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by anextomp 7y ago
I'm looking forward to an AI assistant that can use my voice to make phone calls I'm sure some people with selective mutism that would like to use text to speech with their own voice > How will we adapt? Digitally signing audio
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by anextomp 7y ago
That, on average, they would be worse off if they were born elsewhere. It's a predictor - nobody was suggesting that it's the only factor, or that it's deterministic.
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by anextomp 7y ago
Once you have unlimited physical access to the hardware, software protections are worthless. And that's ignoring that it could just be sold for parts.
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by anextomp 7y ago
It would still be possible to find a compact subregion of a large region where no girls were born. However, the fact that it was 132 villages makes this seem unlikely, unless the large region contained many thousands of villages.
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by anextomp 7y ago
A) We can't put a brain-equivalent computer in the car, and can't program it to be as good as a brain at driving B) We have higher standards for autonomous cars. The people saying it can never happen are saying it will never be pe
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by anextomp 7y ago
Serverless is really the wrong term to use here. That refers to a specific way of handling cloud infrastructure (the point being that there are still servers, you just don't care) Excel is used for client-side only programs. There are
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by anextomp 7y ago
100% success, expected time until death 3-70 years with a 95% confidence interval
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by anextomp 7y ago
With kotlin, the final .toList() call can be removed
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by anextomp 7y ago
I could purchase a semi truck today and drive it despite the fact i'm not licensed. I don't see how it's any different - the thing stopping people from driving vehicles that they don't have the license for is that it is
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by anextomp 7y ago
A person taking a job in teaching benefits society as a whole but disadvantages them individually. We should transfer some of that benefit to them to make it an attractive option by increasing taxes and salary.
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by anextomp 7y ago
It could be argued that it is similar to predatory pricing, where you accept a loss on your offering to drive competitors away before increasing the price. Amazon video as its own service would not be able to survive so it is unfair on serv
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by anextomp 7y ago
In an electric car the battery is essentially the only part that can catch fire. If there's flames, the battery is already burning and you can't really put it out. The only other thing would be an electric component overheating or
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by anextomp 7y ago
The percentage is very misleading because you can have a negative net worth. The average could be $1, in which case you get a 500% increase by giving everyone $5. That doesn't discount the article entirely, but I wish people would stop
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by anextomp 7y ago
The people with the power to change the treaty don't materially care about the restoration and the people in change of the restoration don't have the power to change the treaty. Without some huge effort to range awareness in favou
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by anextomp 7y ago
It's worth noting from the paper that this doesn't control for income, or any other factors that are correlated with early death.
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by anextomp 7y ago
The related articles at the bottom of the page make this bias laughably evident > Tesla Cost-Cutting Measures so Hardcore Employees Are Bringing Toilet Paper From Home > Tesla's Wall Street Romance Is Over > Florida Garage Fir
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by anextomp 7y ago
It's similar to colourblindness, in that it's really hard to tell because it's all you've ever known. Your best bet is probably to try an online test and go to see a doctor if it suggests there could be something there.
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by anextomp 7y ago
The term is pseudonymous - the list of all transactions is available for anyone to look at but in theory you can't link bitcoin addresses to people. However, in practice, most people buy bitcoins via a method that requires ID, which li
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by anextomp 7y ago
Buying hedges against the market when you intend to live in the house. When the market goes up, your rent will increase, but the price to stay in the house you own is still zero.
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by anextomp 7y ago
Yes, both would work. Other countries have started with DNS blocks and eventually moved to IP blocks, which would prevent Google DNS from bypassing the block. For now though, changing your DNS will be sufficient. I'm not aware of any b
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by anextomp 7y ago
Their "adjusted score" means that films with more ratings are rated higher. Older films have far fewer ratings by critics, same with smaller films.
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by anextomp 7y ago
This is because films with more ratings are rated higher. Older films have far fewer ratings by critics, same with smaller films. Add on the fact that each critic's review is distilled to a positive/negative boolean value, and it&
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by anextomp 8y ago
They are retail prices. It's been known for a few weeks now that it would be ~10% more expensive than the model 3, where the standard range model is $35k pre-"savings"
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by anextomp 8y ago
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by anextomp 8y ago
That seems like a fairly healthy thing to learn, no? Sometimes we need to acknowledge that our brain can cause us to do things we don't want to, and not beat ourselves up for it. Obviously that can go too far, and you need to anticipat
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by anextomp 8y ago
Was that... not obvious? Really, what were you expecting?
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by anextomp 8y ago
It's fairly clear that the doctor did not mean that all people with Down's syndrome are happy. When talking about large groups in that manner, the average is implied. "The dutch are tall" does not mean that all dutch peo