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by deadowl 11y ago
Thoughts: * Standards of living are variable, and especially so between different social classes. * Debt requires someone to earn more money than they would otherwise need to in order to meet the same standard of living as someone without d
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by deadowl 11y ago
It seems more of an effort to retain people working on the project that fall into the protected categories, and losing those people is a real possibility if someone else's negative attitudes get back to them, regardless of whether they
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by deadowl 11y ago
I've read a grand total of two of those. Working Effectively with Legacy Code seems like it would make for a good read.
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by deadowl 11y ago
Well, I suppose you could argue either way, but I think it's a better question in the sense that humans are going to be used as a control group by most people that follow pop science, and they're going to make assumptions that hum
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by deadowl 11y ago
Better question is whether humans are capable of self-recognition without false positives/negatives.
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by deadowl 11y ago
> Also, fraudulent payments/chargebacks are non-existent, so some costs are even reduced That's a farce. Someone can take control of someone else's bitcoin wallet. Then there's the question of refunds and when you can
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by deadowl 11y ago
I've stated elsewhere in the thread that there would need to be privacy protections, e.g. require Google or anyone using biometrics to be HIPAA compliant, make it opt-in only, but if anyone is actually going to implement this, medical
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by deadowl 11y ago
Medical researchers?
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by deadowl 11y ago
If you combined this with multifactor authentication (e.g. fallback to a password for a 100% trust score), it could potentially match your change in biometrics against a diagnostics knowledge base and use any new data following to further t
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by deadowl 11y ago
Calling it a trust score instead of a confidence score was pretty stupid of them and lends to the whole creepy vibe mentioned in the title.
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by deadowl 11y ago
Well, I would say that vertically centering a thumbnail to the left of a block of text would certainly be easier with flex box. My previous solution would have been: .container { position: relative; } .thumbnail { position: absolu
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by deadowl 11y ago
Well, at least camel case is generally agreed upon. Meanwhile, I wonder if anyone anywhere takes advantage of the breadth of unicode support for variable names.
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by deadowl 11y ago
Known or hypothesized?
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by deadowl 11y ago
Probably should have included that. Meanwhile, reviewing my post it reminded me of my US History teacher in middle school telling me that the Conquistadors in the Americas were after the 5 Gs: Gold, Gold, Gold, God, and Glory. I listed five
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by deadowl 11y ago
Radians are superior IMO. Using degrees for measurement is archaic compared to radians, but I imagine whole arabic-numeral numbers are more familiar than PI symbols in the learning process at the point in life when most kids are first learn
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by deadowl 11y ago
I disagree. 1. We have time. Days are 24 hours, a multiple of 12. 2. We still have time. Hours are 60 minutes, a multiple of 12. 3. Yet more time. Minutes are 60 seconds, a multiple of 12. 4. We have circles. There are 360 degrees in a circ
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by deadowl 11y ago
Unless it's been cleaned up significantly, I don't really like the database that Urton has (as of ~2-3 years ago). It is a great resource, but I'd have to spend a few weeks trying to chew out the inconsistencies if I were to
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by deadowl 11y ago
I guess now the question is whether they can do it the majority of the time.
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by deadowl 11y ago
Really good way to prevent drunk driving: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignition_interlock_device I've also seen breathalyzers in some bars where you can check your BAC before going anywhere.
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by deadowl 11y ago
This article doesn't seem to be representative of its title. If you're going to ask that question, you have to make comparisons. I would probably say no, because until most of the web supports HTTP/2.0, there's no server
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by deadowl 11y ago
You talk about ethics like it is an entirely black and white concept. I would consider a lot of Facebook's practices unethical in comparison to my own set of ethics. There are ethical dilemmas, which are basically what most discussion
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by deadowl 11y ago
If only they did a release where that was the only change that broke backwards-compatibility with Python 2.
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by deadowl 11y ago
Weird that a guy with the know-hows to prepare for such a situation didn't survive.
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by deadowl 11y ago
Is this Facebook's future? After all, they're pretty much AOL 2.0 (2.0).
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by deadowl 11y ago
There's a melting pot effect, too.
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by deadowl 11y ago
I don't consider Wordpress's market penetration a plus, because it makes it a target. On the other hand, I made some money recently (unfortunately only for analysis rather than a solution) because a website that someone I know man
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by deadowl 11y ago
Meanwhile, I'm very disappointed in the expectation of abandonment of the email client I've been using for over 10 years.
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by deadowl 11y ago
They're now favoring Firefox branding over Mozilla branding?
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by deadowl 11y ago
This is what I'm not understanding about this. How in the world do you make the mistake of storing credential files in a repo? And this seems to be beyond people not making template files for configs. Then again, I don't know anyt
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by deadowl 11y ago
My initial interpretation of the title was that someone at Amazon had managed to purchase truck trailers for Amazon on Amazon.

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