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by deftnerd 7y ago
I'm particularly interested in some kind of overview of what your goals were, what you learned in the process, and what was particularly successful or unsuccessful. I've had similar aspirations before but without a strong backgrou
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by deftnerd 7y ago
For optimization, I would just make it easy to remove the payment process and selecting the fuel grade. Everytime a car drives up, use a camera to determine their license plate number. If they are a new customer, ask them if they want to sa
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by deftnerd 7y ago
If you don't care about your transgressions, the public won't care either or you will weather the PR storm. They're been spot on about that.
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by deftnerd 7y ago
Oddly enough, ca-central-1 is in Montreal... even further east than their Ohio and Virginia data centers. https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/ Scroll down to AWS Global Infrastructure Map
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by deftnerd 7y ago
Looks like they're getting closer to using hCaptcha rather than ReCaptcha [1] for the Privacy Pass service, which could be a trial of hCaptcha before rolling it out on all of the verification pages. https://blog.cloudflare.c
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by deftnerd 7y ago
Flat subscription of $10 a month for the app store. Once a month, your phone tells the store what percentage of time you spend in apps from that store. Firefox has 40% of your time? They get $4.
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by deftnerd 7y ago
I wonder what criteria is used to determine "the most operationally optimal seat in the restaurant". If it's a standard formula that most agents use because it's tried and true, then it could be viable to bug one or two
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by deftnerd 7y ago
Basically, but I would consider checking with your legal council on the exact terminology that you use to make life easier :-)
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> The relevant question isn't really why religion is declining in the US, but why it hasn't declined sooner. It's possible that religion is treating the symptom of another problem. Assuming someone religious attends an org
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by deftnerd 7y ago
Those are some excellent points. You know how some people have pointed out that McDonalds wasn't in the food business, it was in the real estate business to franchise owners? They often hold prime real estate locations. The Post Office
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by deftnerd 7y ago
Even if it does descend into a flame war at some point, I feel that it's interesting to observe people's viewpoints. Personally, I'm not religious and I tend to view the tech world through that filter. I forget that some tech
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by deftnerd 7y ago
I'm not personally religious, but it always struck me as odd that modern churches don't take more of an socially progressive activism role. The historical Jesus was quite the rabble-rouser, activist, and not conservative in the le
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by deftnerd 7y ago
Some side effects of this that are worth thinking about... As churches see less membership, at some point congregations merge and one church is shut down. Many churches do outreach and provide services to the community, the poor, and the ho
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by deftnerd 7y ago
I suppose, but they did say that they accounted for health and lifestyle factors, so I'm pretty sure that means that it's another cause they hadn't pinned down at the time of the study. From what I understand, the current the
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by deftnerd 7y ago
Oh, here's a random idea that might integrate with your business model. Some companies like to offer profit sharing. You could support that by allowing the company to issue a token of some kind to employees on a regular basis as part o
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by deftnerd 7y ago
I imagine that one of the difficulties is that a woman who gets pregnant and doesn't want to have the child finds that the process of pregnancy and birth is very difficult financially. It increases expenses, and decreases available tim
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by deftnerd 7y ago
I'm having a hard time understanding why someone with HIV or a disability would still be excluded. The US has pretty strong protections for people with disabilities, which makes me feel like we're supposed to honor and include tho
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by deftnerd 7y ago
You already mentioned payroll and vendors, so I think you're already thinking of what I'm about to suggest... and then I might try to talk you out of it. When I think of business cryptocurrency financial stuff, I also think of tho
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by deftnerd 7y ago
"One particularly disturbing study, published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism in 2007, indicated that men’s testosterone levels plummeted 17 percent from 1987 to 2004—and that’s controlling for health and lifest
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by deftnerd 7y ago
It kind of makes sense to me with some further caveats to the analogy. If you think of the ant as a 2 dimensional creature living on a two dimensional surface of the balloon, the expansion is occurring in 3 dimensional space. The two-dimens
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by deftnerd 7y ago
There might not be atmosphere, but lunar dust is notoriously abrasive and also "sticky" because of electrostatic charge. Those are serious issues that would have to be resolved before an investment in a telescope should be made.
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I think the United States Web Design System might fit in that category. It's made by the US Digital Services, and describes itself as "A design system for the federal government. We make it easier to build accessible, mobile-frien
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by deftnerd 7y ago
That's an odd position to take. I purposefully make my primary account a non-administrator and elevate permissions with my administrator account when I need to perform administrative tasks. This prevents scripts or programs from misusi
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by deftnerd 7y ago
To open the home page? True... But to view search results? I get captcha demands from google all the time depending on the search query (sometimes a query I make looks like something a bot might supply, like searching for a few IP addresses
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by deftnerd 7y ago
This reminds me a lot of the cancers attributed to HPV, a common virus. The researchers who discovered that link have likely saved millions of lives. Almost every instance of cervical cancer is attributed to HPV. 70% of throat cancers, 90%
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by deftnerd 7y ago
I have one of the variants of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, a genetic condition that changes how collagen proteins are folded. The results of the condition vary wildly depending on how specifically the proteins fold, but in my case it's pret
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by deftnerd 7y ago
I would like to see Firefox make the choice of which DoH provider to use as easy as they make changing addressbar search engines. Its easy to change from Google to DuckDuckGo on that preference page. A similar user accessible option to chan
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by deftnerd 7y ago
I moved recently and let my ex keep my network gear and went with the default Spectrum cable modem and WiFi access point. The new modems not have user-facing access pages to check connection status and signal levels. Additionally the bundle
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by deftnerd 7y ago
For a comedic version of this concept, check out the fake infomercial "Live Forever as You Are Now" (1) Great example of the promise of virtual immorality done badly with bad software (1) https://youtu.be/xg29TuWo0
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Sadly, our system of infrastructure funding is predicated on increasing populations and growing tax bases. A population decline would result in bankrupt cities and even worse infrastructure problems. With a future of climate-induced migrati

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