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"The article argues that climate change will render the Earth uninhabitable by the end of this century. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The article fails to produce it." - Climatologist Michael Mann [1] [1] h
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Humans would do all of those things. Maybe aliens would, too, because they respond to the same incentives and threats, but perhaps a prerequisite for cosmic fecundity is a more mature outlook. I mean, a human could spend their entire life
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"Facebook will also now know you visited a store based on a new feature that matches GPS, beacons, WiFi, radio signals, and cell towers with brick-and-mortar coordinates." [1] Basically harvesting data from your phone's senso
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We used to let our kids have semi-supervised YouTube Kids time on our iPad, but they were getting into content that wasn't age appropriate through recommended videos. (The app now lets you turn off search and recommended videos, so the
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I read this article as a PR placement by Amazon. Amazon finds the guy (because they have the data on his sales) and connects him to the journalist, because Amazon wants to grow its Seller marketplace in the face of competition from Ebay and
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I refer you to the XKCD comic "Ten Thousand": https://xkcd.com/1053/ You don't want to lose a sale because one of your customers is one of the ten thousand hearing about CVVs for the first time.
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> Turing test Sorry to 'actually' you but that's phrased like Clarke's third law: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cl
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The Monopoly comparison is apt: even if you've got free money, there's no guarantee all the capital won't end up with one player.
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This isn't happening for a month or two yet, but I hope moving out of an expensive city to work remotely will be my moment.
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It's really interesting to compare Reddit and Twitter on these matters, because both were started by people who intended them to be free speech havens, even if that meant hosting some abhorrent (but legal) content. As late as 2012 the
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Single opt-in becoming the default setting for all MailChimp signup forms(mailchi.mp)
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This comment is an example of the adage that successful sports betters could probably be making money in lots of other ways :)
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Maybe you could find a sport where injuries are logged or can be inferred from other data? For instance if a racehorse performs far slower than its typical pace, its odds of losing the subsequent race might be higher.
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That is an interesting read, thank you. You might also describe what I'm doing as trying to efficiently pack a polygon with non-overlapping images, then tessellating that polygon as a method of repetition. Easy to conceive with squares
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I occasionally design fabric patterns, so the pages on applying graphics to the tessellations are interesting to me. What I'd like to end up with is a generalised script for creating repeating patterns from a small set of images (e.g.
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Compared to casinos, altcoin gambling is higher risk but also higher reward. If you'd put $50 into each new coin released since 2011, you'd have a lot of worthless coins... but your Ethereum would be worth nearly $12k. Litecoin an
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> If you're looking for a $249 couch And let's not forget, a lot of people are, for many different reasons. Maybe they're not expecting to stay in the house forever, maybe it's a group of housemates who are buying &#x
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My Gmail account was one of the first created. Here's a quick list of emails I've received intended for other people: - Thailand holiday itineraries and airline tickets - A PayPal money request for $1800 - Congratulations from som
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Great, now China's going to put malware into every Xbox controller on the off-chance it gets inserted into a USN submarine /s
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Website owners are free to attempt this business model. I am free to choose what code runs on my machine. Every business model has trade-offs, and no model guarantees income.
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That's the problem with using "a modest proposal" for serious suggestions: you're supposed to use it for satire.
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Your solution simply moves the heat into the wastewater system. What's the impact on sewers if we start filling them with much warmer water?
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How well does it work with multiple-page PDFs? One of our banes is generating mixed text/image downloadable reports with sensible page breaks. To save time, we're actually doing those as docx files, with the bonus/risk that c
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> features like picture-in-picture I wonder whether YouTube will let you use this without subscribing to Red.
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Maybe this guy deleted his post because he didn't want anybody cutting in on his business. The tl;dr summary: - Saudi Arabian resident spotted an arbitrage opportunity buying onions cheaply and selling them to small and mid-sized outle
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Not only that, some people leap to the conclusion that you don't drink because you're an alcoholic, and from there to the judgement that you're unreliable and untrustworthy. (Not that being an alcoholic makes you those things
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Computers are also operating with absolute clarity and precision when somebody exploits a flaw in their software to execute arbitrary code. That's why the CFAA has its language around 'exceeding authorized access' (even thoug
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Existing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15011636
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It would be interesting to hear from Google whether the government has issued a search warrant for the Google Analytics data generated by the site's visitors, which would include IP address.
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Seems like it shouldn't be too hard to build a service that lets influencer networks screen out fakes. Usually there are clear markers, like a large number of followers having some other random account in common. Unfortunately, from ex

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