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by dexen 8y ago
re-post of my earlier post: > I'm not sure why companies over-list [job requirements] . It's not companies, it's the individuals. Consider this: in a corporate environment, a person that is responsible for hiring but that
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> The solution to fines is to simply get rid of fines and instead use a more aggressive "point" system. The points system disproportionately advantages the working poor. Speaking from experience, we have a mixed points+fines[1
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Myth or not, the technology's been around for some years[1] [2], and there's a profit to be made from matching consumers and advertisers. One doesn't really need to run voice analysis, just pick a keyword[3] every now and the
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by dexen 8y ago
> I'm not sure why companies over-list. It's not companies, it's the individuals. Consider this: in a corporate environment, a person that is responsible for hiring but that is not a stakeholder in the success of any pa
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by dexen 8y ago
Please, let's not get hyperbolic here. No fascists are coming, and let's not support any such for any reason. Having said that, the most pressing problem with authoritasianism and empire building is the EU itself. For the sake of
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by dexen 8y ago
>would imply that there is no problem with the government just confiscating everything I am unhappy you condensed my points down to something akin "taxation is theft mkay". On the point of taxation (of which import/export
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by dexen 8y ago
You are mixing the analogies here, thus the confusion. Unlike in war , the tariff 'war' casualties is either money being transferred between countries in different direction than per the usual, or more money paid as import/e
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>not that long ago, old-guard public utility companies [had reams of money] Back then the phone service was rather expensive as compared to present day - especially long distance calls. Til very recent Google was free for most users; cur
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While you raise very good points overall, this one I have beef with: >SSDs that encrypt the drive with a key that doesn't depend on the password AFAIK, this is the standard practice in software harddrive/filesystem encryption -
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Location of large mystery source of banned ozone depleting substance uncovered(spacedaily.com)
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> black holes are the physics equivalent of a cryptographic mixing function chuckle OpenSSL Changelog.txt: v5.1.0 released on 2172-03-21: - ... - add support for Sagittarius A* message digest - ...
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> Blocking at the DNS level and routing level is technically a breach of the contract with the customer, (...) A salient point. Throw in "False advertising", because they advertise providing providing Internet access but ins
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> The proper thing to do for Gab.com is to become their own domain registrar ...and payment processor & bank, and hosting provider, and internet access provider. Still could be blocked on DNS resolution level and IP routing level, s
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> the news sites will be forced to give Google (and others) a free license to link to their content. The insidious thing - a free license can't even be offered under the law. I presume it's meant to preclude both the repeat of
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by dexen 8y ago
> will likely disproportionately affect the poor and middle-class ...in China, while improving emloyment in manufacturing in USA. Currently you have an imbalance in America's economy, where the poor and middle-class get goods from
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Smart contracts can’t even do anything interesting without a trusted source of data input. ...for a certain definition of "doing anything interesting", just as well as "trusted source"*. As the locus of economy shifts
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by dexen 8y ago
Just because I feel like arguing a bit, here goes: >- In your scenario you're not decentralized, you have a clear authority: the news agency Only due to current technical limitations. Shift to Blockchain, get distributed news agen
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by dexen 8y ago
I agree with your assessment and prognosis, and look forward to employers and employees being held to somewhat higher standard of mutual tolerance (even if begrudging) and cooperation, and generally keeping it business-first while on the cl
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There's also the question of how little energy is enough to perform computations, and I've enjoyed greatly a video on the subject by PBS Space Time: "Reversing Entropy with Maxwell's Demon | Space Time" https:&#x
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> For example, BMW i3 has sold around 100k units now, about a third of Teslas Reminds me of the "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame." wrap-up the Slashdot editors gave[1] to iPod upon release.[2] Any Tesla model is an
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by dexen 8y ago
> It should not [take?] 20 minutes either. Fair enough; the tech I know and mentioned (OpenTimestamps) is tied indirectly to Bitcoin's blockchain confirmation speed, thus both slow-ish, and also probabilistic rather than guarantee
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I'd love to agree with you, but the science provides us[1] with a clear trend: the freer the women and the more equal they are culturally and legally, the lower their participation in STEM. That doesn't agree too well with the &qu
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> message boards, IRC channels, chat rooms of all kinds, etc > But something killed pretty much all of them. Not in the least. Interest-driven, channel-centric communities are alive and kicking, from IRC through Discord, Steam and
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This could be solved with cryptographic timestamps [1]. The current generation of tooling is a bit raw - cli utility and Python library - but fully usable on the publisher's end. If the practice picked up any traction, surely more fron
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by dexen 8y ago
> The internet as a whole is probably one of the least regulated markets > What stops smaller search engines from competing? At the risk of sounding condescending - the IP protection legislation [1]. Please bear with me as I'
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Funny you should say that. Next step is people self-segregating into pedestrian cities and car cities or city districts; of high-paid knowledge-based jobs living in tranquil peace vs. of people in low-paid menial jobs, living in ever worsen
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>A simple requirement would be a strict upper limit of 1m²/passenger I beg to differ - this doesn't gracefully handles special cases. Both my disabled neighbor or my friend taken by ambulance to the hospital (made up examples)
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The problem isn't the wording, it's the hare-brained idea that public and private shouldn't mix and cooperate. Flip the statement, make it about education - "How can it be that private benefit – the education – is financ
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by dexen 8y ago
We were using parachutes for the Space Shuttle SRBs, but there are certain important distinctions - the SRBs were, to a first approximation, "big dumb pipes", and had much less of a problem with saltwater damage due to water landi
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Quad-/Multi-rotors use tilting [1] for steering - including speeding up and slowing, and maintaining / recovering stability. Increased moment of inertia surely increases energy budget necessary for stability and maneuvers, which m

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