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by xevb3k 8y ago
I enjoyed both the Lynch film and the books. Though I saw the film first... I thought the film captured the religious elements and emotional content of the book quite well. It obviously felt a lot out of course.
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by xevb3k 8y ago
Pollution in Japan caused a number of issues in the 60s, things were probably starting to get better in the 70s when their environmental agency was formed, but no doubt issues remained. This maybe of interest as a reference: https:/&#
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by xevb3k 8y ago
Minimal enforcement can be used to make everyone a criminal. You then selectively apply the law against people you don’t like. Taxation (I would hope) is not minimally enforced.
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by xevb3k 8y ago
This is a big deal. Cryosleep is probably the most likely change to occur in our lifetimes that could bring about significant social change. Given that it slows your metabolism, I think it’s likely that we’ll be able to extend overall lifes
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by xevb3k 8y ago
That sounds tough, happy to hear you made it through. I’ve seen quite a few families where one parent doesn’t do any childcare... that looks super tough, which is why I can forgive those parents sometimes zoning out and playing with their p
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by xevb3k 8y ago
Depends on the child. But I find there’s ample “bored” time when both hands are occupied carry kids around for hours to help them sleep... you grab the phone sometimes to relax when you can but it’s not like their isn’t a lot of bored time
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by xevb3k 8y ago
It easy to judge when you don’t know what else is going on in people’s lives... some parents are the sole carers of their kids and spend 16 hours a day looking after them. The park may be the only time in the day they get some downtime when
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by xevb3k 8y ago
Yes, but have you ever looked after a 3 year old for 16 hours a day, 7 days a week. It’s hard work, and I doubt most people can maintain absolute focus on their kids all the time for that length of time...
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by xevb3k 8y ago
Yes, I think we all recognize the dangers but this is absolutely true. I think when used correctly they can be amazingly helpful however. Looking after young kids is all about the long game. Caring for kids for up to 16 hours a day can be s
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by xevb3k 8y ago
I’m interested in these, older, yet still active lesser known religions. Aside from this I’m aware of the Ahmadiyya and Baha’is (offshoots of Islam, but with distinct founders claiming to bring a revelation). They’re in the 5 to 10 million
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by xevb3k 8y ago
You laugh? I guess it seems strange, but that’s quite a lot of money to some people. Totally justifiable that you wouldn’t find it worth the time... but some have to economize or came from a background where they have to count every penny.
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by xevb3k 8y ago
Curious as to why China would want to block Callkit specifically. Is this just an easy way of saying “actually we don’t want apps with any kind of VOIP functionality and will eventually block you anyway”.
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by xevb3k 8y ago
“don’t be evil” always seemed hopelessly naive, even for college students. I’d have thought that anyone who had considered it, even briefly would understand that being “evil” isn’t really a thing. People do things for various reasons, even
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by xevb3k 8y ago
> Balwani had a small war against Glassdoor reviews including having HR post fake ones and pressuring Glassdoor into taking down overly negative ones This now seems par for the course. Many many companies are posting fake Glassdoor revie
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by xevb3k 8y ago
Sometimes it’s hard to leave for many reasons. If the kids small, and they can’t work, then it’s possible to get trapped in a marriage for financial reasons...
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by xevb3k 8y ago
I’m not sure... I get your point and understand how you feel. But having seen it a few times, and the effect it has on the wife and child, I can’t be friends with people who act like this anymore. I just feel like I’m normalizing their acti
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by xevb3k 8y ago
I’ve seen it happen a lot. Father works (particularly in a tech context often earns much more than mother). Uses this fact to exercise financial control and states that their “equal contribution” is financial support. Meanwhile, at least in
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by xevb3k 8y ago
This is something that seems to happen in most countries when they reach a certain stage of development (see Japan, Korea). I think it related to the general availability of contraception and that the work involved in caring for children ha
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by xevb3k 8y ago
Possibly doesn’t change your thesis, but it’s 110 million not 2 billion. 2 billion is the valuation.
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by xevb3k 8y ago
Preferred Infrastructure. They have this weird naming system which I don’t fully understand there’s Preferred Infrastructure and Preffered Networks. They seem to be essentially the same company, but use two names...
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by xevb3k 8y ago
And learn to get rid of these pesky humans that are mostly lazy criminals and a resource drain.
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by xevb3k 8y ago
I worked with them a while back, perhaps they were just not very interested in the project but I found PFI to pretty poor overall... disorganized, lacking and unwilling to obtain domain knowledge etc... Will be interesting to see if anythin
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by xevb3k 8y ago
Really interesting, thanks! Yes, it’s certainly been my experience that adding more domain knowledge has helped me a huge amount.
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by xevb3k 8y ago
Interesting, well I’ll try to keep reviewing this stuff and hoping I find an application. I really would like to find an application in my work, because without that I find new techniques don’t really stick and after a few months I forget t
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by xevb3k 8y ago
In the context I used it, FFT wasn’t really of fundamental importance. Using FFT (and in particular FFTW) gave a performance improvement (execution speed), but no real advantage in terms of accuracy over an alternative naive method... So...
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by xevb3k 8y ago
Interesting, perhaps that’s it... I’ve used FFTs a few times, but even FFTs have never been make or break in terms of getting a pipeline or analysis working well.
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by xevb3k 8y ago
Image analysis and signal corrections on time series data. Extracting features from microscope images for example, correcting for signal convolutions.
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by xevb3k 8y ago
Whenever this kind of stuff comes up I feel like a bit of a fraud... I’ve written a bunch of scientific data analysis code. I have a science PhD. Written large image analysis pipelines that worked as well as the state of the art... been pub
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by xevb3k 8y ago
We don’t even know if any of it was true at all, it could all be a work of fiction. But we know at least he considered it not much of a problem to call a woman a whore for not having sex with him because he bought her a sandwich. There are
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by xevb3k 8y ago
Perhaps my usage of the words “good and bad” implied a moral judgement. But, that’s not really my intention. What I’m saying, is that it’s unwise to idolize people because of their work in one area and then elevate (or more worryingly emula

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