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by efitz 8y ago
I haven’t read the second book, does it misuse statistics to support the tobacco industry?
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by efitz 8y ago
So he had a lot of experiences. I don't find that inspiring. What did he invent or make? Whose lives did he make better?
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by efitz 8y ago
> ... but any savings there would be trivial Uh, state income taxes can approach 10%. This is not “trivial”. http://www.tax-rates.org/taxtables/income-tax-by-state
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by efitz 8y ago
Music streaming services license music this way IIRC.
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by efitz 8y ago
I want to decouple layout from content, and control layout myself locally. There is too much active content and too much commingling of style directives and content in most modern web sites. I want the markup to be higher level and focus
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by efitz 8y ago
Why is there layout on the web at all? In almost every case, I care about the content, not the particular web site designer’s vision of the “experience”. I don’t want an experience, I want information. I would prefer the content be delive
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by efitz 8y ago
Because the legal construct of the corporation diffuses risk enough to make central control appealing. If the law did not allow incorporation, in other words if officers and directors and shareholders bore full liability for the business, w
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by efitz 8y ago
yes
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by efitz 9y ago
Without apps (written by developers), there will be no users. Google's customers for Fuchsia are only developers, to start with.
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by efitz 9y ago
I was taught to read it as “takes the value of”.
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by efitz 9y ago
I read this and thought - that's going to be a big culture shift, Jeffrey Dean Morgan taking over Google's AI: https://pmcvariety.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/walking-dead-...
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by efitz 9y ago
OK this is juvenile but I found it funny that after 250 epochs ( https://emilwallner.github.io/html/250_epochs/ ) the AI just came up with busted HTML and: penas penas penas penas penas penas penas penas penas penas
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by efitz 9y ago
I had surgery in 2011 and was prescribed OxyContin for post-operative pain. I was very satisfied with the therapy as I had very little post-operative discomfort. I took the medicine for several days, the prescription ran out, and I felt no
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Why Philosophy Is Important in Science Education(qz.com)
1 points by efitz 9y ago|0 comments
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by efitz 9y ago
The article should have been titled “low blood sugar puts one in a bad mood”.
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by efitz 9y ago
SMTP has headers that are visible to the email provider while the email is in transit. The absence of logs, etc., goes far to mitigate this threat. As an added benefit, there is a lot of anti-spam functionality that can be used with only
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by efitz 9y ago
There are absolutely people (many of them) who use GMail because of its brand. They most commonly will say "GSuite" though.
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by efitz 9y ago
Most forms contain personally identifiable information. Some contain extremely sensitive information, for example the kinds of forms that you describe-visas, etc.- contain national ID numbers and so forth. The idea of providing this to a th
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by efitz 9y ago
The author forgot to write down the most important reason for the whole exercise: file transfer. Modern operating systems index the contents of your files, so finding all your files on project "foo" is only a search away. If you
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by efitz 10y ago
As an American, I am much more disposed to policy flexibility for people who want to become American citizens, and much less disposed to policy flexibility for immigrants who just want to get a high US salary for a few years, then take the
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by efitz 10y ago
It's amazing that this doesn't run afoul of EU privacy laws. Or rather, it's hypocritical.
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by efitz 10y ago
The 404 error page that was actually localized to several languages looked pretty useful. I don't understand the problem with that page.