thanosnose

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by thanosnose 8y ago
> I expect it is quite more nuanced than his description of dead/not dead and summing up the material on both sides. It is a bit more nuanced. There are heuristics ( breadth and depth searches ) which assigns positional values and a
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by thanosnose 8y ago
> Have they ever not been? The mongol conquest of china? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_conquest_of_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuan_dynasty > I think through history China alw
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by thanosnose 8y ago
> Anyone bashing the GDPR for being too hostile towards startups and smaller businesses should read this. Looks like the fine was almost a bit too low in this case... You make it seem like that's supposed to be assuring? Essentially
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by thanosnose 8y ago
> And these "news" are not fact-checked by any authority anymore. Yes. Because when the ministry of truth is in charge, things are so much better. /s The problem is that "fact checkers" are some of the most biase
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by thanosnose 8y ago
This should be the HN motto: "If you aren't paying for it, you are the product". Also, VPN isn't a magic cure for the disease of privacy violation. You are just choosing to trust the people running the VPN service over t
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by thanosnose 8y ago
> Something needs to change, the same way Reddit’s ranking algorithm was changed based on Randall Munroe’s public suggestion. That was a long time ago. Reddit ranking is even worse than HN's now and is manipulated by political and n
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by thanosnose 8y ago
> p.s. Please don't get offended that I said Japan was a tick too small for me. It doesn't have to fit me, I don't live there. I was just making an observation. :) Why would anyone be offended? If you are 6'3", n
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by thanosnose 8y ago
> Does anyone know how effective incognito mode is at preventing data and privacy abuses like this? Incognito mode really doesn't do much. It only prevents storing browsing data locally on your computer. Your ISP, your search engine
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by thanosnose 8y ago
> I wonder if there are similar courses on CS algorithms for people who didn't study CS in college. This might be a bit more challenging and less hand holding than the nand2tetris course but if you are up for it, why not go with the
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by thanosnose 8y ago
> I believe US foreign policy will potentially have very large changes due to their new found energy independence. It's possible but I think corporate interests, rather than our energy independence, will be the driving force of US f
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by thanosnose 8y ago
Agreed. I like 12 monkeys better as a movie ( just my style of movie ) but brazil is a far more realistic dyspotian reality. Dystopia by the mundane and the bureaucratic rather than a mad genocidal scientist.
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by thanosnose 8y ago
Fear sells. And the news sell fear. Something is always tearing america apart. We are always on the brink. The past few months, it's facebook tearing us apart. Last year, it was putin and the russians tearing america apart. The year be
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by thanosnose 8y ago
> Without their content what will Google search? Wikipedia, blogs? I hope so. The internet was better when news was an afterthought. > Without news content google search users will not get news context about their search queries so th
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by thanosnose 8y ago
> Give China another 20 years and they will surely have overtaken the USA in world leadership. I guess anything is possible but I highly doubt it. Do you really think culturally, linguistically, militarily, politically and even economica
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by thanosnose 8y ago
That used to be a good idea 4 or 5 years ago. Sadly now aggregators are echo chambers themselves due to publisher pressure.
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by thanosnose 8y ago
It's clickbait "news" and "studies". So much of the media and "science" is useless people doing useless nonsense just to make money. "Why you shouldn't work remotely". "Why you shouldn&
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by thanosnose 8y ago
Even kids with allergies benefit. "—Among children with some reaction to peanuts on the skin test: Only 11 percent of peanut eaters developed an allergy versus 35 percent of abstainers."
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by thanosnose 8y ago
There is a significant portion of developers ( particular web and app ) and IT staff who never studied computer science in college but instead moved into programming/IT mid career. Most of them probably never heard of or seen assembly
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by thanosnose 8y ago
Israeli scientists have already shown that early childhood exposure to peanuts can prevent these allergies. https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-kids-help-prove-early-... Also, peanut allergies hardly affect anyone. As a s
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by thanosnose 8y ago
> Facebook applying for patents on distinctly creepy inferences from photos is hardly a hit piece. That one is by buzzfeednews, not the nytimes. I know it's hard to tell the difference between news companies today. There are 3 hitpi
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by thanosnose 8y ago
Another interesting watch is the TED talk by SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell earlier this year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dar8P3r7GYA Say what you will about Musk, but the guy is truly ambitious and willing to shoot for th
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by thanosnose 8y ago
There are a bunch of rules - mostly protecting QBs from high and low hits and protecting receivers from contact and vicious hits. http://www.realclearlife.com/sports/nfl-rule-changes-created... https://www.f
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by thanosnose 8y ago
Why is this even a story? Most computer science student don't want to work period. They don't want to work for any company. Most CS grads would like to win the lottery and spend their days pursuing their own interests, contribute
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by thanosnose 8y ago
> But if "all a man is, is what others say of him," then by watching the news, Assange is just a Russian agent. One of the most interesting aspect of the assange story is how the news industry celebrated assange in the early pa
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by thanosnose 8y ago
> I can't help but be drawn into the idea of "superhuman" feats and statistical outliers that always seem to permeate major sports. Because sports is just as much entertainment as it is sports. These leagues need someone t
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by thanosnose 8y ago
People in power love to censor. When the religious right had the power, they tried hard to censor what they didn't like. Now it's the left that is in power and they are trying to censor what they don't like. The fight for fr
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by thanosnose 8y ago
It doesn't hurt to have hands-on experience, but it definitely isn't necessary. The job of a department head is to navigate government bureaucracy and attain the budget, gather resources and hire experts for his department's
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by thanosnose 8y ago
It's a bit unfair to blame the entire species when 2 countries are responsible for most of the nuclear tests. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_weapons_tests
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by thanosnose 8y ago
Most likely the shareholders will be wiped out ( equity collapse ) and bondholders are going to cut their losses and simply walk away. It will be rate payers ( customers ) and taxpayers ( both state and federal ) who will be footing the bil
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by thanosnose 8y ago
What about option 3? 3. New Republic and the rest of the MSM decide what is reliable and how you think? Isn't that what this is all about? The mainstream media and the power brokers behind the MSM wanting control of a major means of co

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