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by dpwm 9y ago
This discussion of conflict theorists vs mistake theorists reminds me of conspiracy theorists: by this I specifically mean those who go out of their way to look for a conspiracy where the evidence is rather thin. But there appears to be les
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by dpwm 9y ago
Well, there is one reason: so companies like Equifax can make even more money.
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by dpwm 9y ago
You can actually use a laser, run it through a beam expander, pass it through a projector slide, run it through a lens, apply the filtering operations at the focal plane just like you would with a fourier transformed image, and get the expe
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by dpwm 9y ago
The assets of those eight are almost certainly going to be invested, so it's not really as if they can spend all the money without changing the value of the assets that make up their wealth. However, absence of evidence of a consumptio
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by dpwm 9y ago
> According to Oxfam someone in the "bottom 10% on < $2 per day" might very well be wealthier than a recently graduated US doctor from a top medical school if he's taken on student debt. And if that's the case then
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by dpwm 9y ago
Wealth is wealth. Income is income. Here's an analysis of income of the wealthiest by Oxfam: https://www.oxfam.org/en/pressroom/pressreleases/2013-01-19/...
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by dpwm 9y ago
That reference you give cites two people. The first makes the point that low wealth does not mean you are poor, citing students in debt in western countries as an example. Some would disagree with the assertion that having a net worth of le
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by dpwm 9y ago
I have experienced this and it is one of the main reasons I still keep an imap client set up. There are certain emails I need to be able to find and gmail does not find them. Claws Mail does. Personally this is a minor annoyance with person
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by dpwm 9y ago
For what it's worth, trends #4 and #5 are both qualified with "AI Specific" further down. There will be some PhD theses that do solve real problems, but many are not going to make a startup successful by themselves.
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by dpwm 9y ago
There is clearly selection bias in the quoted figure of houses sold within 90 days, because people try to maximise what they'll get. People only tend to drop the price after it's been sat around for a while. By definition, such sa
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by dpwm 9y ago
The thing I found most insightful in this piece is that Iranian primary schools were teaching English. As someone from a country that has English as its first language, I often lament the fact that I don't know any foreign languages an
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by dpwm 9y ago
Others may be interested to note this blog post from about a week ago by the CTO relating to npm's outage handling [0]. I'm not sure if I would classify this as an outage, but this seems to be the official narrative [1]. Given tha
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by dpwm 9y ago
Not the commenter you're replying to, but on my system I see a difference between the two examples they post. This is because hackernews has font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif and I have neither of the named fonts installed. On m
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by dpwm 9y ago
It's more that such a commitment goes against the incentives laid down by a means of production that is enforced almost globally by both treaty and military might.
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by dpwm 9y ago
The adaptations you are talking about were in fungi, in the presence of radiation which didn't kill them. This is in comparison to fish, in which adaptations take a longer time, where the decrease in oxygen is a direct threat to life.
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by dpwm 9y ago
The adaptations you're talking about happen over centuries. The changes you're talking about are happening over decades. These changes will not be limited to just the oceans. And the main takeaway point from that George Carlin cli
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by dpwm 9y ago
When I read articles like this I feel a similar helplessness. I am reminded of Bob Mankoff's cartoon: https://cartoons.bobmankoff.com/52630
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by dpwm 9y ago
I was looking for something like this fairly recently. I can't remember what I actually searched for, but I didn't find this. It took me a minute to understand what interactive narratives were. It's not a term I've reall
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by dpwm 9y ago
I was actually taught this in a small village primary school as a way to remember the 9 times table up to 90. I think we were also taught how to apply it quickly: If you want n * 9, the first digit is n - 1 and the second is 9 - (n - 1). Of
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by dpwm 9y ago
Just tested this on systems of varying age. Works on processors going back as far as 2007 (the oldest I have access to now is an Athlon 64 X2 6000+), but the example code relies on an instruction that the Atom D510 does not suport. Because
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by dpwm 9y ago
Anecdotally, I've never experienced remote code execution through a browser either. However, the most widely used browser for many years did have plenty of remote execution vulnerabilities that did not rely on plugins or toolbars [0].
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by dpwm 9y ago
There's nothing special about the name root, it's just a convention that it maps to uid 0. You can change it to something else and then rename an account with a uid != 0 to root. Whether this breaks anything is largely distributio
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by dpwm 9y ago
Thanks. I thought I was aware of most differences, but clearly there is always more to learn with respect to the differences between the two localizations.
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by dpwm 9y ago
The problem is that allowing the vendor to define what is responsible, which seems these days to be expanding into giving them unlimited time to fix it, is to allow them to take unlimited time to fix it. Cooperation or even coordination tak
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by dpwm 9y ago
The "responsible" disclosure term is a pretty devious piece of marketing, because it creates situations such as this very thread. Its use carries an implicit catch that anything that does not meet the narrow definitions of "r
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by dpwm 9y ago
You can't disown capitalism from its problems that easily. It's not hard to see that it is in short-term self interest to form cartels, lobby for regulation, crush competition and treat their (now captive) customers with contempt.
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by dpwm 9y ago
The article seems like it's sensationalising a little bit and I can't quite work out the purpose. > "Beat the BOSS" phones can be bought for £25, but are reportedly changing hands for up to £500 inside jails. This is
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by dpwm 9y ago
My default search engine is set to DDG on Firefox and through countless updates Firefox has never once attempted to reset it to whatever Mozilla are taking money to promote now.
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by dpwm 9y ago
I can confirm this most certainly did not happen in my case and, from other comments, there seem to be a number of us who did not opt in to this "study."
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by dpwm 9y ago
The installation of the add-on is unquestionably a change to Firefox. Whether the add-on does anything is largely immaterial.

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