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by Vraxx 10y ago
Specifically about that type of person you mentioned that is against something vehemently until they are personally related to the side of the issue they opposed, I can't help myself but feel more disdain for these individuals than if
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by Vraxx 10y ago
So a non-insignificant number of people claiming it to be the case isn't a good enough reason to believe that it's a possibility? What is the threshold for you to consider this possibility? Do you not believe anything subjecti
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by Vraxx 10y ago
Somebody posed this question elsewhere in this article's thread and I do think it's the most important question. Would the position that this violent/sexual offender is being considered for increase their chances of perfor
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by Vraxx 10y ago
The first two reasons alone were conflating correlation and causation, without even citing the statistics that they are claiming as causal. To top it all off, most of them are just stereotypes, so I'm even more suspect of the underlyi
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by Vraxx 10y ago
Except the numbers that aren't bogus seem to suggest that birthing at home can be much more dangerous for mothers and children. I'm not saying that there's no room for improvement at the hospital, there always will be, but
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by Vraxx 10y ago
Why not link directly to the android N naming suggestion page? https://www.android.com/versions/name-n/
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by Vraxx 10y ago
Ah okay. That's fair, I wasn't really considering it as an adversarial situation in terms of power. I was looking at it more from a "purchase this product" or not in an isolated decision.
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by Vraxx 10y ago
Ugh. That's terrible. I kinda figured that it's an eventual conclusion though, so when speedtest.net starts giving me contradictory results to what I am experiencing I have a pretty good idea of what the check first. On a separa
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by Vraxx 10y ago
I don't really understand this motivation. Google profiting from your actions doesn't necessarily mean that you're losing something. It's not a zero sum game between you and Google, there are other actors in the system
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by Vraxx 10y ago
Yeah, it's tough to find the line of when to stop giving the benefit of the doubt though. I was using speedtest.net at the time, which is pretty well known and widely used. I had also had multiple visits recently regarding the issue
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by Vraxx 10y ago
That proposed plan could probably be reverse gamed by Netflix by buffering streamed content with multiple separate connections. Or by including a way to check the speed mid stream. Or by allowing extended tests on fast.com. This is a cla
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by Vraxx 10y ago
OP looks like he's calling Netflix's actions evil, and the post you're replying to is questioning that. I think everybody in this comment chain agrees that throttling based on domain is illegal and immoral for the ISP to do.
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by Vraxx 10y ago
I've had a tech who came to deal with a reported issue I was having tell me to test on a specific Time Warner Cable speed test. He then got upset/flustered when I used a different speed test to demonstrate that the issue was stil
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by Vraxx 10y ago
That might be part of the process, but the key word here was ensure . The article seemed extremely confident that this model was predictive, to the point of suggesting very drastic actions based on the predictions, which is why I made the
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by Vraxx 10y ago
I don't think that coming up with a model that matches historical data ensures that the model is predictive in any manner. I also have trouble believing solutions that vastly simplify very complex interactions. Ultimately, I think th
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by Vraxx 10y ago
Just going off of the comment you're responding too, that $600,000 corresponds to one block when the original example specified 4 blocks for $1.5 mil. I don't claim to know anything about street paving economics, I just wanted
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by Vraxx 10y ago
Maybe you could game their gaming of the system by ordering the product on multiple accounts and writing bad reviews of it and get all of they sent you for free.
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by Vraxx 10y ago
While I think your point about misplaced expertise is a accurate point in most regards, there is reason to believe that the space agency might have some expertise in the field of remote sensing. NASA launched many satellites that are inval
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by Vraxx 10y ago
I don't get why raising the wages implies that food will go up more than the average amount of tipping (~10-20%). Currently, if it's legal for their wages to be lower granted that they are supplemented by tips, if we raised the p
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by Vraxx 10y ago
Their state of endangerment was a superposition of being endangered and not until the cave was opened.
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by Vraxx 10y ago
If you increased the price of the food to include the average tip and distributed that increased price among your workers you've just provided that same incentive (a wage decidedly above "fair") to your servers and the experi
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by Vraxx 10y ago
What about the novel idea of incentivizing the restaurant to provide excellent experiences through charging a fair market rate for a reliably excellent experience? You can show your support for this restaurant by being a repeat customer be
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by Vraxx 10y ago
Sounds like they looked into it... and found that there was no research. They're certainly not morally obligated to conduct research on the matter. This is a story about events that allegedly did happen, it is their journalistic ob
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by Vraxx 10y ago
Not if there were simple measures put in place to stop new or otherwise unused accounts from making copyright complaints. Just to be thorough there could be an outlet for unregistered users that had a higher threshold of evidence required
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by Vraxx 10y ago
Unless you're lucky enough to already have enough resources to spend both time and money attending a school without any expectation of return, it seems to be the natural conclusion to me. Without the incentive of higher paying jobs
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by Vraxx 10y ago
It only takes one case of blatant disregard by a trusted source to spoil the entire process. What do you do when the scandal leaks that X Co didn't do due diligence and now 100 million of their customer's brainprints are leaked a
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by Vraxx 11y ago
Yeah, wow. That's an aspect I've never considered before. I suppose because I figured they would need my actual fingerprint to crack the system, but if you have the values for all the "basis vectors" of the fingerprint
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by Vraxx 11y ago
There's also the benefit of not having to do any appropriation of funds in congress for the consumer relief portion to actually be paid to the consumers that it is relieving. No possibility of that money not going directly to what it
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by Vraxx 11y ago
They don't deduct the fine from their tax liability, they deduct the restitution payments from their tax liability. They are essentially being forced to "donate" $1.8B to those they wronged by their actions. Imagine if an i
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by Vraxx 11y ago
It's about intent. Yes, currently you can work your way around ads and anti-adblockers, but seeing as that's not the intention of the publisher they will eventually have anti-anti-ad-blocker measures just as they came up with ant

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