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by artaak 3y ago
To me this is an example of extravagant and inefficient use of money. Instead, it should have been used to find a huge pool cavity somewhere high on one of the Hawaiian mountain or enlarge one. And then pump up the water to the pool when th
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Peter Thiel on Bitcoin 2022(youtube.com)
7 points by artaak 4y ago|0 comments
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by artaak 5y ago
I’m surprised that list doesn’t include a movie UFO. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt6290798/ Even though the plot is rather simplistic, it has a few interesting physical concepts embedded in a clever way.
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Homomorphic encryption E2E: privacy preserving machine learning on AWS(amazon.science)
3 points by artaak 6y ago|0 comments
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by artaak 6y ago
That's pretty cool - reminds me about an experiment of improving small fridge efficiency by adding insulation on the sides of the fridge. In the end it worked out favourably for energy efficiency angle. https://coolfridge.bl
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by artaak 6y ago
Great points...believe it or not it happens, but privately, in a case by case manner. Also why do you think companies and founders are in the business of making employees wealthy?! What is the specific reason for all of these being implemen
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by artaak 6y ago
Where exactly I “leave lies”? That’s a serious allegation and is thrown very casually here, as if it is self-obvious. What he says and what will actually happen is two different things, especially in politics. If you have actually examined
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by artaak 6y ago
And where exactly these taxes will go? From pockets of CEOs to pockets of ... municipal bureaucrats, whose median salary floats at a humble mark of 175K/year? https://www.city-journal.org/san-franciscos-municipal-budget
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by artaak 6y ago
Look, believe it or not, I am in the same boat - never had issues with paypal, but neither I'm a heavy user. Randomness and the severity of paypal actions is a huge issue for me. The subject of the discussion is paypal's surprise
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by artaak 6y ago
This is a hilariously uninformed statement. Which cryptocurrency? I'd even argue that the juggernaut BTC was _designed_ to be trackable, and as the recent history shows, law enforcement successfully and multiple times did exactly that
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by artaak 6y ago
I've got the invite to paypal's beta program for crypto. Honestly, you've got to be mad to be dealing with paypal. I've read anecdotes from people, losing access to their accounts, locked up money in paypal, etc... It al
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by artaak 7y ago
Could you cite an example where ECC requirement on GPU was real and demonstrated to be needed? In practice, I don't know anyone who'd willfully take 10-15% perf hit on GPUs, because of a cosmic ray. The thermal design for "da
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by artaak 8y ago
It is very known thing. Whatever reasons were to create Glassdoor, but now in practice, it became an instrument of misdirection and is used to _deliberately_ and _intentionally_ mislead people.
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by artaak 8y ago
The case for Mars by Robert Zubrin, Arthur Clarke - highly recommended for technically minded folks. One of my favorites of 2018.
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by artaak 8y ago
I'm interested, please invite. MS is one of my hobbies. alex.897007 at gmail
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M-Blocks: A New Class of Robot Cubes That Self Assemble(singularityhub.com)
2 points by artaak 12y ago|0 comments
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by artaak 16y ago
You might want to try COWON mp3 players -- they have the directory structure for tracks and a very good sound quality. I never looked back and everyone how tried COWON do not look at iPods either anymore.
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by artaak 16y ago
Have you tried to employ Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) to do the computation-intensive tasks? I could imagine that using CUDA-enabled kernels might be of help for processing images.
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by artaak 16y ago
What about integrating Adobe PDF? Does Adobe Reader still requires dances around to show something besides a gray screen?
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by artaak 16y ago
Very nice idea! Do you plan to send out some special seeds (like okra, etc.) as well?
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by artaak 17y ago
I thought that "miles" is just a nice name for reward points: "Simply multiply the cost of your travel purchases by 100. For example, if your ticket costs $200, you’d multiply that by 100 to determine you need 20,000 miles to redeem." In fa
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by artaak 17y ago
I would be happy to test it - pls let me know.
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by artaak 17y ago
It seems that there is more work associated with your option. If A = all emails, P = number of pending and A>>P, then his method: click "unread" P times yours: click "archive" A-P times A-P >> P His method is less work.
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Freeman Dyson: Heretical Thoughts about Science and Society(elementy.ru)
1 points by artaak 17y ago|0 comments
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by artaak 17y ago
"costs $20-50k/year" - pardon, but where did you learn it from? Even if PhD students get tuition waivers, the waivers are given along with Teaching or Research Assistant positions. In other words, the PhD students are paid for some assistan
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by artaak 17y ago
I do not like to quench the excitement about Canadian immigration opportunities for skilled workers, but you guys really need to check the recent "improvements" in that process. Namely, the list of skilled workers has been recently (Feb, 20
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by artaak 17y ago
One day, carefully designed massive-multiplayer online games will provide better experimentation than agent-based modeling used now in economics. This article illustrates that EVE online is already one step closer to it, since they can intr
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by artaak 18y ago
There is an interesting documentary "Food matters" ( http://foodmatters.tv/ ). The facts presented are astonishing. However, I do not necessarily advocate on taking their point of view, In my opinion it would be reasonable to withhold judg
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by artaak 18y ago
The reason why it does not work with a regular XP media is that they (HP, DELL, etc.) install OEM-versions of Windows which: 1) checks for branded BIOS (HP, DELL, etc.) 2) installs from a special OEM-media If you have DELL you might have l
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by artaak 18y ago
The most interesting aspect which they did not mention - how the nuclei of close contacts look like in the broader view. I wonder how it globally forms a high-connectivity core. Here is a popular article about the characteristics of network

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