Normati

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by Normati 12y ago
I wonder if perhaps it's a good thing that rich people can pay to use handicapped spots. We could just think of them as "priority parking", and the regular priority parking ticket costs $x while handicapped people get a coupo
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by Normati 12y ago
You don't get to keep waiting for a prediction to finally come true when it doesn't come with a deadline. It already didn't happen despite all our labor saving technology so far (we don't even weave cloth by hand anymore
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by Normati 12y ago
They're not great on paper. They ignore some powerful personal human motivation that we know exists. Perhaps you should say "They're great for robots that can be programmed to think in whatever way is convenient for the acade
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by Normati 12y ago
I don't understand what is being optimized by minimizing the product rw. Reducing w reduces the number of digits, but how does reducing the radix r help with component count? Surely a memory cell that could store 1,000,000 different va
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by Normati 12y ago
windows also comes with the well-hidden "Problem Steps Recorder" that takes a sequence of screen shots whenever you click something. Doesn't do the text overlay but it's already installed with Windows which makes some th
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by Normati 12y ago
Next, I hope somebody hacks the Tesla Model S low-battery-capacity model to provide full battery capacity without having to pay for it. After all Tesla is using evil DRM to force people to pay a premium to use what they already have. Edit:
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by Normati 12y ago
It's hard to understand why spoofing would be illegal. If it fools traders who are relying on buy orders to judge the price, then why don't those traders just accept spoofing exists and not rely so heavily on the unfilled buy orde
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by Normati 12y ago
"The text files were created by manually keying the full text of each work, based on millions of digital facsimile page images" !!! This is not silicon valley. I wonder how they ensure accuracy. Link to the books http:/&#x2F
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by Normati 12y ago
It's quite tractable, stop voting for the same two parties that keep causing the problems over and over again. The trouble is, most of your voting neighbors don't mind so they perpetuate the problem - there's the downside of
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by Normati 12y ago
> Use of force against people who commit such crimes as selecting their own sexual partners, being seen in public with members of the opposite sex, texting members of the opposite sex, being homosexual, etc. This happens but you tolerate
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by Normati 12y ago
No, the solution would be to get insurance against high insurance costs. This already happens with medical insurance. If you're already sick your insurance costs more. But if you get insurance in advance, before you know you'll be
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by Normati 12y ago
It's unfortunate that languages are so monolithic. You want to make a language that does concurrency differently and you end up having to design date format strings! Sad that we still don't have any kind of common libraries or wha
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by Normati 12y ago
It's not just autocracy. The US government is quite aggressive in shutting down websites that spread information it doesn't like. They also sometimes go further and arrest and imprison the operators. Examples include gambling, pir
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by Normati 12y ago
It might not be practical to send information as light. You'd need a powerful transmitter so your signal can be detected among the noise from stars. It might turn out that sending a spaceship is actually cheaper and just about as fast.
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by Normati 12y ago
It's because most scientists and the organizations funding them are not interested in advancing our knowledge of nature so much as looking like they're advancing our knowledge of nature. If we want to be less wrong, we need more r
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by Normati 12y ago
When you're making the decision yes, I agree it's risky and perhaps arrogant, but with the benefit of hindsight it's clear that it was successful in this case. Not in other cases, sure.
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by Normati 12y ago
Not every case was bad. It was extremely successful in New Zealand with hardly anyone killed (relatively speaking), a peace treaty quickly signed and the quality of life brought up to modern standards, ending 1000 years of murderous tribal
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by Normati 12y ago
Works great in Chrome 39. I can see the noise but it looks like part of the style and not distracting at all. I love how it creates fear! They come at you when your back is turned. Though I found you can just run backwards in a circle to co
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by Normati 12y ago
No need to be melancholy. That glorifies killing. Do you have the same sad feelings for the Paris gunmen that were killed? There's no fundamental difference between them. Remember of course what the purpose of the allies in WWII was -
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by Normati 12y ago
If they really had no great alternative, and the chain of reasoning was that clear, then traders would have anticipated it and it wouldn't have caused any major problems. Since it was widely unexpected and people did lose piles of mone
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by Normati 12y ago
It sounds like the intention is actually much better than net neutrality - it claims to be trying to encourage a more competitive market. Proper competition would make net neutrality irrelevant, and would actually serve people better. For e
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by Normati 12y ago
If the only problem with abolishing time zones is having to look up a table to know when to call someone, then perhaps it's better to abolish them. Most of the uses we make of international times don't have anything to do with tim
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by Normati 12y ago
The recent European cookie law was close to that and got laughed at by tech people. Poor Europeans are constantly being asked for permission "Can we store a cookie on your computer?" whenever they visit a major website. Also, how
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by Normati 12y ago
I doubt most people care. This isn't going to drive customers away. The only way it'll be stopped is if they're legally forced to. For example, see the history of cookies themselves and how most people never cared about them.
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by Normati 12y ago
You might have missed the instructions - "Imagine it's 1994".
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by Normati 12y ago
Another useful one is to ask him to explain his reasoning. If he can't justify his decisions, then he's probably using instinct which is unreliable in the case of rare diseases, or he doesn't know how to diagnose known diseas
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by Normati 12y ago
I always wonder why you can't just add a library to another language to get most of the features of somebody else's favorite language. If not a library, couldn't any other language add matlab style matrices and end up being a
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by Normati 12y ago
That won't be wire transfers, that'll be some kind of local interbank transfer. A wire transfer is still complicated (paper forms), slow and expensive to send to other countries. You also have to give your name and address to the
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by Normati 12y ago
The time to make these complaints was years ago, possibly on the way up a big boom just to show that you're confident in yourself despite the apparent evidence to the contrary. Now that it's going down doesn't mean it was cau
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by Normati 12y ago
And then what? If you do 3 scissors and a rock, what would a human typically do next? By making use of the pattern you have to break it.

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