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by csn 10y ago
I have a bizarre love for the heat death theory, partially because it goes so well with Lovecraft's "And with strange aeons even death may die" in my mind.
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by csn 10y ago
uMatrix and http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ have completely replaced dedicated adblockers for me.
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by csn 10y ago
This is like asking a group of artisans what is the best kind of timber to make furniture out of, I'm afraid.
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by csn 10y ago
What other interests should the EU have on this topic? Genuinely interested in people's views.
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by csn 10y ago
Although just like the things you list, I can think of a plethora of ways with which advertising can literally, indirectly change my life by convincing me to purchase a product or service.
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by csn 10y ago
Yesterday I promised myself to not buy cigarettes anymore nor ask anyone to do it on my behalf. This first step only requires tremendous willpower when visiting a store, as the dispensers are placed at checkouts so I must stand right next t
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by csn 10y ago
I was intrigued by this a while back. I think of training a NN as generating a function, an equation, from a training set which, given a specific input, outputs a prediction. If you can come up with an equation-input pair that, when execute
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by csn 10y ago
My acquaintance tells me the same. Presidential election being less than a month away I can see it being a big thing there, too.
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by csn 10y ago
I would guess one of the reasons to be the fact that there are a myriad of (money-free) hosting providers out there offering plain drag&drop file uploading with PHP support (often paired with a mysql database access). This makes PHP sof
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by csn 10y ago
This is just a wild guess which I can't verify at the moment, but have you tried setting the evil bit in your outbound packet headers, as per RFC3514?
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by csn 10y ago
That reminds me of solipsism* : the idea that your own mind is the only thing surely existing and might contain everything else; the universe, other minds within. * https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism
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by csn 11y ago
For now, these decisions will be made for me by our gofmt overlords.
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by csn 11y ago
The article correctly quotes 10-20 jobs per 1k units, but the mayor of Salo has apparently said[0] that there's probably an extra zero there, so reality could be closer to one or two per 1k. [0] http://m.iltalehti.fi/di
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by csn 11y ago
Perhaps the thing we call empathy is just a strange side effect of the negative subconscious feedback a member of group-oriented species gets when their friend is, or is going to be harmed, physically or otherwise. The choice between gain
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by csn 11y ago
"Any sufficiently advanced AGI is indistinguishable from parent" just crossed my mind and I wanted to share.
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by csn 11y ago
Is the Android version in any free app store?
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by csn 11y ago
What is up with the popup ads, by the way? I've been seeing them a lot lately when I enable JS, even on my bank's site. They were, in the past, tried with failure and all major browsers got a built-in blocker.
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by csn 11y ago
The way I see it, dummy cameras and real ones have exactly the same pre-crime effect: they both create a sense of security and add to the observed risk associated with committing a crime. With dummies you get really low cost (practically
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by csn 11y ago
This was happening at the Finnish border, too, but just recently Finnish authorities banned crossing it with a bicycle, officially for safety reasons.
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by csn 11y ago
I fantasise that in a parallel universe US, kilometer is considered a singular base unit whereas kilometre is thousand metres. This allows one to write "kph" instead of "kmph" when they want to be consistent with &qu
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by csn 11y ago
Don't you have an app for that?
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by csn 11y ago
I didn't think there was really anyone who actually thinks that the metric system is more complicated than the imperial one.
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by csn 11y ago
By false positives I meant non-firearm objects which the robot recognises to be firearms, and incapaciting brought tasers to mind. I am probably looking at this problem through smaller-and-safer-country specs, Here police shootings are real
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by csn 11y ago
False positives would be scandalous. We would also need an unspoofable way for the AI to distinguish intent of the weapon drawing, because law-enforcement et cetera. The bot can't always already be at the scene when something happens.
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by csn 11y ago
They don't, really. This is basically saying they won't take legal action against their citizen for owning or trying to obtain said materials.
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by csn 11y ago
Not quite, but close: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1401143/ (Rare Exports)
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by csn 11y ago
The concept has definitely been affected by religions, even having some roots there, but nowadays it's as religious as Easter Bunny. Saint Nicholas is God's earthly avatar: rewarding those who live by his rules and punishing the r
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by csn 11y ago
Maybe they'll buy Jolla (which is not doing great atm), get old Nokia engineers back and continue with Sailfish OS. Alien Dalvik is great for Android software compatibility but a push for official recognition from Google for Play servi
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by csn 11y ago
Finnish people drink a lot of coffee; in my place of work it's a mug (0.2 litres) every two hours or so during a twelve hour shift. Some people there have been doing that for over a decade and apparently their dosage and consumption in
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by csn 11y ago
The audio is fine if that tab is not active but distorts when I switch to it. Otherwise very, very smooth.

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