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ericst

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    Comment #49133399

    This is honestly not a bad idea. And could be done in parallel. I even think that it might not need a mandate, if camera manufacturers start making it as a marketing claim. Prove y…

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    Comment #47963754

    Honestly it is not even that clear. Local models are quite efficient as well.

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    Comment #46113462

    Location: Aarau, Switzerland Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Embedded Linux (Yocto/Buildroot), C/C++, Python, IoT, Mechatronics, Medical Device Software (IEC 6230…

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    Comment #40631157

    Independent of section 240 or other laws, I would argue that search engine operators are content publishers as soon as we don't know how they choose the order of the results. Same …

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    Comment #21057141

    In school when we got introduced to calculator, the teacher told us that he was not here to teach it to us. Only maybe guide us, we had a few lessons of us sitting down with the ma…

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    Comment #18091774

    I really think that you are onto something there. Or maybe a bloat index calculating the ratio between user content and downloaded content. Like 1kB of text but with 2 MB of JavaSc…

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    Comment #18052515

    A big part of learning is also in the social interaction. VR, no matter how good, will just never match that. You don't only need information, you also need interactions, real life…

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    Comment #17456007

    I would say that this is not specific to aeronautics. It works also for other engineering fields. I find there is always an uncanny beauty in simple, elegant and efficient design u…

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    Comment #17154162

    I don't see what is naive. The EU has never said that you can't have ads. You can do ads without using and selling user data. For instance, you can have contextual ads (depending o…

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    Comment #17081985

    Well, that is a rather clever use of Facebook Ads. I knew a guy who tried to use them as a dating service, I guess the lack of incentive is what made his trial fail...

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    Comment #17020232

    It is not really heavy handed. It is what it should be.

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    Comment #16983662

    Have you ever heard of https://commoncrawl.org/ ? Maybe it helps you to bootstrap. It's cool to see some new things happening in the search engine world.

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    Comment #16980757

    Disclaimer: haven't been on Facebook for years, mainly because I was pissed at all those stupid games and surveys at the time. The problem with simply providing a trust appreciatio…

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    Comment #16875076

    Thank you for you answer. Would doing without districts altogether for federal legislator be a possibility? And on state level you could model on the congress with one chamber base…

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    Comment #16874958

    That's something I never understood from the US (I am not from there). From those kind of article I kind of get the impression that every election occurs with different voting dist…

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    Comment #16812367

    Would the mods also enforce said rules? Would everything has to go through them? Or do they just check that they are followed? What happens with what is not conform?

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    Comment #16811886

    That is so right. In fact one of the best organization I ever lived was in a small company ( There was basically a semantic document number indicating what the document was about, …

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    Comment #16791393

    > The best thing about it is escaping the algorithmically curated feeds. Honestly, I don't think algorithmically curated feeds are a problem. The main problem is the goal of the gi…