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by ailideex 7y ago
> Compare the lifestyle of a subsistence farmer with that of a wealthy city-dweller in a developed country. More land is required to grow the city dweller's food Maybe I'm misreading this - but is the productivity of Subsistenc
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by ailideex 7y ago
I think the question asked is rather important if we want to know where we should get to. Maybe it is not easy to answer - but then you can rather ask how do we know it is too rapidly now - and then really you can answer the question by say
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by ailideex 7y ago
So say I use this on my phone, and someone steals my phone, my "identity" is compromised anyway. I have to create a new Identity anyway. User experience of sending everything to someone N times over is not acceptable either. If I
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by ailideex 7y ago
> How did this reach the top posting while being...so thin? people upvoted it.
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by ailideex 7y ago
How would we measure that?
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by ailideex 7y ago
Last I checked crop yields and global food production is going up, not down.
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by ailideex 7y ago
> We are dealing with a population implosion now. nope
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by ailideex 7y ago
> That being said, all a union is is workers collectively organizing to resolve the power imbalance vs. their employer. This seems as reductive as saying all democratic governments are citizens collectively organizing.
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by ailideex 7y ago
There is opposing evidence?
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by ailideex 7y ago
> Otherwise your devices would have to authorize each other, which is even dumber. Not sure why that is so dumb, presumably if one device gets compromised other linked ones are also compromised but if one device gets compromised now it i
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by ailideex 7y ago
> To be clear, these things happened together, one doesn't exist without the other. Buying 14.5% of a company does not come with an automatic collaboration agreement nor would a collaboration agreement come with 14.5% of a company&#
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by ailideex 7y ago
> Lying to an investigator actually isn't obstruction of justice, according to the statute. Great. It should not be.
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by ailideex 7y ago
Who are 23andMe's parent companies ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parent_company )? > In the United Kingdom, it is generally held that an organisation holding a 'controlling stake' in a company (a hold
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by ailideex 7y ago
Shareholders are still shareholders even if the company is not publicly traded/listed. GSK is a shareholder of 23andMe - not it's parent company. 23andMe is not a subsidiary of GSK. GSK does not even own a majority share in 23andM
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by ailideex 7y ago
I don't see how that article supports the claim that you are making. From the article > A 23andMe spokesperson told TIME that data privacy is a “top priority” for the company, emphasizing that customer data isn’t used in research wi
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by ailideex 7y ago
With Tox I cannot share an account between multiple devices - or that is I cannot switch seamlessly between PC and phone. That is dumb and I don't want that.
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by ailideex 7y ago
Just start coding. C++/Java/Python - whatever. The only real consideration you should have is picking something where the tool chain stays out of your way and works for you as opposed to you working for it.
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by ailideex 7y ago
> Is anyone aware of a good Google Places API alternative, including any paid self-hosted databases? I think you can achieve this with wikidata / wikibase : https://addshore.com/2016/05/geospatial-search-fo
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by ailideex 7y ago
How do you know?
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by ailideex 7y ago
> Wouldn't it be more fair it the Times waited until after the election to publish this piece? Why?
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by ailideex 7y ago
> It is a crime to lie to federal agents in the course of a criminal investigation. You can avoid committing that crime by not lying to agents. Just because something is illegal does not mean it should be illegal - and as far as dumb ass
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by ailideex 7y ago
Can you cite? What companies are using debt to finance repurchases? Also the person you responded to probably meant that they profit in a technical bookkeeping sense not. You can still have profit while having debt and profit will be taxed
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by ailideex 7y ago
I don't subscribe to the idea that you can steal something which is non-rivalrous and non-excludable. To steal is "to take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else" - can't reall
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by ailideex 7y ago
Yeah, I mean they really ironed cookies out something fierce, with every website now spamming us multiple times a week probably asking if we want to store cookies. So ironed out.
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by ailideex 7y ago
Just need to make the battery packs removable - then the car can be "recharged" fully in less than 5 minutes.
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by ailideex 7y ago
I would rather build it in a type-safe and memory-safe language - but if that is not allowed I would go for C++ even though I have my issues with it. Catching TypeError in python and handling it is not a substitute for static typing.
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by ailideex 7y ago
This will get everyone riled up but I think the problem with solving climate change is that the people crying the loudest does not want to solve climate change but want to fundamentally restructure economies and societies - as support for m
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by ailideex 7y ago
I'm sure you look you can find something which tells you that Microsoft is also privacy focused in their marketing material. Heck even google says they are focused on privacy: https://policies.google.com/faq?hl=en-US &
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by ailideex 7y ago
There is being prudent and then there is being negligent - I think people conflate them. I don't think there is any publicly traded company that does not care about profit - Boeing is not somehow unique in this. If the profit is compet
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by ailideex 7y ago
> I know MSFT technologies get a lot of hate here, but ASP.NET Core is pretty awesome. Given how bad an actor they were I guess some people have a hard time forgetting the past.

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