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A server idling on Function A can't be called for Function B. 144 servers idling for 10 minutes each before expiring makes up a day of compute-time for 1 server. For every 144 expected idle servers, Meta needs to purchase and maintain
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> Shubham Mittal, co-founder and chief technology officer of RedHunt Labs, alerted TechCrunch to the exposure and asked for help in disclosing to the car maker. The London-based cybersecurity company said it discovered a Mercedes employe
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> If you've ever paid by credit or debit card, they can associate the name on the card with your Tesco Clubcard account. If you're shopping in-store in the UK, the supermarket can't profile you based on your bank card with
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by Shrezzing 3y ago
The way I see it, there's a tradeoff to being algorithmically profiled. Facebook, YouTube, Twitter etc profile you, and in return you get a time-sink, and some moderate recreation (and possibly some societal disadvantages in the aggreg
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>The password may not be known to HIBP at the time it is registered. This will very likely be a large enough fraction (>0.2%) that you can still get into sufficient accounts to access plenty of relatives' data. To be clear, the p
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23-and-me could implement something like Troy Hunt's K-Anonymity API. The password is hashed, then the first n characters are sent to the API. The API then returns the count of times that password has appeared in data breaches. If the
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> I don’t see why software should receive special treatment when 99.99% of software engineers/developers are not in any way engaged in what might be considered genuine scientific research and development, which R&D tax advantag
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For clarity, the Rosenfeld study referenced in the Pinkerton article (while talking about inflation rather than Interest Rates) also uses the UCR dataset as its primary datasource, while its european equivalent, also collected from police r
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The report uses data from the Uniform Crime Report. UCR records crimes reported by the police, which isn't the same as crimes occured. It's likely the link here is between Government Budgets (including budgets for police resources
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> the current generation of electronic vehicles are a terrible idea... Although perhaps a mere half is not what people would think at first when they just compare tailpipe emissions The methodolody used by IEA for that chart uses the 202
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Did the iphone take years to catch on? Apple sold >1m units in the first six months, 10m in the first full year, and then had near double digit sales growth for a half decade - even though it launched during the global financial crisis.
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The article isn't an admission of failure & call to abandon all hope. It's a call to action, aiming to mitigate the worst impacts of the polycrisis.
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Copyright doesn't stop the collection of content, it stops the copying, processing, & redistribution of content. Internet Archive acts as a library, so its widely accepted as fair-use when it makes collections of webpages available
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Taking an original "one of one" piece from a museum without permission and hanging it up in your livingroom isn't exactly copyright infringement though, is it?
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The framework is fundamental for all the rest of the stuff. You transfer it before the majority of the site's content. The faster it arrives, the faster your site is usable. It's also always in use. A badly sized image can cost a
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I agree with your point in general, and disagree with the OP's sentiment. However, seigniorage via central bank Interest Rates is considered a tax by most economists (or at least most economists would reasonably accept an argument that
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Escaping an already-playing 30 second YouTube advert on their iOS app may be the most challenging UI experience in the modern era. I've landed on forcefully closing the app, and re-opening it as the only escape.
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>one could easily claim that it is the most harsh regulator on the planet. The argument that the EU is a more harsh regulator than Iran, Russia, China, North Korea, (or even on par with those regulatory regimes) entirely undermines the r
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>How do people see things going in the future? The EU and other European governments will throw absolute boatloads of money at Mistral, even if that only keeps them at a level on par with the last generation. AI is too big of a technolog
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>There’s no ads in Shazam I'd argue that Shazam doesn't have ads, rather it is an ad . You search for the song, then see links to buy it in Apple Music. You'll also see "subscribe to Apple Music" type widgets
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If they're not already in one, you might want to get your kid enlisted in some gifted child programs.
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I live at flat 8 of building 5, which through a strange quirk in the way addresses are created in my city & then recorded at the post office, accepts mail intended for both 8/5 and 5/8. A nearby neighbour in flat 5 of building
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Was the Capital One breach not a result of gross internal malpractice on the part of Amazon? That allowed an Amazon employee to gain priviledged access to CC data in Capital One's environment.
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The media's very busy dealing with the Prime Minister announcing a policy that'll be reversed before it's ever implemented.
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The hyperinflation example is quite interesting because: 1) If it happens, it happens rapidly, and you don't want to implement this in a hurry 2) If it happens, the global economy could well be melting down, and your financial institut
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There are more Excel databases in the wild than any of us could reasonably fathom.
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I don't mind "plant meats" too much on occasion. I am a bit frustrated that they've largely displaced all other vegetarian options at restaurants and stores though. Bean/veggie burgers have mostly stopped existing,
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> French farmers and meat companies have long complained that customers are unjustly confused by the notion of vegetarian “meat”. I'd be really interested in meeting someone who was legitimately confused by the notion vegetarian mea
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>Is it a coincidence that 1280 = 2⁷ * 10? 1280 is the nearest threshold we can estimate to, for the reason you've describe. In the OP's title it suggests "exactly 1280", while the original published piece in Science[1
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The entire world deforests around 10m hectares per year commercially[1]. It doesn't follow that the global economy could support 200m+ hectares of plantations, never mind 200m+ in Canada alone. [1] https://ourworldindata.org

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