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Comment Re:And the west want to continue the war (Score 0) 139

Your post is made out of deliberately vague language in its entirety. Lot's of implications, yet not a single thing is stated explicitly, so there is nothing to call out. You call that an honest discussion?

reality is complex, and i really do not buy the conventional story about this conflict.

Conventional story is that russian invasion into Ukraine is a blatant land grab. Even Kremlin stopped denying that for quite some time, roughly since annexation of four ukrainian oblasts. Your alternative facts are long outdated.

Comment Re:Rather than benefits, study how to pay for it (Score 0) 380

how to pay for it

We already pay for it. That is, people pay it themselves. Here's our starting point:

  • People below poverty line get X$ UBI instead of social payments. No additional money required here, just use the same welfare funds.
  • People above poverty line also get X$, but they are charged extra X$ flat tax. No state money here, too.

This situation is essentially the same as it is now - poor people got money, rich people don't. But this perspective lets us see that ordinary welfare program is roughly equivalent to UBI + flat tax rate above poverty line. I see welfare as a hidden draconian tax for anyone who dares to stick his head out of poverty pit. UBI would force politicians to be upfront about taxes and fix that.

Comment Re:Like marrying a pop star diva (Score 0) 139

5% of respondents have actually used Rust.
86% think they'd like it, but haven't actually tried it.

No, it's 86% of users of Rust, not 86% of all respondents. If you want to know how many people think they would like Rust, you have to look at the "Wanted" chart (https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#technology-most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted-languages-wanted). Here Python has the lead at 30% by a large margin. Rust is 5th behind JavaScript, Go and TypeScript.

Comment Re:ridiculous references (Score 0) 104

"When a digital ant detects a threat, it doesn't take long for an army of ants to converge at that location, drawing the attention of human operators who step in to investigate". You see, they are like real ants - a single "digital ant" is unable to do anything about the threat. Also, humans are incapable of noticing the "scent" that single "digital ant" leaves. No, one has to wait for a lots of other ants to come. This takes time. ..I'm not so sure nothing is traveling inside _their_ cables. There must be a reason they need an army of ants.

Comment Re:nothing special... (Score 1) 347

Well, people do emit some visibe light because of their temperature, but this does now explain why face is way brighter or why the brightness varies with time. Of course, the temperature is not constant, but I believe the differences are too small to account this.

Comment Re:Math ftl (Score 1) 365

ROC is useful not only to choose optimal threshold, but to see how good the test is, too. They have a reason not to show it. "90% accuracy" probably seems pretty good for average person, but when everyone one that for more reasonable false acceptance rate like 1E-5 false acceptance rate is 1E-4 (wild guess), it is clearly useless.

I asked the mathematician what is the probabilty of bomb being on the plane. He told me one in a thousand. I asked what is the probability of two bombs. He told one in a million. So I always carry a bomb with myself when I travel by plane.

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