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by wisty 9y ago
Mass communication was also a factor, but probably not one that Luther would have grasped until he was already committed. And he wouldn't have printed any pamphlets if the local authorities executed him immediately. As for game theory
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by wisty 9y ago
A bit of game theory might be useful - https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/c... Riots and revolutions are difficult to start because of a number of obstacles: * It is not clea
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by wisty 9y ago
A dictator could put one on every street corner.
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by wisty 9y ago
> People should not be inviting themselves into the room or home of a coworker, period. People should not be trying to get cozy, let alone try to date, people they have only casually met, especially if there is a power imbalance between
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by wisty 9y ago
I believe there were predictions that the gramophone, radio, television, videos, DVDs, and computers (back before the net was a big thing, then several times after it was) would all revolutionize education.
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by wisty 9y ago
Computer vision makes this really easy. And having the customer's credit card on file makes enforcement a lot simpler.
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by wisty 9y ago
As I understand it, it means banning end to end communication between clients. So you can chat over https, but only if the server in the middle (which can be served warrants) is doing the encryption.
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by wisty 9y ago
"School is about the advanced stuff, not the basics" is the call of good students, often ones who learnt the basics from their parents. It's also kind of popular with bad students, who think that they might suck at the basics
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by wisty 9y ago
In Canada, you pay for that healthcare via taxes, so pre-tax salary shouldn't be different. If you're on a high salary, you can get income protection and healthchare insurance. Though I'll note that the US puts a higher perce
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by wisty 9y ago
It seems incredibly ugly if you haven't seen it before. A lot of things are like that. The formation of nation states. A lot of relationships. Sausages. That's all I can think of off the top of my head, but you get the picture, bu
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by wisty 9y ago
Wow, I didn't know that. And that's a lot faster than I would have guessed. From Tesla: "a Supercharger provides up to 170 miles of range in as little as 30 minutes". Yes, there is certainly a need for swapping batteries
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by wisty 9y ago
There's Nikola One and Toyota's Project Portal though both use hydrogen rather than batteries. And as you say, Tesla is working on one. Electric motors should be fine for torque, and great for efficiency (with regenerative braking
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by wisty 9y ago
At some point, vertical farming might make sense. But you'd put it in some cheap industrial land, not in a retail mall (unless it's purely a marketing thing - maybe herbs), because of efficiency of scale. A lot of the issues can g
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by wisty 9y ago
I'm guessing it's something like "X has certain tax implications, so if you are in situation Y then maybe Z is better". It's often fairly specific though. Which is why it's not much good hearing what someone el
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by wisty 9y ago
Or prisons do discourage crimes, they just don't do so very well if the suspects aren't brought to justice. People are natural gamblers, and will be likely to discount the risk of punishment if there's a decent chance they&#x
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by wisty 9y ago
On the other hand, if there's no efforts made to collect than no-one would want to pay. It's like prison and retention. It's not worth it for the people it directly effects, but it is good because it encourages people to avoi
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by wisty 9y ago
It seems to mostly be compared to Java. Sure, if you don't like functional languages or dynamic languages (Jython, Groovy, JRuby) then I guess it's the best high profile JVM language.
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by wisty 10y ago
> Objection 5. You’d never find enough teachers who were capable of teaching a course like this. To do it well, you need to have a very sophisticated understanding of probability, statistics, game theory, physics, multivariable calculus,
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by wisty 11y ago
Alternatively, it's because of benevolent sexism. Women aren't slobs if they want to kick back and watch day-time TV while watching kids, they're doing the hardest job in the world!
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by wisty 11y ago
It's not unusual to have plenty of friends and relatives who are great in small doses, but not so great if you're hearing from them every day.
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by wisty 11y ago
> The good news is that positive construal can be taught. “We can make ourselves more or less vulnerable by how we think about things,” Bonanno said. In research at Columbia, the neuroscientist Kevin Ochsner has shown that teaching peopl
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by wisty 11y ago
She only had a handful of followers. But the way twitter works, one of your followers can retell the "joke" to all their friends, and they can tell it to all their friends. The system breaks down when they're not sharing some
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by wisty 11y ago
> Now, it seems, they too are nearing an inflection point where more value added industries, industries which manufacture more value added products are needed in order to grow the internal consumer market and economy. The new consumerist
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by wisty 11y ago
China is a large enough market that Chinese services (Baidu, Weibo, QQ, etc) can fill the gap. And there's many companies that did play ball (Microsoft). Kazahstan could just use Baidu, but it's really best for Chinese speakers, a
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by wisty 11y ago
The article is mostly about the backlash, which is not pretty either. Historically, internet users were young, educated, and urban (or old, and working in a research lab, tech company, or university) - probably mostly Democrats in the US. O
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by wisty 11y ago
Estimate of the year, based on the month. So they billed for $1B / 12 for the month, though that includes the driver's cut, so it's more like $16 million which is obviously very nice to have.
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by wisty 11y ago
I'd guess a CEO of a bitcoin related startup.
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by wisty 11y ago
Predictor-correctors is the principal behind a lot of physics engines. I guess they just got a better predictor.
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by wisty 11y ago
Private nudes?
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by wisty 11y ago
It might work if they delete the original photos (if that's still possible on modern devices).

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