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Apple-Google contact tracing tool now usable without state-sponsored app(vox.com)
5 points by blahedo 6y ago|2 comments
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by blahedo 6y ago
> There's a lot of space in Montana, Wyoming, the Dakaotas, and we'll need more space for population there as we have to migrate north. The problem with the states you mention is that they're also very dry . Water will
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by blahedo 6y ago
Nearly two decades ago, in 2002, I remember being appalled at how slow money transfer worked. If I deposited my paycheck at my bank, it could take two or three days before that money was available (and my bank compounded the sin by inclu
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by blahedo 6y ago
"To help ensure these anonymous tokens can't be used to identify you or your location, they change every 10-20 minutes. ... On a daily basis, your phone downloads a list of all the anonymous tokens associated with positive COVID-1
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by blahedo 6y ago
Just off the top of my head, I was able to think of not just Puerto Rico and Taiwan, but also Palestine and Kosovo, as examples of "interesting edge cases" when it comes to sovereignty, national recognition, and Olympic participat
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New Zealand sets standards for government use of algorithms(theguardian.com)
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Four countries are accepting American travelers for remote-work trips(washingtonpost.com)
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by blahedo 6y ago
Anecdotal counterpoint: I too skipped three grades (early ones) and ended up in college at 15 (and then on to grad school at 19); and based on how I reacted to boredom even then I am deeply certain that if I hadn't been accelerated,
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by blahedo 6y ago
Anyone who has studied old-school AI will know that this is an incredibly ambitious project; it is essentially throwing itself at the problem of "knowledge frames", i.e. how to encode information about the world in a way that an
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by blahedo 6y ago
The thing that jumped out at me, and isn't explained in this article or the linked ones, is that all of the distress-related prowords are French and none of the others are. Specifically, they're French-derived but spelled as if i
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by blahedo 6y ago
> Cars are the only practical way to go where you want, when you want, how you want. This is more true in some areas than others. In a relatively dense city, with well-designed (and, crucially, frequent ) transit systems, a whole lot
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by blahedo 6y ago
Serious question: how? I had been a google avoider for years already when I upgraded to a smartphone, and a mandatory part of the setup was creating an @gmail for it, that I couldn't steer around or find an alternative to. I only use
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by blahedo 6y ago
> I started drinking coffee during puberty. So, I guess my brain is not just chemically hooked on it but actually neurologically developed around it. While I didn't pick up coffee until a little later, I started on caffeinated dri
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by blahedo 6y ago
boardgamearena supports a whole bunch of classic card (Hearts etc) and board games (Checkers etc).
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by blahedo 6y ago
I'm from the US, and I would never expect "feet" in a road sign or on a bike. For distances below a mile I'd expect "½ mile" or "¼ mile"—this is how they are almost universally marked on road signs a
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by blahedo 6y ago
I have a PhD in NLP (which is what we often call it on the CS side, but is almost synonymous with CL="computational linguistics" on the cognitive/linguistics side of the field). I remember a talk at our annual conference, we
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Facebook to warn users who ‘liked’ false coronavirus posts(chicagotribune.com)
2 points by blahedo 6y ago|2 comments
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by blahedo 7y ago
> founded on ... the endorsements of "an angry, misinformed mob" I started grad school at Brown in 1997 and I remember a talk there, by someone from Google or connected to it, about PageRank. PageRank was still new, Google
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by blahedo 7y ago
Also interesting about that photo: Five of the 25 have portrait-oriented video feeds. Tbh this may make more sense for this kind of thing (shows more of the person rather than more of the space they're in) but I'm thinking about
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by blahedo 7y ago
Possibly a Zoom background?
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by blahedo 7y ago
It was never valid for international flights. It is, however, valid as ID for domestic flights (and I have used it as such).
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by blahedo 7y ago
I mean, sure, if you have sick leave. The above comment is perhaps aspirational, but otherwise it is woefully ignorant of the sad, sad state of US healthcare for most of its residents.
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by blahedo 7y ago
If it's inactivated at only 30 degrees (86F), that suggests an unconventional combat strategy of just heating buildings to that temperature—that's basically a hot summer day. We're not talking an autoclave here.
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Hipmunk Says Goodbye(hipmunk.com)
2 points by blahedo 7y ago|0 comments
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by blahedo 7y ago
The most important thing I did to "ease" my pen grip was to stop using ball-point pens. They require a lot more pressure in order to put ink to paper than, say, a gel pen. My hands thank me!
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by blahedo 7y ago
$0.10 is a tricky choice (in the US) because it's not compatible with the next denomination up ($0.25). If anything like this ever happens, we could round either to the nearest $0.05 or the nearest $0.25, but not easily in-between.
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A high schooler keeps scooping news outlets’ Iowa polls(chicagotribune.com)
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Most of Deadspin staff resigns in protest(ftw.usatoday.com)
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by blahedo 7y ago
It certainly did not. System 6 (including MultiFinder if you had enough RAM to support it ;) was active for several years in the early 90s before System 7 came out. The label "MacOS", meanwhile, didn't show up until a few y
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by blahedo 7y ago
> relatively intact Yes, although a mix of incentives and force has moved nearly all of the people into towns and cities at this point, and in fairly recent memory. I remember when Atanarjuat came out twenty years ago the talk was tha

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