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by blueboo 7y ago
I’ve never understood why all the centre-dash controls have, since time immemorial, been angled away from the driver. Radio control is one plausible compromise but defroster? Navigation?
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by blueboo 7y ago
High-brow pop science can be so precious. > Mathematical insights into how RNA helps viruses pull together their protein shells could guide future studies of viral behavior and function. Insights into virus behavior could guide studies o
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by blueboo 7y ago
It’s not just that oh, Amazon’s Choice is algorithmically picked from recommendations. It’s that seemingly more often than not, it’s a truly inferior choice to an option next to it in the displayed matrix.
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by blueboo 7y ago
There’s no indication that it started out as satire or ironic trolling.
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by blueboo 7y ago
Such an effort would cost literally millions of dollars and surely sink this fledgling startup
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by blueboo 7y ago
Indeed, like any management strategy, it can be done poorly, inadvertently incentivizing people to form shadow organizations, or it can be done well, encouraging people to engage in good faith and reaping the promised benefits. In practice,
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by blueboo 7y ago
anyone can be a writer; abolish media
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by blueboo 7y ago
> From the Salem witch trials to the Red Scare to the Harry Potter book burnings some how a master of nuance missed that one of these things is rather not like the other...
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by blueboo 7y ago
And mechanical keyboards make you type faster and gamer glasses make you aim better and a tincture of molybdenum in your star-water will cure your cold
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by blueboo 7y ago
I'm not sure you understand fairness. If the game is harder for everyone (in whatever metric suits you to contrive), it's just..harder
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by blueboo 7y ago
Fun, pays well, empowers the powerful, amplifies our biases, harms our society, makes life worse for the general populace
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by blueboo 7y ago
They suffer from uneven or inconsistent input-to-display latency. If Stadia can give everyone the same, (hopefully) modest amount of latency, the games remain as fair as they ever were
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by blueboo 7y ago
I don’t understand why anyone would choose to do this. If you have the knowledge to write a book that has demand, you could earn way more money and be treated better by putting those skills into practice in an engineering team. And if you
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by blueboo 7y ago
The tech sucked in real-world conditions
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by blueboo 7y ago
Our politicians are an expression of our political will. People don't care (enough to vote)
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by blueboo 7y ago
consumers who buy and use ten year old machines to read facebook and email their grandkids aren't going to install reactos
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by blueboo 7y ago
Indeed, when the alternative is the interpreter, the structure notebooks offer and the (loose) process they encourage makes for a vastly better solution for recording and capitalizing on your work.
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by blueboo 7y ago
And by precisely the same token, those people would loathe every minute spent with you. I'm not being flip. The super-rich and the plebs mostly don't mix at elite schools
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by blueboo 7y ago
Bad games are playable and “partially successful”. And given that the full game won’t be finished unless ever-more money is wrung outnfrom die-hard fans or naive newcomers - a brazen state of affairs that has dragged on so long that, yes,
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by blueboo 7y ago
> where they can continue and be evem more motivated, because now they have been censored. or demotivated, because they are fewer in number (most stayed on reddit) and have been censured and the ones who stayed -- now their radicalizing
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by blueboo 8y ago
It's not complicated: Overly-broad rules + selective enforcement = yes, targeted crackdown
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by blueboo 8y ago
Some of your frustration reflects how the use of "exploits" in the headline is, for lack of a better word, problematic. In the tech news context, "exploit" has the connotation (if not denotation) of a hack or bug being
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by blueboo 8y ago
...says Axios, an outlet infamous for obsequious coverage of the wealthy and well-connected. In Tech, Microsoft is old money, thus this puff piece. Just this year Microsoft's Outlook service had a massive breach, leaking ~800 million
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by blueboo 8y ago
It also should be noted that Trustpilot itself is horribly gamed and its ratings should never be taken as a signal for trust. It can be useful if you think other ratings have been manipulated (i.e., Yelp) and you find it has a peerless Tru
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by blueboo 8y ago
Yikes. Up 10% over 40 years!!... quite the antidote to my so-called cherry-picking.
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by blueboo 8y ago
And the tide comes in and out every day Meanwhile in the non-facile analogized real world, real wages haven’t budged in 40 years https://www.epi.org/publication/understanding-the-historic-d...
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by blueboo 8y ago
huh? switching distros for a theme?
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by blueboo 8y ago
one of those things can solve all the others
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by blueboo 8y ago
Work is work
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by blueboo 8y ago
> Security people see shit like this all the time At incompetent startups with no expertise in security > found a raw request log, which inevitably contained... But the existence of the log is not inevitable! Is it so inreasonable to

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