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by tjansen 6y ago
> Part of the reason for this is the racism inherent in the US justice system What's the root cause of that? A long time ago it was an economic incentive, but that incentive doesn't exist anymore. Today, I think, it's bias
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by tjansen 6y ago
Perception is mostly shaped by frequency. It doesn't matter that much what most people of the minority do. It matters what the others see. To give you an example: if you have little personal contact to a specific minority, and over 50%
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by tjansen 6y ago
Your are assuming that there is someone in power or large numbers who has/have an agenda of racism. Who is? Have you ever seen any sane person who,for example, disagrees with the notion that Black Lives Matter? Some people may argue th
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by tjansen 6y ago
Don't disagree, but the poster asked what he/she could do. Also, it won't work without the help from minorities.
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by tjansen 6y ago
I would view racism as a marketing problem. Some (most? all?) people associate certain races with bad traits. That's the underlying issue, and to a certain degree it is also a subconscious thing that people can't easily change, ev
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by tjansen 6y ago
Even though Elon Musk seems to be believe people would do that, I doubt that. Who would want to clean out their car every time they leave it? Then inspect it for damages when they need it again? Always be forced to plan ahead when they need
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by tjansen 6y ago
Same here. When you are a Gold member, you they can't even try to upsell you anything. You just show your license at the exit and then drive away.
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by tjansen 6y ago
Yes, I am still sad about this. A simplified XML (without entities, PIs and CData sections), XHTML and E4X would have been an awesome platform. Almost as simple as JSON, and with a single format for both data and markup.
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by tjansen 6y ago
Not this portfolio, but I don't see the point of buying bonds anymore, at least when you invest a relatively small amount of money. Low interest, risk is relatively high compared to what you can earn, and no inflation protection.
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by tjansen 6y ago
Right now is a very risky time to invest. It could be that it turns out to be a good time, because stocks are about 20% below the all-time high. But there could also be a second crash, when investors realize the real impact of the economic
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by tjansen 7y ago
There are plenty of anecdotal stories that show that it spreads very quickly. A highly publicized story in Germany was about one of the first ten cases here. This guy merely sat behind a patient and got asked for a salt shaker. That was his
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by tjansen 7y ago
I just didn't feel bad enough to go to a doctor. Back then fever was still considered one of the symptoms, and I didn't have any. I should add that I live in Germany and our first major outbreak was in Heinsberg, not too far away
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by tjansen 7y ago
Yes, I believe it's still weaker, but could also be that my daughters diapers are just not as smelly anymore :)
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by tjansen 7y ago
About 6 weeks ago, I had a cold. I didn't think much about it, because at that time the virus wasn't supposed to have arrived here (reports started a week later). I had a dry cough initially, chills on two nights, but without feve
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by tjansen 7y ago
The article is from 2011. Most of the points describe issues with historic plants and wouldn't apply to Gen3 reactors.
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by tjansen 7y ago
> only represents about 1/5 of the emissions problem I wonder what the percentage would be like if the energy sector needs to provide enough energy to replace all fossil fuels. It's certainly much higher than 20%.
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by tjansen 7y ago
I am working on a natural language parser using symbolic AI (no machine learning...). It's working a bit like a multi-pass parser for programming languages, but with the ability to handle multiple ambiguous meanings of a sentence at t
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by tjansen 7y ago
Same here, also a 32" BenQ with 2560x1440, and I am really happy with it. Better than the 27 Thunderbolt Display at the same resolution I use at work. Much better than 1080 for me.
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by tjansen 7y ago
Maybe you can connect your phone to your monitor? At least Samsungs have a desktop-like interface. Don't have much experience with it, but if you got a browser with unrestricted internet, you can do pretty much everything.
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by tjansen 7y ago
My feeling is that symbolic AI hasn't really been explored that much with modern tools and modern computing capacity. It just needs that one breakthrough to show that for certain areas (IMO NLU) it is far superior. There's no way
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by tjansen 7y ago
But why does it have to be the longest AI winter? I would agree that current NLP approaches do not get us any closer to NLU. They won't hurt either though. They may even help to motivate people. I started working on NLU because the cur
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by tjansen 7y ago
Truly zero deaths won't be achievable without giving up all forms of transport. Public transport kills pedestrians and bicycle riders, and there are even pedestrians killed by bikes. You can certainly reduce the numbers, but you won&#x
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by tjansen 7y ago
Check their jobs page: "We use: Node, Express, React, Postgres, Heroku" https://substack.breezy.hr/p/395577ab518c-full-stack-enginee...
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by tjansen 7y ago
If it was a code review, it would judge code quality and similar things. Not whether that change is in Google's interest. I guess if she was a product owner and added this feature, she would have been fired as well, despite following t
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by tjansen 7y ago
European Cadillacs do allow you to start the engine remotely (usually to heat or cool down the car).
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by tjansen 7y ago
Noise and emissions. A lot of people do it anyway, and the fine is usually 10 EUR, so not a big deal even in the unlikely case that you get caught.
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by tjansen 7y ago
That's not true, at least in Germany. Idling your engine to heat up the car is not allowed (if you want to heat up your car you need an auxilliary heater which is sold as an option or as aftermarket modification), so most car brands do
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by tjansen 7y ago
I don't know, but I wonder why anyone would want to work in an environment like that, where people appear to be constantly fighting against the company and other coworkers. How can anyone work in that environment? Or maybe they can&#x2
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by tjansen 7y ago
A simple work-around on Echos is to enable the wake word notification pling. Then you immediately notice that the Echo is listening.
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by tjansen 7y ago
I remember reading that many of the assumptions BMW made for the i3 didn't hold true. The main design focus of the i3 was the expensive low-weight carbon-fiber body. They regretted that later when it turned out that the cars' weig

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