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by dado3212 5y ago
> "I suspect," says Graham, "that there might be more carnivorous plants out there than we think" This is a pretty interesting closing idea. From the article it seems they were originally flagged to this by a genomic
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by dado3212 5y ago
Title is a little misleading. FB wanted better access through its incredibly sketch “VPN” spy app. While these are technically “its users”, the title seems to imply normal Facebook users as opposed to Onavo users.
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by dado3212 5y ago
Not sure that quoting Rick and Morty like it’s some kind of gospel is the best argument for education reform.
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by dado3212 5y ago
It’s true of any contentious content. The commenters who engage are usually the ones who want to push back against the main article (otherwise you just get a highly upvoted post with minimal comments because it’s hard to come up with a valu
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by dado3212 5y ago
Do you think it’s become harder to do that in the recent era? Are things like a filter app still taking off like IG did?
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by dado3212 5y ago
Google’s terminal level is L4. Not sure what happens if you’re not promoted in the given timeline.
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by dado3212 5y ago
You're basically evaluated according to L5 requirements. Given that you weren't promoted at that point, it's likely you're not performing at those requirements, and you'll be slowly managed out. More often as people
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by dado3212 5y ago
Didn’t fact checkers also reverse their opinions, which primarily backs FBs misinformation enforcement? I have a hard time personally squaring my desire to limit misinformation spread on social media (Holocaust denial, etc) with my lack of
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by dado3212 5y ago
> To opt out of opting in to receive marketing alerts avoid not clicking Yes This one got me pretty good.
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by dado3212 5y ago
Assuming all the underlying assumptions are correct, isn’t this still comparing apples to oranges? Bitcoin does around 250k transactions per day [1] compared to credit cards doing ~1 billion [2]. And Bitcoin will only get less efficient. [1
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by dado3212 5y ago
Yeah, this option exists and most people don’t take it. Pretty clear argument against this model.
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by dado3212 5y ago
Sounds a lot like https://xkcd.com/882/ .
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by dado3212 6y ago
This isn’t true, suicide isn’t zero sum. If you remove easy ways of committing suicide, that method drops substantially, but overall suicides ALSO drop. “ In the early 1960s, asphyxiation with domestic gas accounted for nearly half of suici
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by dado3212 6y ago
If you submit the URL thing through the bug bounty, FB will pay out.
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by dado3212 6y ago
This headline really implies that Huawei is just raising pigs in an entirely different industry, which just isn’t the case.
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by dado3212 6y ago
Isn’t that the case for most of the things that they kill? You’re just on the other side for this one.
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by dado3212 6y ago
Locked In by John Pfaff does a great job of discussing prison reform, and the fallbacks of common mantras (such as this one). He observes that "setting every drug offender free would cut our prison population by only about 16 percent..
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by dado3212 6y ago
How should these issues be caught without people submitting them to Google?
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by dado3212 6y ago
> Crossing the street in front of a car is a leap of faith, not troubling at all when there’s a human there, but a robot? There’s no body posture, no gestures, no facial expressions, nothing to go on. There’s a computer in control of a p
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Rename Desktop Spaces on macOS(github.com)
1 points by dado3212 6y ago|1 comments
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by dado3212 9y ago
I'd recommend adding README files to the public Github projects.