OrwellianChild

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by OrwellianChild 7y ago
For those who are interested, this feature can be deactivated. The location in settings has moved around a bit, but you can just search for "nearby device scanning" and shut it off for both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
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by OrwellianChild 7y ago
He is saying you can already do what you want to do. His plug-ins let you add custom styles. The place where the custom styles go is inside a text box that appears when you click on the plug-in's icon. Just copy the style he provides a
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by OrwellianChild 7y ago
> My preferred texting app is Signal, but the barrier to get iPhone users in the US to switch is still too high. One nice feature of Signal on Android is the ability to let it become the SMS/MMS default application. This lets normal
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The New Wilderness(idlewords.com)
249 points by OrwellianChild 7y ago|61 comments
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by OrwellianChild 7y ago
There is a ton of background at that link, but can you help me understand what portion of the protests and/or severing of business contracts was damaging and/or considered tortuous interference? With no opinion on either of the
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by OrwellianChild 7y ago
Here are videos of some of the robots at work: Bossa Nova makes the inventory scanning robots shown in the WP article. Here is a video of it working in a Wal-Mart during a 2018 pilot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRJV1SPY
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by OrwellianChild 7y ago
This is so impressively close to the early stages of automation in the novella Manna by Marshall Brain [1] that it almost seems like Wal-Mart executives used it as a playbook... [1] https://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
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As Walmart turns to robots, it’s the human workers who feel like machines(washingtonpost.com)
4 points by OrwellianChild 7y ago|4 comments
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by OrwellianChild 7y ago
Can you help a newbie understand why I'd want to use this instead of Firefox + uBlock Origin? Seems like a lot of extra maintenance overhead...
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by OrwellianChild 7y ago
The data cited in this article comes from the Federal Reserve's Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking . Their website[1] has the full 2018 report[2] as well as CSV of the data going back to 2013 when it started. The headlin
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Throw Your Laptop into the Sea, the Surveillance Economy Will Still Win(nytimes.com)
12 points by OrwellianChild 7y ago|1 comments
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by OrwellianChild 7y ago
Many thanks for taking advantage of your opportunity to give a thoughtful and reasoned statement to the committee! Your advocacy of late has done a lot to raise the profile of these privacy issues, and you've been able to keep your exp
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Privacy Rights and Data Collection in a Digital Economy [pdf](banking.senate.gov)
4 points by OrwellianChild 7y ago|0 comments
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The Case Against Early Retirement(wsj.com)
2 points by OrwellianChild 7y ago|0 comments
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by OrwellianChild 7y ago
The vast majority of Impossible Burger's distribution is in restaurants. I haven't been able to find them in stores. Beyond Burgers, I buy weekly at the local mainstream (non-Whole Foods) grocery. Comes out to about $2.50/bur
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by OrwellianChild 8y ago
I'd very much appreciate the write-up... I've not been able to find a very coherent (and current) best-practice document. Where can we find it when it's up?
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Marques Brownlee on Building an Audience and Other Advice for Creators(blog.ycombinator.com)
1 points by OrwellianChild 8y ago|0 comments
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by OrwellianChild 8y ago
This is not how contract negotiation works. In a market where housing demand is weak, it would be perfectly reasonable and possible to propose terms of sale which reduce the seller's agent fee or return it to the buyer in the form of a
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by OrwellianChild 8y ago
From your edge-case comment, it sounds like you'd prefer that losses from business income not roll over, rather than making rollovers accessible to individuals. I was approaching it the other way - trying to see if there was a reasonab
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by OrwellianChild 8y ago
At risk of bottoming out on the threaded replies, I'd be interested in talking through how that would work... Let's say you wanted to give income from labor the same benefits as (negative) income from investments that lost money..
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by OrwellianChild 8y ago
If the average worker has any stock or index fund investments, that worker absolutely can take advantage of this (in the U.S.). It's called tax-loss harvesting - worth reading about here [1]. [1] https://www.madfientist.co
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An AI crushed two human pros at StarCraft–but it wasn’t a fair fight(arstechnica.com)
4 points by OrwellianChild 8y ago|0 comments
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by OrwellianChild 8y ago
Does anyone more familiar with SC2 analysis know how they reduce APM to EPM? If there is a systematic way to remove spam-clicks in training data, it seems like it would be relatively straightforward to train AlphaStar on only the "mean
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Perfect is the Enemy of Done – An ode to getting things wrong in UX writing(medium.com)
1 points by OrwellianChild 8y ago|0 comments
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by OrwellianChild 8y ago
Currently people seeking the EITC and Mortgage Interest Deduction have to file. This wouldn't change that. Nor is there a prohibition against the IRS sending a nice note encouraging folks to file if they want to take advantage of the
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by OrwellianChild 8y ago
Thanks for the dialogue! Just to try to simplify things, it sounds like you are worried about tax filing being regressive - causing under-privileged, low-income, and other disadvantaged people to pay more taxes than they owe. Isn't it
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by OrwellianChild 8y ago
Doesn't this imply that simplifying/automating the return harms no one (folks can still file individually if they choose), while helping those who would otherwise have to take time or invest money in tax prep? How is this not an u
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by OrwellianChild 8y ago
Seconded. There are municipalities doing things right, but The Dictator's Handbook is an excellent set of case studies in how it can go very wrong. (Also discusses actual dictators, corporate governance, and other related scenarios.)
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by OrwellianChild 8y ago
These are not negotiated activities operating in an environment of collusion. They are the result of separate corporations operating in an environment assumed to be competitive. Individual corporations will take strategic actions that may h
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by OrwellianChild 8y ago
Seems like a good time to link to "The Chaos" by Gerard Nolst Trenite [1]... It serves to educate native English speakers on how absurd the language (written vs. spoken) is, while simultaneously striking fear into the hearts of ES

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