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by cavanasm 9y ago
Part of this is that Uber was / is building a rider / driver base, and to do so, they accept losses on every ride. They were paying drivers more money than they were collecting in fares. It was an attempt to claim market share and
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by cavanasm 9y ago
There are a bunch of very popular web development frameworks where pretty much all the functionality comes from the javascript. Angular and React are some of the better known ones.
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by cavanasm 9y ago
No, liquidity is the market's ability to make a transaction with an asset without affecting that asset's price, not how easily it can be exchanged. Cash transactions are pretty much as liquid as it's possible for anything to
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by cavanasm 9y ago
America largely disproves this already. The highest proportion of net recipients of federal government benefits are from poor rural deeply conservative states that form a substantial part of the base of the Republican party, which has made
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by cavanasm 9y ago
Agreed. Even with service providers saying "we aren't trying to get rid of net neutrality", Pai himself has in numerous public forums said explicitly that he wants to get rid of net neutrality.
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by cavanasm 9y ago
I think grandparent was suggesting custom encryption algorithm (potentially less secure) to prevent use of a brute force approach that's custom made for a specific algorithm.
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by cavanasm 9y ago
All discussions of killer whales (which inevitably include Blackfish now) remind me of that Phoenix Wright case where he defends a killer whale accused of murder (Spoiler alert: the real killer was a person!).
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by cavanasm 9y ago
ESRB (games rating system) is the same way. Almost no physical retailers will carry NR (Not Rated) or AO (Adults Only) rated games as a matter of corporate policy. ESRB DOES clearly list whatever content caused the game to receive it's
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by cavanasm 9y ago
That's really the hard part, isn't it? Reputable known reviewers identified at personal discretion? My problems with most award shows is that nominations are essentially purchased.
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by cavanasm 9y ago
While I also strongly disagree that Netflix's originals are "mostly terrible", I also think that awards shows are not as objective a judge of quality as I (and I imagine many others) would like.
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by cavanasm 9y ago
I recently started having to do a lot of shell work, and shellcheck has helped immensely. It was unfortunate that there was no precompiled version of GHC for my OSX version on homebrew though, so it took 5 hours to build GHC. I ended up tur
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by cavanasm 9y ago
Unless the ramp-up isn't actually planned or policy oriented. It could very well be simply related to feelings among agents that they're allowed to do more. I will grant that ramp down takes immense work, considering the head of C
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by cavanasm 9y ago
They're classified...if the guy who discovered they were publicly revealed on accident had actually provided them to the Intercept, he would certainly have lost his job, and likely ended up in prison.
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by cavanasm 9y ago
I wonder how many other tech companies fit into this general category of "providing an equivalent to a regulated service without meeting the regulations". You've got the more obvious "sharing economy" type things wh
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by cavanasm 9y ago
Somewhat confusing bit brought up by this blog post: it claims the previous similar case (grad student Matt Charest suing for royalties on a patent he worked extensively on but was cut out of) brought by this lawyer was a failure, while the
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by cavanasm 9y ago
That's Chicago based. They were actually secretly working for CPD Internal Affairs, and their CO (who knew of their side work for IA, but not who the subject of the investigation was) leaked it to everyone, which made it nearly impossi
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by cavanasm 9y ago
I think the term "redistribution" adds confusion to the issue. The idea behind a carbon tax like that is that polluters owe everyone else something (they're taking from tax payers in various ways: air quality, property value,
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by cavanasm 9y ago
It's interesting too, because in many countries, there's VERY strict patient confidentiality that would prevent the family of the donor from ever meeting recipients.
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by cavanasm 9y ago
I'm a junior developer in a "Scaled Agile Framework" (SAFe, apparently) team at a VERY big company, and although we never cancel our stand ups, the format seems to exclusively be for status updates / reporting, and not &
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by cavanasm 9y ago
I agree about the importance of keeping crypto secure, but I think the safe analogy is pretty apt (in situations without illegal stuff happening, which you seem to be implying). People can't understand encrypted data (at least, I'
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by cavanasm 9y ago
I think deterrence is fraught as an explicit goal for law enforcement / punishment of violations. I feel it lends itself too much towards a utilitarian "I'm punishing you to send a message to them" sort of situation wher
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by cavanasm 9y ago
I don't really understand why people would think Trump would be supportive of any kind of intoxicant. His older brother was an alcoholic and died before their dad (which depending on the source you're reading, had a big impact on
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by cavanasm 10y ago
I'm fully sighted, but the concept of visual free or visual agnostic games has been something I've wondered about for a while. I hadn't considered the viability of heavily menu based RPGs before, but reading about it, it seem
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by cavanasm 10y ago
I'm a young person with other young people friends. One such friend grew up in Shanghai. He had never heard of the Tiananmen Square student protests (and the resulting military intervention) until he came to the US for college and some
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by cavanasm 10y ago
Wikileaks doesn't collect intel whatsoever. They pretty much put up anything sent to them that they think is real (and that admittedly fits whatever editorial narrative is driving Assange at the moment). No one at Wikileaks is doing th
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by cavanasm 10y ago
I generally enjoyed Iron Fist, but I definitely felt it was slower paced than any of the other Netflix Marvel series. It really felt like they were staging things for the Defenders (whenever that ends up coming out, although I hope this yea
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by cavanasm 10y ago
Was it GameStop, or the store manager? I'd bet money the GameStop corporate HR people would have fired the guy on the spot if they heard about something like that. My own retail experience (big box office supply store) was so metrics d
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by cavanasm 10y ago
Is this a PoC bug bounty type of deal, or "here's a neat tool that can beat reCaptcha" type of deal? Seeing a bunch of comments about wanting a browser plugin that exploits this, but I'm wondering if that would be legal
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by cavanasm 10y ago
They disclosed the cloudflare issue after cloudflare confirmed that the issue was resolved (no additional data was being leaked). The fact that data existed from before then wouldn't have changed at any point for anyone who simply said
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by cavanasm 10y ago
I get "Collision found". Couldn't even begin to guess what's causing it to say it's safe on your end, unless you modified the files.

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