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by ballenf 6y ago
I got a chuckle out of Apple M1 chip touting having shared video memory as a big step forward. (Which it is, but is still amusing to me how it might have sounded like a groundbreaking innovation to a layperson.)
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by ballenf 6y ago
The device was not at all if that's what you meant. He got friends help to get the devices placed at different homes. Some of his "friends", however, staged thefts and didn't tell him. He pulled that footage within hours
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by ballenf 6y ago
I think he just tries hard to market his content to a very broad market unlike many science/engineering Youtubers. I would enjoy content from him that doesn't have that feeling of being watered down, however.
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by ballenf 6y ago
I think it's in ARM's self-interest that Apple doesn't run away with this market. Apple doesn't generate any revenue for ARM or it's a fixed amount, right? That would mean ARM has a strong incentive to promote non-A
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by ballenf 6y ago
> I have personally spoken with scores of people who will (for example) express displeasure over Ubisoft's culture of sexual abuse, and not blink an eye when it came time to purchase Assassain's Creed: Valhalla. Or of Rockstar&
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by ballenf 6y ago
The parent was speaking about conceptual frameworks, not legal ones. I think we can agree that free speech laws from a couple centuries ago cover fewer and fewer relevant types of public discourse. We disagree on whether that's a good,
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by ballenf 6y ago
You also have the non-zero risk of the site shutting down. Predict-It's been around a long time now, but I still wouldn't wire them more than I could afford to totally lose. 4% on what I can afford to lose really isn't worth
728.
by ballenf 6y ago
On the contrary, I think we'll look back on this era and be sad about how we swung between extremes and lost the middle ground. Lost the concept of redemption and the understanding that most people are not one-sided and can be both for
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by ballenf 6y ago
Ironically, plastics and other hydrocarbons now substitute for many of the uses of lead: pipes, paint, gasoline additives, etc. So to say we should have moved slowly to plastics would probably mean lead would have been around for a lot long
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by ballenf 6y ago
The article does NOT mention heavy metals anywhere. Maybe implied. But instead it focuses on fear mongering like this gem: > “It is like having a cyborg baby: no longer composed only of human cells, but a mixture of biological and inorga
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Congress Sneaks Case Act, Felony Streaming Bill into Government Funding Omnibus(techdirt.com)
28 points by ballenf 6y ago|0 comments
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by ballenf 6y ago
> As an example, let’s take 2 coins that each have a bias of 75%. The ‘distance from unbiased’ for each coin is 0.25. We double that for each coin to get 0.5, then we multiply them together to get 0.125. Finally, we add 0.5 to get 62.5%.
733.
by ballenf 6y ago
For this to work, it would have to become illegal to use VPNs or even do anything on internet logged out. Also probably need to eliminate the address bar from the browser -- you can only get to sites from a search. Actually it wouldn't
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by ballenf 6y ago
Reddit and Twitter are toxic in large part due to the drive to accumulate fake internet points. Sqwok doesn't seem to have a voting system, so maybe it won't attract the type of person who likes to provoke others just for the endo
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by ballenf 6y ago
Just curious -- would it be that much harder to develop a vaccine that was itself contagious? Recipients would expel the vaccine in their own respiration?
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by ballenf 6y ago
What's the state of the art with regard to silent flying drones? Is it possible? As scary as these things look, a silent drone fleet would be truly terrifying. Imagine hiking along and turning around to that.
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by ballenf 6y ago
Go to settings/safari/advanced/website data. At least clearing there worked for me.
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by ballenf 6y ago
Or could just be impulse buyers on eBay.
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by ballenf 6y ago
And Home Depot / Lowes. Every small tool I look for is cheaper there than on Amazon. Often by 1/3 or more. Same brand or better in most cases. And also with free shipping.
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by ballenf 6y ago
This worries me. At least monthly, I will find a repository that is 5ish years old that is attacking some problem I'm dealing with. I may not interact with it, but I review the code and learn a lot. I guess Google will still index dorm
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by ballenf 6y ago
I get ads on GH homepage for open positions. They seem targeted to me or maybe I just notice the relevant ones.
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by ballenf 6y ago
Actually you just kind of convinced me of the opposite -- that there was nothing nefarious with Google+. Clearly these companies have a track record of getting out of non-core businesses where they don't have expertise and/or don&
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by ballenf 6y ago
The parent was questioning I think whether Google+ failing was a result of something like Google and Facebook dividing up the market and agreeing to stop competing. As crazy as it sounds, it makes as much sense as Google making so, so many
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by ballenf 6y ago
Three ways that I can think of quickly: 1. Ads cost more which raises the cost of doing business which raises the cost of goods. 2. It also makes certain borderline businesses infeasible -- there would be a whole class of businesses that do
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by ballenf 6y ago
The only service Google offers for free is showing ads. Everything else is just the vehicle used to improve or display those ads.
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by ballenf 6y ago
Finite State Morphology was mentioned in the comments and was new to me. It really does look much more useful than regular expressions at the expense of some verbosity. The way that FSM is inherently a forward/backward process seems su
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by ballenf 6y ago
I think the hardest part about running such "experiments" is ever knowing whether they were success or failures. Even here, we (and I doubt CDPR) don't know enough to really judge whether the tokens things helped or hurt. Or
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by ballenf 6y ago
It's a fair point. The enema company was the 2nd-4th entry everywhere except google's search product and Twitter didn't make the first page (again, except on goog). The only time I've heard fleet used outside the enema c
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by ballenf 6y ago
Since you seem persuaded by ends justifying means, realize that better business models are impractical because online surveillance is so easy and lucrative. One of the biggest changes correlated with the rise of web toxicity was the rise of
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by ballenf 6y ago
Just like fraud in any other contractual agreement. He said he'd not do X and then did X which resulted in his unjust enrichment and/or extra expense to the other side. Not saying it happened, but "you should have/could

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