winterismute

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by winterismute 8y ago
> But it appears it may have originated from a legal accident rather than explicit legislation. See, this is something I never fully understood: people told me the same, but I mean, when somebody is allowed to go to the gemeente (town ha
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by winterismute 8y ago
Well, this is not always how it works: many factors can lead to a reverse of legislation, such as stonger lobbying, backfire from a government held together by strong opposite ideas, or simply the measure might have solved the problem and a
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by winterismute 8y ago
Do you/anybody know of any solid project that aims at porting/re-developing in Go at least some of the statistical learning tools that we have in python? I did not find much when I looked last time, but it might have been more tha
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by winterismute 8y ago
I would advise against starting learning real-time rendering/an API for real-time rendering from raytracing (not last because of the fact that you wound need special support from your GPU or a driver fallback). It would be better to st
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by winterismute 8y ago
Seems like in the near future the idea of "turing test" and the one of "not fake news" will eventually coincide...
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A letter to Steven Pinker about global poverty(jasonhickel.org)
250 points by winterismute 8y ago|245 comments
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Adobe Acquires Allegorithmic(techcrunch.com)
2 points by winterismute 8y ago|0 comments
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by winterismute 8y ago
When I started my Bachelor in Italy (Bologna) I had actually not enrolled yet to the degree, and I was instead following both Computer Science and Philosphy. My plan was to continue both of them, or to choose one. We had this first year pro
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Sega Dreamcast at 20: the futuristic games console that came too soon(theguardian.com)
29 points by winterismute 8y ago|11 comments
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Love in a time of migrants: on rethinking arranged marriages(aeon.co)
1 points by winterismute 8y ago|0 comments
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by winterismute 8y ago
I love discord but am I the only one that thinks that the name is hindering wider adoption? It's hard to suggest to some people that an with that name (and to a lesser extent visual theme) is the skype+slack+others replacement they are
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Why Technology Favors Tyranny(theatlantic.com)
120 points by winterismute 8y ago|108 comments
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by winterismute 9y ago
I got fairly into these years ago at the beginning of my MSc, since a research team at my Uni had cool projects about them. I gradually lost interest but I have been wondering lately if the recent advances in the Machine Learning could be c
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Coinbase down for maintenance(coinbase.com)
200 points by winterismute 9y ago|239 comments
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by winterismute 9y ago
They also had a strong embargo enforced by different countries that prevented them from signing any deals involving mainframes, it must be said.
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by winterismute 9y ago
Not many people know that instead another socialist country did try to build such a network: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn The project was probably overly ambitious and anyway could not last for more t
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Techniques for dealing with lack of motivation, malaise, depression [video](youtube.com)
2 points by winterismute 9y ago|0 comments
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by winterismute 9y ago
Can't read the article, but for the folks in London or around in the UK, you should check out this company, they organize events to promote repair culture and workshop (also as company events) where experts will teach you how to fix co
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by winterismute 9y ago
I have been doing exactly the same thing for years! But personally I think it also depends on, well, your physical attributes: being tall/big makes the backpack seem always small, and also makes it kind of invisible to the people in fr
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Vladimir Putin Gave Direct Instructions to Help Elect Trump(cbsnews.com)
3 points by winterismute 9y ago|0 comments
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Imagination Technologies Up for Sale(ft.com)
3 points by winterismute 9y ago|0 comments
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Imagination Technologies Intends to Sell MIPS and Ensigma(uk.businessinsider.com)
1 points by winterismute 9y ago|0 comments
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by winterismute 10y ago
This is very true. However, they could still lose a court case if they failed to prove that the design they shipped benefited by information that was confidential - even when the information was about what "not to do". Still, this
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by winterismute 10y ago
UK regulations on stock markets are quite tough, publicly listed companies must share information that could impact the company as soon as they can. Public opinion is pretty susceptible to this too due to events in recent years.
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Dolphin Emulator Now Allows Wii Shop Access and Purchases(nintendolife.com)
17 points by winterismute 10y ago|3 comments
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Italian Court Rules Against Facebook in Copyright Dispute(theinvestmentobserver.co.uk)
2 points by winterismute 10y ago|0 comments
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Flarum: Forums Made Simple(flarum.org)
4 points by winterismute 10y ago|2 comments
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by winterismute 10y ago
Is this another Frog Fractions?
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Canada Is Making It Easy to Move There If You Work in Tech(uk.businessinsider.com)
2 points by winterismute 10y ago|0 comments
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by winterismute 10y ago
Why did this get so many upvotes? It's well written, but isn't it just a trivial guide on how to do a pull request? Not trying to be controversial, I'm just genuinely curious.

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