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by ewzimm 11y ago
What really burns me is that this strategy is so well known. 1984 was written almost 70 years ago, and yet we have millions of people begging for persistent, unavoidable surveillance by authorities as part of a never-ending war with an ambi
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by ewzimm 11y ago
>space-wasting default theme GNOME 3's default theme has the slimmest window chrome any GNOME has ever had. People think it's space-wasting because the fonts are larger, but they got larger-looking buttons in fewer pixels by co
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by ewzimm 11y ago
It's working well as a deterrent, but the goal is not to deter people from committing crimes; it's to deter minorities from going to white neighborhoods for fear of getting arrested. America's cities are very well segregated
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by ewzimm 11y ago
True, but what I'm trying to convey is that if someone just wants to generally understand what a p-value is from no knowledge, understanding how to read a specific number isn't important. At first, I wasn't even going to incl
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by ewzimm 11y ago
Sorry, I saw how that could be misleading by saying that's so I clarified right away... not fast enough I see. I mean that comparing the observed data to a baseline gives you a p-value.
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by ewzimm 11y ago
I'm having a hard time understanding why p-values are so hard to explain without resorting to jargon... it seems very intuitive to me, and none of these examples really put it in context. I'd explain it like this: It's easy t
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by ewzimm 11y ago
This is a classic strawman fallacy. The main issue here is misunderstanding John Sullivan when he says the FSF is one of the most important social movements. Bruno M takes it to mean it's more important than gay rights, women's ri
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by ewzimm 11y ago
The Rockchip RK3288 it's using can handle 4k H.265. Anything you buy today for even half this price should be able to handle 1080p.
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by ewzimm 11y ago
You're right, but I didn't mean only phone calls and unencrypted email. I considered adding "or their equivalent back-doored technologies," but I hoped it would be clear. Using a compromised technology is the equivalent
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by ewzimm 11y ago
It's even more absurd than that. The premise is that we can have a public worldwide debate that emphasizes how important encryption is to successfully carrying out terrorist attacks, convince the world to give up their privacy for the
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by ewzimm 11y ago
Would like to see the Maeby Funke addon where "Marry Me!" is always the first response.
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by ewzimm 11y ago
For business, it's a pretty nice package. Hosted Exchange is the big one but, having full Office compatibility in the browser with integrated cloud storage for when LibreOffice doesn't work is really convenient and a step beyond w
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by ewzimm 11y ago
Also, Fedora 23 was just released today with native Google Drive support in Files (from Gnome 3.18.)
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by ewzimm 11y ago
I'm genuinely curious what you're talking about here. Hearthstone alone acccounts for around a quarter of all of Activision/Blizzard's digital revenue.
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by ewzimm 11y ago
It's obviously written to be a promotional piece for CBS All Access. Really the only response that will benefit them financially at this point is for people to get interested in the service because Star Trek is coming. Depending on wha
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by ewzimm 11y ago
They state in the press release that it will premiere on TV then move to their steaming service.
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by ewzimm 11y ago
They are definitely putting it on TV. This is like when games are advertised "Only on Playstation" when there's also a PC version, since it's a console exclusive. They just really want people to subscribe to their stream
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by ewzimm 11y ago
It seems like it must have something to do with different departments tracking revenue, but the way this is being rolled out is pretty strange. There's no mention of it anywhere on the YouTube homepage, so you would have to search for
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by ewzimm 11y ago
From what I understand, this only applies to people who are making money by displaying ads on their videos. So if you want to continue to make money on YouTube videos, you have to sign the new terms.
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by ewzimm 11y ago
This may be remembered as cloud-to-butt's finest hour. A potentially historically significant statement made readable to the Buzzfeed crowd.
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by ewzimm 11y ago
Responses to software seem to follow patterns. Sysvinit is basically Windows XP. People hated it for its lack of sophistication until it got replaced by Vista with its enhanced permissions, which people found inconvenient because they requi
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by ewzimm 11y ago
I'm interested in why you consider it shady for a retailer not to sell a product. I don't see Google or Apple selling products from anyone but themselves (mostly. Apple does sell a few accessories and Google has some pure editions
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by ewzimm 11y ago
I see your point. But there will be a lot of opportunities for software patents to be tested in court. When people look at history and see companies agreeing not to sue each other, what direction will that push the argument? I hope a good o
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by ewzimm 11y ago
Definitely a move in the right direction. Software companies have operated with a war mentality for too long, despite their common interests. They trade employees pretty often too, exposed no-poaching agreements aside. Competition isn'
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by ewzimm 11y ago
When Steve Jobs invented the computer, he envisioned a device which was accessible to anyone, a device to empower revolutionary magical thinking about the possibilities of access. But he also knew the limits of the networks developed by the
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by ewzimm 11y ago
Thanks for that! Much more informative than the article. I think the rest of the commentary is important too. Like the original article says, poems are meant to be interpreted, and I think Frost played with the words to encourage different
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by ewzimm 11y ago
Considering how much advertising seems to affect people (I'm sure you can remember at least one commercial that played even from the early years of your life), it's amazing to think that all of those repetitive, manipulative, anno
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by ewzimm 11y ago
I assumed it would only be players buying them as well, and it would be interesting to know how many Blizzard actually buy. There's a huge difference in the price of tokens in different regions, and I wonder if that's partially du
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It's good to know there are people like Brad Smith standing up to government demands for full access to people's data. It brings up an interesting privacy contradiction. While storing data locally seems best for privacy, if it&#x2
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by ewzimm 11y ago
Computer programs are just human-dictated logic, so we can program the same decision-making processes into computers. A logical way to do this would be to train mapping computers the same way we do now, by allowing them to learn from human

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