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by evv 7y ago
Correct, the refuge for cesspools banned from Reddit.
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by evv 7y ago
Just like Yelp. Quite tragic that this is the business model that seems to succeed.. if the law protected individuals over corporate greed, this tactic would be illegal.
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by evv 7y ago
We can engineer a solution to the dynamic tradeoffs you see in food delivery.. Sometimes you want at least one pizza, reliably as possible, and you're willing to pay extra. Other times you may want a pizza as affordable as possible, ev
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by evv 7y ago
Yeah? If you build on top of popular open infra that is hosted by a variety of providers, it shouldn't be too hard. You can build on top of K8s, Postgres, and S3-alike APIs, then use Terraform to move across AWS, GoogleCloud and DO wit
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by evv 7y ago
It may be a sometimes-abused legal tactic, but you seem to have described an effective consumer protection system. How else would you defend everyday people from regular corporate civil lawbreaking?
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by evv 7y ago
You don't have to carry the public scooter around with you, bring it home, charge it, or worry about it getting stolen. If you meet up with friends, they can rent one too. Once your city gets to a certain density threshold, public scoo
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by evv 7y ago
Plot twist: aliens have already come to visit us on earth, but sadly humanity seems to forget, or struggles to distinguish between evidence and hoax.
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by evv 7y ago
> Git is decentralized. If Github was an svn host I definitely wouldn't have been ok with it or hosted anything FOSS on it. The most sticky part of Github is the social network that lives in issues, pull requests, and repository per
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by evv 7y ago
The first time you use that protocol, of course a warning is appropriate. To prompt the user on _every_ external protocol click seems.. hostile to the concept of linking
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by evv 7y ago
Funny, it is also self-inflicted because Safari inspired Zoom to do this hack by breaking the correct behavior of protocol links. > This is a workaround to a change introduced in Safari 12 that requires a user to confirm that they want t
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by evv 7y ago
It is a particularly interesting question in StarCraft because of the cloaked units, which are visible only by distorting the background (and from their sound). Most humans will be able to identify cloaked units, but only if they look caref
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by evv 7y ago
Don't be amazed. It is part of American culture to criticize international and domestic policies that we disagree with. The Trump administration may be an embarrassment to the American people, but we are still free to call out injustic
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by evv 7y ago
Lasers. I think their technique is top-secret, because I don't see lights-through-metal on many other products. https://venturebeat.com/2011/11/04/apple-laser-manufacturing...
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by evv 7y ago
How much would advertisers pay for the ability to literally hear the consumer's verbal response to an ad? Probably a lot. https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2016/02/16/Samsung-Careful-w...
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by evv 7y ago
Can collision attacks provide the same size of data? I suspect it would be dramatically more difficult to produce a collision of equal data-size as the original. So perhaps, the easiest way to defend against a collision attack is to transmi
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by evv 7y ago
Have you considered that it is already too late? Just look at Microsoft bending the knee to Chromium
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by evv 7y ago
Even in the worse case, people could fork it and distribute a telemetry-free version. Here is an example, a telemetry-free distribution of VSCode: https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium Kudos to Microsoft for making the
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by evv 7y ago
All of the drama around the npm firings has sparked an interesting discussion in the JS community: does it even make sense to trust a for-profit corporation with the world's supply of JS? One of the creators of unpkg.com is considering
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by evv 7y ago
> Kids that “want” to have kids but for whatever reason are unable to The opposite is also likely. People may have "accidental" kids, or they could change their mind. (I still agree that 2.1 is a good approximation, but it is a
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by evv 8y ago
Call me crazy, but the synthetic vs. natural distinction is still blurry to me. All language is the natural evolution of thought. > But for most "natural" languages, what makes them natural is the organic growth and evolution t
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by evv 8y ago
What makes computer languages not "natural"? Like every other language, it was invented by animals(humans).
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by evv 8y ago
Facebook Workplace, presumably (the slack competitor)
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by evv 8y ago
It feels click-baity to reference a $50M revenue improvement without specifying the revenue before the split-tests. Is $50M a 1% improvement? 100%?
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by evv 8y ago
Political change is slow and the climate is changing fast. You can't just undo urban sprawl or turn on public transit infrastructure. We need widespread adoption of (PH)EVs in addition to the improvements you mention. But you're c
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by evv 8y ago
Kind of a fucking shame. As individuals, we are generally quite powerless in the climate crisis. The world is being ruined by companies and governments that we generally cannot influence. The power we retain: how we spend our money. Electri
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by evv 8y ago
An electric car "engine" is vastly simpler than an ICE, and has far fewer moving parts, which should result in better reliability in the long term. The fixed gearing also means transmission failure is less likely. As an EV driver
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by evv 8y ago
Why do you think they are so enraged at Facebook? Cambridge Analytica and the data they stole through Facebook was pivotal for the UK's "Leave" campaign.
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by evv 8y ago
I'm intrigued by the incentives that Zuckerberg would have to show up to a hearing like this.. 1. What is the legal risk of not showing up? What are these lawmakers likely to do against him or Facebook? Can they compel him to personall
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by evv 8y ago
These robots take the space of a human, but it isn't safe for a human to be in there at the same time as the robot. Plus, people can self-optimize. If you put another robot in there, it would barely increase throughput. Two humans woul
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by evv 8y ago
> a myriad of tiny 10-line libraries with a spaghetti dependency graph. I'm curious why people dislike this. I'd rather have lots of little decoupled libraries than huge monolithic dependencies that attempt to do everything in

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