's assuming too much. I don't see why you think the author assumes the pest control guy is "disturbed by the open admission of sexuality." What the author says is that the pest control guy was "trying to process this a
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by timbre 14y ago
Certainly many of the licenses must have been sold to businesses. I wouldn't expect most businesses to buy software through the app store. For that matter I wouldn't expect individuals to use the app store much either. I use both Windows
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by timbre 14y ago
From Memoto's FAQ ( http://memoto.com/pages/faq ): > Will it be possible to use the camera without ever uploading any photos to Memotos cloud storage? > Yes. You can use the camera with local storage only if you want. You will howev
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by timbre 14y ago
No more a fool than an artist who took out a loan to make an album. Business often involves accepting a risk that you won't be able to meet your obligations.
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by timbre 14y ago
What's the dilemma? Isn't a math class very clearly not the professional world, but a place to develop in your brain the mental models to do math?
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by timbre 14y ago
Or hang a sheet across the living room and rent out the new extra "room."
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by timbre 14y ago
Few people complain about Sony laptops because few people buy them.
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by timbre 14y ago
This may just be a difference in attitude. For myself, I would count having multiple iPhones and MacBook Pros replaced or repaired as a terrible experience. Good service is better than bad service, and occasional defects are unavoidable,
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by timbre 14y ago
It's hard for me to believe that they don't know the test is insufficient when the protocol involves waiting 1 minute for the problem to go away.
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by timbre 14y ago
That's the point. The Bayesian incorporates this information into the prior. ;)
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by timbre 14y ago
Do you keep logs? The idea that you've got a record of every time I've entered or left my house creeps me out enough that I wouldn't use this as a customer. On the other hand, if I were building this, I'd be pretty interested in what I
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by timbre 14y ago
Do Google and Amazon count as web 2.0? Maybe they're 1.0. Anyway, what I think of as the three biggest "internet companies", Google, Facebook, and Amazon, have all decided it's worth their while to get into this kind of systems work. E.g

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