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by davidwitt415 7y ago
Regarding #2, I don't know who the 'Lots' are you are referring to, but I do know people who were OG Friends of Metallica, as in they were at the Metallica Mansion when Cliff Burton auditioned and full circle, invited to join
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by davidwitt415 7y ago
FYI, it's also a crime to lie to the FISA court and to lie under oath to Congress. The FBI did both, as did other members of the security state, most notably John Brennan and Jim Clapper. If we are a nation of laws not men then those i
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by davidwitt415 7y ago
I read The Verge daily, and generally like what they do, but they are definitely working the outrage factor for eyeballs. Today's editorial from Casey Newton is a another data point: He tries to drag Slack into the controversy by claim
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by davidwitt415 7y ago
Imo, they are not really trying for the Consumer market right now, and these units are aimed at Developers, who are needed to create content for the platform. Kinda big point that was skipped over in the article, but it still paints ML into
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by davidwitt415 7y ago
What they are referring to more than likely is not the technology, but the business case. AR has more compelling / lucrative use cases than VR. While everyone is waiting for the killer Consumer VR app, Enterprise AR is blowing up.
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by davidwitt415 7y ago
I wonder how the equation would change if flex/remote options were available, eg. telecommuting 1-2 days/week. Imo the 5 days a week commuting grind is much more debilitating that 3-4 times a week. Going meta, the inertial insiste
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by davidwitt415 7y ago
Extremely relevant to Wikipedia's finances, since my framing was why I am not contributing to Wikipedia anymore. People deserve to know what they are funding. Also not helping your cause, you had to try to negate my argument with a fal
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by davidwitt415 7y ago
Good for them, this is as it should be handled. Someone should send this article to the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) board, as their CEO, Marcy Wheeler was found to have lied about her background in a simila
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by davidwitt415 7y ago
As someone who has contributed regularly to Wikipedia over the years, I stopped recently due to another cancer that Wikipedia has, called 'Philip Cross.' Supposedly an individual, he has made roughly 150,000 edits since 2013 witho
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by davidwitt415 7y ago
'The system that permits them' is far too passive a voice, because the rich have aggressively gamed the system and rigged it to their advantage. The IRS is badly outgunned by armies of accountants and lawyers playing shell games a
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by davidwitt415 7y ago
Mirror check on 'intense nationalism' - how many Americans supported or still support unlimited US military actions around the globe, not to mention CIA buggery? How has democratic activity slowed this down in any meaningful way i
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by davidwitt415 7y ago
They probably used AI to generate the new name :()
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by davidwitt415 7y ago
Haxe can output Javascript. The utility in Haxe is really in being able to target multiple platforms. I work in mobile/embedded so that's where i'm coming from.
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by davidwitt415 7y ago
Former Flash/AS Designer/Front-end Dev here with a couple of thoughts; Timeline animation is the most obvious feature of Flash to most people, and it was also the reason why so many Devs hated Flash. This niche is for Animators, a
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by davidwitt415 7y ago
Bollocks. As Matt Taibbi correctly noted, a CIA whistleblower would only be a whistleblower if he were to expose malfeasance within CIA activities.
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by davidwitt415 7y ago
The continuity was in foreign policy. Obama, like GW Bush and Clinton, deferred to the 'Deep State' on foreign policy, military and security matters. He started out idealistic, but was quickly subsumed. Trump has bucked the System
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by davidwitt415 7y ago
Rio Tinto has been widely criticised by environmentalist groups for its mining activities. Opposition to the company focuses on its mining methods due to environmental degradation, the company's coal operations for their contribution t
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by davidwitt415 7y ago
For home automation usage, Voice UI doesn't need to be in the cloud. Does anybody here have any experience using Mycroft AI or other local solutions?
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by davidwitt415 7y ago
The Houthi claimed responsibility, for starters. Also, as noted by Scott Ritter, 'there is the largest concentration of modern air defense radars in the Persian Gulf oriented toward Iran, and not one detected and tracked these launches
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by davidwitt415 7y ago
Apropos to the Noam Chomsky 'Manufacturing Consent' thread, the USG and Corporate Media have enshrined the false narrative that this was an Iranian attack. While Iran is supporting the Yemenis, independent military analysts agree
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by davidwitt415 7y ago
Wired's cheerleading style is beyond tedious at this point. They take it as a given that Dyson had designed a 'revolutionary electric vehicle,' a safe ploy as nobody has seen it. Yet, it would indeed take a LOT to be a '
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by davidwitt415 7y ago
Windows CE and Ipaq. I created mobile tour apps for museums like the Louvre, LA County Museum, SFMOMA and the Whitney that successfully served tens of thousands of people daily in the mid/late 2000s.
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by davidwitt415 7y ago
What is missing here is the Big Picture: trading activity has totally decoupled from value creation, and technology has sped up the process exponentially. These are not investors, they are speculators, and it is creating a form of technical
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by davidwitt415 7y ago
Oh please. The Russiagate theory about the 2016 election has been completely debunked. The largest PR campaign has really been the gaslighting of the American public over the past 3 years by the Democratic Party to distract from their utter
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by davidwitt415 7y ago
Apple was not first with 3D Touch, Android had it since Eclair in 2009. https://pocketnow.com/force-touch-android-has-had-that-for-y... Apple's version is novel and more robust. What doomed both is the uneven implement
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by davidwitt415 7y ago
"I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren’t voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their l
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by davidwitt415 7y ago
FYI Site Blocked by our corp network admin for some reason..
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by davidwitt415 7y ago
While I appreciate the overall critique, the author is really misrepresenting what HCD is by referring to it out of context, far beyond what is was originally meant for by its originator, Alan Cooper. As a thought experiment, try replacing
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by davidwitt415 7y ago
Their i3 isn't even an electric car, it's a hybrid with a petrol engine (range extender). Not true, there are two models, one with range extender, one pure EV. It's fair to assume he had the pure EV since he didn't inclu
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by davidwitt415 7y ago
Given that Tyre is in the South of Lebanon, it is likely that his friends were making anti-Israel posts. It would be very interesting to see what the posts were, if they were really subversive or just promoting BDS - Boycott, Divest, Sancti

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