SapphireSun

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Show HN: Hackable Volumetric Image Viewer(github.com)
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COUNTLESS 3D– Vectorized 2x Downsampling of Labeled Volume Images Using Py/Numpy(towardsdatascience.com)
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COUNTLESS 3D– Vectorized 2x Downsampling of Labeled Volume Images Using Py/Numpy(medium.com)
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
If college is part of a signaling arms race, if we conceive of education purely as a labor market good, why are we asking the laborers to stand down from that race and not the employers?
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
Scientists are running because they feel their class interests are being threatened. Typically, scientists are apolitical because they feel they get more benefits by maintaining the status quo (e.g. military and civil funding). In the face
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
I agree with points 1-3, but I would be remiss not to mention, that with respect to point 4, diseases like sickle cell anemia, which is hideously painful and fatal as a double inheritance (25% homozygous offspring in a heterozygous pairing,
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
My apologies dang. I try to at least be on topic, and this is what has been intensely interesting to me in the past year. Thanks for moderating.
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
Mainly because it's hard to suppress laughter if you think about it at all beyond a surface level. See discussion in another thread. I don't want to repeat myself.
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
Ok, last one. :) You've really just made a mockery of the ideology of competition haven't you? In fact, that is what corporations do. There's an awful lot of highly concentrated market power lying around for exactly that reas
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
There are a variety of alternative arrangements that have been proposed. Economic democracy is one of them (that is, the workers control the company via elections, which will influence their pay). The workers benefit somewhat from Apple, ye
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
Your reference to the double Irish arrangement completely undercuts your point. You admit that they aren't paying substantial taxes in a huge market they participate in. With respect to Japan and China, a multinational company, an effe
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
You have the right idea. That's probably what they will do, but not as a dividend (those are taxed as ordinary income). Instead they will buy back stock, reducing the supply of stock and increasing the price. Long term sales of stock i
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
If they don't really need that money, why not give it to the people that could really use it? I'm suggesting that capitalism is going to encounter a crisis point sometime in the next decade or two at this rate. It will destroy its
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
Exactly right. Why would a for-profit company work to improve the lives of the population that birthed them? I'm merely making the point that we can do better than this.
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
Yet somehow they managed to avoid paying much tax elsewhere as well. Strange.
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
Apple lobbied for and received an incredible tax break for repatriating its money. It should be paying the full 35% corporate tax rate. Apple invests in some science and technology, that is true. However, for some reason, despite its ferven
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
Imagine if that money didn't accumulate in the hands of a few and instead continuously circulated...
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
U6 is still high. Most of the jobs created after 2008 were more transient than old jobs. Hence, the term "gig economy". The precariousness of the working class has increased dramatically and will continue to do so for the foreseea
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
Paying their taxes and investing in technology and scientific progress would help workers even more.
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
All of their profits is what the socialist would respond. :) They produce nothing without the working class. Managers can earn a modest salary.
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
This is a diversion tactic. They're grabbing 252.3B and spending less than a fifth of it. Let's imagine a different world. 200B, divided by 50k + 1.5x overhead (75k) could create about 2.6M decent jobs for one year (or 1.3M for tw
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
It's kind of unbelievable that NPM is a for-profit company that serves the node community for free. You can't possibly expect them to make the right choices when the community isn't whom they are directly responsible to. NPM
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
How do you go from knowing the location of memory to actually doing an attack if the memory is read protected? That's the part I don't get.
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
Just FYI, you're describing socialism and there is a large body of theory that you can read about that discusses these ideas. It even takes into account the mistakes of the mid-20th century. Here's a really nice introduction. htt
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
I don't know in detail, but suffice it to say that for many years we've had mouse strains with particular genetic alterations that appear to mimic Alzheimer's. Not my field, so google for more info.
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
GP's literal words were "stop voting for people willing to take lobbyist money". The lobbyists and big donations / bundlers come from the same class of people - the wealthy. These dollars come attached with policy positi
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
That is true, but the 535 other politicians are nearly all centrists or right wingers. Politicians are beholden to their donors. Eliminate the elite donor class, eliminate their interests being represented. I have some optimism that the Dem
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
Yea, Jeff Sessions is a libertarian. /s https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/07/20/jeff-sess...
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
You can only say that without knowledge of the Bernie Sanders campaign. Prior to that I'd have agreed with you. It was tremendously successful at fundraising from small dollar donations by pushing policies that benefit the many over th
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by SapphireSun 9y ago
Noam Chomsky on the survival of human civilization. The talk might have actually occurred in 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrE5EZr5ZVY

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