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Firm to replace 90% of workers with robots. China expects a trend to start here(scmp.com)
2 points by waps 11y ago|0 comments
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Google Play introduces price A/B testing for android apps/games(theinformation.com)
1 points by waps 11y ago|0 comments
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by waps 11y ago
You're absolutely right that cars don't scale well in theory, but when it comes to expanding capacity when that is necessary, cars outperform public transport. This is mostly because space is not often in short supply, but money a
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by waps 11y ago
Good: 4) there's 20 different apps that need access to the same data over the network. This is the core strength of days oriented programming. Using a shared database will work very well for that. This is generally how erp applications
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by waps 11y ago
You're right of course. But here's the thing : Car : euro 0.4/km, travel time into brussels during heavy traffic : about 50 minutes, 30 if I'm willing to work 6am-3pm (I'm not). 21 (working days per month) * 35 (kil
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by waps 11y ago
About 35 kilometres from another city.
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by waps 11y ago
Having commuted to work in Brussels, a city often described as having great mass transit (and when it's not busy, that's absolutely true) Here's my observations : 1) despite not paying for itself (the state pays hundreds of m
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by waps 11y ago
At least in steam you can turn off the popups : Settings -> Interface -> Uncheck "Notify me about additions or change ..."
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by waps 11y ago
Exactly. This battle ended islam as a political entity, and ended the war between muslims and the west that had existed for a millenium by that point. It was an event that would be comparable to nuking Mecca would be today.
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by waps 11y ago
I'm curious. You seem to be saying that one cannot avoid every fight (the Chinese stuff in your post) and that one can avoid every fight ("There are -always- alternatives even if the argument coming from the profiting parties don&
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by waps 11y ago
> We should reduce our population over the next century or 2, we should get off the fossil fuel imperative (it's a single-source failure point for our entire infrastructure) and we shouldn't listen to "big industry" a
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by waps 11y ago
"Process automation" is much more coercive automation. Here's the webform, and it's the webform's way or the highway. Maybe even up to this point : http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
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by waps 11y ago
> It's not just that their model is wrong -- and VaR is certainly wrong. It's that NO model is right. See chaos theory or google "irreducible complexity". There certainly is a model that is right - an obvious model wo
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by waps 12y ago
Sure but the AI wouldn't necessarily have to respond. I think the main flaw in the Turing test is it's cultural dependence. I would argue that Eliza has passed plenty of Turing tests, mostly with people who had a chance encounter
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by waps 12y ago
According to the ILO (UN labour organisation) [1], in PPP dollars global average wage is 1480$ per month. So for the US equality would mean that 50% of working age people earn less than that. This is only counting wage-earners. No freelance
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by waps 12y ago
This post contains a comparison : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9267578
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by waps 12y ago
Mind if I ask why these functions are laid out entirely differently from almost every other function in the go standard library ? Yes, I know the Go authors do it too. And of course we know the answer : they're ashamed of just how bad
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by waps 12y ago
I don't get where people get the idea that Go is simple. 1) go has generic functions : http://golang.org/pkg/builtin/ , they're just not accessible to you 2) go has generic types : slices, maps, and chann
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by waps 12y ago
> Simplicity is a good thing. It's a virtue. It's part of what made UNIX a success. It's not something to shun or avoid. It seriously depends what you're doing. As someone put Haskell recently "all the possibilit
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by waps 12y ago
If the code was equivalent you might have a point. Unfortunately it is not (tokenizing/line scanning vs. copying). One has a shortcut in Go, the other does not. Would you say that Go is not excessively verbose in non-trivial use cases
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by waps 12y ago
Car insurance does not cover paying passengers. There is a special, more expensive, kind of insurance for this generally referred to as commercial transport insurance.
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by waps 12y ago
I feel like something like oculus would be better suited. GPU and storage are the size of a cell phone these days. Look at 128G sd cards. How many of those would fit in an additional 1mm thickness of an average cell phone ? 50 ? 150 ? Won&#
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by waps 12y ago
No, because it's a violation of the law. The federal government is supposed to keep records of everything they do, for several reasons : 1) they are accountable to the people. Granted this is a principle. At some point in the future, e
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by waps 12y ago
This is a misunderstanding. Lack of liquidity can cause both. You forget that prices are valuations and are very different from prices actually paid. Simply put: 1) valuation = price of last share sold * number of shares 2) value = price at
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by waps 12y ago
It's much worse than that. You'll erase everything, and likely won't be able to hold on to the new skills unless the plasticity was temporary. Brain plasticity evolves in very specific ways. Simplified you could say that a yo
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VLC back online in the app store, with new sharing options(itunes.apple.com)
2 points by waps 12y ago|0 comments
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by waps 12y ago
Are you making the argument that Go is finally the magic language that can make bad devs write good code ? Let me be the realist here : it isn't. Go is just a very young language that, for the moment, only has developers that are curio
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by waps 12y ago
You may want to take a look at http://quantopian.com/ , who make an engine that does just that. A lot of brokers actually support this. The reason appears to be that there are lots of stock trading packages that people want
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by waps 12y ago
This provides some details : http://thehackernews.com/2015/02/hard-drive-firmware-hacking... So no, they'll get a rootkit process running on your machine and (for instance) upload everything on your hard driv
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by waps 12y ago
If I was a lawyer, the basic requirement I'd have for a statement like this is to make it so it can't be construed as an admission of guilt, because that may later be used in court to extract damages. You probably should blame leg

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