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Operation Midnight Climax(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by air7 7y ago|0 comments
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by air7 7y ago
My take is that from an "economics 101" perspective, a rental isn't a normal commodity. When a vacant rental is first advertised, it is essentially "put on the market" and it's price could be determined by supp
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Adobe tool that can detect photoshoped faces and undo changes(theblog.adobe.com)
2 points by air7 7y ago|0 comments
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AI Listened to People's Voices. Then It Generated Their Faces(livescience.com)
2 points by air7 7y ago|0 comments
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by air7 7y ago
This is a tangent, but I find it (somewhat) annoying when f.a.q's don't answer their own questions. I see this happen occasionally and I always wonder if it's intentional to side-step an issue by raising it yourself, and then
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The rise and demise of the AAirpass, American Airlines’ $250k lifetime ticket(thehustle.co)
2 points by air7 7y ago|0 comments
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by air7 7y ago
I disagree. I feel it's not a site's responsibility to stop users from reusing their passwords if they choose to. It has no relation to the security of the service. As a metaphor, a good lock maker protects their customers from lo
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by air7 7y ago
Wow, this gave me a nostalgic flash-back to my BBS days when I would download a JPG and watch it appear line by line on my screen.
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by air7 7y ago
> ...the ways in which the male and female brains differ may have remained under-investigated due to a backlash against the idea of there being meaningful differences between the male and female brain. This is bad. Contemporary views af
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Holder of the Most Guinness World Records (~700)(ashrita.com)
1 points by air7 7y ago|0 comments
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by air7 7y ago
> Ogilvy, Saatchi et al are the Goebbels' of our age. Sorry, but that is waaay over the top. It makes you sound a bit nutty. A "Truther" of sorts, that dangerously believes too profoundly in his own ideology.
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by air7 7y ago
I know its only a metaphor but arguably modern planes crash much less. No crashes in the US in the last decade. https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/02/13/colgan-air-crash-10-year...
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by air7 7y ago
> as someone in tech talking to others in tech I'm constantly surprised how optimistic people are Me too. I can't explain it. Here's one point I try to make (in vain): When people imagine such tech, the level of "just
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by air7 7y ago
> Is it fair that a child from a better-off family is more likely to enter better academic institutions regardless of their merit? At the point of admission, the merits of our two imaginary college kids are not same, even if they started
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by air7 7y ago
> As an engineer, it is in my DNA to build things. However, it’s too easy to get stuck in the mindset that you have to build everything. This mentality often leads one stuck with a plethora of incomplete products that grew too complex to
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by air7 7y ago
9gag.com
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by air7 7y ago
I just remembered I too bought the game 10 years ago, as part of the Humble Indie Bundle. I also found the old email but it didn't "just" work. Interestingly, the part of the chain that failed was their then email marketing p
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by air7 7y ago
> universally, the domain name always comes first, the business idea comes second. I wonder what others think about this quote. Could he not have started the same exact business with another domain? Is owning the "right" domai
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by air7 8y ago
For example, phenomena relating to humans exist in a different realm. For example statements like "Kids like to play games", "The placebo effect works" etc. Math can be used here for experiment analysis, but not to descr
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by air7 8y ago
If ever there was a argument for Intelligent Design, this would be it.
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by air7 8y ago
Wow. Was this ever (anecdotally) tested?
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by air7 8y ago
This article really annoys me. It's "Rage Culture" or maybe just front-page seeking by the author. The problem with that is that it makes people desensitized because if everyone is screaming all the time, one should just shut
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by air7 8y ago
It's just insane that that is a valid question.
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by air7 8y ago
That's cool, but it's still the same party providing both the storage mechanism, and the JS that encrypts the content on the client-side. You have to trust them that they are not "peeking" at the keys you are generating
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Why UPS trucks (almost) never turn left(edition.cnn.com)
2 points by air7 8y ago|1 comments
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by air7 8y ago
I once (2009) found a similar bug that allowed leaking the ID and personal info of a FB user when their browser loaded a seemingly innocent <img> tag (so it could be embedded in a forum post, for example). Sadly, it was before FB had
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by air7 8y ago
Shameless plug: I made a FireFox extension called Check4Change which, well, you can probably guess...
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by air7 8y ago
This is one of my favorite paradoxes too. Here's why: "... given the same table, one should sometimes follow the partitioned and sometimes the aggregated data, depending on the story behind the data, with each story dictating its
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by air7 8y ago
In that case, how do plan to offset the cost of the bandwidth if this service becomes popular?
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by air7 8y ago
I keep getting "Sorry the file format is not supported!" Could you provide some examples? And also, will my browser be streaming or is your server acting as a proxy?

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