yakult

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by yakult 9y ago
Almost all social problems created from this change in immigration policy can be fixed with money. And we'll be swimming in money. And we can use it to fix problems unrelated to this policy.
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by yakult 9y ago
They should just replace the whole shebang with 'pay us $x to get a visa, $y for PR, $z for citizenship'. Company wants to hire from overseas? Fine, they can figure out how to split the cost between company and employee, with zer
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by yakult 9y ago
I wonder if Google will use this feature to accidentally-on-purpose step on other adblocking extensions' toes, tech wise. Will running uBlock on top of it hurt performance like running two antiviruses? All of a sudden, Mozilla's
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by yakult 10y ago
End to the arms race? Hah. The next step is adversarial neural network generated images that fools the OCR while looking relatively normal to human eyes. This war doesn't end until computers pass the Turing test and we build a comple
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by yakult 10y ago
The line is blurred here because it's describing human behavior, and we're certainly capable of intent. A little bit of it at a time, amortized over many generations and selected via evolution, but still intent.
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by yakult 10y ago
Do you suppose these weapons are only useable against people you don't like? Do you suppose 'the other side' is powerless to retaliate, using the exact same tools? Trump is the president now, as you have said. Half of Amer
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by yakult 10y ago
I'm arguing that it's a more sophisticated and on the whole more humane system of suppressing dissent, but we shouldn't deny that it exists and serves the same functions.
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by yakult 10y ago
If the chilling effect is the same and the curbs to your freedom is the same and at the end of the day you still cannot say what you want for fear of reprisal, does it matter whether the coercion comes from someone directly on state payroll
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by yakult 10y ago
You can criticise the president because it's a safe subject. If you join the neo-nazis (or any similarly unpopular group) and posts that on facebook, you will lose your job, your customers will shun you, and if you are sufficiently fam
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by yakult 10y ago
Criticising Trump on HN is like criticizing US imperialism in China or criticizing Israeli settlements in Iran. It is a safe subject. Everybody agrees with you, including those who pays the people in jackboots. Obviously nobody will kick
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by yakult 10y ago
You can criticize the devil all you want in medieval europe, too. You can attempt to spread your religious beliefs without being kidnapped so long as your king and your bishop share the same beliefs. Try copypasting a few lines from 4chan&
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by yakult 10y ago
We can start with the prior that there will probably be a similar number of trues and falses. We are mapping 23 bits of state into 12 bits, we can leave out those states where T>>F or vice versa. If the test turns out to be one of t
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by yakult 10y ago
My pet theory: much of 'gut feelings' and intuition boils down to having our internal black box predict the behavior of other people. When you are 'average', this often simplifies to reasoning about what you would do in
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by yakult 10y ago
I would like more clarification as to what this means. Does this mean the histories are purely client-side? If that's not the case, I don't see how they can make this claim.
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by yakult 10y ago
I remember the exact moment when it died for me. It was when they added phone-home functionality and unique player ID when it moved from 2.x to 3.0. When I called them out on this on the forums (this was still a fairly new and egregious th
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by yakult 10y ago
Conventional chemical weapons are not cost-effective, because you have to hit a big area and cause big effects for it to be worthwhile, since both delivery and payload are expensive. With drones you can shoot/drop grenade-sized payloa
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by yakult 10y ago
It's mobile, for one. You can cover and threaten a big area with a drone, which means a tiny amount of chemicals go a long way, and that solves the other main issue with chemical weapons. Main goal would be to sap morale: a few grenad
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by yakult 10y ago
One thing we might see more of in the future is drone-placed IEDs. Steal an Amazon delivery drone, mix up some home explosives and you're practically there. Drones remove one of the largest barriers to IED use, which is that people g
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by yakult 10y ago
It's perhaps more accurate to say there are 'deep work' tasks, and there are 'interrupt driven' tasks, and any job is a combination of both, in various ratios. Often you can't even tell ahead of time whether a
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by yakult 10y ago
Suggestion: get rid of the torrent files and just serve magnet urls in plain text without a clickable button. This way you get rid of the knowledge of who-downloaded-what, and also save some bandwidth.
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by yakult 10y ago
I think the closest Chinese translation to IBM's 'Think' is actually Lenovo's Chinese name - 联想. In other words, IBM got scooped three decades ago.
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by yakult 10y ago
There are other conclusions and interpretations you can draw from the two lines of reasoning. Much of the effectiveness of dog-whistle politics is that most of what's said remain non-explicit, so let me pop that: The reasoning that th
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by yakult 10y ago
The 2.0 version will then be employed by governments to silence dissent by bleeding the energy of movements before they happen. It's a tool that cuts all ways. There's nothing in a 'positive' social movement - however d
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by yakult 10y ago
There is danger in the middle ground as well, though. Many middle grounds are factually incorrect, for example between evolutionists and people who believe god put fossils underground to troll archaeologists. Further, as a strategy it is e
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by yakult 10y ago
The important part is that they are going to annotate those first-party sources with 'fact checking', which is slanted left [0][1] in the US and has infinite regression problems. Also, they are doing this all with humans, and the
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by yakult 10y ago
'Truth' should go in scare quotes here. If they're going to dedicate an entire program to attacking someone, and they hold the reins in what goes in the archives and what does not, why would you expect the end result to be t
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by yakult 10y ago
When they launch something that overtly flaunts their political affiliation like this, my first thought is: what will they omit? Are we going to get 'curated' history now? Will everything they archive going forward come with a
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by yakult 10y ago
What they don't tell you is that it's only 8 hours under ideal conditions, and when the battery is new . After a year or two of heavy use it might become 4 hours. That's when the 12+ hours really shine.
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by yakult 10y ago
While I agree with your points, I would also add that most of the people who are in the middle in the second, bifurcated market would likely be in the low end or outside the market entirely in the first market, e.g. they won't even be
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by yakult 10y ago
It is best to take the pessimistic view whenever it comes to how policies are applied and how technical solutions are used. Sure, it can be used constructively, but there will always be a few assholes using it to oppress their enemies an

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