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deusofnull
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deusofnull
7y ago
Reminds me of "really bad chess", a version of chess that was released as a mobile app where you play with a randomized set of pieces. was a big hit, and definitely added some new dimensions to one of the oldest games, period.
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one of the most trivial annoying problems with switching between the two is the difference in how bookmarking works in FF vs chrome. I have to use chrome for work cuz of a security rule of questionable legitimacy (to me). in FF, you bookmar
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7y ago
I very much want to make a stephen hawkings pun but i guess technically he wasnt a quantum computing guy, but damn close
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7y ago
i <3 django. thank you to all the people involved!
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7y ago
Cant you do the same thing in regards to renewables?
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7y ago
Well then thats the trick. A legal research team that develops the form for as many sites as you could find, and then a mechanism to send that form filled with each users data to those sites.
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7y ago
Miami herald for the big story last spring that lead to a lot of this coming back up.
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7y ago
i imagine another factor to why explaining actions taken would be harder for a unconscious competent person is that the skill of explaining that action is a different one than performing it. but, in the same manner, that skill of explanati
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7y ago
Would be a great idea and I bet it could be successful, but maybe at a lower price point and using lots of automation of opt-out forms. As far as opting out of many credit reporting agencies, check out https://www.consumer.ftc.
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7y ago
if youre a smaller company making a product profitably and amazon sees this and duplicates your product to sell for less, they are able to do this only because of their gargantuan size. this only serves to further consolidate a market into
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7y ago
yeah, i think its mostly just a humorous title.
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Largely, I agree with you. Just pointing out the appearance of hypocrisy could lead to tension in this decisive time where we need to act now, as you say. A mixture of tariffs / investment could be used to get the goal most effective
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7y ago
remember like a decade back there was a instant messanger aggregator? it was called like, chatzilla or something, i forget. but in the logic of today's walled garden system of tech fiefdoms, would never happen without some regulatory
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7y ago
i believe the only NLP/ML stuff we really had was at the level of positive / negative sentiment analysis for social media posts, which as far as i know is pretty basic and mostly just involves dictionary checks for +/- words.
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7y ago
How about statehood for DC and Peurto Rico? Oceana too. As far as Cali goes, i think the plan would be to break Cali into as many pieces as you could with each new state retaining a major city (Sacremento, San Fran, San Diego, LA, idk Cali
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for a funny and informative recap of Adam Neuman's life leading up to the formation of WeWork, check out this episode from the Grubstakers podcast. Really, really wild the stuff this guy pulled and the bull it took to do so. https:&
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> How is China not a 1st world nation? Or not an advance economy? Whether or not you think China is a 1st world nation, a great deal of political logic in China evokes a historical animosity towards Western nations for actions during the
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I think anything like that is going to appear retroactively very hypocritical to any developing nation that finds itself under such carbon tariffs. A sort of reparation or settlement for western carbon output in the 20th century, which the
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I have an idea then, lets break up california into 6 smaller states [0]. oh wait, that would give the formerly californian democrats more federal power through the senate... woops. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six
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If the democrats were to become the single party of a 1 party state, you better bet the currently happening conflict between progressive / socialist and moderate / market democrats would result in a new 2 party system.
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7y ago
I personally have turned down offers such as this with regards to the NYPD so I am familiar. I didnt understand your original point, thought you were saying people should quit high paying tech jobs TO go work for the DoD. Sorry for the co
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Doesnt excuse it either way but do you believe the USA and its intelligence agencies doesnt conduct similar black hat cyber actions in China / Russia? That status quo is simply what modern espionage looks like and doesnt constitute ha
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So what are you suggesting then? that tech workers leave "high paying jobs" to work for the DoD? To what end? Exert military force against China? I'm not sure thats the right course of action, even though the 21st century alm
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I think that was the joke
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I worked for a company that had a "big data machine learning" product. Yeah, it was mostly elasticsearch aggregations.
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I've been trying to get my family to install signal for our family group chat to no avail... i feel signal is so much smoother than fb msgr, but no one outside my techie / ativist friend groups ever agree to even try it.
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7y ago
I currently have probably my best manager yet. She takes the time to actually understand what is going on from my perspective, and she does that for our whole team. Empathy. Moreso, she's also always coming up with new variations on
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You're right, Facebook is a broken company. Along that point, we should break it up.
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No, definitely not going to be using these new 'zuck bucks'. I think services like venmo or cashapp are fine, and also i dont particularly see a need for it to be a cyrptocurrency. tbh, i think all of this could be a publicity &#x
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in view of what you're asking about the development of technology, and whether or not civs tend to "peak out" around our current level, i think back to the drake equation* and the coefficients for the likelihood of intelligen
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