MajorBee

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by MajorBee 5y ago
When certain races are disproportionately represented in certain classes, you can't help but draw a parallel between the two issues... I'm not claiming that's the case here (I have no idea if these "riders" referred
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by MajorBee 5y ago
Phrase exclusion syntax is described in Search Tips. For patents, it’s appending -patent to your search term.
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by MajorBee 5y ago
I have a slightly more cynical take on why Spotify pushes niche bands and music so much (in fact, I can’t even remember the last time I saw an “established” band in my Discover Weekly playlist) — Spotify doesn’t have to pay out that much pe
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by MajorBee 5y ago
There is a meme out there in the wild (or at least, I think there is a meme) that many reviewers would simply approve PRs blindly leaving a LGTM (looks good to me) comment when their internal monologue is closer to "...I have no idea w
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by MajorBee 5y ago
There are thousands, if not tens of thousands, cities like this around the developing world. I'd wager the majority of the world's population lives in almost-there-but-if-only cities. Certainly all of India, and a fair chunk of Ch
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by MajorBee 5y ago
Can't say I agree with you. Off the top of my head, I couldn't remember what the symbol for xor was (since it hasn't come up once in many years of my programming), but I certainly do know what the word xor stands for.
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by MajorBee 5y ago
True, that would certainly be not as worse and downright illegal as charging. It still seems very slimy, though -- why are you storing my CC details when I never actually made a purchase on your site?
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by MajorBee 5y ago
I think the key difference is how the eyes are “reanimated” in the deepfakes. Rendering realistic eyes (with that trademark “spark of life”) has always been a challenge in real life emulating CGI, but now these new clips kind of capture the
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by MajorBee 5y ago
They could very well store your card information even if they don't fraudulently charge you outright. They could even legitimize this action under the guise of server-side credit card number validation.
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by MajorBee 5y ago
It's interesting (to me) that Model S/X units are only about 1% of all vehicles produced/delivered. Makes sense since those cars are much more expensive than Model 3/Y, but still.
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by MajorBee 5y ago
Wouldn't you still have to pay property taxes (in money) on that homestead?
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by MajorBee 5y ago
I can only assume YouTube views such ads as merely part of their recommendation engine and, thus, quite different from "third party" adverts.
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by MajorBee 5y ago
Why do you think it was ever a bad idea? From the Airbnb wikipedia page, it seems apparent that, right from the beginning, the plan was to tap into the market of people who liked the idea of playing a professional Host but did not have the
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by MajorBee 5y ago
If your "ideas man" has fully committed to doing all the sales/marketing and the dance of raising capital, leaving you to work on the product, I think that's a very fair division of labour. After all, a finished product
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by MajorBee 5y ago
I looked into this because I was intrigued, turns out convicted felons in the good ol' United States are not allowed to purchase/wear/own body armor [1] (barring explicit exceptions). I wonder what the rationale behind this f
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by MajorBee 5y ago
Well, if your company is in the ass-wiping business...
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by MajorBee 5y ago
A variation of the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect? "Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You r
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by MajorBee 5y ago
Relevant snippet from the Wiki article on the Microsoft antitrust lawsuit: "The plaintiffs alleged that Microsoft had abused monopoly power on Intel-based personal computers in its handling of operating system and web browser integrati
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by MajorBee 5y ago
Neither iOS nor MacOS are dominant in their respective categories. You can argue that the right metric to look at is market share by revenue and not by devices sold, and iOS does increase its footprint significantly at 42% of global smartph
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by MajorBee 5y ago
Personally, I have found FaceTime to struggle with sketchy connections; WhatsApp video calls do much better there. Video quality of FaceTime (when you have a sufficiently good connection) blows everything else out of the water, though.
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by MajorBee 5y ago
> scofflaws Learned a new word today! One who scoffs at laws can be called, quite appropriately, a "scofflaw".
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by MajorBee 5y ago
Not to mention if you uttered something even vaguely socialist/communist sounding a few decades ago, you would be fired from your All-American job, be socially ostracized, and have the FBI on your tail before you can say "Stalin i
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by MajorBee 5y ago
You wouldn't pay to use Twitter in its current form with its low-brow unmoderated discourse (and neither would I), but would you consider paying for an "improved" version of Twitter? Not saying Twitter Blue is that, but perha
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by MajorBee 5y ago
> Mr Mosseri said there had been a "polarised" reaction from creators - accounts which make money through brand partnerships and advertising on the platform - but that the new feature didn’t affect revenues. Considering how man
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by MajorBee 5y ago
> Yes. A single service, with a single bill, that makes available every movie, TV show, or album ever produced. That's it. If you can provide this you can have my money. For this, don’t expect to get this kind of service for 10 or 2
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by MajorBee 5y ago
I think it's fair to make a distinction between "deleting data" and "erasing the past".
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by MajorBee 5y ago
You're not entirely wrong, but why make it even more obnoxious and entrenched? I can see this kind of stuff useful for applying for jobs in the (traditionally) "creative" fields; a well crafted TikTok can show the recruiter a
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by MajorBee 5y ago
Does it do anyone any favours by pretending that these countries are not "poor, small, and non-western"? I suppose you can replace "poor" with "developing", but it's a fine balancing act between unfaithful
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by MajorBee 6y ago
Presumably this would result in a flood of "free" apps that are nothing more than facades for scams (e.g. a fun personality/quiz app -- look ma, no ads! -- that makes you reveal your secret questions and answers). Maintaining
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by MajorBee 6y ago
If I may add to your distinction between "job" and "career" -- a career can be thought of what a person ultimately decides their economic contribution to society over the course of their life is going to be. While full-t

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