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If you ask on the thievery forums they argue it is rightous and equivalent to the corporation minimizing their tax bill, at the significant cost to societies health and wellbeing, to enrich shareholders. It could be argued that they are cor
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The problem is sometimes mistakes happen in exam questions, from simple typos to impossible questions, etc. How is the student to know that this was a genuine question vs. a mistake?
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At what cost? If he didn't follow these artificial principles he would be much more widely known, spreading his message further and possibly making a difference in the fields he believes in most outside the tiny world of his closest re
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Brutalism is features before design. A cement tower block is an example in architecture. http://skimfeed.com is an example of a website that follows brutalist ideals. Early craigslist and early search engines are good examples
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What makes "our countrymen" so special and deserving over anyone else? Grow past the artificial box you were born in.
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Is this a "bug" we can recover from (in future hardware or software) or are we going to collectively take a lifetime -18 hit to our Moore's Law progress and lose the gains from this technique forever?
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"A few pleasures" is subjective, just like the value loss of untimely death. Also you'd be dead either way.
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Nobody discusses that this body and whole event could have been staged/fake/setup. Youtubers have done this before.
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Who decides the profiles?
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Placating the audiance before a potential lawsuit hits.
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Anyone who has tried AR on the iphoneX can see it will be huge. The tech is absolutely ready. The refresh rate and frametimes are locked in beautifully and it all feels silky smooth. Like a window into another world.
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Sniff implies sending. It's the scanned content transportation and destination that's the issue.
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Could be a "string" to hand the tree. Like a car air freshner.
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Provenance is the history/story of a piece, and it's a big value multiplier in the Art and Antiques world.
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And Telemetry that's difficult/impossible to remove.
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You can't anonymize data in transit since it requires a sender IP which makes the sent performance data susceptible to interception and analysis by intermediaries.
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> telemetry would include only basic, anonymised usage info to help them improve Firefox. This is unacceptable. Why can't I turn it off completely?
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[1] is fake news. [2] is a single professor from a low-tier university with the article intended to incite outrage and divide through inducing fear in the reader, which is what you felt. Please be more careful where you are sourcing your br
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If the universe is inside a black hole what's outside the black hole?
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Only at a distance. Failure to extend research into vector textures over bit textures in the 80s now means 3D objects look blurred when close up. A big deal in VR and AR applications.
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Humble bundles "mission" ended when they took VC. Now it's finding an exit for the highest ROI.
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If it's an accident the person is not a danger to society and we gain nothing by locking them away. What else would be a suitable punishment for this freshly minted felon?
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Any restreams that don't require a login? Edit found one: https://youtube.com/watch?v=sjOKx5yntC4
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It can't be "valued" higher. It's a token of exchange at an agreed price not an intrinsic return generating asset.
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Rational self-interested bots engineered to maximise shareholder value.
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It might be equivalent, even faster, but that was not the problem he suggested he was solving for.
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Don't do that. Your time is more valuable than the artificial micro-cent the wikimedia foundation will save.
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The goal is to keep you subscribed. Finishing a plot or series goes counter to that aim.
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The video game "Homefront: The Revolution" is the closest interactive experience of this situation.
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Can a "pattern recorded on a physical substrate" consent? What does this even mean?
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