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People still use shovels even though excavators exist.
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I can't even read the whole page without logging in. I wish people would stop using Twitter as a long-form blogging platform.
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Shows being cancelled earlier than fans would like is hardly a phenomenon exclusive to Netflix.
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In principle there's no reason to believe that computers can't be better than humans at understanding a problem that a group of people has and writing code to solve that problem. Sure, computers aren't good enough yet to do t
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Is anyone else completely unsatisfied with the "contact your ISP" method of customer service that Netflix seems to be using here? They are basically passing off their issue (false positive VPN detection) to an unrelated company (a
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I hardly think Facebook has a deep aversion to manual moderation, considering that I've read they employ around 15,000 manual moderators.[1] However, you may still be right that this is the wrong approach in this case. [1] https:&#x2F
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In a footnote on that page: > FDIC insurance applies only to the USD reserve funds. GUSD exist as ERC-20 tokens on the Ethereum blockchain; tokens are under the user’s self-custody, and are not insured through Gemini.
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It's entirely possible that the relicense and now this will have the the precisely the opposite effect though. I'm sure the relicense was an attempt to increase Elastic NV's revenues from SaaS by locking out competitors from
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Hasn't this person committed a crime if they are in the U.S.?[1] Not that I think that this is morally wrong, just that I've always been concerned that people who try this and gain enough attention could face legal penalties. I wo
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I don't completely disagree but > you get paid a lot less Isn't that the point? That is, the argument is right now the money goes to the devs, management, and stockholders, when it rightfully should go to those people damaged b
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Tactics are as important as strength in cycling. The strongest person doesn't always win.
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It explains in the joke how it's possible to fit a square cover into a slightly smaller square hole. The easiest way is to position the cover vertically and across the diagonal. The lip that the square cover rests on would have to be i
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With regards to your "alternate theory" here's a relevant line in the paper. > To further test the direction of causality for the results, we use a lag/lead analysis in the spirit of Granger [33, 34]. This method is u
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Well of course I'm not going to believe blatantly fraudulent "science". That has nothing to do whether or not I would take a COVID vaccine (I have). Trying to suppress the truth that there is shoddy or false research to keep
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What? How do you figure that? Some person points out actual instances of poor quality research and you imply he is anti-vaccine? I can find no record of this person discouraging vaccination.
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I agree with this. I was merely trying to summarize the arguments on the other side.
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I strongly agree with the case against non-competes, and think almost all of them should be unenforceable. That said, is there any reason for this to be undertaken at the national level instead of the state level? Generally, I prefer state
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Police claim they need to lie sometimes to effectively fight crime. Also, the presumption is that adults will realize the police are adversarial and won't blindly submit to an authority figure as kids are conditioned to.
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Do you think Germany "nationalizing" YouTube is less extreme than this ruling?
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Intel's stalled mostly at the fabrication side. Since Apple is fabless, this isn't really a good comparison.
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> the only way an identity is attached is if it can be inferred by the activity on the account. Or by observing the IP from which you access Bitcoin.
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This used to be called Reddit. Not so much anymore, since they started optimizing for advertisers instead of users. I don't think there are going to be very many places like HackerNews. "Hackers" as a subculture are bolstered
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Talking with a Chinese friend of mine, his take was that Jack Ma's imprisonment/disappearance is less about his comments in the October speech and more about an ongoing power struggle in the CCP between supporters of the former Ge
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Won't the government have no qualms about eventually applying similar restrictions and enforcement mechanisms to adults?
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I think TCEC is as close to a fair fight as you're going to get. Obviously, it can't be perfect. A few caveats to your comments (which I mostly agree with). One is that it's easy to add GPUs to a high end machine than CPUs. I
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by zucker42 5y ago
Given that AlphaZero will presumably never be publicly available, I think you might be interested in TCEC which has fair fights between Stockfish and LeelaChessZero (which Stockfish has won recently).
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Stockfish would beat AlphaZero handily. Even the original paper's test conditions were not fair, so Stockfish may have been much better than the results of the original matches made it seem.
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Top players plateau in strength because human memory and processing power is limited, so they are limited in how much additional knowledge can improve their actual playing strength. For Stockfish, OTOH, algorithmic improvements (especially
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It's not just density, though that's part of it. A big part is walkability (and otherwise making the city not just car accessible). That can be done without increasing density, by for example, adding wide sidewalks and bike lanes,
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Do you think the review is false or misleading or do you just think it might be? For a $1500 product often you will have to make purchasing decisions based off just one review.

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