ElfinTrousers

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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
Get back to me when Agent 47 writes his book.
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
Though to be fair that San Francisco fog is famous for a reason too. I'm sure that doesn't help.
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
Dear manufacturers of driverless cars: let's see how they do in Boston. We'll be here anytime you're feeling brave.
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
Someone who's tired of getting rained on, assaulted when they sleep, picked up by the cops, and not having anywhere to wash their person or clothes?
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
I think they were being facetious. I think.
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
Printers? Who's printing? Every prescription I've gotten in the past few decades has gone electronically, from the software they use to keep charts in.
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
Definitely a good use of everyone's time in a world full of electronic medical record systems.
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
I would estimate that the Venn diagram of people who would use such a system, and people hand-addressing postal mail, is two separate circles.
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
I have an exit stamp in my passport from two days ago when I left Schengen and returned to the USA.
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
The same thing that killed it every time someone writes an article like this, which is a couple of times a year: keyboards. Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
That's true, I forgot because I've never played a lot of DoG myself, since I was raised in the Eastern Dialectic school of thought and never cared much for artichokes anyway.
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
Unfortunately AI was banned (in tournament play, anyway) in the year 1641.
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
"Sexually oriented" dating sites are on the list. So...dating sites generally? Except I guess those specifically catering to asexuals?
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
Which is one reason I suspect it might not be true: not because Block is necessarily honest, but because everyone and their dog has heard of this scam and it's the first thing people would think of.
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
I was just thinking this, that it's kind of pathetic that they have to remind people that R&D takes time to pay off.
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
As a gym, Planet Fitness is nonsense. As a moneymaking scheme it's top-notch.
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
OTOH, it's not like Big Serious Organizations Run By Grownups have a great track record vis-a-vis data breaches either.
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
I read a cartoon once of two people talking (technically, one person and one teddy bear, but that's not relevant here). Panel 1: A: So let's go over this again. If I take a woman out for drinks and dinner, hoping this will influen
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
The easiest way to steal crypto involves complicated computer shenanigans. The easiest way to steal cash involves a gun.
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
I don't see how it ever _could_ become common, just from the sheer amount of time and energy it takes to move one single person around this much--no way that can scale.
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
Buried lede: this is less common now than it used to be. Will it become more common? "Maybe", says one professor of economics. So maybe. Or maybe not.
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
I assume that most or all of the common CPUs you can buy today include backdoors inserted at the request of one intelligence agency or another.
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
By publishing their designs, anyone can verify the _published_ design as safe. That doesn't necessarily mean that the chips that are actually manufactured are according to that design.
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
> That's a very stupid idea if you think about it for more than 5 seconds. Which you can use as a reply to like 90% of comments on this benighted site.
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
A cent was worth more back then, but I guarantee you any oil company today that could save a cent per gallon at the cost of human lives would do it without hesitation.
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
They're going to be the butt of some jokes.
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
I'm pretty sure that "culture" means "we, the management, like having people around who won't disagree with us to our faces".
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
I've heard from HR people that, as a rule of thumb, an FTE costs the company 150% of their salary, e.g. if a company pays an FTE $150k in salary a year, they expect to also spend about $75k on that FTE's benefits (health insurance
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
Pass the popcorn.
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by ElfinTrousers 4y ago
If the "one great idea" you refer to is a social network, Friendster and Myspace beat Zuckerberg to it by years.

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