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On top of the other comments, this reads like a half-joke.

> If we would guess that there is a bias in the distribution based on recently seen elements, the guess is at least as likely to be wrong as it is to be right.

This is true for abstract and random data. I don't think it's true for real world data.

For example, python's sort function "knows nothing" about the data you're passing in. But, it does look for some shortcuts and these end up saving time, on average.


Or like $5. This is the kind of thing it was very easy to hire people for. Dropping the price to near zero exploded the usage, though.


> This is the kind of thing it was very easy to hire people for.

But would you? People grumble about $0.99 for an app they’ll use everyday, I doubt paying even $5 (and waiting for a result!) for a fake image to mislead police is high on anyone’s list.

Making this image was likely fast and free. It’s a crime of opportunity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_of_opportunity


Neither are bug reports or feature requests.


bug reports should be reproducable. They may even be statistically reproduceable. A bug report that cannot be reproduced is worthless.


It is not worthless; that means you need to work on making it easier to detect and report bugs.


Do you accept bug reports that just say "it doesn't work" or do you require reproducibility?


I want all the colors! Give me the full spectral power distribution!


Promptly cooks in the microwave and infrared, and fries in X-ray and gamma radiation

Ahh true HDR


The name for the color doesn’t exist before the name. But, you can distinguish all sorts of colors you don’t know the name for. Look at a smooth color wheel or a wall of paint swatches.


The provided rights are called positive rights, and the not infringe rights are called negative rights. Freedom of speech is a negative right and a right to legal counsel is a positive right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_and_positive_rights


Thanks, yes I didn't really think about that distinction. I would say that "positive rights" is a fairly modern concept, for example the right to legal counsel was not originally a positive right, that was something that was determined by a series of court decisions in the mid-20th century. Most rights are still in the "negative" sense, i.e. things that cannot be prohibited or limited, or only narrowly so.

But in this case, a "right" to mobile data is just an entitlement that the people/governemnt decided to provide. The article isn't loading for me but I'm assuming this was not a constitutional change establishing this new specific right.


> I would say that "positive rights" is a fairly modern concept

Not really. “To no one will we sell, deny, or delay right or justice” in the Magna Carta has long been interpreted as much a positive right requiring the Crown to actually provide for justice rather than just a negative law to refrain from abusing it. There's also several clauses requiing royal justices to hold assizes in the counties and set procedures for hearing disputes which is a duty to maintain legal machinery. Heirs, widows, and wards were promised specific legal treatment, such as a widow’s immediate right to her marriage portion and inheritance, and limits on abuse by (non-state) guardians which are affirmative entitlements within feudal law.

Even Rome had the grain dole (the bread of “bread and circuses”).


It keeps it shorter.


That sounds like PageRank, Google’s original algorithm.


No one who would ask that question would be able to understand your answer.


I’m going to frame this comment.


Hehe. Sorry. Yes perhaps you’re right. Wasn’t trying to be obtuse but I didn’t express that particularly clearly.


Perfectly clearly, just for a different audience.


Your explanation was several years worth of math studies beyond what GP was asking.


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