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by abalone 8y ago
There's a difference that's important to understand. U.S. support for Israel's aggressive policies is not a result of Israeli "meddling" or even the domestic "Israel lobby". Those things would never be per
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by abalone 8y ago
Spoiler: the op backfires and actually increases public outrage over these naked manipulation tactics, resulting in a massive electoral victory for the target. I feel like the same thing may be happening with BDS. The naked attempts to smea
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by abalone 8y ago
Not unless you are doing actual spying.
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by abalone 8y ago
Update: "Preliminary root cause: A portion of third-party managed network infrastructure that facilitates authentication requests and access to Microsoft 365 services was degraded." (Emphasis mine.)
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by abalone 8y ago
> I disagree, it's not a false dichotomy, it's a real one. This is very demonstrably false: Search engines can serve ads that are highly targeted to the user's query without knowing anything else about them. You can se
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by abalone 8y ago
> It’s not entirely clear to me why working hard has become a Bad Thing in certain parts of the US What is this a reference to? What parts of the US? It's not backed up by a citation. This is not the first time Altman has dropped
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by abalone 8y ago
Compared to what? You'll have to be more specific. Definitely adaptive capacity targets the primary reason people had to overprovision DynamoDB. It changes the entire calculation and obsoletes all the advice you might have heard based
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by abalone 8y ago
Worth noting his original reason for moving away from DynamoDB is outdated. DynamoDB added an “adaptive capacity” feature to handle hot partitions.[1] [1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/how-amazon-dynamodb-a
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by abalone 8y ago
This is totally unfounded. Their market-leading bokeh camera effect is powered by a “state of the art image recognition system” including custom silicon (the “neural engine”). Siri has gotten a lot better especially at natural language re
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by abalone 8y ago
Their brand was absolute trash for awhile. Actually made the pizza taste worse (in blind studies). They turned it around.
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by abalone 8y ago
True, but OP claimed the entire category of on-demand food delivery has major problems. And 3 out of 4 of their concerns are about delivery logistics not menu standardization. Domino's turnaround shows that the food delivery model can
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Apple’s Security Expert Joined ACLU to Tackle 'Authoritarian Fever'(motherboard.vice.com)
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by abalone 8y ago
> On demand food delivery has several major problems that were all very predictable Hold on now, Domino’s is doing just fine. On a tear actually.[1] [1] https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/07/19/domi
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by abalone 8y ago
Yes, and it notes the supercharging “rates are significantly higher than what consumers in the same areas would pay at home,” which is actually where most people charge up. Super chargers are mainly for the occasional long distance trip. Th
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by abalone 8y ago
Lower/moderate density could still mean apartments, just constructed without much concrete or steel. You don’t necessarily neeed concrete slabs with smaller buildings. Transportation could be solar powered. It’s at least plausible that
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by abalone 8y ago
I would not say any of that is fairly well known. Nor that it’s clear whether you’re claiming the general consensus urbanist vision is all wood, or that it’s concrete but the emissions are ok because they’ve been “well-studied”.
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by abalone 8y ago
So if a wall with a “carbon footprint close to Ireland’s annual CO2 emissions” keeps out just one more immigrant/year, your point “still stands” and it’s just a matter of “amortization time.” Your reasoning here is about as sound as yo
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by abalone 8y ago
All good points, but none of us are arguing for doing things they way they’re done now. My question is what we should be aiming for. Is it greener to build max density, given the strength required for those buildings (as well as the transpo
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by abalone 8y ago
The “one plus five” buildings you’re talking about typically have concrete first floors.[1] You make good points about sidewalks etc. but at the same time that stuff needs to be built bigger and stronger and renewed more in dense urban area
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by abalone 8y ago
You can’t tell. It’s a free RFID pass that looks the same as anyone else’s.
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by abalone 8y ago
Didn't say it was universal.
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by abalone 8y ago
Not quite. They said if it prevents 1M immigrants.. a pure hypothetical to explore the math of discouraging American lifestyles. They definitely did not say the wall would succeed in preventing 1M/year from entering. That is absolu
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by abalone 8y ago
Dense urban construction typically uses more concrete and steel. New homes in low rise areas can be built mostly out of wood, for example. Not saying sprawl doesn’t have its own impacts, just that we should properly account for the footprin
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by abalone 8y ago
Specious argument. 1. It assumes that each immigrant’s carbon footprint will suddenly leap to typical American consumer levels. But desperately poor immigrants are likely the lowest producers of emissions. Thus, admitting more would actuall
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by abalone 8y ago
Little tip for anyone living in SF (fair percentage of this website): All minors can ride muni free if their family is at or below the Bay Area medium income, which is $115K for a family of four.[1] [1] https://www.sfmta.com&#x2F
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by abalone 8y ago
Without commenting on Ferrock's merits, I want to say I'm glad every time I hear concrete/cement's CO2 impact addressed. I feel that should be a MUCH bigger part of the conversation about any kind of construction as we l
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by abalone 8y ago
Thank you! But seriously, do you rely exclusively on Twitter to get the word out that you've posted something? I'm just so curious how people do this in the Modern Age. I am totally dependent on RSS readers to subscribe to things
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by abalone 8y ago
Tangential question: This guy's blog has fantastic content but I don't see an RSS feed or any other way of subscribing (apart from a much broader Twitter feed). What's the best way to keep up?
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by abalone 8y ago
Anything's possible if the vendor secretly collaborates with a government to insert vulnerabilities and lies about it. But what we're talking about here is, given the way Apple has publicly declared how the system works[1], what c
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by abalone 8y ago
Yes but they are now E2E encrypted. Apple rolled out "Messages in iCloud" recently which preserves E2E encryption and excludes messages from regular (not E2E encrypted) iCloud backups.

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