Philadelphia

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by Philadelphia 4y ago
Target is starting to become scammy itself. The top search results for a lot of things I’ve shopped for lately have been questionable-looking products from their third-party sellers.
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by Philadelphia 4y ago
They exist primarily to extract profit for investors. The car service aspect is incidental.
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Drug appears to slow progression of Alzheimer’s but raises safety concerns(cnn.com)
1 points by Philadelphia 4y ago|0 comments
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by Philadelphia 4y ago
I understand the reasoning, but their using names that sound like they came out of cyberpunk novels causes a new set of problems and conspiracy theories.
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by Philadelphia 4y ago
Thanks mostly to Google themselves, with their algorithms rewarding useless copied content.
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by Philadelphia 4y ago
And the owners did fail. Chrysler was transferred to Fiat in bankruptcy, and GM shareholders were wiped out
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by Philadelphia 4y ago
“A fundamental problem with Galactica is that it is not able to distinguish truth from falsehood, a basic requirement for a language model designed to generate scientific text. People found that it made up fake papers (sometimes attributing
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by Philadelphia 4y ago
The reality of physics and biology is that if someone is bigger and stronger than someone else, they can beat them up and take their things. Anyone trying to deny that is going to discover there is no control unless you end the freedom of u
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by Philadelphia 4y ago
We call that “taxes” and people who are not billionaires pay more than 10% of their income a month
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by Philadelphia 4y ago
Not many, if any. It really does look like Amazon — a lot of stuff with names like “BCDYYXZ Awesome App Clock Streaming Email Wordle A+++ Good For Facebook”
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by Philadelphia 4y ago
By contrast, Apple has let their App Store become a scam marketplace
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Mac hacker’s code is so good, corporations keep stealing it(theverge.com)
16 points by Philadelphia 4y ago|0 comments
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by Philadelphia 4y ago
The implementation I’ve seen only stores a hash based on the image analysis
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Uber’s Still Not Profitable(pluralistic.net)
25 points by Philadelphia 4y ago|1 comments
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Identity of mystery fossils found in Chinese cave revealed by DNA analysis(cnn.com)
1 points by Philadelphia 4y ago|0 comments
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Bitcoin makes burning fossil fuels more profitable than ever(thebulletin.org)
5 points by Philadelphia 4y ago|0 comments
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The Earliest Adopters of Bitrock(mcsweeneys.net)
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by Philadelphia 4y ago
OkCupid has completely destroyed its interface and utility, so whatever they’re doing doesn’t seem to be working anymore.
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by Philadelphia 4y ago
The problem is that US Christian conservatives believe a government ID is the “the mark of the beast.” Seriously. http://archive.boston.com/news/local/maine/articles/2007/03/...
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by Philadelphia 4y ago
Uber fails to show up for me about half the time. It just goes through driver after driver, moving to another when the previous one doesn’t come well past the estimated time. Has happened in three different cities in the past three months.
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by Philadelphia 4y ago
We all used to watch TV from the 50’s and 60’s in the 80’s and 90’s. You pick up on the context as you watch. A lot of situations are universal and timeless.
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by Philadelphia 4y ago
I’ve never been at a company where users could get the right permissions to use it, unfortunately
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by Philadelphia 4y ago
Parent comment is about “Americans touting their free speech.” First Amendment is obviously what that refers to. The Internet doesn’t have a limit on the number of web sites. You want to say something, get a $2/month shared hosting pla
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by Philadelphia 4y ago
If someone doesn’t like a forum’s moderation policies, they’re free to find a different forum. This has been true since BBSes. It’s been true since the days of newspapers. It’s been true since the days of people speechifying in taverns.
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by Philadelphia 4y ago
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Govern
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by Philadelphia 4y ago
Any e-mail client with rules can do that and much, much, much, much more, though. Slack only offers three primitive options for notification filtering, and they can only be applied at two levels.
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by Philadelphia 4y ago
Yep, anything useful has to be legal and welcomed. Microsoft should start breaking into people’s houses and sorting their underwear drawers for them while they’re out. Million dollar idea!
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Feds warn cuts needed to shore up Lake Mead, Colorado River(usatoday.com)
1 points by Philadelphia 4y ago|0 comments
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by Philadelphia 4y ago
What does Slack offer that’s an improvement over email for non-realtime conversations?
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by Philadelphia 4y ago
Could someone explain how you don’t lose track of a message irretrievably in Slack if you don’t respond to it right away? There doesn’t seem to be any way to ever find anything again without looking through every single channel and DM conve

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