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by ArchTypical 8y ago
I've worked at multiple companies where we created something like this internally for email and text messages. Curl an API and out it goes. It's trivial to setup for yourself.
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
> give people housing. The population of the tent city in Santa Ana california was an unmitigated disaster for those who took the vouchers and residents. That did not work because the population of people living on the street in Southern
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
> This is just provably false Utah is not an example that proves anything. It's a fairly unusual area when talking about this problem. Utah's entire population is less than Los Angeles. The claim that 91% of Utah's homeles
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
> any eval is bad Saying eval is just confusing the concept with the implementation. There's no evidence that metaprogramming is "bad" unless you are ready to define "bad". Might as well say pointers are "b
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
> Being more english like is actually a hardship not a benefit because naturally language is famously ambiguous and difficult to decode The rules are not any worse to express the exact same operations and relationships. English would nee
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
Dominate the market, conservatives like it, liberals decry it. Take subsidies because you want to get some free money, you get the reverse edit: liberals also hate subsidy corruption (good note).
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
> is a bird or a honey bee more intelligent? That's a broader question than chicken or bee. A crow is definitely more intelligent than a bee.
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
Another problem is the conflation of homelessness with heroine users. Forget the professional homeless (which my fiancee's parents have been at times). The problem is we treat both as "homeless" when they are very different a
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
> But so can anybody else. Google sells ads on their search engine to anyone. There's no guarantee (read the demand partner legal disclaimers, there's specifically NO guarantees) that there's an equitable distribution. The
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
> Google's only product is online advertising That's not true. Not even from a particular viewpoint. You might want to rephrase that. Google's primary revenue stream is from online advertising. They have a myriad of produc
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
When there's no candidate, it's still money that wins initiatives in the western USA. I don't care what that particular study concluded over 40 races of self-financed Gov candidates because it's not compelling. Existing
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
> If we can replace generic, low quality content... When you put up guardrails (so many that people can't even keep up to date with what the automated system detects), that's exactly what you get. The words and images of countl
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
The advertising budgets spent on DFP (now the overwhelming majority of budgets) makes it obvious. Youtube makes money. It prints money by information trading on top of that. Subscriptions on top of that. Google covers costs. Maybe not all t
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
> The C language is finished There's no evidence of this. There's just existing code. Ok. There's existing code in lots of other languages with different syntax (large and small differences). So what? The latest video abou
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
> There’s a vast chasm between the government being used as a tool for collective action and government being used as a tool for control. Doesn't matter how deep. It's a short jump. The former is a characterization of the latte
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
> Raising one kid yields far more purchases than a Tinder Plus subscription and a pack of prophylactics. That was described by the parent post. That's why the push for immigration can be traced back to increased capitalistic opportu
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
Correct. It gives time for the staff (eg security) to decide what they want to do with you in the case of suspected theft or deception. You don't have to stop, and sometimes I don't. It's not a legal requirement and any legal
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
> Face the truth. If you want no killing, Your enemy isn’t Google, it’s your neighbour. > it's not Google's fault either. Starting from a false truth, you can come to any conclusion. Google is responsible for choosing to ena
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
I can tell the difference between Coke, Pepsi, Diet Coke, Diet Pepsi, fountain or bottle or can, and often which fast food establishment the coke came from if it's fountain. There's nothing about special about it, anymore than tel
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
> then ask them to make a decision You don't see the irony in that, when talking about the Placebo effect? This discussion is about an implicit assumption.
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
> Autonomy is not a problem of medical treatment, Talking about it outside of the specific conflict, is disingenuous. Everyone understands how important Autonomy is. That's part of the issue, not a supporting argument to value it ov
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
> Is there something qualitatively different about personal meetings, and if so, where is it? Is it eye contact? Body language? Over 50% of our communication is nonverbal language. Body language largely, and no small part olfactory plus
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
I wrote plenty of ETL. Maintained high throughput using whatever I could find. Then I got another job and had to write ETL for AdTech, where the volume is unlimited. Nothing about it is surprising or hard. Engineers are great at handling kn
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
But it's harder to understand consequences, which change over time. So the explanation is deceptively simple. Like the game of life. Random Ballot is simple to explain and is a lottery pool. Simpler than IRV.
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
Asana is the elegant todo list they are looking for.
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
Idioms are not literal. The implication of my original comment, is now spelled out.
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
You literally need to look up the definition of what literally means.
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
> Because suffering creates a need for religion Life is suffering. There is always pain and sometimes joy, due to our biology. Which is why religion will always exist, even if it's just a lucky rabbit's foot.
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
This is very common around anyone who is a heavy phone user for photos or as their main digital device.
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by ArchTypical 8y ago
> some of these are more insulting than others, and care should be exercised before applying this word to people who you do not wish to offend This is not in the definition. Please try to stay honest when chastising someone for not being

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