bluekeybox

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by bluekeybox 12y ago
Yeah, that New Zealand imperialism has been getting out of hand lately.
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by bluekeybox 12y ago
No, he's not.
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by bluekeybox 12y ago
> while I don't think it's automatic that Kaspersky would do the Russ gov 'favors' What's with this amazing inability of us Westerners to learn from past mistakes and endless optimism about benevolent intention o
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by bluekeybox 12y ago
There is a brilliant new book (albeit somewhat advanced) that I don't see in this list: Introduction to Python for Econometrics, Statistics and Data Analysis (2014) by Kevin Sheppard. PDF available for free here: https://www
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by bluekeybox 12y ago
you may not want the enemy to know you're sending a fleet of fighter jets in their direction.
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by bluekeybox 12y ago
Nobody pointed this out yet. It would be very interesting to keep finding such perturbations that mess up learning and repeatedly add the new-found examples to the training set, retraining the model in the process. I wonder if after a finit
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by bluekeybox 12y ago
Related and a very good BBC documentary on the role (and tragedy) of engineering and planning in the USSR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3gwyHNo7MI
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by bluekeybox 12y ago
Amazing, thank you for this link.
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by bluekeybox 12y ago
You don't understand my point. If you look at human psychology, things connected to power are often fascinating, but not always in the "I'm going to get the other guy and beat the shit of him" way. Young boys are fascina
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by bluekeybox 12y ago
Being of strategic value, space was political from day one. Nothing ever done in space was entirely apolitical. AAMOF, there would be no exploration at all without politics. So get used to it.
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by bluekeybox 12y ago
Umm, have you been living under a rock during the past two months?
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by bluekeybox 12y ago
Rogozin's twitter timeline is pretty much designed to provoke US administration (he has Russian and English feeds, both equally ridiculous). It isn't just for "internal consumption" anymore. It's Cold War 2.0, kids,
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by bluekeybox 12y ago
Not surprising, considering that, recently, Putin has implied, half-jokingly, that the Internet is a CIA plot (Yandex stock fell almost instantly as that happened).
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by bluekeybox 12y ago
Russian state TV is complete Volksempfänger at the moment.
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by bluekeybox 12y ago
I think you wouldn't be downvoted if you just wrote, "Non-optional bicycle lanes make this unavoidable".
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by bluekeybox 12y ago
Eich is far from the first. The mob's appetite for blood is greater than you think: * http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/donglegate-adria-richar... * http://www.independent.co.uk/news/p
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by bluekeybox 12y ago
You are not seeing the full picture. There is no "gay mafia". I have gay friends who are wonderful people, and I support their right to marry. Some of my biggest idols in tech are gay. What scares me, however, is that the same con
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by bluekeybox 12y ago
I didn't take it personally, was just having fun with words and certain populist stereotypes.
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by bluekeybox 12y ago
> What you have concluded in you comment can be summed up in one word - short-sightedness. No. My conclusion was predicated on a belief that it is better that we have our Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle in the next 100-200 years rather th
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by bluekeybox 12y ago
Thank you for your response. You bring up some good points, but I would like to contest others. First, I agree that humans should probably not "devolve" into flowers (although "devolve" is a funny word -- technically, ev
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by bluekeybox 12y ago
Philosophical question (don't take offense, please): Why should we be rewarding "unlucky" gametes? Please note that I don't consider the likely answer "because they have something useful to contribute to society&quo
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by bluekeybox 12y ago
Now Mark Jason Dominus is often wrong when it comes to his political opinions, but he's rarely wrong about programming, and your tone is just way too negative for seemingly no reason. Of course he's missing selection bias. That ki
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by bluekeybox 13y ago
Because most people would rather support their allies and people who like them, rather than playing the hand of people who hate them. This is actually a tragic situation. I don't want to comment further.
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by bluekeybox 13y ago
Absolutely shameful that this is the top comment. People on HN have no idea about geopolitics and what danger Russia represents to countries like Poland and the Baltics. The West should now be speaking in unified voice and pressuring Russ
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by bluekeybox 13y ago
The US involvement in in the Ukrainian protests is completely overstated. While I do not deny that some American NGOs might have provided help, it does not change the fact that the movement is mostly indigenous and self-organized and is an
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by bluekeybox 13y ago
Any examples of (2) -- or links to something that discusses this phenomenon? Thanks.
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by bluekeybox 13y ago
Yea, better burn that oppressive cis-heteronormative literature before it triggers a micro-aggression. Also don't forget to send the authors to a Gulag.
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by bluekeybox 13y ago
> immediately start the see,-social-differences-are-the-result-of-vast-differences-between-the-binary-sexes wheel rolling again That's not the wheel I'm interested in rolling. I'm rather interested in critiquing the curren
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by bluekeybox 13y ago
The narrative of oppression is a very important one, and like all grand narratives (thanks critical theorists, for once at least) not always correct. It's starting to become an example of "rule by victimhood" (c.f. "rule
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by bluekeybox 13y ago
A little wrong to look that way though since (a) it was under USSR that the country got its current borders and shape on the map, and (b) the actual issue over which the conflict is going on is due to USSR-like foreign policy doctrine of Pu

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