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by athenot 8y ago
There's the third option of slowing down. That's what most human drivers do subconsciously when we see something that we're having trouble identify, and feel it could turn into an obstacle.
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by athenot 8y ago
> Before smartphones usually, you'd make up conversation, smalltalk, even if you didn't want to talk or had anything interesting to say. These days instead of doing that people just seem to ignore each other and do something th
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by athenot 8y ago
> I hope these internal audits are now a normal part of their business. They now are, at 3 stages: - During design, - Before early field trial, - Before production. Stuff like this is bad for everyone so we're spending a lot of effo
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by athenot 8y ago
I'm not in that industry but if it's anything like other fields, I'd say this jargon has specific meaning to them.
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by athenot 8y ago
Yes I'm not defending the market, just calling it out.
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by athenot 8y ago
Corruption is just the free market between those who have power but (relatively) no wealth, and those who have wealth but (relatively) no power. It's treating power and influence as just another asset that can be purchased (with wealth
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by athenot 8y ago
You are right, there are different metrics that should be considered. Yes, there is the risk of long-term damage to the environment. But we've also learned a lot from failures and really make sure we can minimize the impact so that fai
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by athenot 8y ago
It's like airplanes vs. cars. There are several orders of magnitude more deaths in cars than there are in airplanes, but it is immensely spectacular when there are aiplane accidents, leading to a perception of unsafety. On the flip sid
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by athenot 8y ago
Microservices really shine when your setup requires HA everywhere. If you're running multiple copies of everything and need your overall product to still run while parts fail, then it's a lot easier when the individual parts are s
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by athenot 8y ago
I guess I don't understand the purpose. If a high degree of formalization, typing and namespacing is required, why not use full-blown XML with namespaces and schemas?
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by athenot 9y ago
> Marler also blames Americans’ love of convenience for the problem. “Mass-produced chopped, bagged lettuce that gets shipped around the US amplifies the risk of poisoning,” he said. > Instead of shipping heads of lettuce or large
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by athenot 9y ago
The lettuce readily available in American grocery stores doesn't have much taste, yes. But try some fresh Laitue, Bibb, Mâche, Endives or Arugula. There's a world of flavor in lettuce but as with most other things here we have a a
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by athenot 9y ago
This is a good piece, thanks! But some of this becomes a lot more complicated when you have children.
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by athenot 9y ago
I wonder if this can be extended for the whole body, so as to produce a 3D scan of the skin, and measure the evolution of moles and skin issues.
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by athenot 9y ago
> This process of commodification has turned us all into tastemakers, reviewers, likers, retweeters and brand ambassadors. The platform takes our real authentic friendships and first commodifies them, reifies them, and then sells them b
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by athenot 9y ago
Thanks! Yes I didn't word that properly. :(
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by athenot 9y ago
I remember having a similar issue in 2000, before any (meaningful) client-side javascript. Solution: each link that did something also had a request_id parameter, which was a timestamp in milliseconds. Two requests with the same request_id
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by athenot 9y ago
In the past, this has been done in phases: forbid applications, reduce availability, then make it illegal.
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by athenot 9y ago
Costco won't sell you anything if you're not a member, so it's not a good analogy. It's more as if Target would refuse to sell you a certain size of diapers unless you sign up for their credit card membership thingy.
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by athenot 9y ago
> dehumanizing the candidate into a “code monkey.” Bingo. A hiring process that attempts to convert the multidimensionality of humans to a handful of numeric variables is essentially trying to hire the best drone out there, not the best
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by athenot 9y ago
On a positive note, New Orleans decided to not renew their contract with Palantir. I am not sure whether this is the result of that article or not.
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by athenot 9y ago
He's a mixed bag. Some sound advice, in particular the parts about living within one's means; but there's also things that are utterly unrealistic, like: > If you were to invest that (...) into a good mutual fund with a 1
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by athenot 9y ago
Yes. But laws must fit within a given culture. Different cultures have different risk appreciation.
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by athenot 9y ago
> people tend to forget that advertising covers a real need I don't buy it. Advertising is not going to provide me with the service that is the most suited to my need, or with the best value. In fact, quite the opposite: the adver
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by athenot 9y ago
Interesting you mention that. In many places in Europe, it is forbidden to release the name of a suspect until they are found guilty or there's heavy evidence weighing against them. Specifically for that reason.
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by athenot 9y ago
When I read satellites & internet, latency is the first thing that came to mind. But at the altitude the satellites (will) operate, that adds about 8ms delay (round trip for satellite immediately above, might be slightly worse). In cont
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by athenot 9y ago
That's how it works with HIPAA. Patients interact with Covered Entities, and they can contract out to a third-party and sign a BAA. The third-party is then on the hook because if they fail at protecting data, the Covered Entity gets th
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by athenot 9y ago
I never bother with the seat cover paper. Instead, I always carry a tiny 1oz (30g) spray can of Lysol disinfectant to wipe like you describe.
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by athenot 9y ago
It seems to me that it'd be very obvious that a human did not write whatever result that could produce. Here's 5 bits in that simple sentence. I'm sure others can do better.
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by athenot 9y ago
Maybe the answer is to turn the dial to 11 on information sharing and require data transparency from managers/leaders/public servants who operate data accumulation outfits. Track users' location data? Then your location must

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