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"leads to insanity if you actually apply it" A better description of politics I could not have come up with. "equitably" Fortunately, no danger of that on either the left or the ri…

Would you seriously want a lawyer who has learned only from books ? Such a lawyer would have very little experience in representing clients, and would not have learned from experie…

The paper talks about this. Answer: no it isn't, but it's a bit of a matter of definition. A reinforcement learning task will discount future actions, this won't. Also the training…

You also have things like horses, which are running about 30 minutes after birth at speeds about half of what they can do as adults. Before an hour is out they can jump without fal…

CO2 production will stop. We are at or over the Hubbert peak, and nothing can stop co2 production from falling in the future. Therefore, no policies are necessary to make it happen…

Only if also levied on imports in a reasonable way, otherwise it will have the opposite effect. Why ? Because China and all of cheap Asia runs on coal, and that's not going to chan…

He does make a good point. Living conditions in the city being what they are, especially when concerning available space ... is it any wonder people aren't having kids ? Of course …

Isn't that the same as is happening today with bonds ? The government is pushing bond prices down. So companies are using short-term loans to pay all their costs, while paying ever…

Why are these parties allowed to make contracts like that without putting up collateral ? I can pay a bum on the street 10 dollars to sign his name on a contract like that (that he…

Bloomberg had 2 large bank executives complaining very publicly on the low interest rates and advocating having the FED raise rates over the weekend. Here's one, I can't find the o…

We can, we're just unwilling to. Moving populations is a political problem, not a physical one. Correctly damming with proper overflow regions is a well-understood problem, and a f…

I don't understand how your statements aren't a direct logical contradiction. One of two things is true: 1) we are able to predict the effect of external changes to earth's climate…

In total, yes, but probably VISA gets about half what you get in fees, and your bank gets the other half.

Update: only 5.5k employees getting fired.

They are focusing on their software products. I wonder who came up with these strategies.

As someone who made the mistake in working for an international office, and caught the train out almost 10 years ago now, I agree. I escaped one set of layoffs and then kept thinki…

How much are 4 Xeon Phi servers, mellanox cards and a large switch between them ?

Here is one thing happened in Brussels when people announced an anti-islam demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rcb6iK0EHQ Note that the protesters in that video are the…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5B9XwFY24g

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/sep/30/angela-merke... Seems like this is what they were talking about. Of course reporting violence gets equated with committing violence,…

KDE's konqueror has a "web archive" format. I don't think any of the other big browsers have such a thing. http://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/html/openSUSE_113/open...

To be fair, they're fake in one sense: very often they're sold as something else than their description suggests. In other words, the label usually says "diamonds from mine X".

> So, yeah. Fiber was the right investment. Not from an economic perspective. There is a saying in the telecom industry : "How do you make a small fortune with laying fiber ? Start…