dnbgfher

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by dnbgfher 8y ago
I think you're fundamentally misunderstanding the problem. We do have a problem with nomenclature being fractured, even within fields, never mind between them. But that's not the problem. The problem is that when you get deep enou
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by dnbgfher 8y ago
I felt that the second season greatly improved from the first. I'd say the studio segments were still pretty subpar compared to the Top Gear days, but they seemed to get a better handle on the rest of it. I haven't watched the lat
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by dnbgfher 8y ago
I don't see much in there that is relevant to vaping in general being unsafe. The main concerns seem to be related to non-nicotine contents of the liquids being used. While that is certainly an issue to keep in mind when talking about
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by dnbgfher 8y ago
I think you're ignoring some very basic aspects of the ISP business and taking entirely the wrong lessons away from Google Fiber. There is no cheap way to enter many/most/all of these markets. This isn't a world of cheap
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by dnbgfher 8y ago
You misunderstand me. I agree Cotton is almost certainly dead. I was responding to the statement that questioning the doctor was essentially useless when looking into the possiblity that Cotton faked his death, as either he did indeed die o
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by dnbgfher 8y ago
I'm not sure why you think the only option here is that the doctor was in on it. He could have treated a man with fake papers identifying him as Mr. Cotten. By asking the doctor to compare with known-valid photos you can eliminate the
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by dnbgfher 8y ago
While true, the upgrade situation for Android is way better than for most IoT devices, which is saying something. And this is the sort of thing you may well keep for a decade. While you may still have other Google microphones, I would be a
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by dnbgfher 8y ago
For Google, I'm not sure how option 2 is supposed to be acceptable either. It is perfectly reasonable to be concerned about introducing an internet-connected microphone into your house. It doesn't even require assuming a malicious
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by dnbgfher 8y ago
I don't see how this tracks. Particularly in relation to many of the jobs going away, productivity isn't inversely related to hours worked. People working 6 hours instead of 8 will get three quarters as much done. How would their
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by dnbgfher 8y ago
I'm not sure what you mean. Ada hasn't ever undergone any breaking changes I'm aware of, so even Ada 83 would be valid Ada 2012. I'm not sure how a compiler could lose support of older versions. The only difference I&#x2
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by dnbgfher 8y ago
Nah, mostly it's just (IMO) the result of AdaCore being needlessly confusing. AdaCore also maintains the GNU compiler, which is what their Pro offering is based on. I'm not really sure why the Community edition exists, as it'
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by dnbgfher 8y ago
AdaCore maintains the GNU compiler as well. As a result, the GNU and AdaCore compiler (Community and Commercial) are essentially the same. The Ada community in fact just calls them all GNAT and then specifies further if it's relevant.
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by dnbgfher 8y ago
I don't see how it's a call to humanity. "Think if it was your kid vs two strangers" isn't calling on humanity. It's calling on familial tribalism and selfishness if anything. And obviously, in the real world,
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by dnbgfher 8y ago
The answer to "what" is implied above. Evolution.
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by dnbgfher 8y ago
And what about the family of those two people? I don't understand the insistence of bringing everything back to "what if it was your child." Pretty much everybody has family, and friends, and all that. I'm not sure how s
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by dnbgfher 8y ago
Outside of Netflix? Netflix is absolutely included in having those problems. They are actually the worst in some ways. Their UI is pretty awful and only ever gets worse. They even have plenty of ads - granted just for their own content, but
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by dnbgfher 8y ago
Absolutely. I didn't mean to imply otherwise. I don't expect companies to be able to stand up to dedicated attention from a nation-state. What I was trying to say was that that doesn't relieve them of their responsibilities t
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by dnbgfher 8y ago
Mm. Perhaps I should have been a little more explicit. I never meant to imply any business should be able to handle a nation-state attack. That's not feasible. It doesn't mean they get to clean their hands of the whole thing eithe
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by dnbgfher 8y ago
Sure, maybe this was something beyond what could be reasonably prevented by a non-state. I don't think we know yet. But they have a duty after the fact as well, to ensure the damage is minimized. That includes actually telling those po
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by dnbgfher 8y ago
This is an absurd appeal to the whole victim-blaming awareness trend. That's about an individual going about their life and having a crime perpetrated on them, which primarily negatively affects them. This meanwhile is about a corporat
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by dnbgfher 8y ago
> If you are an adult and you see an example of people of all backgrounds working together to do science, including people that look and behave like you do, and your take away from this is "OOOOH I AM NOW OPPRESSED" That... is
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by dnbgfher 8y ago
> When this topic does come up -- and it does -- it's done specifically with the notion of normalizing the idea that people of all backgrounds can, should and will be scientists and mathematicians. This line of thought always confus
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by dnbgfher 8y ago
You're jumping the gun here. A number of mental illnesses are highly correlated with heavy smoking. It's a legal coping mechanism that people can easily obtain entirely on their own.
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by dnbgfher 8y ago
The difference is some people are talking about DST year-round (again). Arizona is never on DST.
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by dnbgfher 8y ago
I think you've missed the point of most of the uproar. I haven't seen anybody claiming MongoDB doesn't have the right to use whatever license they like. I have however seen lots of people claim that it's a bad decision t
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by dnbgfher 8y ago
I'm not sure why you think the only malicious response would be to send over too little. It's a common enough scene in TV shows and the like where a malicious actor attempts to hide incriminating information in a sea of irrelevant
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by dnbgfher 8y ago
I don't believe this was an attempt to find bias or noise from the physical sensors, but rather was looking at the method itself. The method has some known biases that they were ensuring wouldn't explain the given pattern in the d
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by dnbgfher 8y ago
It is opt-in, but typically both opt-in and out-out in these sorts of contexts refer to what happens in the absence of user input. In that context opt-in has a bit of an issue with people even knowing it exists, not to mention caring enough
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by dnbgfher 8y ago
Why couldn't Microsoft block URLs before they emerge as a dominant player? All Microsoft would need to do is keep an eye out for potential competition and start blocking them. More than that, if Microsoft was going to that sort of extr
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by dnbgfher 8y ago
Even if that is an option, and the results come back favorable to the defendant, they still don't have a great situation. Now there will be two experts coming in and saying different things to the jury. The details that might explain t

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