cabaalis

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by cabaalis 8y ago
Fake news may not be the correct term. Astroturfing? Either way, no need to attack the person asking the question.
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by cabaalis 8y ago
Spell checker setting did not appear on my S8.
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by cabaalis 8y ago
The end of this video appears quite stable. But there were tons of lengthy stable periods prior to that!
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by cabaalis 8y ago
I started my future career by writing text games in QBasic when I was 10. Then I graduated to graphics calls. I can't wait to show it to my son.
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by cabaalis 8y ago
Giving someone money or trust in exchange for a service or good is a straightforward relationship that implies various social contracts. Americans' relationship with government is far more adversarial.
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by cabaalis 8y ago
Mostly solved. Anonymized data sets can sometimes be de-anonymized if the conditions are right and external factors can be applied.
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by cabaalis 8y ago
I have a couple of side projects I've been slowly working on toward launch. I hate to say it, but I am indeed very inclined to simply block EU users until I can prove the economic viability of the products. There is no personal data in
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by cabaalis 8y ago
I've watched videos of police in other countries handling armed, definitely-a-threat suspects without using deadly force. Our police go to the gun first, period.
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by cabaalis 8y ago
I never quite understood why "y'all" is singled out as being said by "dumb" people. I've said it my entire life, as well as everyone I know. It's a word. It conveys an idea from the person who says it to t
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by cabaalis 8y ago
In my town there is super suppers which does just this. Buy meals you can freeze that you just drop in the oven.
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by cabaalis 8y ago
I am and know many conservatives. I don't see any "poor hate," though I don't argue it doesn't exist. Rather, it seems conservatives get upset at the idea of an unlevel playing field, i.e. creating policies that fav
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by cabaalis 8y ago
I understand what you mean, but how many great breakthroughs in history were where someone shared the foundation of an idea and then another formalized it?
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by cabaalis 8y ago
Because I think of an ISP as a carrier, and don't believe it's their business to inspect traffic between me and their client for the purpose of facilitating transmission.
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by cabaalis 8y ago
It seems many of the responses with comments base their arguments off of serving high-bandwidth users. The question, IMO regarding NN is: "Is all bandwidth equal, and therefore pricing based purely upon metering usage, or is some bandw
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by cabaalis 8y ago
I'm interested in doing something similar. Does the tablet have cell? What do do you when out and about, away from wifi, and need something? How do you carry the tablet around?
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by cabaalis 8y ago
Perhaps the functionality of from-anywhere control led them to make internet the only available connectivity. If you assume the service and connection will be always available, why put multiple receivers on the device? Seems the problem her
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by cabaalis 8y ago
> Lying at work is just about the only thing I'll always fire somebody for. I'd like to say I second this, but I have to weigh the value of the employee and the size of the lie. For instance, calling in "sick" the Mon
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by cabaalis 8y ago
No he was polite. I suppose I should restate, he didn't call me a fool straight out but let me know it was foolish to comment on things I had no firsthand knowledge of. I think it was an article regarding Steve's visit at Xerox PA
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by cabaalis 8y ago
On this very forum I had Alan Kay politely tell me I was a fool, and I thought it was great. I bragged to my developer friends, who also agreed that it was great. And that I was, indeed, a fool.
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by cabaalis 8y ago
> What does a "cloud" have to do with webservers? I've always assumed it had to do with the common use of a cloud to refer to the internet or other network on diagrams. With a cloud being used because it conveyed a sense o
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by cabaalis 8y ago
Controlling access to scarce resources, enforcing rights of individuals against infringement by others, protecting life and property are the main points that pop into my mind. It is true that they enforce these actions by creating and punis
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by cabaalis 8y ago
> Their whole job is to prevent crime. Not their whole job; I am of the mindset that a major purpose of government is to ensure liberty by ensuring order. To put any other mandate over that one would introduce nothing but social engineer
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by cabaalis 8y ago
Yes, which is why I said "facts" and not "the facts." There is the point of this situation, and the point of ignoring a person's informed opinion. I was discussing the latter.
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by cabaalis 8y ago
A person's credentialing does not make facts any less true.
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by cabaalis 8y ago
I don't think it's at all problematic for these devices to state "Hello, I am an automated assistant calling on behalf of $(name). I'd like to book a reservation for...."
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by cabaalis 8y ago
Thank you for the clarification. That makes sense, although I'm not 100% sure I agree that it doesn't need the information to function. It could be de-identified for the individual, sure. But to actually use the service you need t
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by cabaalis 8y ago
Using strictly my interpretation of what I read above, if the person decides not to allow their information to be used by the service, the service is not allowed to deny them use. That's the part I think is an issue, and of course I ma
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by cabaalis 8y ago
American here; I just don't quite understand the premise. "Here is what you are giving us, and here is what you're getting in return" seems perfectly legit to me. If this interpretation of the law is correct, then the go
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by cabaalis 8y ago
It is a tragedy. But the question asked is "Why is this news?" and that's the question I will put my 2 cents worth in. It's news because it has the word Tesla directly in the headline. It's news because I clicked on
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by cabaalis 8y ago
Try electronic music, or on Spotify there is a "deep focus" playlist. On YouTube and Spotify there is "No Copyright Sounds" which is also this kind of music. I play this stuff all day at work. It sets a tone and keeps th

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