diskcat

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by diskcat 10y ago
Why is racial profiling wrong? Aren't you just making statistical inference based on past experience? if that is wrong then all learning is wrong.
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by diskcat 10y ago
>One potential solution is directly government funded news Where does the government get its money to fund news? Either from the local population which is enforced support for an economically non-viable business or it can get money from
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by diskcat 10y ago
yikes indeed
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by diskcat 10y ago
When I was at university my roommate was a rich mainlander chinese whose dad bought him an AMG mercedes. So the average car for that household was in the 100k's needless to say i wasn't driving anything near that.
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by diskcat 10y ago
>What we should really achieve is 1Gbps symmetric connections. Then the cloud is your LAN jokes on you because my LAN is 100. also im pretty sure all 4 ports on my el cheapo switch are shared.
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by diskcat 10y ago
I thought about downloading all the youtube videos that I consider have future watching values but then i realised it would take way too much effort and storage space to download and tag/categorise them and that there is no limit to my
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by diskcat 10y ago
>This is about your guests, who consented to the conditions of your house when entering. If he is not sure he ought to hire a civil engineer to inspect and verify the safety status of the house or ask the host to do it. >your children
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by diskcat 10y ago
>Americans should feel nothing but disgust for most of our housing policy, and single family homes should be derided as one of single worst allocation of resources the American public makes. In your opinion. Some people think driving car
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by diskcat 10y ago
>What I think stinks is that companies seldom thinks of accessibility. that's because there aren't as many blind people as seeing people.
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by diskcat 10y ago
People do like to hero worship. I think it's a psychological thing. Although I disagree with saying that you can never reach a level of somebody that's you idolise. What I observe with myself and others is that people emulate thos
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by diskcat 10y ago
Confucianism was chosen by the chinese power-that-be because he encouraged obedience and conformity. It's the reason Chinese society stagnated with a monolithic central authority. With a more libertarian approach, there would be more t
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by diskcat 10y ago
I don't think people write lisp interpreters for performance reasons. It's more a computer science exercise which helps you understand languages better.
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by diskcat 10y ago
So basically it's a clickbait title.
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by diskcat 10y ago
People have been doing programming even though it's unfashionable forever for their interest in the activity itself. So if these people would do it either way, what's the delta of people that you will attract when it becomes fashi
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by diskcat 10y ago
Gotta make sure all the sysadmins know to update and it's more likely they are on HN than checking the update server every 2 minutes.
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by diskcat 10y ago
The best thing about buying cloth online is that you buy before you put it on, thus there is an exciting wait period between when you purchased the item and it arriving in the mail. This expectant feeling is highly addictive and I believe i
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by diskcat 10y ago
> https://imgur.com/g595nJ1 It seems a lot of women have taken up 'coding' not out of interest in complex systems or solving difficult problems, the reasons that have attracted traditional 'nerds' to p
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by diskcat 10y ago
What would be the point of using microsoft's linux?
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by diskcat 10y ago
I woke up early for an 8AM class also because the prof. was way better than the 9AM one.
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by diskcat 10y ago
>Can you imagine travelling today to a foreign country ready to die for fighting oppression? I have never seen such kind of conviction in my life. There were russians who fight in Ukraine and if you ask ISIS fighters they will tell you t
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by diskcat 10y ago
I think there are rooms for both VR and Augmented Reality to co-exist.
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by diskcat 10y ago
Some huge percentage of all stupid arguments are made with logical fallacies, but that does not mean that any argument that uses logical fallacies are stupid. Thus the solution is not to assume that any argument using logical fallacies are
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by diskcat 10y ago
Things like DRM can be fixed from the user demand side. If there are enough products on the market, then users can simply choose not to use products with DRM. On the other hand, with issues like "banned encryption", if the governm
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by diskcat 10y ago
>The ancient tradition of hoaxing and playing practical jokes on the first day of April has fallen victim to China’s crackdown. Reading that the first time I thought 'hoaxing' was a chinese word. How weird.
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by diskcat 10y ago
There is an information asymmetry when I buy an apple at the farmer market. That doesn't mean that every time I buy an apple I'm getting ripped off by the seller.
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by diskcat 10y ago
>"Move fast, break things" doesn't work when people's lives are at stake. No matter what you do, people's lives are at stake. Even an app that suggests which restaurant to go for dinner could cause somebody to di
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by diskcat 10y ago
Well the non-profit system isn't designed to allow people who embezzle money to be caught within a day or whatever. I don't think any accounting system is. The fact that the thief is eventually caught shows that the system does wo
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by diskcat 10y ago
It is exactly the tremendous goodwill that attracts the thieves and scammers.
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by diskcat 10y ago
nah they just want the number for marketing purposes >1 million tuned in to watch the unveiling and we got this list of emails to prove it >dick@dick.penis
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by diskcat 10y ago
How cool. Too bad I don't understand it.

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