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by ballenf 4y ago
Next step would be programmable patches of IR emitters/absorbers that change in real time during use.
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by ballenf 4y ago
Strategically, you don't do that because that triggers the other side to realize that they should lawyer up. Blowing it off with a token amount just says "this is a tiny formality, a dotting of an 'i'".
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by ballenf 4y ago
I'm going to charitably guess you didn't read most of the post. He did move on. He is at peace, finally. He's the opposite of a diva and has humbly accepted that his reward for his work doesn't take monetary form.
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by ballenf 4y ago
The article's conclusions depend entirely on the definition of harm and seems to ignore the particular group's perception of it. For example one citation used in support of the conclusion is conservative's opposition to getti
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by ballenf 4y ago
Interesting how it's an accelerated version of the horse/mule population decline after introduction of the cars/tractors/etc. At its peak in 1920 the total horse+mule population was ~25M when the US population was 102M.
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by ballenf 4y ago
One irony is that every hunter and non-industrial farmer I know goes to significant lengths to limit suffering in the kill. It's factory farms and non-human predators that ignore the subject as much as possible.
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by ballenf 4y ago
I prefer the back-and-forth the way it is now. I perversely enjoy reading a comment and "buying into it" only to realize from a reply that I was naive or too trusting. Or, at least, that there are more angles to the story. This he
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by ballenf 4y ago
Inspecting deployed code without the transpilation noise is sometimes nice. Or maybe there's a workaround for that?
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by ballenf 4y ago
Do they need to? At typical EU energy rates, is there a token in the world worth mining?
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by ballenf 4y ago
Hopefully it wouldn't make the well-funded bots more successful.
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by ballenf 4y ago
I think an even better approach would be to have the concept of fixed tiers of locking combined with evicting the decryption key for any Lock Screen above the basic PIN. And you can only move down one tier of unlocking at a time. Unlocking
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by ballenf 4y ago
Is there a search engine that just omits pages with surveillance tracking scripts? Could it be done? Then you can check google or a mainstream engine when needed.
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by ballenf 4y ago
Compared to the Blackrock buying up entire neighborhoods, this is unlikely have any effect on prices. Additionally, Redfin's transaction volume was already way down. We still need a more efficient way to let people transact real estate
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by ballenf 4y ago
> One can conceive of other update rules. If one considers the five relevant cells... I think they're looking at alternative update rules. The one you question ignores diagonals.
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by ballenf 4y ago
Can you imagine seeing the first photograph of a person? Like all you'd ever known was paintings and then one day someone shows you a glossy, pixel-perfect photograph of yourself. Photos didn't start perfect and neither is this bl
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by ballenf 4y ago
They probably couldn't see the CVV but were going to run the card and see if it verified.
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by ballenf 4y ago
Does anyone oppose just allowing companies to choose whatever WFO/WFH/hybrid policy they want? If they have a WFO policy and can't recruit, then they adjust or die. Just seems reasonable that the industry, location, talent po
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by ballenf 4y ago
Imagine thinking that a company shouldn't do layoffs until they're on the brink of failure. No layoffs for strategic shifts. Don't hit the breaks unless you're absolutely sure you're about to crash!
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by ballenf 4y ago
Copyright is our current framework for rewarding creativity and encouraging innovation. It fundamentally depends on the assumption that protection of creative works is possible and feasible. That assumption is what's under assault by c
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by ballenf 4y ago
Or to put it in other terms, you want to consume memory at a rate lower than propellant.
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by ballenf 4y ago
But buying 10 tickets means your odds are 10x higher! /s 10 times a number approximating zero is still a number approximating zero. The thinking that changed me is that my odds of winning are approximately the same whether I buy a tick
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by ballenf 4y ago
The $26 billion is revenue . Not lotto sales. It's a very inefficient and uneven redistribution of wealth.
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by ballenf 4y ago
Do accounting or tax rules block more efficient approaches of selling furniture and re-buying at destination? Relocation expenses are deductible, but I don't think furnishing allowances are, e.g.
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by ballenf 4y ago
Can't wait to see the final accounting on how much of that spending makes it to actual bridges and roads and the like.
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by ballenf 4y ago
As a sibling explains, it's important to understand the ground state. The ground state assumption is that citizens have all these rights (speech, arms, religion, etc). Narrowing or abrogating these rights is where laws come in. The opp
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by ballenf 4y ago
> some radios and antennas Still an impressive feat.
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by ballenf 4y ago
The suppression of sensation or reaction to one's own touch is what pickpockets depend on. They basically trick you into ignoring a touch sensation because you think you're doing it to yourself. Next thing you (don't) know, y
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by ballenf 4y ago
We didn't drop torture, we just shifted from physical to mental torture in the form of solitary confinement or "white torture". The effects of white torture are arguably worse, but they let us pretend to be less barbaric.
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by ballenf 4y ago
If you like at the lives of the winners and the destruction that a jackpot often brings, you could say that you are financing the winner's destruction.
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by ballenf 4y ago
If the test was whether students are lazy then you'd be right. > The teacher has failed to either teach or formulate a test that meets reasonable expectations. I think there are potentially other explanations.

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