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by bosswipe 6y ago
Glass is more on the reusable side, which used to work great for soda and milk bottles until the companies decided plastic was cheaper.
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It's shocking to me that two jury trials spent months considering arguments from lawyers and experts from all sides and carefully came to a decision only to have the appeals court throw that all away and impose the opposite ruling, twi
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by bosswipe 6y ago
Sounds like you have good insurance so the real price is hidden from you.
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by bosswipe 6y ago
I don't think Swartz was an actual reddit co-founder. Wikipedia says pg gave him the title, whatever that means. People need to cool it with the conspiracy theories about everything all the time.
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by bosswipe 6y ago
Same, I just quit a job because of it.
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by bosswipe 6y ago
A launcher on Android is an app that starts other apps. The launcher app is displayed when you click on the Home button.
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by bosswipe 6y ago
Every blog? That's silly. People are allowed to have conversations about niche topics that you are not familiar with. You aren't the audience of every blog.
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by bosswipe 6y ago
He wasn't writing for you, he was obviously writing for people familiar with these algorithms.
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It was also the perfect moment in time. The .com gold rush was still in an early phase and the iphone hadn't yet happened. The tech industry is much more consolidated and mature now.
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by bosswipe 6y ago
Are there any professional epidemiologists advocating for natural herd immunity as a goal? I'm not an expert but what I've seen is them saying the opposite. Here's one example https://www.islandpacket.com/news
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by bosswipe 6y ago
I don't understand Larry Sanger's complaint about NPOV. If a neutral encyclopedia was required to list all minority points of view on every topic then nothing would be knowable. It wouldn't be able to say that the earth is ro
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by bosswipe 6y ago
Trump doesn't want another social network that he cannot control. Tiktok's young user are not his base. He wants to silence them. It's censorship of free speech right before the election. It is impeachable.
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by bosswipe 6y ago
Correct. The difference between Facebook and Tiktok is who can apply pressure and in what ways. For example many people believe that Trump's antitrust moves against Google are also political, different situation different techniques bu
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by bosswipe 6y ago
I think the real concern is that social networks can be used for mass political opinion manipulation. Algorithmic recommendations and deplatforming have become political battlegrounds and the power of the social media companies is recognize
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by bosswipe 6y ago
We in the US also thought the president was bound by convention to use it rarely. Trump has ignored the convention without any consequences.
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by bosswipe 6y ago
I've been suspicious of Trump's motivations on Tiktok ever since the story came out about teens using tiktok to disrupt a Trump rally in June https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/21/politics/tiktok-trump
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by bosswipe 6y ago
> Either volcanic and geothermal activity or meteoric activity are the only likely culprits. Another possibility is abrupt changes in the flow of large bodies of waters affecting ocean circulation causing climate changes. One hypotheses
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by bosswipe 6y ago
If I want to spend an hour researching this issue I'm not going to do so by reading this long diatribe from an admittedly biased conservative point of view.
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by bosswipe 6y ago
The over-the-top political attack on the 1619 Project, from Trump on down, has spread much more misinformation than 1619 Project itself ever could. Personally I had no idea that the American Revolution had any connection to slavery, so I
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by bosswipe 6y ago
Before Android Marshmallow the contact permission wasn't explicitly requested. Marshmallow became widely available in 2016.
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That's not a headline that's a paragraph.
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Ok maybe something like this makes my point better since it shows a town where we live and outside of town where we don't live https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/sites/default/files/u...
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by bosswipe 6y ago
We don't live on land that looks like this but it's destroying biodiversity anyway https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/general-view-t...
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by bosswipe 6y ago
I'm coming to the realization that there's almost no point in spending time on a lot of the things that I love about being a developer: learning new languages, studying best practices for your tech stack, reading software engineer
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by bosswipe 6y ago
Right. There are three types of authentication factors: something you know, something you have, something you are. Obscurity and passwords fall under "something you know". Biometrics like what you describe would fall under "s
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by bosswipe 6y ago
Changing the ssh port would still fall under security through obscurity whether its effective or not.
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by bosswipe 6y ago
So you want us to quit or be fired?
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by bosswipe 6y ago
"they" (who?) said that ppe was in short supply and should be reserved for medical personnel.
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Running the only app store and banning all others is less than free, it makes them piles of money in many ways.
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by bosswipe 6y ago
That's the narrative that one side of the ideogical divide went with. The other side blamed deregulation such as the removal of Glass-Steagal

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