LogicalBorg

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by LogicalBorg 2y ago
> To prevent deleting data by mistake, we invent soft-delete pattern by having a is_deleted column. However, this brings extra complexities around foreign key, unique index enforcement. Ideally, PostgreSQL could allow users to configure
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by LogicalBorg 3y ago
Yes, their page describing adverse events after vaccination has statistics on the rarity of events: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/ad... For example: > Anaphylaxis after COV
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by LogicalBorg 3y ago
I think that User-Centered Design (UCD) would be a better term here for what this concept is trying to say. In modern design, we tell user stories that help guide development of interfaces, including APIs.
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by LogicalBorg 7y ago
The law of software bloat has been known since the 1980's. It's called Wirth's Law, or "What Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away". See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law .
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by LogicalBorg 7y ago
I think there are two versions of the simulation hypothesis. The first version is that we are in a simulation that is run in the future with ourselves as ancestors. The second version is that we're simulated by aliens. The first versio
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by LogicalBorg 7y ago
The total population is expected to increase by a billion people by 2030, which is 50 times larger than the expected maximum of 20 million jobs lost. Why would you assume that those 1 billion people are going to find jobs except somehow 20
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by LogicalBorg 7y ago
What a terrible article. They are unequal devices. - This is not a design flaw. The screen is just small. They are not real network clients. - This is not a design flaw. It's the best batteries can do. They have led to massive centrali
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by LogicalBorg 7y ago
This story made me think of an analogy about robot emotions. I use Alexa and she has a cheerful female voice. I could argue that Alexa has real emotions. Here's my argument. Imagine that a TV show has real emotions even though it is a
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by LogicalBorg 7y ago
Article is missing some relevant information. 1. Enzymes in the fig digest wasp parts so you don't normally find wasps inside your figs. So they really are vegan. 2. The males are flightless and wouldn't have escaped anyway. The f
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by LogicalBorg 8y ago
Well, let's be scientific about this. If Bill Gates is willing to write me a check for 640K, I'll be happy to test his theory for him. ;-)
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by LogicalBorg 8y ago
Since you already have a job role in mind, I suggest that you take a look at at job applications in that area, for example on https://www.indeed.com/ . Look through the job requirements in various listings and see which lang
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by LogicalBorg 8y ago
The way I see it, there are at least four criteria for using a blockchain. 1. The goods are permanent, otherwise you don't need the history of the blockchain. 2. The goods are valuable, otherwise they aren't worth tracking. 3. The
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by LogicalBorg 8y ago
There are tablets in the front and back ( https://cdn.geekwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Front-_-... ). You were taught to drive manually, not in an Uber self-driving car. If you can find a video of a
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by LogicalBorg 8y ago
I think it's incorrect to say that the woman was looking at her phone. She was looking down and to the right of the steering wheel, which is where Uber places a monitoring tablet (an iPad) in their self-driving vehicles (where the radi
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by LogicalBorg 9y ago
I agree that they are not collecting personal information. They are collecting information about your computer system. According to the ICO definition of personal data, it means "any information relating to an identifiable person who
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by LogicalBorg 9y ago
Once the number of of Bitcoins approaches zero, the finite value of the Bitcoin ecosystem divided by zero coins approaches infinity. This will create a financial singularity that will open a payment gateway to the hell dimension. This dimen
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by LogicalBorg 9y ago
There's an informative flowchart on p. 3 of the linked PDF that describes the logic of this site. Your question is basically covered by "are there multiple writers?" since that implies decentralization, which also implies cen
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by LogicalBorg 9y ago
If you look at the graph in the article comparing different bubbles, Bitcoin peaked at 60 times the starting price, which is the largest relative peak in the graph. It is the largest in relative, not absolute, terms.
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by LogicalBorg 9y ago
I don't see what the excitement is about blockchain. Can't you do the same stuff with SQL? Blockchain: * Separates your transactions into blocks and hashes the blocks together. * Uses proof-of-work to add new blocks. * Is slow (a
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by LogicalBorg 9y ago
I think you are giving far too much credit to a simple like button. It's the content of the user's post that the person is liking, not the genius of Facebook.
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by LogicalBorg 9y ago
"We're the Rats, and Facebook Likes Are the Reward" - This argument has no validity. Facebook doesn't even dispense the likes, other users do. It isn't valid to compare likes to Skinner rewarding rats, because Faceb
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by LogicalBorg 9y ago
Your first guess was correct. "...autonomous weapons have been described as the third revolution in warfare, after gunpowder and nuclear arms." ( https://futureoflife.org/open-letter-autonomous-weapons )
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by LogicalBorg 9y ago
This may be what you're looking for: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d12/tables/dt12_349.asp According to that table, women's bachelor's degrees in computer science: * were low in the
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by LogicalBorg 9y ago
> 70% of science/engineering students in Iran are women: The Forbes site you reference cites a Quora post, which quotes a Wikipedia article. What the Wikipedia article actually says is that 373,415 out of 1.5 million engineering stu
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by LogicalBorg 13y ago
The universe is teeming with intelligent mimes. They can't wait for us to gesture silently to them through the cosmic void. Oh, the horror.
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by LogicalBorg 13y ago
Question #4: are you a virgin? According to Wikipedia, "In the Middle Ages and Renaissance, [the unicorn] was commonly described as an extremely wild woodland creature, a symbol of purity and grace, which could only be captured by a v
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by LogicalBorg 13y ago
The Wikipedia article ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HipHop_for_PHP ) says "up to 6x", however, about 2x speedup versus plain PHP was a more typical experience for me when I used it before.
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by LogicalBorg 13y ago
Piracetam was first synthesized in 1964 and has been studied ever since. Don't worry, it's safe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracetam#History
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by LogicalBorg 13y ago
On the other hand, sports performance is easier to measure than professional, white-collar job performance. If they ever start measuring every stat about your daily job performance, then what you say would be true. Otherwise, I don't
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by LogicalBorg 13y ago
No, learn by teaching. Duh.

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