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by ak4g 8y ago
My guess is the grandparent is (mis-)remembering the kerfuffle[0] around mongo shipping a copy of PG as a "BI Connector". But yeah, the timeline is off, that was in 2015. 0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=106
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by ak4g 9y ago
That was then. Try and find a post-Cold-War instance of the US deciding to usurp free and fair elections for our own economic or security purposes. We weren't doing it for the fun of it, and in a unipolar world order, we don't do
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by ak4g 9y ago
>Scientists have long claimed that our ability with numbers is indeed biologically evolved – that we can count because counting was a useful thing for our brains to be able to do. I would like some citations for this. This is the first I
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by ak4g 9y ago
Strictly staying within US law is not the only thing that the US intelligence apparatus tries to do. There are also agreements not to monitor the citizens of "Five-Eyes" citizens in those countries without due process; even if not
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by ak4g 9y ago
I don't even think that's particularly controversial. The concentration of tech startups in SF has been devastating for the city, and has distorted every aspect of early-stage tech startups for years. And frankly, YC bears a rathe
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by ak4g 9y ago
Can you clarify what you mean? How are we not left with determinism at a fundamental level? (And if it starts with a Q, then at most one can say is that it's possible that it's not deterministic. It's perfectly compatible w
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by ak4g 9y ago
Assange is not a US citizen.
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by ak4g 9y ago
Here's the actual source document. https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/icotr/51117/2016_Cert_FI... It appears to be proper judicial oversight of national security operations. Unsurprisingly, having
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by ak4g 9y ago
That's just not true. The first credible reporting on the existence of the investigation came from CNN, 10 days prior to Comey's testimony in March.
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by ak4g 9y ago
On one hand, yes, our political divisions no doubt make that kind of information warfare campaign tempting. On the other hand, it's already pissed us off something fierce, and I think the narrative in the mid-term future will ultimatel
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by ak4g 9y ago
I find myself self-censoring on topics like this, not because of what I (don't) fear is being done by authorities, but because I can't help but to note that we're not, in fact, living in some Orwellian dystopia, and that seem
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by ak4g 9y ago
My siblings in this thread need to learn about the reforms that were done post-Watergate. The rule of law governs everyone, especially law enforcement, in the USA. If you don't believe that, why do you think lawmakers bother with getti
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by ak4g 9y ago
If this was illegal surveillance, then obviously it wasn't within the scope of what's allowed by said anti-terror laws. This doesn't add up for me yet, because I don't understand what the supposed motive is. Do the polic
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by ak4g 9y ago
Why? Per the article in the Guardian, the Independent Police Complaints Commission is investigating the claims. I'll note that the corroboration was passwords of politically active people, which frankly doesn't do anything to impl
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by ak4g 9y ago
>blindly trusting "the data" This phrase is not coherent. Doing something blindly would literally be to do something without data.
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by ak4g 10y ago
Towards any end at all. IRL, there are no points for effort, and certainly no points for purity of intent. The proof is in the pudding. And so, no, I don't see good/effective politicians as having some quality that would otherwise
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by ak4g 10y ago
Pragmatism is a principle.
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by ak4g 10y ago
> Normally I'm impressed by Bill Gates' thinking, but this seems half-baked. I would submit that that has more to do with the summarizing/simplifying/editing done by Quartz to represent Gates' views on the topic
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by ak4g 10y ago
> How does it compare to the usual default settings of PostgreSQL for example? - I think you get SERIALIZABLE, so the behaviour should be very reasonable. Not clear if you're referring to PostgreSQL or CockroachDB, but for the recor
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by ak4g 10y ago
Why wouldn't it be fair use? What exactly is your understanding of what the criteria are?
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by ak4g 10y ago
Thanks for the writeup. I've never used Linode, but I recognized lots of echoes of my own experience with AWS, with the big point being something that isn't always given the importance that I think it deserves - when you get to la
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by ak4g 10y ago
Just put them all on the same list and use negative points for the rewards. A spreadsheet would work perfectly.
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by ak4g 10y ago
Links?
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by ak4g 10y ago
Sources please. The clear consensus is that AGW is real. That is a far cry from saying that there is a clear consensus that it must be dealt with ever, let alone that it must be dealt with in the near-term.
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by ak4g 10y ago
I'm sure he means infscroll using keyset pagination. The UX, as noted, is ugly - have to somehow support scrolling in both directions with some sort of lazy-loading - but pagination in this context doesn't === offset-based paginat
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by ak4g 10y ago
Uh, this makes no sesne to me. He's speaking specifically about the numbers reported for the Georgia Dock, which, from the reporting in this article, could very easily be completely legitimate. You seem to be interpreting his statement
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by ak4g 10y ago
Sorry - should have quoted the specific thing I was calling out-of-date, which was from a few comments up-thread: > Brains (read: humans) can learn from very few examples and in very little time. [...] Those are all things that ANNs have
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by ak4g 10y ago
This is just an outdated view of the state-of-the-art. It's understandable, given that it's outdated by maybe six months, iff you're willing to go with preprints. https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.06065 A hobby
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by ak4g 10y ago
What would you have them do instead? I don't love it, but I don't have a problem with it, mostly because I have no idea what other route they could take. Ad-supported is something Buzzfeed can make viable, but it means tailoring b
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by ak4g 10y ago
Of course I do, which is why I asked the 2nd question: > What gives you reason to think they (not the DNC!) be that colossally stupid? The political motivation is what would make lying here colossally stupid.

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