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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
Only by a very loose definition of "kill" - that is, by looking at total population numbers. And overall, the communist regime saved many more people from starvation (you can also see this in the total population numbers). Starva
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
Mainly because "basic income" is just a fancy word for welfare. If you want to be an entrepreneur in Australia, just go on welfare. Sure, you might eventually be forced to get a job, but you can easily live in the zone between h
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
Very cool. At first I was suspicious because their kickstarter video doesn't give a really complete idea of how good their 3d models are. And I know that from the right angle, a really terrible 3d model can look very good. However th
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
You give them far too much credit. They didn't formulate a problem, make some assumptions, and then come up with a solution based on it. What they did figure out "slick approach to a well-known problem [in graph theory]" the
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
First, it's not clear to me that a persons own feelings of guilt are a sufficient punishment for their acts. A person might feel that they were at least partially justified (even if they were not), or might find other rationalizations
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Thanks for making that point. It still seems to me that most domain specific solutions will still make use of many ideas from the CV literature. E.g. looking at the last sections of your video it seems like you settled on a histogram base
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I believe that it is. I don't want the punishment to be extreme, or to be in any form other than the deprivation of liberty, but I do think that the criminal justice system should inflict punishment for its own sake, and not just for
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
Great article. They very clearly describe the state of research in computer vision. When I studied the field, I was very surprised at how shallow the field was, in the sense that, as they put it, computer vision algorithms "are gener
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Actually it does not, or at least does not when institutions like the Federal Reserve Bank are operating as they were designed to. The purpose of the Federal Reserve is to set inflation in a way that is optimal for the economy. That does
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This is complete garbage. A bitcoin account in no way represents the wealth of a person. If you look at the graph, you will see that bitcoin accounts typically change in their "wealth" by orders of magnitude over the period of a
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While there is some truth to what you say, I would point out that (A) a person making $9 a year would still be paying around $900 federal tax, and (B) my understanding is that TANF is not especially intrusive (not sure what you mean by divi
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If there was no welfare, and no tax system, then introducing a minimum wage would probably be a net improvement. However, taxes and welfare already address the issue of hungry people (I don't particularly care how angry a person is).
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Maybe you should have read past the sentence you quoted?
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"Something else is concentrated in the deep south too." What are you referring to? It could be republicans, Black people (yes, look at a map), poverty, etc.
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The question "The distortionary costs of raising the federal minimum wage to $9 per hour and indexing it to inflation are sufficiently small compared with the benefits to low-skilled workers who can find employment that this would be a
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I believe that the idea that China is obstructing a global carbon tax (among supporters of such a tax) mainly comes from racism and is not supported by the facts. However, people oppose global/national carbon taxes for a number of rea
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The most important component of a strategy to reduce CO2 emissions is a carbon tax, which is economically equivalent to a cap-and-trade system. However, people involved in tech seem to be especially prone to what I call a "problem sol
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Ads are a proxy for micropayments. For various reasons, Google cannot charge you directly for their services. Instead, they show you an ad, which is effectively you paying them in attention, and they then sell this user attention to the a
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by yetanotherphd 13y ago
"What could be more enticing than the insightful conversation being had by 50 drunk introverts telling "that's what she said" jokes?" That's nice, remember to be inclusive of everyone except introvert beta male
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Theoretically, the main reason to prefer traditional IPO's to dutch auctions, is the auctions in general may not give sufficient rewards for "price discovery". That is, everyone is relying on everyone else to research the fi
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It's obvious to most people (regardless of whether you think that free software is in important principle) that the techniques described in that section will result in you making MUCH LESS money, at least in the current context of thes
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The IRS is just interpreting the law as they see it. At some point they have to draw the line between a tip and a wage, and they draw the line so that an "automatic tip" is a wage. All the rest of the article is irrational garbag
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And, if "The Internship" is at all accurate, big tech companies are no better.
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If this turns out to be true, then it's no big deal since we shouldn't be surprised that agencies share intelligence. If it turns out to be false, then it's anti-semitic to even think that Israel would engage in such a heinou
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How long before astronauts are blogging about how their space farm saves on transportation costs and stimulates their local economy?
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>Accelerators are worthless to measure distances even if they were super precise. This is because you have to do double integration to get distance and the errors only accumulates. I never said that a distance scale was obtained by apply
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"conspicuous authenticity" I like that.
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I'm fairly sure that the tech is based around "structure from motion". The API simultaneously estimates the position of the camera at each point in time, and the location of some reference points (blue circles in the vid). B
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I am about to finish my PhD, and you clearly state the difference between my view of academia and the author's. While I agree with most of the things the author mentioned, and they are a large part of why I will not be going into acad