johnfactorial

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by johnfactorial 7y ago
I've often heard suggestions that fines be specified in law as percentages of revenue. IANAL and don't know how feasible that is, but it makes more sense to me than raw dollar amounts which, by their nature, make crime more afford
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
I agree that the original comment was not overtly _un_friendly. I also think that the reply represents a better way. > If the only way some one can give usable problem analysis and criticism is by including suggested fixes, I think we ca
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
Informing all consumers in the market is not a legitimately accomplishable solution to the problem. As long as there are 350 consumers unaware that these people have done this before, and they never have a day in court over it, this story
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
> But it's a risk you're taking buying a product from a fledgling internet-based startup. This is my problem. It is not reasonable to expect a purchase of a product online to be a gamble, a risk that you will get nothing in exc
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
> If you gave $700 to a company who promised to deliver you a scooter a few years down the line if all of the dominoes fell exactly as planned... I would argue that you got what you paid for even if it amounts to nothing tangible in the
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Why “Always use UTC” is bad advice(engineering.q42.nl)
6 points by johnfactorial 7y ago|3 comments
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
> the only way it may have become not that is if we have allowed our complacencies to kick in Just wanted to observe that this belief presupposes the US ever lived up to the principles you outline. US history shows that the country has n
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
The rational approach to all peer review is to assume there's a flaw and look for it. Quite a few commenters seem bothered by this reflexive reaction to published research, when the entire point of publishing research is to have it pic
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
This is probably the nuance I'm missing.
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
From the paper's abstract, though, "The results suggest that a 10% reduction in daily PM2.5 and ozone could save $1.4 billion in crime costs per year, a previously overlooked cost associated with pollution." This statement so
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
My hero!
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
> their results only show a strong correlative relationship The paper's abstract says "The results suggest that a 10% reduction in daily PM2.5 and ozone could save $1.4 billion in crime costs per year, a previously overlooked c
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
The first sentence of this post strikes me as needlessly combative and the post would be better without it.
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
Mental *super illness ;)
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
Also the statement presumes the superintelligent entity will be capable of taking all possible steps to prevent this. Imagining a machine capable of such steps quickly devolves into imagining a machine already in total control of the planet
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
I will read it, sounds very interesting. But the Wikipedia entry for the book says the book "argues that if machine brains surpass human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could replace humans as the domi
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
”We’re strongly dissatisfied and oppose Adam Silver’s claim to support Morey’s right to freedom of expression,” CCTV said in a statement. “We believe that any remarks that challenge national sovereignty and social stability are not within t
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
5> Vans removes innocuous custom shoe design https://www.cnn.com/style/article/vans-hong-kong-intl-hnk-sc...
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
Social media promised to connect people. It connected avatars instead. People are physical. We have bodies and brains. We have thoughts and opinions. We have friends. Avatars are conceptual. They have representations, not bodies; "prof
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
This is the little detail my dumb joke missed.
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
I can use this. I make prophecies. I write them down and seal them in envelopes, then I wait. When one is proven false, I just throw it away. When it comes true, I put the still-sealed envelope into an old shoebox. My posthumous autobiograp
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
Thanks very much. Some great other replies to my question in this thread as well.
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
> They control close to 50% of e-commerce which itself represents less than 12% of total retail sales. Both of these numbers are surprising to me, can you source them? Particularly the first one, which I assume is a global measure, and I
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
LOL I came here to see if someone else had noticed it's the worst mobile-first layout of all time. At least it's mobile-first I guess. :)
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
> Snowden distributed documents to the Guardian, Washington Post, and Der Spiegel - not Wikileaks. That's an important distinction, thank you for making it. Late May, Snowden fled to China. Days later, documents he stole were first
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
> Could you provide some evidence of harm here? I define lost value as harm, in the same way that if a person steals $1 from your pocket as you sleep, your body is unharmed, but you have lost $1 of value, and your trust has been violated
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
Pain was once considered a fact of life, and vital signs were those 4 signs which can indicate a patient is alive: body temp, pulse, respiratory rate, and blood pressure. Then the notion of pain as the "fifth vital sign," came abo
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
> and I'll point out that you're very much treating the American public as a geopolitical foe if you don't acknowledge that fact. This does not follow, as the logical conclusion of your statement is that the American publi
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
My use case was a prototype for an iOS app I had in beta testing. It had a tiny but globally distributed user base, and serverless was a fun thing to learn on top of being relatively quick to set up. I'm sure if I had wanted to, some d
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by johnfactorial 7y ago
Thank you. There was too much left-of-dunning-kruger-peak anger in the thread to give me any sense that the tweeter knew what they were talking about.

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