alvarosm

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by alvarosm 10y ago
Any SJW care to explain why I'm wrong instead of downvoting? thanks! this is a lot of fun :D
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by alvarosm 10y ago
No, no, he's advocating for a dreadful, sinister world where a bunch of high priests strip you of your freedom to decide how you conduct business... How much "discrimination" will be good enough in the end? I'll tell you
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by alvarosm 10y ago
This is how it should be: "Max Profit. The most profitable, since there are no constraints. But the two groups have different thresholds, meaning they are held to different standards." Here's the big fallacy: "the two gr
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by alvarosm 10y ago
yeah this is all pretty ridiculous. Only they can talk about discriminating and say they're talking about "equality". It takes some serious twisting!
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by alvarosm 10y ago
Of course I did.
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by alvarosm 10y ago
ripping off the greedy fanboys is way cheaper and quicker
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by alvarosm 10y ago
Look around this thread's comments, they're all taken in
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by alvarosm 10y ago
At least I hope he got paid well for that idiotic tale...
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by alvarosm 10y ago
You need a ton of space and/or processing power for the zero-knowledge transactions. The anonymity isn't free! In practice Zcash/zcoin (different tradeoffs) are of no use to you unless you are willing to go the extra mile to
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by alvarosm 10y ago
Yeah, quite fishy. He even goes on to say Retail ~$735, Moissanite.net $399. That article is practically an ad.
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by alvarosm 10y ago
Satoshi's paper is very concise and the best introduction to Bitcoin (or the damn "blockchain technology" bullshit used to raise money for ridiculous startups, if you want to call it that), particularly for the technical audi
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by alvarosm 10y ago
yeah I have two good words: mental illness. the guy is nuts
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by alvarosm 10y ago
Yeah, the main reason, assuming you're a "ML-based business", is you want to validate your market and not spend a ton of money creating something that's not profitable. Anyway, there are many more obvious use cases. Othe
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by alvarosm 10y ago
Pre-processing and alignment are going to be way off. Even if it wasn't, then you have (for face recognition itself) eigenfaces or fisherfaces (bad) or maybe LBP(maybe barely acceptable). Your performance is going to be abysmal compare
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by alvarosm 10y ago
They should have charged the idiot parents who gave him access to their bank account. But they did not only in order to save face and not be portrayed as an evil corporation by the media. There are no mistakes here. The idiot kid wanted pub
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by alvarosm 10y ago
3. Use the press to make Google look evil. Fixed that for you ;)
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by alvarosm 10y ago
Right. I guessed and I guessed wrong. I've seen them do it so many times that I jumped the gun.
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by alvarosm 10y ago
The BBC will distort anything to prove their point: that socialism is great.
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by alvarosm 10y ago
The EU is tanking thanks to socialism. Norway has oil to fund its pseudo-socialism. China is doing "well" since it ditched socialism.
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by alvarosm 10y ago
You can't focus on a task probably because they're all rubbish. The movie you're watching is rubbish, the website on your chrome only mildly interesting and HN the usual predictable progressive groupthink. They're all mi
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by alvarosm 10y ago
sure
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by alvarosm 10y ago
I'm not thinking of corporations. Local govt, etc. The study was made by -surprise- a university in the state where olive oil is produced. Btw about ads there's nothing more effective than a journalist that does it for free. There
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by alvarosm 10y ago
This is like lsd in the 60s... Hopefully in a couple of decades we'll realize marijuana is shit.
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by alvarosm 10y ago
They don't name names because it's probably scaremongering propaganda. Somebody wants to boost local oil consumption or other oils (other than olive) or something
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by alvarosm 10y ago
making assumptions is racist. and sexist. and very much not PC. shame on you!
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by alvarosm 10y ago
Well if you really must not talk about it because you're in a stressful situation... but it's not ideal.
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by alvarosm 10y ago
It's not about what you want it's about what others may like to hear from you. And if you're doing something all day long and you can't talk about it, what do you talk about? you'll be like a foreign object to other
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by alvarosm 10y ago
the censorship brigade killed this post from someone else so, reposting (he's mostly right): Ugh, this US/China dichotomy makes for good headlines but I hope the good people of the actual tech industry are able to see beyond it. T
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by alvarosm 10y ago
One of the virtues of OSS :)
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by alvarosm 10y ago
No. Some of us would contend that the basic tenets of socialism cause a society to degenerate in the same way. Communism brings it on brutally, all of a sudden. Besides, Venezuela considers itself socialist. "21st century socialism&quo

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