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by T-hawk 8y ago
The definition of spam changed. Originally, it was scattershot bulk email, where the sender would just send to any address they had ever acquired for any reason. Now spam means "anything the user doesn't want to receive". E
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Tracking is state. It's just that the state is used for advertisers' benefit rather than yours.
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Clickbait editorialized title, the real page is "2003 Angola 727 disappearance".
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by T-hawk 8y ago
Another example: Emerson Lake & Palmer, album Brain Salad Surgery, track Karn Evil 9. That's the line "Welcome back, my friends / To the show that never ends". The song is split across the two tape sides, and that&
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> but around 20 I'm going to be suspicious. There's a multiple-endpoints effect here. If there are 2^20 participants all doing that, one of them is going to flip 20 heads in a row. You only notice the one who did after the fa
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We should establish and recognize as a concept OPM, observations-per-minute. That's what the AI is doing in excess of what the human can, observing the game state faster, even if acting at the same APM.
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You have tangible proof of something that is simply legal by US federal labor law. The Age Discrimination In Employment Act only protects workers 40 and over. (State or local jurisdictions can differ, but few do.) The Equal Opportunity C
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Those discrepancies should already be accounted for by the entities concerned, right? Vancouver WA employers should be able to pay a lower tax-free salary to match the net of an Oregon tax-burdened salary, and Oregon retailers should be ab
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Scrabble isn't a word game. It's an area-control game with 150,000 rules to define legal placement for your resources. Some of those rules have mnemonics in the form of words you know.
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The unions are a classic case of "if you're being paid to solve a problem, the last thing you want to do is solve it."
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+1 to this, same for me. I've gone without an alarm for most of my adult life too. I used to set my alarm earlier and earlier to get myself up, and finally realized I was just training myself to snooze and sleep through it. I just na
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by T-hawk 8y ago
Because evaluating differently based on gender actually is discriminatory .
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> You do multiplication or addition and you get well-defined 2s-complement wrap-around. You get that, if that's what your CPU implements. Of course that's what all commonly used processors nowadays like x86 do. But C was mean
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99% accurate doesn't necessarily mean 1% wrong identification. It can merely mean the 1% is a "don't know" indeterminant result that doesn't meet some specified confidence level, for which you fall back to the pape
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That last has to be it. Every flight I've ever boarded has been bottlenecked at the jetway by people getting themselves and their carryons loaded and situated, not the speed of scanning the boarding document. At best, it means they bo
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by T-hawk 8y ago
Only in some ways. https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/statutes/adea.cfm The Age Discrimination in Employment Act is much narrower than commonly assumed. It only forbids discrimination against workers age 40 or older. It
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LEA does math, but with a particular structure to the inputs: a pointer plus an index plus a constant. That's meant to be used as a C compiler would, where the pointer would be to a struct array, the index would be the position within
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1) He's speaking in general terms. Some settings could quite possibly leak into fingerprinting, even if that particular setting doesn't. 2) Or does it? I could envision a timing attack in Javascript that can detect rendering spe
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Originally from Joel Spolsky: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2009/09/23/the-duct-tape-prog...
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The causation goes the opposite direction. If your kid is already fat, you won't give them candy. If your kid is thin, they can have some. Thinness causes candy intake, more so than candy intake causes thinness. The study cleverly m
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by T-hawk 8y ago
Shipping is a feature. Your product must have it. That recursively applies to each tool used to make the product as well.
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This is correct; I knew it but didn't try to illustrate it for simplicity.
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Because the southern part of the NJ Turnpike (exits 6 through 1) is not constructed to Interstate standards at all points. Things like lane width, curve radius, visibility distance, shoulder space.
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> Near the Pennsylvania border, drivers have long been forced off the interstate and onto other roadways, only to join back 8 miles away. This is a misleading overstatement. This is only true if you want to drive the roads labeled as I-
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by T-hawk 8y ago
There exists an information asymmetry. You know you can't reach another supplier, but the supplier doesn't know that. The supplier seeks to remedy that asymmetry. I thought HN was usually against information asymmetry in the free
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The supplier would pay the intermediary (the operator of the tracking system) for the information that you can only reach one supplier. They pay to learn that the temporary localized monopoly exists.
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> so they can gouge you $5/gallon and you have no choice to pay it You can, of course, buy only the minimum you need to make it to another station instead. Fundamentally, what's happening here is a temporary very localized mono
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The question isn't whether O-rings had ever been warned about before; it's whether and how often there were ever any warnings of equal specificity and high profile to this one. "Go fever" accumulates from overriding p
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One important piece of data to correlate with that: how many times previously had engineers issued similar warnings for launches that then proceeded fine? Warning fatigue is a thing and reasonable to wonder whether that happened at all here
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A good image compression algorithm could. PNG just isn't smart enough for this purpose. One could argue that the NES code and PPU data itself constitute a very efficient compression scheme for compliant images, albeit human-crafted

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