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>> IBM uses special and completely unintuitive names for basic concepts…. because OF COURSE THEY DO. > As I recall, it's called "Bluespeak", and that sort of thing is pretty common actually. How much of that is becau
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> Don't bullshit me, copying files and applying error correction is trivial compared to maintaining paper copies of books which degrade and burn. The people who are actually in the business of digital preservation disagree. To wit:
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>> For ages, people have sought to convert lead to gold though alchemy. Some skeptics said that was impossible or uneconomical . > Transforming lead to gold is possible, it takes a particle accelerator and a lot of energy but it c
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> Notice the pattern? No. For ages, people have sought to convert lead to gold though alchemy. Some skeptics said that was impossible or uneconomical. (Enter... no one) Turns out the skeptics are right and no amount of positive attitude
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> Why does a restaurant company like Chick-fil-A want to deploy Kubernetes at the Edge? What are the goals? That, we can answer. > Low-latency, internet-independent applications that can reliably run our business I like their prio
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> Is that a sign of illegitimate fake-spotting, or a sign of just how widespread fake reviews are? Personally I'm quite inclined to believe an extremely high fail rate. I think fake reviews are pretty widespread. This Washington Po
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> You'd think that Amazon would have the machine learning resources to detect likely-fraudulent items with high accuracy, should they be interested in preventing such obvious fraud. They must not be interested. After all, they stil
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I've been using https://www.fakespot.com/ to check review for fakes on Amazon.
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> So store it digitally where it takes up less space. No need to keep a physical copy around. That's a glib answer that ignores the complexity of digital preservation. When you preserve something, you want it to last long term --d
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> To what degree is preservation the responsibility of a local lending library? (As opposed to an archive; a museum; the Library of Congress; county courthouses; etc?) Personally, I would say even local lending libraries have a part to p
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Attitude doesn't trump facts or reality.
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> Sending books to be pulped is always sad, but the truth is that there are just too many books. Often it's not obsolete books that are destroyed, where there might be 1,000 other copies out there, but one-of-a-kind archival records
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Both. 29% are owned by independent drivers: http://nymag.com/nymetro/urban/features/taxi/n_10292/
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> Cab driving is a low skill job, which is why it's so important that proper competition can exist. My first ever Uber driver had water bottles and gum and even throw pillows and a blanket in the back. He was in a suit. He was reall
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> But cynicism aside, the key to making renewables a practical base load replacement for fossil fueled plants is a solid battery infrastructure. No, it's a solid storage infrastructure, of which batteries are only one type.
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>>> try going to one >> This is probably the best hint that they might not be so useful. The truth is most people never go to libraries. > "Most people," huh? Got a source for that? His real name must be "Mo
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> If you're going to run IoT devices in your house I highly recommend isolating them to their own VLAN+Wifi SSD to limit their exposure to the rest of your network. This goes both ways, too. You don't want someone to pivot fro
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> It's just business. Everyone tolerates it because money talks. Sometimes "business" must bow down to things like ethics, otherwise it tends towards corruption and exploitation. Hocking your own book in a list of the &qu
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I kinda feel the most ethical thing for an author to do is focus on a recommendation for the best book that isn't theirs (e.g. besides my book X, I'd recommend Y for Z reasons).
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>> Crooked and corrupt. > It's just business. Every business does it. Get used to it. No, that's how you get endemic corruption, which eventually leads to things like people dying from deliberately tainted food and shoddy
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Facebook, Inc. - the company behind the stock - is more than just Facebook.com. They also run Instagram, which is doing great and WhatsApp which still has huge potential as wel [sic] What are you getting at? Facebook, Inc. itself is obvi
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> There are barely more people checking Facebook every day compared to previous quarter. Even worse, Facebook’s user base shrank in Europe. Facebook is still growing, but it’s clear that GDPR combined with a saturated market aren’t helpi
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How does one go about building a custom mechanical keyboard? Are there any good resources to get started? I've long fantasized about building a standard-layout keyboard with a couple of extra unobtrusive shift/modifier keys.
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I would be less confusing if it was named something like "Google" or "Google.js".
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Relevant: MasterCard mines data for marketers ( https://www.ft.com/content/089f7cd0-16f2-11e2-b1df-00144feab... ) > MasterCard is analysing transaction data to help marketers direct targeted advertising at consumers,
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What's the difference between this and other U2F security keys? Are these just a Google-branded U2F keys, functionally identical to those from Yubico?
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Reminds me of Ancient China where no one could have the same name as the Emperor, or even use the same characters as his name.
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> We're talking about 2 small continents: entire AU & NZ, not bunkers. They can definitely be self-sustaining. Why would the existing populations of AU & NZ consent to becoming the subjects of some billionaire aristocracy?
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> Because you built the army properly and instilled that loyalty in your troops before needing to test it. That presumes a lot more focus and attention than I'd assume a hedge fund billionaire would be able to devote to a low-probab
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> It hurt, but they still made 3 bil. If they have to pay 5 billion once a year to ensure they have a monopoly I don't that that is a bad trade for them. Why would the fine be annual? Fines aren't a tax you pay so you can cont

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