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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
Not anymore they aren't, but they were when the last gen of listening devices were launched.
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
You'll commonly hear these stories brushed off with, "these companies have so much metadata on you that they can know what you'll look for before you do." I don't buy it - at least not fully. There are too many stor
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
> You used to be able to report people for abusing that policy by saying "I don't know this person" after you declined the invite. However, LinkedIn are phasing that functionality out Because Microsoft realizes that the on
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
Imagine a Star Trek episode where they go to a planet were everyone is staring at a personal device and not interacting with each other. That's what walking into a bar in 2019 is like. We're living in the part of the dystopian mov
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
Well, considering all the article talks about is ML, but calls it an "artificial brain", I think the government is par for the course with your average ML company marketer. Nobody is close to creating actual artificial intelligenc
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
That's like saying if cocaine made you feel like shit people wouldn't be able to get high on it. The issue isn't the food, it's the individual's brain.
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
You shouldn't be getting downvoted. You're being factually correct here, but a lot of people become armchair experts when the conversation goes to peak performance numbers.
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
It's definitely possible to burn 4300 a day if you're highly active and have a high FFMI (Fat Free Mass Index - the technical term for having a lot of muscle and low fat for your body size). Someone who has a FFMI between 24 and 2
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
consumes 5000kcal+ a day... "Must be them damn pesticides." Edit: I'm more interested in all the other ways jacking up your gut microbiome can negatively affect you, especially the potential links they're starting to f
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
A better representation would be "eh"
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
In this instance, Amazon is a traditional reseller, buying wholesale and selling it as a Prime item. It sounds like Amazon is telling the supplier what they're willing to pay for the item wholesale (the same price they're currentl
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
Any foreign company that isn't willing to create a separate Chinese subsidiary with a Communist Party approved CEO at the helm, and who isn't willing to give up all their IP to said Communist Party.
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
It's also a poor understanding of the unhealthy, co-dependent, and borderline malicious relationship between hospitals and insurance companies (there are no fair players). Hospitals will attempt to charge an exorbitant fee for any serv
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
> A client was on track to be selling $X-million this year of some appliances. Our client was forced to to stop selling because of trump tariffs. Amazon won't accept a "higher price" from our little company that only sells
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
> According to the S-1, Facebook made a modest $382,000 in revenue 2004, $9 million in revenue in 2005, $48 million in revenue in 2006 and $153 million in revenue in 2007, with no reporting of net loss.[0] Seems like we're both wron
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
> So what is that magical ingredient, that secret sauce, that “genius” trade secret, that turned an over-funded money-losing startup into one of America’s greatest business success stories? False. Facebook made $50M in profit the year be
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
That doesn't sound wholly unbelievable, from a 2019 point of view.
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
Processed unhealthy foods are cheaper than processed healthy(er) foods. Beans and grains are cheap. Staple fruits and vegetables are cheap. Chicken is cheap (especially dark meat). Eggs are cheap. You can feed a family of 4 a very healt
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
Can you point me to the part of the story where it discusses any relevancy of the technology used? Tech is so ubiquitous that there is literally no story about people conglomerating that doesn't involve it in some way.
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/451172-holocaust-survivor... https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-concentration-camps-hol...
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> A particular target for their hostility is Congresswoman Alexandia Ocasio-Cortez, who was the first Member of Congress to correctly identify the CBP border detention facilities as "concentration camps." This is an opinion
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
I think you're right, but that number should be correlated with number of users running browsers with JS turned off, which I suspect is trivial and shrinking. The biggest issue I've seen with virtual-DOM sites is SEO. Google'
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
Everything is a give and take. At large organizations I've been at, web component frameworks - especially strictly typed ones like Angular - have tremendously helped to standardize web development across a large team of varying skill l
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
> Each time a new table was generated, a new PHP file was created on the server. Using a hole in filtering of the input parameters for creating the PHP file, I was able to reproduce an RCE attack: a malicious request injected arbitrary P
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
This was my first thought as well. If you can't get encrypted messaging apps to use the SMS service siphon you can at least snag notification text - and most people allow the message to be in the notification.
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
Studies show that money can, in fact, buy happiness, but its effect starts to plateau at the point someone makes enough to not worry about whether they can pay their monthly bills. IMO that's the real separator you're getting at h
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
You're crossing the wires on two different points. 1. I'm not arguing that every job at FB is ethical, I'm arguing that most aren't so unethical that one would permanently taint one's soul by staying there. This
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
Your comment is a great insight into modern, black and white thinking, where one is expected to equate working at FB with committing the worst atrocities. If I had a job, for example, maintaining photo storage at FB, should I be so ethical
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
Do they? If you're waiting for a ton of options to vest, how much will you potentially lose by leaving? Where else is there to jump to in the Valley that isn't a startup that could close in a month, or isn't underhandedly con
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by 5trokerac3 7y ago
I'd never take a job there, but that's different than condemning others who have.

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