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Fixed, thanks.

The achiles heel for voice-driven UI though is there is no silent mode. Don't you therefor have to create both a GUI and a VUI?

"was as easy as growing good quality marijuana!

Growing your own MJ and have it taste like it does when you by from a pro, is a feat though. When you curate cannabis the right way, the flavors of cheese, berry, fruit, pine or other, comes through.

I think botanists or people who can read and have a habit of, you know, Google up on stuff, will do pretty good at growing their own stuff.

Why Big Cig is dodging this must purely be because of potential bad-will. I bet they feel like I do whenever I raise my voice on a cannabis-related topic at work: will this give me cred or back-lash like a MF?

I think you underestimate how poor poor people are. Poor people also need pain relief. They also need to get high. Most non-poor people get high on opiates or alcohol. That's expensive. Growing a plant, in relative terms, is not.

> let the persons in need organize and spread the knowledge

That's lobbying. In todays world, lobbying is a dispicable act, at least if you are into science or if you like stuff that has been proven by scientific measures. In today's world, lobbying VETOes science.

It makes you wonder what The Goverment's agenda is, does it not? I mean, either you base you actions on science or you base it on something other than science. It's a shame politics so often lead to uninformed decisions. To me, these days, politics seems like a grown-up version of the high-school game you used to play when you wanted to become popular. But of course, the real issue here money. Everyone wants it. Need it. Live for it.

I call shenanigans on society.

I acctually love questions about how to best traverse a tree, binary or not. Maybe I'm ready for an interview at least? But why is it me who should be put through a four-hour white board coding session? I would collapse after 40 minutes. They can code. Why can't they be the ones at the white board? I can "architect" and correct their mistakes. They would still be able to evaluate my competence.

I read that as sarcastic and very funny. Upvoted.

I agree.

My point was this: will you not create such a trust yourself, for your kids, if there does not exist one that is available for all, if you had the means?

I hope Bill Gates starts a trend. I'm sure he'll give away all of his money except for that 100M trust fund for his kids. What if they then turn that measly 100M into billions and then repeat what their father did? That would be pretty cool. How could laws about inheritance stop that from happening, I wonder.

I think laws about inheritance are mostly good because they protect the inheritor. The money would go that way either way, unless the parents and their kids ave afalling out. If a child has a falling out with his parents, parents could easily cut him out of the heritage if it were not for laws protecting those children. I think those laws are mostly good. Because rebelling against your parents is mostly a good thing, to society that is, because there is a very good chance you are smarter than them.

Intellectually, yes and yes.

And I see no indications there will be a pile of money for my kids once I die. So, intellectually, it's easy for me to agree with you.

But if by a turn of events my life transforms from being a financial disaster into a money-making success story and I end up with money at the end, I would like to give them what I feel every human being should have: a chance to find themselves, to find out what they are good at and what they love, without wrecking their finances. Because you only live once and you should try not to give your small amount of hours on earth to someone or something you do not believe in. So I would like to give them each a little "go and find yourself" fund that they could utilize once they're, say, 20 or 30 years old.

That feels wrong, intellectually, but if I have money and we haven't yet scrapped the notion of inheritance, then there will be "find your true you" funds for my kids. No doubt. Because if my kids find what they're really good at, they'll kick your kids asses ;)

That's what life's all about right? Setting things up for your genes. Bootstrapping your gene carriers lives, not with money in particular, but with the things they'll need to out-perform the rest or more importantly, to be as happy as they can be. Anything else we do with our time are just hobbies.

The redacted parts in the documents have codes, e.g.:

(b)(1) (b)(3) NatSecAct

What are those codes refering to?

Are only names redacted?

For you who have trouble searching, here's a document I just stumbled on while browsing through the content: https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/0006541525.pdf

It is about interrogation techniques used by USA (power drills were mentioned). Scary stuff.

I wonder, if you train a machine with content from major (all?) news sites, could it then, in theory, predict what was redacted to some degree?

I have an itch to scrape this content. Maybe I shouldn't.

Did your parents cuss while giving you hell, because that might be why you are cussing today. Also, do you have kids? Do you give them hell for whatever reason?

Fake news make little harm to Google, like an atomic bomb fired into the sun. Google supporting fake news, intentionally and actively, does marvelous things for that piece of misinformation and it gives credit to the publisher.

I hope this AMP experiment is soon over. As someone already said here, the web is confusing as it is. Google used to want to make things clearer, better. AMP is not. It's fixing symptoms instead of causes.

Screw those hard-working geniuses, always turning life into a freakin' competition ffs.

I mean, sure, for a religious person touching base with God or exploring existential questions might be fruitful but for a non-believer, focusing on these large questions while being in a depression is not your way out of it, because those questions are too grand. A quite healthy person might end up in a depression dwelling on unsolvable mysteries for too long.

If you find yourself in a depression, your thoughts constantly searching for answers to questions about the universe and why we are here, try to do something more akin to what the person in TFA tell about: create. Your real problem is certainly not that you don't have those answers, it's something else.

If the source for this had been on Github that BAKCSPACE issue would have already been fixed ;)

But there absolutely must be a common denominator. A Japanese sentence might encode the metric "relationship to subject" which an English sentence will encode as "NULL".

>It's easier for guitar novices to stay motivated when everything on the radio had lots of guitars in it.

Statistically when it comes to most things I'm almost always an outlier and I'm unsure as to why that is. Perhaps I'm just a willful person. Ever since I first heard Oasis' Live Forever I wanted to become Liam Gallagher or Noel. Things happened in my life that made it impossible for me to pursue that dream. Then, two years and 11 months ago I thought to myself: hey, nobody is producing radio friendly (pop(ular)) rock'n'roll anymore. I saw it as an opportunity and gave myself three years to write my first song. The fact during these years I never once heard a decent rock'n'roll song on the radio motivated me enourmously to continue practicing. So, six hours a day for almost three years. Practice practice practice. I even called in sick once from my programming gig because I thought I was so near a billboard #1 that, well, I could quit my day job. Well, three years later and I think I am dangerously close to a Swedish top list #1 ;)

https://soundcloud.com/marcus-lager/jag-blir-galen

10 years ago I got a Mastercard that for the first time required me to answer a 3D Secure questing each time I did an online purchase. It's been at least seven years since I had to answer that question though. How 3DS figures my card carries no fraud risk I have no idea. Is my card less likely to get stolen? Perhaps they have geography as a metric?

I work with fraud detection at an online travel agency. If you use 3D Secure and there is a fraud, your insurance will cover the cost of that transaction. As a merchant you may bypass (not use) that security feature at your discression. 3D Secure is a Mastercard feature, no?

They went from XBox (0) to 360 to 1. Why would the next number be 2? It should be 4, no?

I'm a c-sharper and I wanna learn D. It looks nice. But where does it shine?

I'm looking for a language, preferably c like, that optionally has pointers and with a good support for HTTP.

It was a beautiful gesture but in the end they realized what a tremendous waste it would be on such good weed not to smoke it. There was a seed, I saw it in one of the pics from the article. What if it was viable? What midevil type of weed would that be?

What about the possibility of Google being scared of being outrun or innovated out of its position in the AI race? Google does not have a monopoly on smart people.

Yes, there are lots of those, because the travel industry realized people want to compare offerings before they make their priciest purchase of the year. Customers would themselves do manually what all those aggregator sites do automatically and they care less about who they are dealing with and more about the price tag.

In comparison, a taxi ride might not even be the priciest purchase of the day.

Sure, but what I was saying was that what good is a new ranking method, when you only have at your disposal the same set of metrics as the method you are trying to replace? A new ranking would quite often mean adding new metrics. For example, when Lucene when from tf-idf to bm25 they added lots of new metrics to be able to cater for the new algorithm.

That is a lovely idea. Unfortunately, a scoring scheme has one foot in the indexing process (that thing that the google bot does) and another in the querying part, so switching schemes would often mean you would need to re-index your data to cater for the new metrics you now need for a new type of scoring.

What we really want is a system that classifies your query as being one of "forum/blog/shopping" and then makes a scan only over that class of pages.

So on launch-day you would have checkboxes. On the one-year anniversary you´d have those checkboxes removed.

Google probably implemented this a couple of decades ago, though, so what we _really_ need is someone to come up with a new business model more attractive than Google's.

Ad-free is quite refreshing.

I'm sure there is a significant amount of people in the US who work two shifts per day. I get the impression this is rather common in the lower to lower middle class. Voting seems hard for these people. But someone here said US companies have to give you time off to go vote, and if this is true then there are no impediments and these people can vote anyway, even though their paycheck for that day is cut by some amount. Some may choose not to, though, even though they beleive in democracy.

Extra means the oil contains no more than 0.8% of free oleic acid.

Virgin means the oil comes from a mechanical process, not a chemical one.

The purest grade extra virgin olive oil is the first cold pressed. It's neither filtered nor distilled. Refined olive oil however is filtered and also tasteless.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_oil#Commercial_grades