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by wsy 8y ago
Part of good science is to communicate the results of your research. It is after all the scientific community , not individual people doing "cool science".
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by wsy 8y ago
I have been publishing at Elsevier, and the editing process was a nightmare. The "layout and editing and filtering" is not performed by skilled editors, it is performed on an Amazon Mechanical Turk level. There was no improvement
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by wsy 8y ago
The data from these local registers is not collected and merged, so there is still enough decentralization in the system to make abuse very difficult.
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by wsy 8y ago
Thanks for the explanation!
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by wsy 8y ago
The question was not about batching, it was about join queries over more than one resource type.
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by wsy 8y ago
You pay employees with gift cards?
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by wsy 8y ago
This manager wants to make you smaller, so that he can look bigger and exert more power. In my experience, the only way to counter is by also making a strong gesture. For the dialog you sketched, possible responses could be "Then you c
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by wsy 8y ago
Hydroelectric power stations are already used as environment-friendly energy storage: if there is a surplus of energy, water is pumped into the reservoir. During peak demand, the power station provides additional electric energy. There are
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by wsy 8y ago
Let me start by saying that it is great to see how you deal with the feedback you get, this is not an easy feat. Some more preliminaries: When I write a comment on HN, I first ask myself: what is the message I want to send to potential read
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by wsy 8y ago
If you do a poly-repo approach from the start, and have dependencies between repos, you need to introduce component versioning from the start. Component versioning doesn't solve any business problems, but requires engineering effort.
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by wsy 8y ago
You didn't contribute to the talk about Wittgenstein, but exclusively talked about yourself and things you do. In addition, instead of explaining the relationship of your activities with Wittgenstein (that could have been an on-topic c
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by wsy 8y ago
Jordan Peterson is not banned by Patreon.
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by wsy 8y ago
The difference between food and waste is also obvious, still we bring the waste to the garbage can. Also, nobody censors. A distributor decided not to distribute the stuff anymore.
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by wsy 8y ago
That citation is about putting people in concentration camps, not about free speech. It is characteristic of the people now banned by Patreon - and their followers - to stylize themselves as martyrs. However, they are just unwelcome, like s
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by wsy 8y ago
True, but it is also analogous to throwing out your hammer to avoid hitting yourself on the nail.
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by wsy 8y ago
It is extremely annoying when anti-post-modernists argue against straw-men. Admittedly, the cited summary makes this easy, because it is very misleading. The common theme of postmodern epistemology is that there is not _the truth_. Therefor
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by wsy 8y ago
1) It would validate the approach. If somebody is not willing to pay $1 per month, the value of the service for them is obviously too low. 2) it would make abuse much harder: registering 1M fake users becomes costly, and the payment leaves
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by wsy 8y ago
I totally agree about talking to co-workers. Another tip in the same direction which helps me: I try to create collaboration setting so that I don't work alone on a task I don't like. For example, I tell my work mate "I need
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by wsy 8y ago
I agree that these are different things. I also agree that they are hard to define. I fail to see why that should be a reason not to attempt it. I strongly disagree that our laws are arbitrary. They are very much inspired by, sometimes ev
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by wsy 8y ago
Your statement sounds quite philosophical. Is it open for discussion, or do you consider it a dogmatic truth? I'd recommend to check out John Rawls and Amartya Sen on how you can reason about a fair society without assuming universal c
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by wsy 8y ago
Philosophers have given their answers to some of these questions. But - as absurdly as it sounds - the answers are not the main point of philosophy. I would say, the main point is learning to ask these questions better. That includes: - get
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by wsy 8y ago
For the question "How does one acquire knowledge?", I recommend Kant, Hume, Russell, Carnap, and Popper, for a start. I'd like to ask you how you find out if a question is meaningful? And please don't answer "if it
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by wsy 8y ago
It was philosophy which set up the standards of 'solid reasoning' and 'evidence' so that we can now distinguish between Chemistry and Alchemy. It seems that you apply the 'natural sciences' pattern of knowledge
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by wsy 8y ago
It is a bit funny: you attempt to show the irrelevance of philosophy, and immediately stumble on a deeply philosophical question: "What is the measure of philosophic truth?" Actually, the question is "what is the measure of t
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by wsy 8y ago
They can't because they are empirical sciences. They only can find out facts about the world. Philosophy has already shown that moral is not derivable from facts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_prob
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by wsy 8y ago
GDPR has learned from the cookies law: - you cannot 'comply' by forcing the user to accept - better enforcement options (of course only when the site provider is under EU jurisdiction) The jury is still out, but it is only a few m
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by wsy 8y ago
You are right, even DL is still quite fuzzy, ANN would be a much better example.
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by wsy 8y ago
AI has been a marketing terms from its invention, and is very misleading. Whenever you read something about 'Artificial Intelligence', try to replace this term with an actual technology, such as 'Deep Learning'. If the s
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by wsy 8y ago
I agree that these are real negative effects of GDPR. However, the concrete design of these pop-ups is mostly not GDPR-compliant: for example, users not agreeing to being tracked must not be disadvantaged, and having to click through a cumb
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by wsy 8y ago
It hurts your CV, too. You can do this once, but if you stay for only a few months at 3 startups in a row, I probably wouldn't hire you anymore. The risk is too high that you would leave the 4th startup as well.

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