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by liftbigweights 8y ago
> it will be pretty easy to automate attribution. Yours is a valid concern, but people can also fool attribution software easily. You could even write software that alters your paper into a few different people's writing style. That
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
Actually undefined behavior is defined. It is defined as undefined.
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
What happened to graphene? A couple of years ago, that's all anyone talked about? I thought graphene was going to get us back on the exponential incline that is moore's law? I'm guessing the answer is no ( betteridge's l
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
I guess this is for the nontraditional programmers since computer science is a mathematical field and programming is simply applied mathematics in some sense. I don't see how you could get a CS degree without being competent in mathema
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
Why is this news? Everyone does this, including the nytimes. The nytimes marketing department offers their clients on all kinds of identifying/targeting traits for advertising. From your fashion to your viewing habits to which news you
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
> Winston Smith actually could hide for a while. Actually, he couldn't. He thought he could hide. But we find out in the ministry of truth and room 101 that everything he did "secretly", like writing in his diary or his re
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
> Fentanyl only exists on the dark web because of the Chinese labs pumping it out. Wake up! The chinese labs wouldn't be pumping out fentanyl if people weren't demanding it. If it isn't china producing it, it would be prod
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
> Who is “we?” People who look like me, a white person, who did mean things two centuries before I was born? "We" as in the nation or government? And it wasn't 2 centuries ago. We were colonizing china up until 1949. Peop
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
Good god. It's a joke. > We can't blame pewdiepie nor expect him to act mature even though he has more than 70 million subscribers. And apparently, he can't get some people to understand sarcasm or get a sense of humor. &g
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
I see the same comments every time a china topic is posted on HN. I wonder why? > I don't think it would be far-fetched to assume that some very protected and valuable IP has leeched through our doors and into China's hands. Ch
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
The difference is that with fp ops, it's part of the design and understood that you should never directly compare the equality of fp numbers since they are estimates. You should check for equality of fp numbers by checking their differ
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
> I mean, almost every image posed on reddit is a form of piracy No it's not. It's called fair use. As long as it is changed or altered in some way as a means of commentary/criticism/etc. Using your logic, everything
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
> If Reddit and other similar sites want to make a point, a banner won't be enough. They need to do the unthinkable: Block all access from the EU. What they need to do is work together in a unified manner like the media and the poli
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
> Slightly off-topic, but: has PostgreSQL largely replaced MySQL for new projects? I'm seeing larger numbers of positions advertising for Postgres, even here in the Midwest. Perhaps, but I suspect people who are migrating from mysq
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
> It seems to me that the biggest thing that the author does not know about the provenance of Google's style guide is just how massive Google's projects that this guide applies to really are. A lot of the author's complain
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
> It's one of the many reasons i'm concerned that models like Chinas will actually flourish more than they otherwise would in the coming years. That's why the soviets won the cold war? From the british empire to the nazis
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
Ironic considering SSRN is owned by Elsevier, which is renown for trying to limit/control information for profit. It even published fake journals to spread "fake news" ( aka ads ) for the pharmaceutical industry. "The co
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
There are so many better links than a nytimes spam. But all we seem to get is nytimes spam lately. How about link the a website dedicated to chess? https://www.chess.com/article/view/world-chess-championship-...
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
> While there are similarities, one is a financial rating and the other is a social rating. They are one and the same. The "financial" rating affects where you can live ( try getting an apartment or a mortgage ) and where you
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
Trade war has nothing to do with it. It's rising wages in china. For more than a decade, manufacturers ( even chinese companies ) have been shifting production to vietnam. https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/18&#x
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
The british relationship with the kingdom of saud predates ww2 by decades going back to the ottoman empire. The british were instrumental in supporting saudi and arab nationalism to destroy the ottoman empire. Hence the tense relationship b
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
> I'd rather have my data safe with the Chinese government, a country that is on the other side of the globe and has practically zero influence on my life, that sharing it with the US or my own governments, which are there, and can
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
Because someone writing for the economist would know more about internet history than zuckerburg and the people running facebook. Why is there so many facebook propaganda crap everywhere now? Everyday without fail, you can expect a few here
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
Maybe they started a dash conference and made a dash for it?
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
How come you wrote "behaviour" in the first sentence and "behavior" in the second sentence?
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
> Texas is in a funny place. They are pumping oil like crazy Texas had always pumped a lot of oil. Texas was the oil capital of the world for a long time before saudi arabia came around. > but they are building wind like crazy as we
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
What hyperbolic clickbait nonsense. > If Saudi Arabia and its allies cut production when they gather Dec. 6 in Vienna, higher prices would allow shale to steal market share. Considering oil prices have gone from near $80 to near $55 in a
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
> After that there’s a 99.99% confession rate. That's because prosecutors in Japan and other countries generally go after "sure" cases. Canada has a 97% conviction. US has a 93% conviction rate. https://en.wikip
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
> Or even better, will they be living in these condos for a few years, or selling them in 3 months? They could rent it out. If LIC is expecting an influx of highly paid workers, rents are bound to increase significantly over the next few
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by liftbigweights 8y ago
> I would call him a good, hardworking student. (At least that's what we'd call it in Singapore ;) How many singaporeans are top math students at cambridge? If hard work is all that it took, we'd all be studying math at ca

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