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by verbify 10y ago
Don't let the perfect be the enemy of something better than our current situation.
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by verbify 10y ago
There should at least be a decay function built in. People care before they're dead about the immediate future - but they won't care as much about 150 years into the future. Yet intergenerational wealth can last more than 150 year
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by verbify 10y ago
> he is an outsider to the established system He's a billionaire who inherited around $750 million. He didn't pay his taxes. His chief of staff was chairman of the Republican party. His cabinet have a combined net worth of $6 b
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by verbify 10y ago
Iran is not a war-torn country. And this doesn't just ban immigrants, it bans green-card and visa holders too.
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by verbify 10y ago
If you're budget constrained, a cheaper card will still get you massive improvements. I'm on a gtx 970, and it far outstrips the cpu. Even a gtx 650 (about £65) should outperform a cpu.
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by verbify 10y ago
I went to a meetup and ran into the author of that piece. I asked him a question (I forgot what) about it, and he groaned, because it's pretty much the thing everyone always asks him about. I then spoke to him about this piece - http:
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by verbify 10y ago
The UK does have a constitution, it's just not a single codified constitutional document. This has led to some really interesting constitutional documents, for example, a letter to The TImes under a pseudonoym Senex was called a consti
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by verbify 10y ago
There's plenty wrong with Uber. But self-driving cars killing people shouldn't be on the list - self-driving cars have the potential to save an incredible amount of lives. People will still die, but way less people.
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by verbify 10y ago
Others have pointed out that Netscape's rewrite gave us Firefox, so the rewrite was incredibly successful.
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by verbify 10y ago
The other comments claim it's deliberate. I'm not sure. Google are pretty adamant that they don't manually edit results. And it's at least possible that most references to search engines in news articles and the like re
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by verbify 10y ago
That works for some. But there is a loss of social capital and cultural capital in moving. Over a few years it's possible to build a new friendship circle (although I'm told that gets harder as one gets older). Additionally, while
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by verbify 10y ago
If anyone isn't familiar with Sun Ra, I recommend reading his wikipedia page - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ra . His worldview was a fusion of music, theology, the arcane and afrofuturism, fueled by what I bel
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by verbify 10y ago
The ratio of savings:spending lets me know when I can retire early. Using exaggerated figures, if I earn 100k in the US, save 10k a year but I spend 90k, then it's going to take me longer to retire than if I earn 35k in Europe, spend 3
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by verbify 10y ago
> I thought Snapchat was obviously going to succeed 4 years ago when I was still in college - 70% of the people I knew in college were using it. I've no idea when you were in college, but if 70% of the people around you were using i
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by verbify 10y ago
Existing homes aren't magically safe. Safe isn't a binary, it's a continuum, and we're constantly improving our building techniques. We don't have the resources to knock down all the older houses and rebuild them. T
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by verbify 10y ago
I believe it's onboard, they have an onboard GPU - cloud-assisted would have latency problems and would also have problems in tunnels and areas with bad reception.
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by verbify 10y ago
Quite often they're a fashion statement more than anything else.
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by verbify 10y ago
It would be pretty impressive, as they'd need their malware to both do what they want and exactly match that hash. Not impossible, just clever.
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by verbify 10y ago
This guy hasn't built a home for about 20 years. Regulations change.
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by verbify 10y ago
It seems odd that the 'independent third party' volunteered to do it: > ...At one point, a professional home builder, Raymond Debly, volunteered to do an independent inspection... This guy is a 'professional home builder&#
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by verbify 10y ago
> What happens when something goes wrong? Personally I've found Amazon's customer service is pretty reasonable (sometimes you need to dig in the site to find something). I know they aren't a great company in other ways - t
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by verbify 10y ago
RFID tags would raise the cost of the items. E.g. garlic costs pennies, less than an RFID chip.
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by verbify 10y ago
I wish it could access hardware. Currently want to play around with machine learning, I only have one graphics card that I regularly use for gaming, so I have to dual boot to get anything like TensorFlow working.
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by verbify 10y ago
Dave needs to get a food thermometer.
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by verbify 10y ago
Yup, was about to write that. A bit more information: They're planning to run a Asus KGPE-D16 AMD motherboard. This is a 2009 motherboard. From Libreboots website: > Libreboot has support for fam15h AMD hardware (~2012 gen) and some
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by verbify 10y ago
He didn't find the windfall - they just gave him a large line of credit. You could claim it was fraudulent because he didn't plan on paying them back, but it's not the same as suddenly finding money in your account.
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by verbify 10y ago
Whenever I hear something like that (e.g. the alcohol industry donated to anti-cannabis legislation, or your example above), it makes me wonder what they're thought process is. Let us assume it profit motivated, and they've calcul
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by verbify 10y ago
So you don't agree that 'the person who represents themself has an idiot for a client'?
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by verbify 10y ago
It does make sense to be specific, but I find the only people who aren't specific are usually Americans so we can assume these figures are USD. While this forum does have people from all over the world (I'm living in London), it a
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by verbify 10y ago
They won't debate it, because they already debated it when they passed the bill in the first place. Here's a list of all the times it was discussed in Parliament: http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2015-16&#x

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