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by virgilp 6y ago
I would like to add that text, as a thousand-years-old-technology, has always included illustration too. Even in recent/digital text, you have this bird that doesn't take 4k bytes: [edit: unfortunately hackernews doesn't di
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by virgilp 6y ago
But it is. A regular conclusion summarizes the article, doesn't contradict it.
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by virgilp 6y ago
They even buried it in the conclusion, after a few thousand words & charts designed to give the opposite impression: > these still aren’t machines made for deep learning. Don’t get me wrong, you can use the MBP for any basic deep lea
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by virgilp 6y ago
Musk replied to this: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1358929114166485008
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by virgilp 6y ago
> I would support directly electing MPs. Then political parities report directly to us! Been there. Watch out for these traps: a. FPTP (first-past-the-post): this is a truly horrible system. In a FPTP system, the person currently occupyi
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by virgilp 6y ago
It really isn't/ shouldn't be. In theory, the bank is really incentivized to provide proper and secure authentication (if someone can impersonate you to your bank, you're kinda screwed anyway). So, it only makes sense to
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by virgilp 6y ago
https://onethousand.in/AMC People tend to remember the good outcomes. I'm not sure that "Never miss an IPO again and invest in companies from the start" is good advice.
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by virgilp 6y ago
- publish "KGB manual" as an apparent-poor-quality-scan to increase credibility and make it seem like a 'scanned original' when in fact it's a carefully-crafted font.
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by virgilp 6y ago
Arbitration. If you can see an asset being traded cheaper in Australia than in the US 10ms before everybody else does - you basically pocket the difference at 0 risk.
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by virgilp 6y ago
WSB proposed "the retarded short" (they affectionately call themselves retards)
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by virgilp 6y ago
What does the business model have to do with everything? I was merely replying to this: > sharing users' personal data, something that influences only them It does not influence only them, and I gave you an example. Also, I don&#x2
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by virgilp 6y ago
Privacy absolutely affects everyone. If you gave consent to Facebook to track you & you are my friend, you'll give my phone number to Facebook, and photos of me, etc. I cannot opt out of that! And in fact FB is well known for build
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by virgilp 6y ago
Well, to make it more obvious - if users had the choice of paying with money or paying with their future voting rights, would that be "forcing users into signing their rights away?". Surely, not "forcing" since it's
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by virgilp 6y ago
Yet a very large number of companies do. Open Facebook in an incognito window - it'll give you a dialog with "Accept FB cookies"; options are, "Accept all" or "Manage" (already in violation of GDPR since r
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by virgilp 6y ago
What if brains aren't wired like that, and you become numb? That sounds like an aweful goal to have. Maybe a better one is to minimize misery & unhappiness (ideally, global minimization, not local)
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by virgilp 6y ago
well, for starters, it's published on france24.com, that's a pretty good hint that it is the work of a journalist. I believe one shouldn't regulate _all speech_ (e.g. company press releases, or scientific publications); but I
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by virgilp 6y ago
> They are just regurgitating a press briefing that came across their desk I would argue that's one of the problems. It's easy to just regurgitate press briefing, but that's _not_ what their job should be. I'd argue t
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by virgilp 6y ago
> "If you can run our product on your own, you get it for free" Except that's not how it works with Elastic. I know at least one company (Acme Inc) that doesn't offer anything like Amazon, but does have clients who ca
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by virgilp 6y ago
I wanted to pick it up, I feel it's under-appreciated technology that has lots of potential. Reasons why I didn't: - It's somewhat hard to sell to management. There (was) no company behind it to provide support; and it's
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by virgilp 6y ago
Except the "production" when you start is really a pre-production environment, meaning you won't _really_ cut yourself. To modify your analogy - which strategy is better: - start with blunt knives, realize the opportunities t
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by virgilp 6y ago
That's the whole idea of CD: if you set up your project from the start so that deploys go to production, it changes the team culture and the way of working. People don't commit code without any tests (because it will break product
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by virgilp 6y ago
You can, they're just solid gray (that's what this particular AI thinks is the most scary monster or whatever else it's evaluating)
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by virgilp 6y ago
Adobe executes (executed) massive releases on a well-defined cadence (1.5 yr per "creative suite"). Sure, I won't say they don't have collaboration, or top-tier engineers etc. But in the end, the success of this well def
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by virgilp 6y ago
Ah, you're right, I didn't think it through. It does feel like there must be a way to play with the bits so that you can retrieve it in a single pass, though - that'd be a much more interesting problem :). (of course, you can
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by virgilp 6y ago
Slightly disappointed at the "two missing values" solution: First: one needs to realize that you can solve the "missing number" problem just as well with sums. So, if you're trying to find the "one missing numb
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by virgilp 6y ago
That's strange. The article seems to be from 2002 (hit prev/next), but I thought she died in 2001? If you liked this, I strongly suggest you also read http://donellameadows.org/archives/leverage-points-place
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by virgilp 6y ago
Here's a simple test: if half of the funds that go today to the police would simply be wasted (say, they go to a "Trump foundation" where Trump may use them as he pleases) - would you consider that a "win"? If not,
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by virgilp 6y ago
"Defund the police" is such a bad catchphrase, it does all sorts of disservices to the actual proposed measures. It sounds vengeful and petty, not thoughtful. It's also misleading - the purpose is not (or should not) be prima
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by virgilp 6y ago
No it does not - that's an invalid inductive conclusion. There are clear deadlines that may change everything (apparently Jan 15th might be one of them, from the twitter thread). Justice takes time, but trials do eventually come to a c
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by virgilp 6y ago
"The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent". This is nothing new. I love Tesla but when even Musk himself looks at the stock price and tweets "LOL, stonks", you know something must be off.

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