anaptdemise

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by anaptdemise 2y ago
Everything is politics. Remember when the US forced the Ukrainian investor of Firefly to sell? https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/07/feds-who-forced-ukrain... https://www.prnewswire.com/news-r
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by anaptdemise 8y ago
Unsolicited life advice. If you have to drink or do drugs to do your job, you should probably question your career path. If you have to drink or do drugs to feel satisfied with your life, you should probably ask yourself what you have actua
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by anaptdemise 9y ago
Two of the largest advertisers don’t think Facebook ads are effective. The latest, P&G, specifically call out how narrow targeting is ineffective. > After cutting back on certain digital ads, “we didn’t see a reduction in the growth
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by anaptdemise 9y ago
It also appears to reduce the amount of available rentals. http://conference.nber.org/confer/2017/PEf17/Diamond_McQuade...
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by anaptdemise 9y ago
ln 221: if snp_taxID not in samples_of_interest.keys():#Check if Genome is of interest Tracing through, looks like samples_of_interest is a dict. `snp_taxID not in samples_of_interest` would make membership check constant time.
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by anaptdemise 9y ago
https://msorvig.github.io/qt-webassembly-examples/gui_opengl... [edit] There is also emscripten-qt. Full circle. http://vps2.etotheipiplusone.com:30176/redmine/projects/emsc...
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by anaptdemise 9y ago
Presumably, the AV suite would send "telemetry" and related "data" to their servers for analysis... "Microsoft Wins Appeal on Overseas Data Searches" https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/15
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by anaptdemise 9y ago
Eh, on the inverse... In this situation, GoDaddy, Google, et. al. are the technocratic equivalent to Kim Davis. While, I respect their right to decide what they "host" on their platforms, as registrars, DNS is separate. Their auth
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by anaptdemise 10y ago
My hand is cramping... I volunteer to write the emacs one first. But really, this is something I dream about as a spinal disease survivor.
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by anaptdemise 10y ago
If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. (1978, 1
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by anaptdemise 10y ago
Can't load on iPad with Focus filter...
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by anaptdemise 10y ago
Or, correctly teller.io to www.teller.io. Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11004396
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by anaptdemise 11y ago
The here was an EFF article that mentioned a few cases where the courts have deemed code = speech. The question now is what protections this specific instance of speech is awarded. Here is another review of previous case law. From the secon
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by anaptdemise 11y ago
> Is that why you invest in a company? > I personally am anoyed that, now, every purchase I make is a political statement. [sic] Edit: "Buffett, of course, has long centered his investment thesis on the idea that it never pays to
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by anaptdemise 11y ago
Although agree, ...with your position, I disagree in your reasoning. Corporations are persons because they are an organized group of people established to carry out the intentions and express the views, i.e. speech, of their members. Citize
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by anaptdemise 11y ago
Maybe the principle of the law; as opposed to the letter of the law. The legislature writes, literally, thousands of bad laws and SCOTS sees a handful of edge cases. I, as an optimist think that the individuals in the process of passing poo
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by anaptdemise 11y ago
Sounds like a stack Reggie Watts would create. But then there is the node/js fronted community to one up everyone. Does your stack manage complexity, or add too it... Why is such a stack necessary. I bet you don't even ARIA bro...
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by anaptdemise 11y ago
This is the study of human nature in all this that I find most amusing. For $249, there are much more straight forward and guaranteed ways to have an affair. Even if affair is not insinuating sex, which I'm pretty sure most guys would
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by anaptdemise 11y ago
> You would think something like a microprocessor would have the same level of checks. Yeah, the chips themselves are easy, but some chips get programmed along the food chain at different steps and if there is an issue everyone assumes i
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by anaptdemise 11y ago
Defense contractors aren't the most efficient manufacturers. Wouldn't surprise me if they shipped the vehicle from SC to Oshkosh to have the tires installed. But it was probably some of the mine detection equipment. They usually s
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by anaptdemise 11y ago
> not this L-ATV. It looked like something out of Mad Max. It looked like it had a single seat, cockpit up high, very narrow with big wheels. Probably a Husky 2G. They are tandem two seaters used for mine/IED detection and disposal
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by anaptdemise 11y ago
Yet, apparently fail to understand what constitutes speech.
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by anaptdemise 11y ago
There is also a bug report from a year ago. https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=381747
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by anaptdemise 11y ago
I have never had the "OK Google" voice search option enabled and chrome://voicesearch/ shown below. I deleted the hotword file specified as the extension path and also `rm rf` directories under the "Extensions&
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by anaptdemise 11y ago
I was just raising the point that your specific example of Ford is weak due to the fact that there are indeed laws that prevent how Ford can sell and restrict third-party sales of their vehicles, parts and services. > is just as ignoran
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by anaptdemise 11y ago
> Apple hate is quite blinding. So is Apple fanboyism. There are laws that prevent Ford from requiring you to only service your vehicle at Ford dealerships. There are also laws that prevent Ford from restricting sales of third-party aft
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by anaptdemise 11y ago
> In a lengthy investigation, staffers in the FTC’s bureau of competition found evidence that Google boosted its own services for shopping, travel and local businesses by altering its ranking criteria and “scraping” content from other si
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Senate bill introduced reauthorizing Patriot Act through 2020(congress.gov)
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by anaptdemise 11y ago
Your logic is sound. Point 4 is the real argument about what the actual intent of these companies is; The fact that these companies are using the DMCA as a thinly veiled attempt to limit consumer choice and destroy competitive secondary mar
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by anaptdemise 12y ago
> Patriotism is not a justification for violating the law. Actually, it is. Patriotism, in being a Patriot, is a loaded word in the American (USA) context. Specifically, it is about doing what is good/right for the country and her c

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