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Have you looked into profiling with strace? You should be able to see the actual system calls each of your tests are making. This will probably give you some good insights into wha…

D3 particularly excels at graph animations and data transforms (as might be helpful to facilitate graphing). Its one of the most comprehensive graphing libraries around. Well writt…

Opiate addiction is an important, yet unrelated problem. With regards to UBI, its no different than a million other addictions (gambling, alcohol, social media, etc)... We, as a so…

As others have mentioned, I think requiring education would be a bit of fighting reality (with eventual automation outperforming humans in many tasks). I think, as in the current w…

I think for UBI to work, it has to be paired with a VAT/sales/transaction tax. Its also not a boolean: no UBI or gushing UBI. In fact it seems much more reasonable and palatable to…

This is the use case for universal basic income. Its largely not their fault for their current economic situation. They played by the rules. They worked hard. If we could only remo…

Aren't your own thoughts similar to a CPU's registers or cache? One's thoughts seem to occur within the context of the brain and the billions of neighboring (to the ones inducing t…

“You have to recognize realistically that A.I. is qualitatively different from an internal combustion engine in that it was always the case that human imagination, creativity, soci…

Its a NLP problem if your boss/client wants to talk with you. At the end of the day, they don't really "want" to TALK WITH YOU, they want the functionality they get as a result of …

> I didn't think would be possible without someone very skilled in photoshop going over the images And this is similar how deep learning will likely erode the need for programming …

Yes, codec licensing costs are one of the reasons people choose to not use the better codecs. Also, yes there is a CPU trade off as well. The decision is more complicate with many …

If you're audio sounds great for a network game and crappy for a phone call (to the same person you are playing a game with), its because some one (your ISP, your VoIP software, th…

Old fashioned PSTN lines would secure the full bandwidth needed end-to-end when the original call was established (which was really in efficient from a data utilization perspective…

Sorry to down vote, but that's completely the wrong vector. Its a network issue (of some sort - bandwidth, latency, throttling).

So VoIP can be better... at the expense of needing more bandwidth. During the session initialization the two VoIP endpoints handshake over which codecs will be used (kind of like t…

I think there will be a growing need for things like this if housing spaces continue to get smaller (and cheaper). I think a service that offers several revenue streams would do we…

The internet isn't a vice. Over use of social networks and various applications on it may be. The internet in many forms has become the primary means of human communication. Commun…

I highly recommend Kanos. I backed them on kickstarter and got Kanos for each of my kids. They all got them assembled and running and started working through the programming exerci…

Apple hardware does suck (now) AND its over priced. The OS and apps are starting to suck too (IMHO). I switched a month ago from MBP. I commented elsewhere ( https://news.ycombinat…

I am such a developer. Just moved from an older MPB to a (soon-to-be) Linux (Ubuntu) laptop. Always preferred Linux as my primary OS, but liked Apple hardware and OSX when I didn't…

Hi Fred, This is a challenging post, you seem to be getting knocked around with it quite a bit here. Hang in there. As you point out in your since published comment, treat this (an…