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by exitb 4y ago
It's interesting how the firing process presented in the movie Up in the Air (2009) was supposed be inhumane and insulting. Well, look where we are now.
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by exitb 4y ago
Do you have any sources for that? The biggest change that happened in online dating in recent years is that it's been normalized, no longer seen as weird. That surely has something to do with the success its users had and is obviously
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by exitb 4y ago
Gifts are primarily an expression of care.
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by exitb 4y ago
I’ve found that the same games I was playing around that age are actually still fun - Commodore 64 games. Basic, non-distracting graphics and simple joystick controls make things easy for young kids.
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by exitb 4y ago
None of these services use any resources outside of your local network to work.
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by exitb 4y ago
To be clear, people have discovered galaxies earlier, but didn’t understand their true nature. Hence, the discussed galaxy was first known as “Andromeda Nebula”.
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by exitb 4y ago
The quote I always think about in such cases is from Bruce Perens in a movie Revolution OS who described the Open Source Definition rule about non-discrimination as: "There is no discrimination against people or groups. The example I
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by exitb 4y ago
The "encouraging" part also comes from the fact that the employee feels heard and understood, which a chatbot cannot provide.
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by exitb 4y ago
Isn't the basic math largely driven by attempts to understand and quantify the world around us? In such case, it depends on more universal concepts like distance, time, speed, acceleration etc. Concepts which I would imagine to be fami
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by exitb 4y ago
Note that in a ham radio setting, morse code is only part of the equation. The conversations typically follow patterns that aren't very readable, even when transcribed to ASCII. http://lidscw.org/resources/cq-qso-t
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by exitb 4y ago
Are there any version of Mosaic that are able to handle modern HTTPS?
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by exitb 4y ago
Given our history, I think it's for the better.
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by exitb 4y ago
I’m surprised at the amount of dismissive comments. Would we say the same things to someone depressed - ah that’s just life, have you tried running a marathon?
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by exitb 4y ago
Interesting idea, but I don't think the sail would be nearly enough to counteract the gravitational acceleration caused by getting near the target system, let alone losing enough speed to enter an orbit.
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by exitb 4y ago
At 1/5th of speed of light the probes would cover 1AU in less than an hour, so the visit in the area would be extremely brief. Is there actually a way to get any meaningful data out of it? Or is it just so we can say that we've &q
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by exitb 4y ago
You’d have to admit to breaking this rule in order to point out any baggage misplacement.
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by exitb 4y ago
Thanks for that. I look at the situation from a different angle - having a young son I put so much daily effort for him to end up in a life that he's happy with, whatever that may turn out to be. I'd hate for him to be ever held b
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by exitb 4y ago
It's a bit more complicated. Murder on TV is pretend, but nudity is real. Even if you think nudity is ok, showing it needs all parties to consent and we decided that children can't give consent to such things.
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by exitb 4y ago
Portable shortwave radio is a good idea and doesn't really need to be crank-powered. These things sip power and can last a couple weeks of moderate daily usage on a single set of batteries. A box of double-A batteries (which you should
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by exitb 4y ago
They’re useful in certain situations, for example when your skill/experience set does not completely match the role requirements, but you still want to make a case for yourself. As a person involved in hiring process at a small, but es
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by exitb 4y ago
I wonder if it’s even possible to fill an Olympic-sized pool with ants without crushing the ones near the bottom.
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by exitb 4y ago
What is the motivation behind research that makes viruses more suitable for humans anyway? I assume it's not strictly a military project, since there was international cooperation between countries that aren't allies. What is it w
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by exitb 4y ago
I like monochrome film and photography, but removing color from an already shot movie is troubling. Generally both mediums have their merit, but black and white scenes aren't usually shot in the same way as color ones. For example, go
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by exitb 4y ago
I wouldn't assume that all AI creates is devoid of any meaning. The meaning can be there, copied off the source material is the same way it copies brushes, themes and other features.
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by exitb 4y ago
The author is wondering whether she'd get better business results if she pushed her team in a way more akin to communist Cuba.
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by exitb 4y ago
It's extremely interesting, but it has a to be noted that, even though the main page claims 100% compatibility with Clojure, the status page lowers the claim down to 42%, while the GitHub page states you can't even build it.
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by exitb 4y ago
I imagine its temperature habits might be different in case it becomes active with a power loss or when it recharges after an incident.
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by exitb 4y ago
Oh, that just drives the point home. Any flaw you can find in these models to build your hope on will just get corrected in the next iteration, only a couple months down the line.
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by exitb 4y ago
One could question the decision to make the pedometer on the other side of the world. Or even its necessity in the first place.
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by exitb 4y ago
This is more like a remote, uncontacted tribe "discovering" other civilizations via trash that washes up on their shore. Given enough scale, this wouldn't be an unlikely event. Who knows, maybe the universe is littered with b

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