Kadin

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by Kadin 10y ago
A reasonable solution would be similar to what has traditionally (since the early 20th century) been done with books for the blind in the US via the Library of Congress. See: https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-13-167/ T
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by Kadin 10y ago
There are people on reddit working on that. If you are interested, it would be good to coordinate efforts. /r/archiveteam and /r/datahoarder are the usual hangouts for that sort of project.
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by Kadin 10y ago
And when it's prohibitively expensive, you really prefer just not giving anyone access? The amount of video that is being produced and uploaded today makes a requirement to put traditional closed captioning on each one absolutely laugh
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by Kadin 10y ago
Or they could just do nothing, not spend any money, and not share the content. That's the zero-cost option, and almost certainly what they'll do. The benefit was to the public to have access to the material, much less so to Berke
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by Kadin 10y ago
The content only exists because it's cheap to put online. If you require that someone transcribe it for closed captioning, it is like putting a tax on video uploads. They just won't be uploaded. Barring some public funding to ma
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by Kadin 10y ago
I've worked some bullshit jobs from time to time. It's pretty easy to tell that you could disappear and nothing would effectively change. But at the same time, it's also generally pretty easy to justify your existence if yo
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by Kadin 10y ago
Almost impossible to square that requirement with strong end to end encryption. You can figure out ways to do it, but it's pretty kludgy (messages addressed to you have to be encrypted with the keys of each device you've authorize
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by Kadin 10y ago
That would be a very strange design choice, to have the warhead self-destruct in that way. I don't know how much is really around in the open literature on ex-Soviet / Russian nuclear torpedoes, but certainly there's nothing
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by Kadin 10y ago
Not the poster, but I've personally found that old books from the 1950s and 60s about nuclear energy are very approachable. (Plus they have hilariously optimistic assessments of the future. It's cute, in a depressing way.) &quot
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by Kadin 10y ago
The idea is they let you know when an emergency situation is occurring. Otherwise, particularly if you're distracted, the first indication you may have that you have left your lane is when you strike another vehicle.
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by Kadin 10y ago
That may or may not be true, but it's irrelevant in this case. The bot is basically front-running the market, or trying to anyway, by trading directly on a stimulus that the market (potentially) takes time to internalize and react to.
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by Kadin 10y ago
Load-balanced insanity. Truly, we are living in the future.
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by Kadin 10y ago
> most heavily weighted expendables would all be located in the back simply because of labor They are. At least in almost every grocery store I've been in. The milk coolers are almost invariably against the back wall, accessible f
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by Kadin 10y ago
And that is probably the reason for the milk up front. The name-brand milk producer is paying big bucks for space in that cooler near the checkout, enough to offset the supermarket's probable loss in sales of their own store-brand mil
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by Kadin 10y ago
The California investigation which resulted in the CEO of Backpage getting arrested (along with two major shareholders, interestingly enough) "was prompted, in part, by reports from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Childre
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by Kadin 10y ago
I doubt they are. Disk encryption (FileVault) may be somewhat more common on Macs than on your average Windows machine, but I still bet it's more the exception than the rule. I don't think it's enabled by default and I doub
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by Kadin 10y ago
I had the same problem in my place. Ended up just moving the above-the-fridge cabinet up about 4" and shortening it (easier to do with a euro-style cabinet than a traditional American face frame one!) in order to get a modern fridge t
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by Kadin 10y ago
That would eliminate even the thin handkerchief of SS being a sort of mandatory government-run savings program, and not a bald faced tax-and-redistribute system. Which, as you can see from comments upthread, is -- even though I personally d
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by Kadin 10y ago
That's exactly the tradeoff. Pay toilets are pretty nice when your alternative is either having to patronize a business purely in order to use their bathroom, or drop trou outside somewhere. Sure, in theory there could be wonderful ta
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by Kadin 10y ago
The banks, presumably, have a fairly good reason for restricting that activity, and the people on the trading floor have been given significant consideration (employment, perhaps, or access to the trading floor on behalf of their employer)
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by Kadin 10y ago
That case isn't what's under dispute, and is unlikely to exist, since most buildings make pretty poor Faraday cages. So it's not really that relevant. Furthermore, even if the building was a perfect Faraday cage, there are o
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by Kadin 10y ago
The NSA doesn't, in general, publicly announce anything. They exist to supply analysis to other branches of government, and only very rarely to the public directly. So the absence of commentary from them in public doesn't indica
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by Kadin 10y ago
It was at about that point that I started to wonder if maybe I'd finally fallen for a good, old, Adequacy.org-style troll article. But it's just hard to tell.
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by Kadin 10y ago
Ugh, what a tool. > I rode that [2600 watt] ebike like a motorcycle right in the middle of the lane all around the city. I accelerated much faster than the cars did and frankly I got pretty annoyed at how slow the cars really were. Cars
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by Kadin 10y ago
Well, yes. The amazing part is that the Autopilot does things that a competent driver would do. Very often, humans do not do those things. And despite the carnage that results, over more than a century of experience with automobiles, we h
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by Kadin 10y ago
They can still use the owner-operator model if they want to, and have the vehicles owned by a different entity than the freight company. But in all seriousness, although I understand that people like to out-cynic each other, over the road t
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by Kadin 10y ago
And yet Google employs a lot of people to do what Google does. No human or combination of humans can turn iron ore into stainless steel tubing. Yet a whole lot of people, acting in concert, can build and operate a bunch of terrifically com
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by Kadin 10y ago
> If we have enough surplus to support these massive inefficiencies, surely we can spare enough to support the unemployed. This is demonstrably not true. I mean, it's tautological. We have the economic surplus to support the unemp
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by Kadin 10y ago
One of the issues with the "new economy" / "service economy" model that has been pushed heavily over the past few decades is that it doesn't distinguish between zero-sum jobs that have as their end goal merely
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by Kadin 10y ago
In the short term I suspect that's more likely. But what that turns into is a diminishment of the skills required to do the job (for a value of "skills" that includes "staying awake and driving a truck for hours at a ti

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