xiphias

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by xiphias 10y ago
I don't consider representative democracy as democracy. In Switzerland people vote quite often (on the internet as well), that's much closer to democracy.
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by xiphias 10y ago
Shouldn't longevity be the holy grail? I accept that singularity will arrive soon, but I'm alright without it as well. Getting older sucks much more though.
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by xiphias 10y ago
I loved the concept video, the only problem was that it wasn't executed: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b9ifQvQCO7Y
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by xiphias 10y ago
Yes, and these cheap devices sadly don't have accuracy description. I would be OK to pay for it if some accuracy would be guaranteed, but writing that it's calibrated and not specifying the maximal error looks always fishy.
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by xiphias 10y ago
They wanted green because it's a python library. He goes into the details in the talk
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by xiphias 10y ago
For me when I tried to do something more complex and reusable tempating/generics were really missing, and lambda functions, but it didn't get into production postgres. Oh and better array support is needed..converting between arra
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by xiphias 10y ago
It would be nice to have some nice default colors for different things (non-keyword variables, numbers...), I don't think it would blow up the library size, but it would make a huge deal in readability of the code
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by xiphias 10y ago
If it works for you, the question is for how many years can you do it without falling back (increasing your carb intake)? I seriously believe that I wouldn't be able to live a happy life on a low-carb diet (let's say 30-60 years),
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by xiphias 10y ago
At least I hope that AI will think of Bitcoin as a good investment
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by xiphias 10y ago
Another problem with food is that there are too many people writing not scientifically researched opinions on how to lose fat and get more healthy at the same time. After going through a lot of pub-med researches about decreasing my blood t
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by xiphias 10y ago
Actually it doesn't legalize cheaper housing, as it won't change the supply/demand. The house prices will increase by the subsidy amount. All this subsidy does is that it funnels more public (tax-payer) money to house owners.
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by xiphias 10y ago
"The technology is still not as advanced as its American counterparts, said Singer" ... why isn't the fact that the U.S.A has even more lethal weapons troubling? (actually the real trouble is that attack weapons are starting
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by xiphias 10y ago
Not really...there's a reason while psychology is not considered science by non-psychology scientists: it's not because the researches couldn't be done in a scientifically useful way, but because even the teachers don't
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by xiphias 10y ago
I would think twice to rent out my apartment to a guy and his friend ever. I'm a guy but when I see how other (especially unknown) guys treated my flat at a house party (compared to unknown girls) I decided that I don't want to al
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by xiphias 10y ago
It at least partly legitimizes sci-hub in EU
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by xiphias 10y ago
It's great that the author is able to finish his pet projects in 20 hours if he sets a deadline. I'm not able to finish in that time frame for anything that I'm interested in doing as a pet project.
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by xiphias 10y ago
The big difference now is that the progress is fast enough for people to start to understand that their job may be automated in their life. Smart truck drivers in rich countries know that they have only at most 10 years left. Children from
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by xiphias 10y ago
It's harder to value fast growing companies than stable companies. Still, it would be good if Bloomberg would have an adviser who is able to value companies at least a little bit better than an average person.
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by xiphias 10y ago
,,Always on call'' - it just got the worst memories for me of waking up at 3am
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by xiphias 10y ago
It must be really hard for the Microsoft CEO. He's doing what he can to fix the problems that Steve Ballmer left, but it's extremely hard for him.
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by xiphias 10y ago
Hey Debra, have you thought of open sourcing the voting backend so that cryptography and security experts can help to make sure that the votes are fair? Also technology is good enough to be able to prove cryptographically the number of vote
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by xiphias 10y ago
The whitepaper was more than just usual PR: he got lots of input of top engineers in the travel space and made the design free. I don't remember the CEO of Boing or BMW or any other transportation company doing anything similar.
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by xiphias 10y ago
They can't, as they are not planning to get license for being fully autonomous without a driver.
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by xiphias 10y ago
I wanted to ask the same thing: did they quit because they didn't get enough money/stocks at the companies that they were at, or were not working on important enough stuff, or just wanted more risk for the sake of getting into mor
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by xiphias 10y ago
Sensors are just part of the information age that's impacting people's life more and more. Also status updates are done on instagram, fit bit, GPS and other sensors, though I don't see enough reason to do these for myself.
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by xiphias 10y ago
Thanks!
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by xiphias 10y ago
This looks like a CV to me that he can use in the future whenever he applies for a job/promotion
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by xiphias 10y ago
Where do you wok now? It's interesting to hear what offer you couldn't refuse after being in so many places
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by xiphias 10y ago
I haven't ever brought free food outside in a software company, although I could have (except when going out to the nearby park for lunch with a colleague). I felt it immoral. I feel that the price to pay for the food is to talk with c
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by xiphias 10y ago
It's probably the way not to do things if you want to get to affordable supercars. The only way is to program robots to manufacture the cars from start to finish, and the development should be in software (teaching the robots to work b

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