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by aeternus 7y ago
There are, YouTube has a fairly effective algorithm that is used primarily to remove copyright-infringing content: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_ID_(algorithm)
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by aeternus 7y ago
There are already proposals for resin-filled self-healing polymers and epoxies. This would provide a high amount of resilience to small impacts.
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by aeternus 7y ago
I disagree, having a single password is a risk even if all encryption is done locally. Why not use an M-of-N / 2-of-3 encryption scheme where the user can optionally have Keybase protect one of those keys via a 2nd factor. The user wo
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by aeternus 7y ago
Yes, there also often is not a single correct choice for many technology decisions. What is important in many cases is to pick a direction and get everyone aligned. This doesn't hold for all types of decisions.
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Many people at my company take Uber/Lyft to get to BART and Caltrain.
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by aeternus 7y ago
Why is solar position so important compared to ability to coordinate simultaneous events across wide geographies? It would be much simpler to have a globally consistent definition of time/simultaneity and treat other things (like sola
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by aeternus 7y ago
A retroreflector does not require aiming nor moving parts, it simply uses geometry to ensure that a lightbeam is always reflected back to its source. Retroreflectors are cheap to build and well-understood. It is a very interesting idea, th
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by aeternus 7y ago
Is this really hostility? Supporting an additional platform is expensive in terms of dev, qa complexity, and support. Maybe this is just a case of looking at the numbers, and the benefit not being worth the cost.
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by aeternus 7y ago
The upside is lower cost for both parties. Courts mostly require a lawyer to successfully navigate. The goal of civil court is to enforce contracts. If both parties agree via a contract to solve any disagreements with 3rd party arbitratio
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by aeternus 7y ago
Nothing at all is truly carbon neutral, after all a human took a breath to contemplate it. The idea and processes behind Prometheus are still very interesting and have implications beyond the short-term focus on carbon footprint. This type
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by aeternus 7y ago
The concept of a 'full' voicemail is also backwards. It should be implemented as a circular buffer, if full, the oldest gets replaced.
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by aeternus 7y ago
Many of those games are actually implementing gambling with their virtual currency. They have events where you buy an entry ticket using the in-game currency then either double/triple-up or lose-it-all as the result of some random ev
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by aeternus 7y ago
What do you do about people with no money? With BART especially, you can watch the same person that jumped the gate light up a meth pipe in the back of the train car. BART police will kick them off the train if they get caught but can'
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by aeternus 7y ago
How does housing fix the drug or mental disorder problem? How do we pay for the housing or address the issues with supply and demand when providing free housing? With engineering, very few engineers would start work on a design that only ad
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by aeternus 7y ago
I think this makes sense. Maybe you like it and want to buy another for friends & relatives? You might not be happy with the purchase and on the lookout for a better model.
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by aeternus 7y ago
Tokens are equivalent to your card, but only at a specific merchant. This can still be a problem for large merchants but is much less of a problem compared to a thief being able to use your account # anywhere. The most likely cause here is
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by aeternus 7y ago
It's almost as-if our cells depend on some sort of chemical equilibrium. The old advice of everything in moderation may be the best way to go.
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Does any currently operating exchange actually care about the origin of coins?
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by aeternus 7y ago
Maybe, but Amazon faces competition from Ebay, Alibaba, even Walmart. It's unlikely they can raise prices significantly and maintain market share, nor is it likely that they can push out all of those competitors.
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by aeternus 7y ago
I'd argue consumers are benefiting greatly from Amazon's profits. They have overall re-invested those profits into other businesses that benefit consumers. Ex: Purchased Whole Foods and have brought down those prices overall plus
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by aeternus 7y ago
This does seem like a much better approach than censorship, however I still see two major issues: 1) Whatever entity determines the categorization of content wields great power over the reach of that content. In the FB case, this is likely
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by aeternus 7y ago
What are those well-established methods? The hyperloop was conceived by multiple SpaceX employees due to extreme disappointment with California's public transit proposal. This is from the original Hyperloop paper: > When the Califo
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by aeternus 7y ago
How about a browser / service that makes you pseudonymous instead? This would probably be hard to do with canvas-based browser fingerprinting, but might work with the various other fields. Basically create a large pool of 'profil
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by aeternus 7y ago
The bill actually does cover this explicitly: >(1) “Female” means an individual who self-identifies her gender as a woman, without regard to the individual’s designated sex at birth. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/fac
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by aeternus 7y ago
California does have 6 weeks of paid maternity leave. Some companies pay 100% but the state guarantees 60-70% depending on how much you make.
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by aeternus 7y ago
Article is pretty short-sighted. The overall goal of the Boring Company is to substantially decrease the cost, and increase the speed of building tunnels. This is something that benefits public transit. Sure the initial demo where a sligh
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by aeternus 7y ago
I wouldn't consider it a scam unless the puzzle is determined to be unsolvable or they fail to pay out the winner. Websites run contests all the time, and there are multiple ways to monetize a contest like this. For example, this wil
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by aeternus 7y ago
Those that have serious real issues with vaccines are the ones that rely on herd immunity so it is quite counter-productive for them to work towards making anti-vax the norm.
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From the anti-vaxers I've talked to, it's not so much the fear mongering, it's their distrust of scientific studies due to economic incentives. Smart people especially know that it's relatively easy to lie with statistic
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by aeternus 7y ago
I'm not sure why more companies don't choose to go the direct listing route (like Spotify). Set a reference price, but allow the employees and market decide. Tech companies especially have enough employees that own shares and wan

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