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Since the government benefit from more children (i.e. form more tax revenue in the future), how about let the government breed and raise childern with donated eggs & sperm, surroga…

I wonder if bats get a lot of allergy problems

Has anyone noticed that Apple tracks your app installs and use that data to show app Ads to you? While Apple doesn't allow others to track users across apps, they themselves can do…

Epstein would be a better comparison

But if you really think about it, flipping rocket is a trivial toy problem in simulation. But useful humanoid robot is very hard even in simulation. Just look at some of the SOTA c…

https://theintercept.com/2020/03/31/rikers-island-coronaviru...

blacks are vastly overrepresented in the prison population and NYC just forced them to bury COVID bodies with scarce protection.

> and, more importantly, is part of the same intelligence alliance that's exactly why you shouldn't use American network equipment. The Canadian government cannot spy on Canadian c…

US also used German companies for spying. So I guess there is no escape.

Because of fractional reserve banking. 90% of the money in your bank account are in fact credit created by the private banks out of thin air. If the banks fail, 90% of the money in…

but after the crisis do you give it back to the shareholders and let them brood for the next crisis, or do you remain a socialist forever?

But nationalizing private business is the symbol of communism! How dare you say such a thing!

Because they are more important than the goverment. If the big banks die the entire US economy dies with them. Why Americans would let a few bankers wield such power and be account…

1. Next economic crisis will break down world financial order because interest rates cannot be lowered and QE is no longer effective. 2. Total meltdown of social & political order …

Meaning while Trump is trying to make other country buy more Boeing planes?

Traditional media should ban compaign ads too. They have been lying for a century.

Are you referring to the PRISM project?

more than 1/3 of Americans are obese. the US is one of the fattest countries in the world. Does that mean Americans are poor people who can only afford empty calories? wake up. peo…

The firewall will disappear when China has a strong enough propaganda machine that can counter the western propaganda machine (think Hollywood & BBC). China has been working on it …

the US is already shutting down "Russian-backed" twitter accounts that tries to "sabotage the government". Who is to decide what's backed by Russia, eh?

https://developer.nvidia.com/cudnn Alex did it on 2x580 in 2012. Took him 1 week. It's 60x faster now even compared to K40

Amazon probably used P2 because they want to advertise it. We can get almost linear speedup on 10 8xM40 machines using MXNet. Batch size is linearly increased with # of machines bu…