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New comment by maaku in "On Mother's Day, My Mom Asked Me to Help End Her Life"

maaku — Thu, 12 May 2016 03:01:53 +0000

Leave provocative statements as-is and censor succinct and appropriate responses? You should reconsider what effect that policy has given context.

Goodbye.

(Bug report: there appears to be no way to delete accounts.)

New comment by maaku in "On Mother's Day, My Mom Asked Me to Help End Her Life"

maaku — Wed, 11 May 2016 19:07:25 +0000

Fuck off.

New comment by maaku in "On Mother's Day, My Mom Asked Me to Help End Her Life"

maaku — Wed, 11 May 2016 18:11:52 +0000

I did read part of the article but didn't finish because it is too depressing to read about someone murdering family out of ignorance. Thanks for letting me know how it ended.

New comment by maaku in "On Mother's Day, My Mom Asked Me to Help End Her Life"

maaku — Wed, 11 May 2016 18:10:56 +0000

If you're waiting for revival to be shown then your missing the point. The whole idea is to halt decay while there are problems that can't be solved yet. It's an ambulance ride to the future.

New comment by maaku in "On Mother's Day, My Mom Asked Me to Help End Her Life"

maaku — Wed, 11 May 2016 15:24:55 +0000

Somebody should talk to the OP's mother about cryonics.

New comment by maaku in "Have you had the “AI talk” with your kids?"

maaku — Tue, 10 May 2016 18:13:30 +0000

You're assuming machines can't be creative.

New comment by maaku in "Ubuntu 16.04 proves even an LTS release can live at Linux’s bleeding edge"

maaku — Tue, 10 May 2016 16:24:21 +0000

The LTS stability doesn't really start until the .1 release.

New comment by maaku in "Is There a UFO Cover-Up? A Government Insider Speaks Out"

maaku — Tue, 10 May 2016 15:59:01 +0000

Certainly. Also weather balloons that were in fact doing remote observation of Soviet nuclear weapons testing (see project Mogul run out of Roswell, NM).

New comment by maaku in "Why do old statues have such small penises?"

maaku — Tue, 10 May 2016 15:54:47 +0000

They are in fact teenagers by the modern definitions. You were a full responsible adult shortly after puberty. Many of the greats did their best work before 20.

New comment by maaku in "Today I accept that Rails is yesterday’s software"

maaku — Mon, 09 May 2016 20:20:50 +0000

Sometimes you want to read the article.

New comment by maaku in "LendingClub CEO Resigns Following Loan Sales Review"

maaku — Mon, 09 May 2016 15:54:00 +0000

Demurrage money.

New comment by maaku in "Nvidia's new graphics cards are a big deal"

maaku — Mon, 09 May 2016 14:58:01 +0000

In HPC?

New comment by maaku in "Nvidia's new graphics cards are a big deal"

maaku — Sun, 08 May 2016 16:41:35 +0000

You do cryptographic compute. You're about the only HPC application that benefits from AMD architecture. Most other scientific compute and deep learning applications have horrible performance on AMD compared with NVIDIA (usually for software reasons that are in principle fixable, but it is what it is).

New comment by maaku in "Arcade Raid – The Duke of Lancaster Ship"

maaku — Sun, 08 May 2016 16:36:43 +0000

If there were blank white columns on either side of text in the middle, you wouldn't have complained.

New comment by maaku in "Facebook sued for storing biometric data mined from photographs"

maaku — Sun, 08 May 2016 16:23:58 +0000

> I'm not sure anyone would pay for this feature to use themselves

I said open-source.

New comment by maaku in "Facebook sued for storing biometric data mined from photographs"

maaku — Sat, 07 May 2016 22:12:37 +0000

That only works until people start doing it. Then it retroactively stops working.

The only way to prevent your face from being recognized is by not having your face in a photo to begin with.

New comment by maaku in "Facebook sued for storing biometric data mined from photographs"

maaku — Sat, 07 May 2016 22:05:01 +0000

So invent an open-source federated server with deep learning capabilities that can do this and keep us in charge of our data.

New comment by maaku in "Facebook sued for storing biometric data mined from photographs"

maaku — Sat, 07 May 2016 22:04:02 +0000

The article says it is opt-in.

New comment by maaku in "NVIDIA Announces the GeForce GTX 1000 Series"

maaku — Sat, 07 May 2016 17:20:52 +0000

They do. They have a retargeting compiler. It's performance sucks.

New comment by maaku in "GiveDirectly Planning to Give $30M in Basic Income to East Africa"

maaku — Sat, 07 May 2016 17:14:12 +0000

The point is if you sum up what people would want to do with their time, there's no reason to expect that in any way corresponds with what the allocation of resources should be to keep the engines of the economy moving / achieve maximal societal benefit / whatever. It's a classic tragedy of the commons situation.