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phrh8

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    Comment #18945122

    Not sure it would happen that way out of choice, but the role can get unexpectedly thrust upon someone, experienced or not (Think startups, desperate to make ends meet with a handf…

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    Comment #17388873

    What future work can we see here? Is this sort of approach really pushing the state of the art or is it just an attempt squeeze another few percent out of brotli at the expense of …

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    Comment #17352444

    How does DivANS compare to state of the art compression algorithms? Is Brotli widely acknowledged as the state of the art or you just compare to it because it is fast? My understan…

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    Comment #15439026

    I think the global reach is the problem here: kind of like how phonebooks, public records intended for the interest of the local population get scraped and sold to ad businesses an…

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    Comment #15390038

    These platforms have hyper-optimized their products to show as much stuff as possible that people will engage with (share, click), so that they also engage with ads and stay active…

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    Comment #15389941

    Science can't tell you if something is "natural" or good/bad. Science merely tells you what is/what we observe. (with some probability of being wrong, and subject to bias, etc). Wh…

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    Comment #15051693

    What usually happens with these phones is they have something like 8GB or even 16GB, but they are poorly paritioned. It could be something like 5-6GB for /system (the OS) and they …

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    Comment #14329565

    Wow, that video deserves more views than it has. Really interesting and relevant for a two year old talk.

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    Comment #13424164

    I won't pretend to know about or have any background in medicine, but based on a cursory reading of the article, it seems to be a term for applying the Scientific method to medicin…