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by trendia 10y ago
Many newer Steam games work on Linux
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by trendia 10y ago
Because there are perverse incentives to ban news that don't vibe with a company's/CEO's political goals.
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by trendia 10y ago
The NYT, which got this entire election wrong, is now telling us more about this election. Former NYT writer says, "It was a shock on arriving at the New York Times in 2004, as the paper’s movie editor, to realize that its editorial dy
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by trendia 10y ago
These kinds of economic predictions are nearly impossible to prove or verify. I remember approximately 1 week ago that Trump being elected would cause a global economic meltdown. Krugman himself said the stock market would "never recov
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by trendia 10y ago
> History shows that when America is not prepared is when the danger is greatest. We want to deter, avoid and prevent conflict through our unquestioned military dominance My suspicion is that he wants less direct military involvement and
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by trendia 10y ago
Depending on his / her statistics knowledge, Gelman could easily take 40 - 100+ hours to really understand.
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by trendia 10y ago
The real filter bubble is not one that's imposed by Facebook, but one that's imposed by an individual. That is, people join subreddits or Tumblr groups and they filter out opposing views. Then they approach the "center"
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by trendia 10y ago
He can recognize the problem in others... he just needs to recognize when he's doing it himself. Baby steps.
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by trendia 10y ago
Photos are still admissible, despite Photoshop existing for several decades.
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by trendia 10y ago
Maybe it's the cause (or result) of their 95% drop in profit last quarter.
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by trendia 10y ago
If John votes and pretends to be Jim (who doesn't vote), how would we know?
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by trendia 10y ago
Nearly everyone has smartphones, even the most privacy-conscious people. Until we find an alternative to the current devices, which have a mic/camera/gps that could be turned on remotely, I don't think we will be able to comb
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by trendia 10y ago
The bigger influence on the tax code is the litany of deductions, which are lobbied for by the wealthy. The value of a $100,000 deduction is worth $30,000 to a wealthy person, but probably around $1 for H&R block. edit: fixed
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by trendia 10y ago
Actually, with monopsony it's rather simple: "If you don't publish the code, then we will have to use paper ballots."
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by trendia 10y ago
You can also use Lynx if you want to go Full Stallman.
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by trendia 10y ago
While advertisers would benefit if people are afraid to use adblockers, it doesn't necessarily mean that they did it themselves. There was clearly a market for user browsing data (since WOT was able to find customers), so if WOT is shu
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by trendia 10y ago
But fast growing startups are funded by private investors, not taxpayers.
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by trendia 10y ago
The most shocking thing to me is how little they talk about actual policy. My econ friends spend a significant time debating policies and using NBER studies to show how people would be affected by one policy or another. In contrast, I&#x2
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by trendia 10y ago
> The servers were registered to Alfa Bank Someone else posts evidence it could be Cendyn, a hotel marketing company located in Russia: https://krypt3ia.wordpress.com/2016/10/08/gdd53-a-russian-ho...
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by trendia 10y ago
A weighted election mode would also be visible through source code or disassembly?
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by trendia 10y ago
The article is incredibly vague and they say the data is incredibly sparse. My sense is that they should release the data if they want to make a claim as they are. It could just as easily be a software vendor in Russia. Consider if the comp
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by trendia 10y ago
I'm not sure that storing ints would be more resistant to fraud than storing as doubles. You could easily manipulate the vote by randomly switching X% of votes like so: if wrongVote && rand() < X: FlipVote()
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by trendia 10y ago
It would be rather funny if America's justice system is so inefficient that one agency would have all of the evidence necessary for an investigation and another would fail to at least ask for it .
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by trendia 10y ago
Linux is supposedly secure because everyone can access the source code and find a serious bug. The question is whether anyone will fix it.
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by trendia 10y ago
Recommendation: on your website [0] you mention a case study for detecting financial fraud. It seems to talk about what could be done rather than what has been done. So, I think you may benefit by showing specific examples of catching f
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by trendia 10y ago
Working for whom? It certainly works the best for those that mine early (aka the founders)
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by trendia 10y ago
The only "morality" the Chinese government cares about is whatever leads to the furtherance of those in power
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by trendia 10y ago
If you are unable to connect because of DNS problems, switch your DNS server to 8.8.8.8 (Google). Edit: sorry there, this worked for me but apparently it's not guaranteed.
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by trendia 10y ago
I'm not calling anyone an idiot, I'm just wondering whether their increase in share price is the result of developing new products or simply moving old products to a subscription model.
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by trendia 10y ago
I wonder this too. Suppose you switch a product from one purchase of $120 to $10/month. In the first case, you can forecast $120 for every time a person buys the product. (Once every few years), so $120/2 years However, with $10&#

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