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721.
by erehweb 9y ago
These have been coming out for a while now. Has anyone ever gone back and saw how previous predictions held up?
722.
Alexa, don't talk to strangers(techcrunch.com)
3 points by erehweb 9y ago|0 comments
723.
by erehweb 9y ago
Suggestion - have a reasonably prominent button that restores defaults (or whatever the analogue is). This is often a headache when dealing with systems - easy to get into a situation where not obvious how to get back - e.g. window minimiz
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Security Is Ruining the Internet(rall.com)
1 points by erehweb 9y ago|0 comments
725.
Coin washer keeps Westin St. Francis' change shiny (2010)(sfgate.com)
2 points by erehweb 10y ago|0 comments
726.
by erehweb 10y ago
Stumbling on Happiness. The best insight here is - people are very good at rationalizing / being happy about bad results, when they result from a decision to do something (e.g. change job / move ...) - less so when they decide no
727.
Lancashire man performs DIY operation on himself to remove suture(bbc.com)
1 points by erehweb 10y ago|0 comments
728.
by erehweb 10y ago
This page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinct_language is enlightening. Latin is dead, but not extinct.
729.
by erehweb 10y ago
Wary of non-https page.
730.
It’s time to publicly shame United Airlines’ so-called online security(techcrunch.com)
4 points by erehweb 10y ago|0 comments
731.
by erehweb 10y ago
FB is a big site with lots of market power, so it can put the work of rewriting headlines onto the publishers. HN and Techmeme are much smaller, and can't.
732.
by erehweb 10y ago
Consider seeing a trained counselor to talk through this. I am not a trained counselor, but: It doesn't really matter if the policies are legal or ethical. If you feel ashamed of your work most days, that's not a good situation,
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Shuffle your thoughts and sleep(theguardian.com)
1 points by erehweb 10y ago|0 comments
734.
by erehweb 10y ago
But remember, the plural of anecdote is data http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2011/04/the-plural-of-an... If your giant tech employer and competitors are hiring apace, that is a useful data point.
735.
by erehweb 10y ago
Maybe not. Listening to the History of England podcast, was pointed to the poem "Pearl" https://interestingliterature.com/2016/02/03/a-short-summary... and http://www.billstanton.co.uk
736.
by erehweb 10y ago
Would you also accept "Standard English is AAVE with mistakes"?
737.
by erehweb 10y ago
We actually do want to invent new languages now - consider Game of Thrones, Star Trek, LOTR etc. In a monolingual world, would any of these have real adherents? Maybe. Even within English, various groups have invented sublanguages - Cock
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Move to Transylvania(transylvaniabeyond.com)
6 points by erehweb 10y ago|2 comments
739.
by erehweb 10y ago
Interesting Q - was Spain chosen as having similar role then to Nigeria now? Lots of gold. Maybe viewed as lawless / corrupt? (Inquisition). Possibly contempt for Catholics?
740.
Competing Start-Ups with the Same Name Want to Fix Airbnb’s Race Problem(nymag.com)
2 points by erehweb 10y ago|0 comments
741.
by erehweb 10y ago
There is a need for something that makes it easy to build and display pivot tables on the web. Tableau attempts to fill this, but it is not as easy and does not have as much functionality as Excel.
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Which cities in california are most dangerous?(gddlaw.com)
1 points by erehweb 10y ago|0 comments
743.
The Case Against Micropayments (2000)(openp2p.com)
1 points by erehweb 10y ago|0 comments
744.
The OKCupid dataset: A very large public dataset of dating site users(openpsych.net)
3 points by erehweb 10y ago|0 comments
745.
[Aristotle] on Trolling(journals.cambridge.org)
1 points by erehweb 10y ago|0 comments
746.
by erehweb 11y ago
To this point, Chobani had quality control issues a couple of years ago. So that's definitely an area that requires some people. And the marketing / PR folks to make it no longer top-of-mind for most people.
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This Woman Snoops on People's Phones in a Great Hidden-Camera PSA About Privacy(adweek.com)
2 points by erehweb 11y ago|0 comments
748.
by erehweb 11y ago
Googling "Does hail break solar panels" casts doubt on that.
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Prince's vision for lifting up black youths: Get them to code(money.cnn.com)
11 points by erehweb 11y ago|0 comments
750.
Data.table objects should not be considered data.frame instances in R(win-vector.com)
2 points by erehweb 11y ago|1 comments

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