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by wnkrshm 8y ago
If I recall correctly, DARPA regularly hosts challenges where university teams try to solve problems that clearly have military applications. I know this can be seen as whataboutism but I feel the Western world might have gotten desensitize
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by wnkrshm 8y ago
There is an N-dimensional generalisation for complex numbers, quaternions and hypercomplex numbers called Clifford algebra. I'm not an expert in that field (coming from physics and optics) but apparently it's not by chance that qu
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by wnkrshm 8y ago
There also is only an arbitrary artificial border between a branch and a leaf or the tree and the ground it grows from. You're right that in ultimo, all these distinctions are artificial and determined by humans - but they have use in
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by wnkrshm 8y ago
You can also do data analysis locally, reducing the information down to something you can believably argue does not contain the information of what is said (like spectral analysis etc.) and then periodically upload that. You can claim that
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by wnkrshm 8y ago
Fair point, I'm German myself so the public broadcasting budget could just be inflated - the yearly budget of the BBC is about 6 billion iirc. Still, it's a drop in the bucket against the military budget of the US.
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by wnkrshm 8y ago
The amount of false positives they get from their data analysis and the lack of legal recourse against further targetted surveilance and being at the mercy of law enforcement because you're perceived as a threat... Now think ahead to m
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by wnkrshm 8y ago
I always wonder why people think that there's so much money you can take away from space exploration R&D when the whole sector is basically really tiny and funded on a comparable magnitude of public broadcasting in some countries (
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by wnkrshm 8y ago
The project was intended as dual-use from the start, the shuttle was pitched as a way for the USAF to get classified payloads into space and experience for their military personnel. The shuttle has flown some classified missions for the DoD
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by wnkrshm 8y ago
As an EU citizen, I've thought about this for a bit and I think that maybe it is more because the large companies being targets for regulation atm (FAANG) are not EU companies. See for example how protective the US has been of Monsanto
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by wnkrshm 8y ago
Isn't a method that gives an approximate or best-fit estimate to a problem still an algorithm, if it terminates?
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by wnkrshm 8y ago
How can you prove that they plagiarized your source code? Do they keep an open repo?
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by wnkrshm 8y ago
It's essential in computer graphics or in computational geometry and in simulation science, where I can speak from experience - these are more intersectional topics than pure CS I think but I'd say it's applied CS. E.g. in fi
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by wnkrshm 8y ago
In Germany, police unions lobbied against the introduction of unique identification numbers on the armor of each riot control officer at protests. Before, there were only numbers/markings identifying a squad. Maybe in the future, with
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by wnkrshm 8y ago
Addressing your quote and leaving aside the cases where officers may have serious character defects and going for a view of an advocatus diaboli: I can imagine that once officers have started to apply force, they're caught in continuin
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by wnkrshm 8y ago
One question that all the systemic issues boil down to is: Do police departments want people of high moral integrity? Does any organization really want those? Or is it best to have people that only show just enough to not incite too much pu
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by wnkrshm 8y ago
I wouldn't say that your premise a) is uncontroversial - it's estimated that the global population will become stationary by 2050 or 2040, not limited by simply lots of people being born and even more dieing from starvation but a
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by wnkrshm 8y ago
Who would command those drone strikes? A neutral party, that would not target specific people who are in the way of some specific interests? I can imagine that if you weild those tools where there are interests, a lot of hands will want to
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by wnkrshm 8y ago
Where in day-to-day situations, like walking around outside or in a building do you see diffractive phenomena where a ray approximation breaks down far enough for you to notice? Usually all of that is smoothed over by light sources being ex
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by wnkrshm 8y ago
Looks like the game is losing focus but it's pausing inbetween the clicks - at first I thought it didn't pause but you can look at the score being counted up in the game, it pauses with the pauses in the timer, so I think there is
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by wnkrshm 8y ago
Also, ending slavery but then basically having effectively an analogue of apartheid right after does look like a minimal-motivation approach in retrospect.
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by wnkrshm 8y ago
Sadly these days we have a lot of alt-right people arguing that this kind of working through the past has made us weak. In terms of WW2 they argue for recognition of all the German civilian dead in WW2. The irony of trying to push for sympa
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by wnkrshm 8y ago
Europe by elimination. Not US, not South-East Asia, not Russia. Must be Europe.
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by wnkrshm 8y ago
> The Vietnam population did not see the kind of drop you would get from widespread systematic ethnic cleansing over a 19+ year war. 2.7 Million Americans went to Vietnam and a tiny fraction did some horrific things, but this was far mor
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by wnkrshm 8y ago
The basis of copyright is that you own what you make and you retain the exclusive right to publish it and decide how it should be published. If you don't have any terms of service or any kind of licensing info on your website the defau
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by wnkrshm 8y ago
Turn it around again, Amazon has underrun the competition that was paying living wages before and destroyed the jobs those people had before, by not paying taxes.
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by wnkrshm 8y ago
Afaik, historically they switched from fast ships to bigger, slow ones to minimize fuel use per cargo tonnage. At the beginning of the 'standardized container age' there were fast vessels but they lost out to the fuel saving spira
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by wnkrshm 8y ago
Count the shadows during the day.
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by wnkrshm 8y ago
And the chapters afterwards? Fully automated luxury space communism is a worthy goal.
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by wnkrshm 8y ago
I second this but starting to watch actual undergrad lecture series is beneficial because sometimes the book your working through May just be missing that one piece of the puzzle you need to start getting enough of a grip to solve a problem
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by wnkrshm 9y ago
One could also be cynical about it and say that a human is reduced to a pure consumer, since productive mental work will be automated as well with a few exceptions. So there is nothing of value to contribute in the line at the supermarket,

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