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by GhostVII 8y ago
The difference between this and seatbelts is that with the LED, you are trying to prevent someone from maliciously using the camera, while with seatbelts you are trying to give everyone the ability to be safe should they choose to do so. An
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by GhostVII 8y ago
I don't think that would be reasonable. Unless there is a significant safety issue or privacy issue that would be solved, I don't think the government should force manufacturers to add features to their phones, seems like a pretty
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by GhostVII 8y ago
Instead of unlimited leave, I think companies should have mandatory leave. If you require every employee to take a few weeks off in a year, it removes any sort of pressure to avoid taking a day off, while unlimited leave does the opposite,
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by GhostVII 8y ago
The author provided a link in the article for the reasoning why he got fired. That link contained the controversial tweets about Israel and Gaza.
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by GhostVII 8y ago
In practice, would it be easier to just randomly generate points within the bounding box of the radius, and then throw out any points that fall outside of the circle? Wouldn't work too well for the cases where you want points from some
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by GhostVII 8y ago
It isn't quite a model rocket, but there is an interesting video of someone making a single-fan drone using thrust vectoring. Not quite like a Falcon 9 but the same idea, vertical take off and landing, and shaped like a rocket. https:
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by GhostVII 8y ago
Hopefully this encourages the development of platform that can't be shut down by overreaching governments. There will always be new laws trying to restrict what you can and can't share online - the only true way to prevent this ki
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by GhostVII 8y ago
I don't think this should be too surprising. Forests don't destroy carbon, just store it in the form of trees. When the trees decompose, or burn down, it is released again. So for a mature forest you would expect it to have around
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by GhostVII 8y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if it is actually faster to develop in statically typed languages once projects reach a certain size. It makes refactoring so much easier, and it's a lot easier to reason about what a functions arguments co
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by GhostVII 8y ago
Is python not a scripting language because some versions of it are compiled?
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by GhostVII 8y ago
I think more companies with a free and paid teir should start doing this. The answer to ads shouldn't be an ad blocker, it should be to pay for the service. The big problems we have to solve with this is making it easier and safer to p
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by GhostVII 8y ago
Headline is pretty misleading, the article is about a couple of books that say it is important to have liberal arts in Silicon Valley. If Silicon Valley actually wants liberal arts majors, they will pay them accordingly. Obviously that isn&
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by GhostVII 8y ago
Benches and trees generally aren't in the middle of sidewalks.
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by GhostVII 8y ago
Maybe we should also require people going skateboarding to be licensed. Or licence people who are running too quickly - who knows, they could accidentally knock someone over. Better ensure they get liability insurance.
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by GhostVII 8y ago
Seems like it might be easier to eliminate parking, rather than ban vehicles. If there was no street parking, a lot of people would have no choice but to park outside of Manhattan. That would also still allow taxis and ride sharing to drive
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by GhostVII 8y ago
Sure, map viewing definitely doesn't need JavaScript, but Google Maps definitely does. I don't see how you could reasonably implement something like Google street view without JavaScript. Even just having the different locations o
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by GhostVII 8y ago
Do you never buy anything online? Or play an online game? Or use Google maps? I can think of lots of websites that I regularly use where JavaScript is important. I agree it is best to limit it, but it definitely has lots of uses.
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by GhostVII 8y ago
But the whole point of JavaScript is that, instead of having to install programs, you can run them in the browser. Obviously pretty much every website can be replaced by a desktop application, but that isn't really practical for the va
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by GhostVII 8y ago
I feel like slow CI can definitely be a huge bottleneck in large projects, with lots of tests. If you are making changes that affect lots of different areas, there are likely too many tests to run locally, so some test failures will only be
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by GhostVII 8y ago
I think the Toronto-Waterloo corridor is more commonly referred to as "Silicon Valley North" than Ottowa now. Hopefully it doesn't become too similar to actually silicon valley though it's pretty nice as it is.
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by GhostVII 8y ago
Why wrap fruits and vegetables at all? They come to the store in boxes that ensure they aren't damaged in transport, I don't see the need for another layer of packaging. The only vegetable I buy in a package is lettuce, which woul
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by GhostVII 8y ago
I don't think it updates your last commit, it just deletes it and creates a new one with the same changes (along with any new changes being amended). It's an important distinction because if you push to a remote branch that has th
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by GhostVII 8y ago
There is a big difference between struggling to live, and struggling to afford a detached house in Mountain View. I don't think it is reasonable for every Google employee to be able to afford a house there - there just isn't enoug
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by GhostVII 8y ago
Canada already has problems with guns being smuggled in from the US, I feel like that would only make it worse. Although maybe it is just an impossible problem to solve.
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by GhostVII 8y ago
> One worker asked why Pichai was paid hundreds of millions of dollars, while some Google employees struggle to afford to live in Silicon Valley I mean I understand getting upset at the income gap between CEO's and regular people, b
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by GhostVII 8y ago
Seems pretty absurd that the government is requiring buildings to have more stalls for women than men. Shouldn't companies have the freedom to decide what ratio is required for their building? Or at least to make the ratio equal? I mea
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by GhostVII 8y ago
Oath is now called Verizon Media
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by GhostVII 8y ago
I think a lot of it has to do with crash safety regulations. Several of the concept cars in the article have very low hoods and huge glass windows. Low hoods violate pedestrian safety regulations, and all that glass makes it very difficult
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by GhostVII 8y ago
You can have more restrictions around gambling to make it less addictive. Things like only allowing gambling in a small number of places, and limiting the size of the payouts, would help I would imagine, while still making illegal gambling
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by GhostVII 8y ago
Not a fan of all the fake vents and curves being added to cars nowadays. Seems like car designs used to be a lot cleaner, now they have so much going on it looks too busy.

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