darpa_escapee

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by darpa_escapee 7y ago
> His girlfriend is trying to make the system useful for communicating both great and terrible service while everyone else has gamed it down to a reporting mechanism. His girlfriend is right and everyone else is wrong. However, Uber do
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by darpa_escapee 7y ago
Open source software is just software. That is to say it is just as secure, or insecure, as any other available software. The open source model, however, allows for incremental improvements, patching, security updates and auditing from the
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by darpa_escapee 7y ago
> When people start killing each other, or letting their lives fall apart around them, just so they can spend more money on another cute girl in Fate GO, then I'll let you make that analogy. Gambling, video game, and internet addi
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by darpa_escapee 7y ago
> “Feminists keep divorced dads from seeing their kids” was a favorite—it would seem as if I’d actually considered his perspective. Except that feminism actively derides both the gender norms that say mothers are better caregivers and
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by darpa_escapee 7y ago
> But 8-9 hours of sleep nightly - my guess would be that people who get only 7 hours of sleep tend to be more successful, have jobs and families, and access to health care. Whereas those sleeping 10 hours a night are less likely to hav
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by darpa_escapee 7y ago
I'm very capable of reading the article, and have. If you had read and comprehended my post, and the post I responded to, you would have seen that the OP was taking offense to the idea that taxi drivers were protesting Uber. Having r
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by darpa_escapee 7y ago
> Sorry but if taxi drivers are committing suicide due to losses on medallion value, they should be protesting city hall, not Uber. Taxi drivers aren't protesting, it's the ride-share drivers who are protesting. Ride-share dr
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by darpa_escapee 7y ago
Plenty of people make donations for reasons of prestige, legacy and even genuine care, which have nothing to do with making sure their kid gets into a certain school.
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by darpa_escapee 7y ago
> If your children aren't academically talented and you don't have the money to publicly buy a building for the school you should accept that and just let them live off your money and power as is traditional. The tradition is
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by darpa_escapee 7y ago
Endocrine disruptors are used throughout agriculture[1]: > Food is a major mechanism by which people are exposed to pollutants. Diet is thought to account for up to 90% of a person's PCB and DDT body burden. [1] https:/&#x2F
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by darpa_escapee 7y ago
Corporations come in and buy farms that are underwater and then lease them to their previous owners. So farmers are working "their land", but aren't working for themselves and they have rent payments to make.
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by darpa_escapee 7y ago
If you're working on a gig platform, you're at the mercy of the platform itself. Since you aren't the paying customer, and the client is, platforms' incentives rarely inline with those of workers.
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by darpa_escapee 7y ago
Last time I played around with QML, it was basically Javascript.
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by darpa_escapee 7y ago
> While this is true, at least the part about fake reviews being pervasive, the fact is that I don't trust any reviews on a retailer's website anymore, especially those that aren't verified purchases, and the only retail
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by darpa_escapee 7y ago
I get free shipping from Walmart.com and AliExpress, the latter of which 90% of electronics on Amazon are sourced from. Walmart offers free 2 day shipping and in-store pickup. AliExpress offers the same items on Amazon without having to giv
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by darpa_escapee 7y ago
Predatory pricing is still predatory if a human does it or if a giant Rube Goldberg machine does it.
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by darpa_escapee 7y ago
I always saw it as a compile target for higher level languages. As in, unless you're interested in working on compilers or web applications that need low-level optimizations on the client-side despite existing WebAssembly compilers, yo
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by darpa_escapee 7y ago
I once spent time backpacking and had the opportunity to stop in the city. The amount of people who assumed I was transient, and the way the treated me based on that assumption, was astounding. I don't see how a homeless person would b
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by darpa_escapee 7y ago
There's a gulf between publishing some basic statistics and blasting the specific details of all unsuccessful terrorist attacks that were thwarted. Surely those statistics can be verified by, say, the House Committee on Homeland Securi
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by darpa_escapee 7y ago
Perhaps we should submit travelers to regular cavity searches, because I know someone who would smuggle contraband (including phones) into jail through a certain orifice.
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by darpa_escapee 7y ago
> lifting small dumbbells is probably useless. Depends on what your goals are. If your goal is improved health, any type of exercise that gets your heart rate going is better than doing nothing at all. If your goal is building habits an
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by darpa_escapee 7y ago
> But in fact, Uber does have a massive moat -- its network of drivers and riders in thousands of cities around the world. No competitor is even close. Their platform is a commodity to both drivers and riders. I haven't met a driver
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by darpa_escapee 7y ago
I'm noticing more chains offering delivery, I wouldn't be surprised if McDonald's is next.
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by darpa_escapee 7y ago
If the forest is a national park or otherwise federal property, it does.
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by darpa_escapee 7y ago
The only reason I use macOS is battery life. I pine for Linux, it made development a breeze.
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
> I'd suggest people learn how to do plumbing and electrical work This might be a solution for some people, but it's not a long term solution for everyone. As people age, their bodies deteriorate. An injury might put someone
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
From the CDC[1]: > In fact, as many as 60% of all communicable diseases and 75% of emerging infectious diseases of people originated with animals . 60% and not 2/3, but that's memory for you. [1] https://wwwnc.cdc.g
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
Maemo was great. I still have an N770 and N810 kicking around.
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
Palm/HP Pre. Coming up on a decade since it was released, and it's still the best phone I've ever owned. Too bad about Palm and HP, though.
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by darpa_escapee 8y ago
80% of the antibiotics consumed in the US are used in animal agriculture[1]. 2/3 of infectious diseases in humans have animal origins. Along with horizontal gene transfer, antibiotic misuse in agriculture is overwhelmingly responsible

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