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by DrScientist 7y ago
To some other areas - someone else picking up the tab for externalities that are not properly priced. For example: - public funded infrastructure which company relies on for business but doesn't pay for through tax - eg roads. - envir
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by DrScientist 7y ago
Defer all decisions until you have to make them. Leave the code in a state where it's understandable. ie don't over specify - not just simple things like interfaces, but also things like premature decomposition, that's expose
1143.
by DrScientist 7y ago
Maybe they value their privacy :-) More seriously this article might shed some light: https://internetfreedomhack.org/re-decentralise-the-commerci...
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by DrScientist 7y ago
Are Google engineers quietly working on alternatives? What is this repo? https://github.com/PolymerLabs/arcs Also there was an interesting story a while back about a clash between advertising and the Fuchsia engineerin
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by DrScientist 7y ago
Another point on attraction. Ideally you'd be attracted to a person that has the best 'genetic' fitness - ie ability to succeed. That's why things like symmetry are attractive ( a sign that development processes ran smo
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by DrScientist 7y ago
Another commenter has already dealt with marriage - it's much more complex that you think - just to add you appear to forget the womans point of view ( and genes ) entirely in you're assessment of the best strategy - where &#x27
1147.
by DrScientist 7y ago
Just because they can't pin something down to a single or low number of genes doesn't automatically mean there isn't a strong genetic determinant - it just means it might be spread among many factors, making any one factor ha
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by DrScientist 7y ago
In terms of allotments most people I know don't use pesticides, much plastic ( if used, it's used again and again each year ), and municipal water use is very limited due to the allotment system that disallows hosepipes or direct
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by DrScientist 7y ago
What we have is a giant GAN - google's AI trying to spot the real bad actors from not, against the bad actors AI trying to fool the google AI. I suspect your experience is a sign that the bad actors are getting the upper hand and one o
1150.
by DrScientist 7y ago
Here's the problems such a system would create. - Voting in private on a phone app. The opportunity for coercion is huge. The brilliant thing about putting a cross on paper in a booth on your own and dropping into a box, is no-one know
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by DrScientist 7y ago
Yep. Paper totally rules here. 1. like paper money, anonymous - my vote should be secret. 2. Hard to do large scale fraud or manipulation - not being efficient or automatable is a feature guys... 3. Physically going to the polls, voting in
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by DrScientist 7y ago
The way I navigate google results is go down the google list and to open each of the ones I want to check in new tab. That way I don't to wait for the pages to load, as they load while I'm launching the next etc. Then I go through
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by DrScientist 7y ago
Exactly - road warriors, who want lightness and style ( sales and senior management ) over substance can get an Air. Serious users - developers, scientists, artists - want a serious machine.
1154.
by DrScientist 7y ago
Except I want the Apple - it just works - part of the unified hardware/software stack. If I want something with flaky sound/wireless drivers and sluggish graphics performance- I build my own linux thinkpad laptop :-) I mean that -
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by DrScientist 7y ago
Yeah! I really don't like the current keyboards. Also while your at it - produce a proper Pro laptop! Worry less about the thinness and - add better thermal control - more memory - more storage. - extra port or too so less requir
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by DrScientist 7y ago
https://github.com/jakearchibald/streaming-include/blob/mast... Also lists alternatives - see how whatwg request is bogged down in what/if complexity.
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by DrScientist 7y ago
What's missing from HTML is simple client side includes. It's mind boggling that it doesn't exist. XML has it - I can resuse the same image with a tag, but not HTML?? Why can't we have the same logic of SSI implemented i
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by DrScientist 8y ago
I'm excited this as an option in the toolbox.
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by DrScientist 8y ago
Sure - but most computers are used by people who are the sole user, so local user to user security as a concept isn't useful. Most code isn't part of the remote attack surface. Also there would be no software bugs if bugs only exi
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by DrScientist 8y ago
Personally I don't like tooling that magically does transitive dependency management - it creates the problem of bloat by making it too easy to add stuff - stuff that typically never gets removed. Doing dependency management at the sha