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14y ago
I don't see this as a bad thing as the more relevant you can make ads, the more useful they are to the user, the more advertisers will bid and the more publishers (websites) will earn. Having complete strangers scrutinize, classify, parce
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I could see patenting the process to extract the sequence, process it, sequence it, etc. but I don't understand how the sequence itself can be patented. Taking the notion to its logical and absurd extreme, would such a patent mean that al
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14y ago
According to the whois[1], yes. [1] https://www.networksolutions.com/whois-search/browseryoulove...
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14y ago
If history serves as an example, the Syrian government is desperate and on the verge of collapse.
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I'm glad I switched to a more customer-friendly ISP.
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If search engines could neither index these sites for free nor leave them out of the index, the German law would be amount to little more than extortion.
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14y ago
Grab gun, aim at foot; getting purged from Google ( et al ) will not help a news site's bottom line.
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Given the location and history of England, English is probably the biggest mutt of the Indo-European family.
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Dishonesty is not more preferable than incompetence.
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Smug theists should read more science.
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14y ago
the "proprietary video encryption" algorithm: for the first 15kB, each 1kB block has its initial bytes xor'd with the string "RANDOM_STRING". Any minimally competent developer could have implemented this particular design during, and for
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Maybe we should just stop killing each other.
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Please, if anything commend the dear fellow, and shame on whoever considered a momentary glimpse of Google Plus limelight worth making this guy's Tuesday morning and ongoing professional reputation much harder earned than it otherwise migh
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14y ago
Still mission creep, though.
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14y ago
Thanks, but I rent :)
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14y ago
Which diminishes my point not a bit.
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14y ago
they have the worst possible state government of the union Must be all the rich people that live here; they ruin everything!
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Note to self: move to higher ground/buy a canoe.
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I love this guy's videos, and this one's no different.
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What part of choosing answers created and selected by someone else do you consider to be critical thinking?
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We haven't taught critical thinking in (US) schools for at least 30 years. It's all about standardized test scores now; fill-in-the-bubble rather than fill-in-the-blank.
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14y ago
Yes, I read the whole article, and the article about how he doesn't like being his mom's guardian. He views it more along the lines of "stupid government" rather than "women are not property."
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$12.8 billion constitutes less than 1% of the EU's average budget outlays over a 3 year period. The notion that cutting space spending in this economy will have any meaningful and positive impact on government debt is silly.
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Wow. The author never even asks whether requiring adult women to obtain permission to travel is right or wrong, he just points out how less onerous the electronic version of subjugation is (no need to worry about forgetting your papers la
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Anything's possible when you have billions of dollars and an army of scientists.
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French cyber-spooks claim US spied on the President of France
(telegraph.co.uk)
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Perhaps it ought to be?
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Maybe. Plus waves so strange that we haven't invented a word for them yet. Space is big and weird; we'll never be bored!
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imagine the mysterious compression waves we'll find out there :)
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The bad reputation they/we get is almost entirely due to the (comparatively) low rent. Our client base consists of the poor, students, and people with mental or substance-abuse problems (who tend to be very poor indeed.) Those tenants with
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