PMan74

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by PMan74 9y ago
You know it's the actual science because they use the word "lamb" instead of "baby sheep"
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by PMan74 10y ago
It's a volunteer project. What they decide to do with their free time is probably their own business. If they want to temporarily alter some definitions to validate a hypothesis then more power to them
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by PMan74 10y ago
> He figured a casual visit to Snap HQ, while perhaps unexpected, wasn’t untoward given his profile on the platform. I'd love to know what was going through his head. "Sure, they're probably all just sitting around killing
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by PMan74 10y ago
While this particular incident is the action of the one nutter, 63m people voted for Trump despite his anti Muslim, anti Mexican, etc. rethoric & his alt-right team. So I'd have questions about what the opinion of the entire countr
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by PMan74 10y ago
Not just Germany, I'm pretty sure this is an EU wide directive. For sure it's the it works in Ireland (where thankfully Uber has not had any success). So Uber must have some view on why this does not contravene that directive, I d
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by PMan74 11y ago
Ha, from the Wiki, looks I'm not the only one rubbed up the wrong way by this phrase http://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html
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by PMan74 11y ago
A bit meta but articles that use the passive voice such as "Blah considered insecure" annoy me. Considered insecure by whom? The author? The why not just say "Distribution packages are insecure". Sure it makes it sound
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by PMan74 11y ago
Fact: prefacing your opinions with the word "Fact" does not make them actual facts. An example: > Fact: the moon is made of blue cheese My opinion - articles that try to generalise from a certain kind of start-up to all start-
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by PMan74 11y ago
You misunderstand me - the fact that there is "outstanding code" should have alarm bells ringing
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by PMan74 11y ago
When somebody needs to say "let's get all outstanding code checked-in ASAP!"
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by PMan74 11y ago
The article blames "our culture" - I'd be interested to know what exactly - the media, the internet, parents, schools, sports clubs, or a combination of each.
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by PMan74 11y ago
I think Nokia have reinvented themselves a few times (they started out in rubber, right?). If they's opted just to pack it in they would not have become the giant they did. In addition I'd assume the major shareholders in Nokia &a
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by PMan74 11y ago
Hey they faked the moon landing they can do this, surely. Seriously though, I'd agree: you'd think at least one of these shady sales people would fess up for the publicity alone.
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by PMan74 11y ago
8 of those are the same article?
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by PMan74 11y ago
That is amazing. I was think about the same recently. You put a lot of faith in incognito mode working as you expect it to on the 'edge' cases (e.g. third party plugins, cache, cookies) but this seems like it does not work even fo
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by PMan74 11y ago
You can't consider utility and aesthetic? It'd be a pretty boring world if every problem was approached like this.
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by PMan74 11y ago
Why would you want VW to make available its source code?
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by PMan74 11y ago
Maybe a naive question - is Spam that big an issue any more? For me (both corporate and personal email managed by GMail) I rarely see Spam messages. This article is from 2004, maybe it was a bigger issue at the time.
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by PMan74 11y ago
Your perception I think (I'd say largely because of the focus from the silver screen) https://i.imgur.com/eyUnc.jpg Adolf only in third place, almost pipped by Leopold (also colonial as it happens) but no where near Ma
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by PMan74 11y ago
Indeed, cops here don't even have guns, he'd have to beat me to death
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by PMan74 11y ago
Or what if FB just decide to sell access to all posts (regardless of privacy setting on that post) to certain companies. Could they do that? You'd probably have to read (and keep up with) the T&Cs.
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by PMan74 11y ago
Some of the most employable people in the current job market. Nobody likes getting fired but it's not like they don't have great prospects.
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by PMan74 11y ago
> eg. in newspapers http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/oct/12/us-todays-faceb...
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by PMan74 11y ago
> “I am certain they escaped,” Zwicky rejoiced How was he certain? Is science not all about observation?
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by PMan74 11y ago
and soon to be President of the USA!
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by PMan74 11y ago
> an ancient Mainframe "QQLIF file" which is still in use today! I work in the travel industry, I was recently looking at a system's documentation with included revision tracking going back to the 1980s. System does the s
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by PMan74 11y ago
For now
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by PMan74 11y ago
> Oslo’s “bee highway” aims to give the insects a safe passage through the city, lined with relays providing food and shelter – the first such system in the world, according to the organisers. This reads like the bees are going somewhere
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by PMan74 11y ago
> with their lack of assigned seating. I'm pretty sure unassigned seating has been proven to be the fastest way to load an aircraft in practice. > what makes this less possible than it was back then? I'm not sure, I'd g
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by PMan74 11y ago
Conservation efforts, hike Helium there's a finite amount, we're hitting Peak Space. Only reasonable explanation, right?

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