> Mark Twain was a racist. Just read Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
So this is a person who didn't get Huckleberry Finn, then. I can see why people are upset when you take a famous book and then completely miss the point of it.
The premise of the list is fine, but the person writing about it is a moron.
I think there is a very real need for a distributed operating system. Operating systems ultimately just virtualize hardware, and its clear to anyone that has used VMware or Xen that we're building such a system piecemeal and constantly reinventing the operating system wheel. I think this is absolutely where OS design is inevitably destined to evolve into.
I have to wonder if everyone calling this site a cess pool has actually visited it. It was, in general, more civil and better moderated than, say, Twitter or Reddit which regularly generate a circlejerk of hatred and violent rhetoric. The subject matter may be distasteful, but the website was not at all what you everyone seems to be making it out to be.
The author seems to be doing exactly what he repeatedly claims not to be doing: being cute with his phrasing. He tells you he's going to make a case for fraud ceterus parabus, then actually argues fraud naturally arises through tradeoffs, which anyone who has ever made any kind of decision should be aware of. He wasted my time and had nothing insightful to say.
It does feel like we could at least get procedurally generated streaming music. Music is limited enough that it feels possible, and people are more than willing to rate and save music they like. The social element of raiding another person's curated playlist could take over the romantic notion of an artist's personal expression. Curating such lists of procedurally generated music could make everyone a musician.
This isn't my experience at all. Its a constant stream, people try common first names, and they're from lots of different people. Certain cloud websites in particular host the bots. A weird amount of requests come from IP addresses associated with security companies - just enough to be a nuissance for a website that doesn't actually get any traffic and is just for me to test things out on.
> So any time you're seeing a 2-3 day hold on ACH, it's the bank doing risk management decisions, not something in the underlying transfer.
I'm not sure if this is what you meant to begin with, but the institution is probably not doing anything at all. They're just waiting to see if the name gets flagged and to give you time to cancel your credit card or whatever it is. The fishiest transactions start to smell immediately and all you have to do is wait a second for the smell to waft in.
I'm confused why you're confused. A discord is just a chatroom server. Click on the chatroom and type your message in the textbox and read other messages. It has native support for things IRC didn't, like emojis, the ability to upload files, voice chat, etc.
Maybe you joined a discord with too much traffic. But I'm in the most popular discord that covers my entire state and #general can go hours without anyone talking.
If you think its too complicated, maybe you're over thinking things.
The issue isn't a different cultural perspective, its censorship. In this case, the censorship is vast, arbitrary, and sweeping. Making it illegal to criticise North Korea is not protecting anyone, its oppressive.
If everyone is so sure this is where we're housing dangerous terrorists, why not charge them with a crime and allow them legal defense? If the evidence is so air-tight, so obvious we should deprive them of basic human rights, why not put them in prison instead of "detaining" them forever?
I suppose you could set up a network of pigeons. After all, an ethernet cable merely connects two points. Maybe you could train additional pigeons to route the messages somehow.
> Any gambler that makes a prediction without internally associating it with a probability is one that's most likely losing money.
The very fact that this idea is expressible proves that you're combining two different ideas in your head. You're seeing the utility in making accurate predictions then, despite being perfectly capable of talking about predictions which aren't estimates, pretending that they're the same concept.
I of course don't need to appeal to your own confused words, because we live in a world where dictionaries exist.
It most definitely is not. Confidence and predictions are orthogonal concepts outside of stats and ML. A gambler makes predictions, but may have no confidence in winning. A scientific model may produce predictions with no associatel claims of probability or even validity. It is perfectly grammatically and semantically correct to say that someone made a prediction that they themselves do not believe to be the most likely outcome.
Predictions and probabilites seem unrelated, except in mathematical models which attempt to make "predictions" through probabalistic models. Perhaps you've spent so much time reading about machine learning that you've gotten the concepts confused. I would go so far as to say that a prediction that comes with a probability is not a true prediction, but an estimate masquarading as one.
These are all really atrocious predictions, and the newest ones don't really seem any less stupid than those whose time has already come to pass. People also seem to have a weird inability to construct grammatically correct sentences that start with the phrase "I predict."
Same reason people are afraid of getting robbed at night when they're more common during the day when everyone is at work, or why we're scared of heights and planes, but cars and horseback riding don't phase us. Fear is an emotional reaction, not a rational one.
Its fair to be skeptical and to use your critical thinking abilities, but I worry that people go "oh, this generally credible source isn't perfectly reliable, I guess I'll go listening to crackpots and charlatans." Almost as bad is when you become convinced you have the answers, despite not being remotely qualified to speak on the subject. This is how you get flat earthers and 5G conspiracy theorists.
How about the threshold for publishability is that two independent groups come up with the same conclusion? So you have to partner with another team somewhere else in the world in order to get published, and then you get joint credit.
They do that about everything. There are consistently a dozen nearby "available" drivers in the downtown area where I live within a 5 minute drive and I don't think I've ever actually gotten one of those drivers. I also frequently need rides early in the morning/late at night because of a weird work schedule. They also prominently advertise a discount for reserving a car two hours in advance and then proceed to charge me $15 dollars more than what it costs to get a ride at the time of night normally. It is worth it, so that I know I will have a ride at that time and that they will be there when I get out of work and I don't want to wait around for 30 minutes at 4am just to go home. But don't piss on my shoes and tell me its raining.