mc808

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by mc808 8y ago
> We know that some people without access to medical care will die. That actually sounds like an argument for allowing patients the option of a "fast lane" to their hospital for telemedicine and monitoring with higher priority
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by mc808 8y ago
I haven't done it myself yet, it's on the to-do list. There is a lot of academic material on PID autotuning, not always with neural networks but that seems the most straightforward way. A Raspberry Pi is probably overkill for the
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by mc808 8y ago
It's worth having a self-contained option available. For something like a drone, you don't need all that much computation for on-the-fly PID tuning in response to changing weather or different piloting styles, etc.
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by mc808 8y ago
Even if that were true and it were also true that privacy features would harm shareholders, then lobbying to make those privacy features mandatory would itself be acting against shareholder interests.
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by mc808 8y ago
In the voice assistant example, the server is one of the endpoints. The point they're making is that E2E doesn't really help there if you can't be sure who is looking over shoulders on the other end. If the two ends are both
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by mc808 8y ago
Even though you're technically wrong (the best kind of wrong), I can see where you're coming from. Even microcontroller ICs without enough memory to store this comment are real computers and are silent, but if you say you've
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by mc808 10y ago
Depending on their attitude, I don't think you should necessarily treat a lowball offer as an insult. The problem isn't that the user is offering (say) $10 for the work, but that not enough users offer $10 for the work.
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by mc808 10y ago
Yes, I would look for something like that if I had an expensive city-bike. But the availability of trackers doesn't seem to have much effect on thefts or the perception that bikes are an easy target.
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by mc808 10y ago
I wonder if there is more that bicycle manufacturers/dealers can do to prevent theft or help recover stolen bikes - not because they're obligated but just to improve sales. Especially as the price approaches four digits, "wha
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by mc808 10y ago
I think either most people are exaggerating about their ability to visualize or I have this impediment to a degree. My mental "images" are extremely faint, distant, wavering, ghost-like. Any parts I'm not focused on immediate
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by mc808 10y ago
Adding to the creepiness factor, they think I'm 9 and want my location.
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by mc808 10y ago
To me it seems our ability to preserve and share knowledge is far more important for our intellectual pursuits than the individual brain is. E.g. it took hundreds of thousands of years for someone to think up the number 0, and then it sprea
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by mc808 10y ago
Well of course not if your number system doesn't even exhibit fractal resonance in holistic projective encodings, given the angular momentum of the universe.
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by mc808 10y ago
Warning: Auto-playing video with audio.
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by mc808 10y ago
I've disabled search history and Google still tends to give me the most relevant results. Perhaps they also do some customization based on session cookie or something (I know YouTube does for recommendations) and I'm pretty sure I
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by mc808 10y ago
I thought you were going to say everything goes on the heap.
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by mc808 10y ago
> Think about finding an extraterrestrial storage device like this from our perspective. Let's suppose the aliens already did this, but instead of a small disc, they wanted to send a message that no intelligent being could miss. Ove
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by mc808 10y ago
I've noticed similar crawling out of the woodwork when the harmful effects of coffee, sugar, and other sinful addictive drugs are discussed.
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by mc808 10y ago
That's the difference between creating and publishing. To publish is to contribute your ideas to the public domain, where they may be picked up and used by others. You're under no obligation to publish your creation. But if you do
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by mc808 10y ago
An MMO server could be set up in 50 years with bots taking the place of most of the players to a mostly convincing degree, although I think the knowledge that those are just bots and not real players would be just as unsatisfying then as it
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by mc808 10y ago
You can't get very far in life if you assume every acronym you encounter is irrelevant to you if you don't already know what it stands for.
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by mc808 10y ago
Medicare fraud is something like $60 billion or 10% of total spending. It's conceivable that the rest of the government would approach some multiple of $100 billion, even having lower rates of fraud than Medicare.
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by mc808 10y ago
If you're sued, I believe it would have to be for unauthorized distribution (as with BitTorrent), not just downloading a pirated copy. So you would have to somehow argue that your distribution was fair use, which probably won't fl
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by mc808 10y ago
And silently delete that inane byte order mark anywhere it appears, at least within Visual Studio.
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by mc808 10y ago
I was really just illustrating that the same incomplete (bordering on dishonest) portrayal of the movement of labor can also be applied to the movement of capital.
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by mc808 10y ago
Everything you say also applies to foreign trade of goods or capital with just a little tweaking. Would you consider it "trade" when capital flows out the country, builds facilities in a foreign country, employs people in the fore
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by mc808 10y ago
On the laptop I find transparency useful to read what's behind the terminal window without constantly flipping back and forth or micromanaging my windows. But I also use a solid-color desktop, so most of the time it's not even app
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by mc808 10y ago
Next? No. Eventually? Maybe. We don't generally still say eow, þu, þe, ge, etc.
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by mc808 10y ago
One place collapsing would be useful is if the revealed text turns out not to be what I was expecting. E.g. maybe I thought clicking Planck's constant would reveal a number or equation. On the other hand, I could see the extra mechanic
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by mc808 10y ago
That all applies when there is no Vice President to act as President. None of it applies to the scenario here, which is wholly covered by the 25th Amendment. "In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resig

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