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ulucs
6y ago
This seems easy to test and verify: uploading face pictures with a beige background and see what the algorithm picks up.
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6y ago
> They were not forbidden from testing them. They were forbidden from requiring one be done as a precondition to come back to the home. How much difference does this make? Nursing homes are (or have been shown) not suitable for holding p
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ulucs
6y ago
I think the names were μBlock and μMatrix at the start (if I remember right from the logos) and got changed somewhere along the way
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ulucs
6y ago
Ah yes, the old ".j.k raze read0`" as a separate app
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ulucs
6y ago
It's not automatic, but also not that difficult to support https://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/pdfa/#3
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ulucs
6y ago
The JS API's I used to develop in used a mix of query strings (for exact matches) mixed with JSON (for more complicated queries) all in the url parameters
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ulucs
6y ago
> You guys are acting like the existence of the App Store has jacked up the app prices by 200%, Yes, I really enjoy ads every seven and a half seconds for games I am not even allowed to buy to remove ads.
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ulucs
6y ago
For websites that have questionable password policy, I use passwords that curse the company in my native language (if no-one sees it then it's fine, but if someone does then they have deserved it). I bet the same tactic would work if y
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ulucs
6y ago
> going thousands of dollars into debt That is the case for only a single country in the whole world
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6y ago
I don't think throwing ARIMA without the proper knowledge would be enough. AR is evident, but I and MA will be unjustified assumptions that take away from the meat of the subject. Also you might need to get into Panel Data methods when
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ulucs
6y ago
So why not offer educational discounts with /edu\.[a-z]+/ ? That blocks the "privileged" US students, and lets the poorer countries off the hook. You're still denying some opportunity to Taiwanese students with thei
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ulucs
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Ironically, it's the author's own privilege (living in the richest country in the world) that renders them blind to this.
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ulucs
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My .edu.tr mail address suggests otherwise. Italy could have simply created an .edu.it extension itself
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ulucs
6y ago
Not even web browsers, Twitter should go first
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6y ago
As if RationalWiki has any business calling people cranks
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6y ago
Looking at Iraq now, does anyone think that was the right choice?
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6y ago
Actually having talks with North Korea and pulling troops out of other countries
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6y ago
Any voting system that incorporates mean scores will in no way be immune to strategic deviations. (imagine a tie between your second ranked candidate and some other one, you simply inflate your score of your second ranked candidate by one)
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6y ago
Reminds me of moot "revealing" the "datacenter" that hosted 4chan: https://imgur.com/sBLRuZY I'm putting the air-quotes because I still sincerely hope that it was a joke
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6y ago
Wouldn't the pressure from the penny bias your observatios from the mug?
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The Pareto rule (at least my interpretation, due to its similarity with a power distribution) is recursive: 80% completeness from 20% work also implies 64% completeness from 4% work which in turn gives 51.2% completeness from 0.8% work (hal
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6y ago
Why omit the positive parts from a generally positive review? You could have just found a negative one instead of cherry picking. For completeness, here is the rest of the review: "Taking a look at the specs of this laptop, you would e
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ulucs
6y ago
If you have a calculator on hand, could you post the n such that these two rules are equivalent? It’s wrinkling my brain.
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I think it is reasonable that programmers should be able to modify their keyboards to have easier access to useful keys, ie all the caps lock-esc stuff. Btw, Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator is a terrific tool. I spent around 10 minutes sω
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6y ago
I use the Redirector addon to deal with other stuff, so it also helps without having to set up an account anywhere
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Application of law is mostly derived from first principles. So you start with two things that are believed by most legal experts: - Sentencing to life without parole is considered inhumane - Criminal sentences should be proportional to the
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Hasn't the thesis "course" always been "in person"? I don't see how this change affects the PhD candidates in any way. I also find it funny that you bring up Canada as Canadian schools openly discriminate again
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The Burr vs Jefferson part or the Jefferson vs Adams part? Most of my eighteenth-century US history knowledge is from Hamilton and some Burr memoirs.
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Politics, not religion, is the real opium of people. If you have tried to follow the process of the protests from a diverse set of sources, you might have also seen how two parallel worlds exist in the same space. Banach and Tarski would be
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>receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers >any media
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