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by flashman 8y ago
Valve are taking a stance that every major open-access digital vendor has backed away from. Apple, Google, Facebook, Patreon, Zazzle, Amazon... they'll let you sell anything you want with no pre-moderation (except Apple) and rely on co
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by flashman 8y ago
No, those are fine. But how about "hunt and kill thinly-disguised versions of prominent feminists"? We will see someone push that limit, and probably this year.
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by flashman 8y ago
I wonder to what extent they A/B test these titles, then pick the one getting the most traction.
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by flashman 8y ago
Newcastle. It's taken nearly 20 years but it's starting to recover from the post-BHP doldrums.
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by flashman 8y ago
What strikes me (besides NSA apparently meaning 'Non-Secular Americans') is that a lot of these posters don't have the design flair and inspiration of, say, WWII propaganda posters.
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by flashman 8y ago
> The salaries here are higher, but the housing prices are much, much higher. I'm Australian so YMMV, but six months ago I took a 25% pay cut to move out of Sydney to somewhere with lower housing costs and a shorter commute. I'
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by flashman 8y ago
Jessica Smith, a 21-year-old in England, said she had put $28,000 into Envion — almost all of the money she had made over the last two years of trading cryptocurrencies nearly full time. She said she was now looking for new work. Put it a
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by flashman 8y ago
Just spitballing, I'd tailor my messaging to women aged 30-45 to address our position on helping people return to the workforce, while for over-45s I'd talk about our open policy towards hiring older workers. For each, I'd pr
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by flashman 8y ago
> it is an ad and not part of the hiring process. If you were a qualified but rejected applicant, this ad targeting could demonstrate a pattern of behavior when you sued the employer for discrimination.
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by flashman 8y ago
Australia recently proposed (and later shelved) drug-testing welfare recipients in certain localities. These areas were to be chosen partially due to the level of illicit drugs and metabolites in their waste water. So, welfare recipients ma
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by flashman 8y ago
The historical use of u and v can be seen in the Lord's Prayer from 1538: > Our father whiche art in heuen, > halowed be thy name. > Let thy kyngdome cum vnto vs. > Thy wyll be fulfylled as well in erthe, > as it is in h
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by flashman 8y ago
This reads like an in-universe article from a Cory Doctorow YA novel.
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by flashman 8y ago
> Reality is unfair for distributing cognitive ability and grit the way it does ...with a strong correlation towards one's familial socioeconomic rank?
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by flashman 8y ago
Well, no, that's not the Wikipedia description of a false positive rate:[1] "The false positive rate is calculated as the ratio between the number of negative events wrongly categorized as positive (false positives) and the total
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by flashman 8y ago
Yeah I can tell by the various fans whether an application has crashed or the whole system.
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by flashman 8y ago
Even if you get the false positive rate low, the low prevalence of criminals versus innocents will lead to a large number of false positives. Let's say one person in 1000 has an outstanding warrant. Let's say that when the camera
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by flashman 8y ago
> "The information fed back to Google includes barometric pressure readings so it can work out, for example, which level of a shopping mall you are on." I scoffed, but this is actually a thing: https://www.ncbi.nlm.n
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by flashman 8y ago
The Singularity is a logical result of mixing fear of death with atheism and love of technological progress. There's nothing to suggest infinite life extension is impossible, but there's also nothing to suggest humans are capable
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by flashman 8y ago
> There have been at least 5 major extinction events on this planet. The odds are that number six will be a) caused by humans and b) due to the same economic and industrial systems that concentrate wealth among a few individuals. I never
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by flashman 8y ago
Compare and contrast with Jeff Bezos: "The only way that I can see to deploy this much financial resource is by converting my Amazon winnings into space travel." A stunning failure of imagination.
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18th century-style painting in pure CSS(github.com)
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by flashman 8y ago
A good citation for this phenomenon is Amanda Ripley's book "The Unthinkable", especially the chapter on the Beverly Hills Supper Club fire.[1] In that fire, entire tables of guests were found dead because they had come to a
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by flashman 8y ago
You probably could. But there are a lot of roads that already exist.
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by flashman 8y ago
This is crap. Late last year I found a public S3 bucket with 23,000 JSON files in it, which I used to make a visualisation: https://vimeo.com/249970399 The reason I felt confident to do this was because there was no access
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by flashman 8y ago
We should probably ask ourselves whether we want our digital assistants to suggest "Yes, he is" in reply to "Is Dr Smith a good doctor?" and "No, she isn't" to "Is Shaniqua Lopez a good doctor?"
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by flashman 8y ago
First names like Gay and Dong, or surnames like Fuk, for instance.
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by flashman 9y ago
I've previously seen this done with SMS gateways, which allow you to specify/spoof the sender number (it's how you get a text addressed from 'COMCAST' for instance). Your phone will trust that the spoofed number is
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by flashman 9y ago
Time to read the web exclusively in ASCII with UTF-8 characters inserted using their codepoint ~WHITE SMILING FACE~ ~THUMBS UP SIGN~
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by flashman 9y ago
But we have solutions for cheap housing already. The housing problem doesn't come down to the cost of building houses, it comes down to the acceptance that we need them.
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by flashman 9y ago
The only thing I can find on the age is "younger than 500 years": > the average DNA fragment size for Ata is ∼300 bp which, based on a DNA-decay model (Allentoft et al. 2012), is consistent with a sample younger than 500 yr. h

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