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by freepor 6y ago
I have no experience with the Army and even I knew that "Army of One" is a dumb as shit slogan. The entire military functions only because of chain of command and submitting to the organization rather than the individual. Otherwis
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by freepor 6y ago
It's the same thing that PayPal brings to the table when any website could just have a credit card form.
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by freepor 6y ago
You are probably really gifted. I don't think this is a typical experience, that a fourth grader in any country who doesn't do much homework knows most of US high school math.
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by freepor 6y ago
1) accelerated classes, 2) magnet schools, 3) statewide magnet schools, 4) high school research programs
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by freepor 6y ago
But they are not on the federal level, with the benefits and disadvantages of this. The benefit is that they don't get dragged into partisan politics and have their agendas changed every four years. The disadvantage is in reach and sca
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by freepor 6y ago
No, but empirically it's what the justices have been using for over 50 years. Decisions like Wickard v. Filburn and Obergefell don't just come from "living constitutionalism" -- they are just completely made up out of wh
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by freepor 6y ago
The Supreme Court decided a long time ago that the Constitution said whatever the justices thought it should say. The rest of the government went along with this concept. Overall, I think it's been a positive thing as the House of Repr
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by freepor 6y ago
Poe’s Law strikes again
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by freepor 6y ago
Huge countries like India, the US, and Russia have come under the thrall of men whose position in the feature space is near words like “deranged” and “terrifying”... there’s no reason to believe that the same thing could not happen to a wor
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by freepor 6y ago
Companies with network effects benefit from having literally everyone on the platform, so you don’t need to go to a competitor to communicate with any particular person. That’s why Facebook has a Tor endpoint, so that people in repressive e
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by freepor 6y ago
Well that's a beautiful comment and might change my perspective on things. Thanks.
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by freepor 6y ago
I think it's a matter of opinion that the investigative journalist (which is what a security researcher is akin to) can use their best judgment in making. I think the video, right there, of the people walking into their apartment, make
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by freepor 6y ago
That’s a form of No True Scotsman. You have an idea of what “security research” is supposed to mean based on the kinds that have been profitable to you and the acquaintances you keep etc. As someone without skin in this game, I appreciate t
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by freepor 6y ago
The rich are hiring serfs to do their shopping and not needing online delivery. Coders like me are writing our own bots to get deliveries. The tall are reaching items on high shelves that others can't. Life isn't fair and you shou
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by freepor 6y ago
It's nothing too complicated but not going into details since half the people reading this are in San Francisco competing with me for delivery slots.
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by freepor 6y ago
The flip side is that in the UK where you book a slot and then fill up your cart, there are a lot of people cancelling their carts at the last minute and wasting delivery bandwidth. Of course that has its own fixes but basically this system
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by freepor 6y ago
That midnight trick worked for awhile but now they release slots mostly during the day.
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by freepor 6y ago
What I’ve found with Whole Foods delivery is that if you wait for a notification you’ve lost the slot. I use a bot that plays a loud sound when a slot is available and foregrounds the Firefox window. I then have to click the checkout flow i
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by freepor 6y ago
But user behavior data is a much bigger fraction of total storage use than video.
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by freepor 6y ago
And what has been lost even above the value of high quality lenses is the value of high quality lighting. Most people are completely clueless about light and especially flash. But lighting is a million times more important than lens.
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by freepor 6y ago
Yes, but the software and hardware capabilities in the phones are decades ahead. My Pixel 4 categorically takes better low light photos than my 80D because it takes dozens of photos, does AI voodoo on them, etc. If the DSLRs had that softwa
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by freepor 6y ago
Execs veto decisions lower down all the time, for good and bad reasons. If you don’t like it, get yourself promoted.
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by freepor 6y ago
Well there’s your comparison. The store brands are chemically basically identical to the brand names. But their market share is relatively low. So the advertising must do something.
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by freepor 6y ago
I had a whole company that I sold to an FAANG that only existed because of Google Ads. It solved a very niche technical problem that you could never go and market on a billboard — the target customer was too niche. But with Google Ads I cou
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by freepor 6y ago
You know Ethiopian food is good because it's become popular without the "mother country" wielding any kind of economic influence/hard power/soft power.
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by freepor 7y ago
You can make a milk tea in a rat infested hellhole if it’s being delivered.
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by freepor 7y ago
If they didn’t do stuff like this then the only purpose of these efforts would be to make your cat pics 0.1% more monetizable for Mark Zuckerberg. It’s the application to historical photos like this that is perhaps the most important result
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by freepor 7y ago
You can say I’m stuck in 1992 but you could use a desktop application to record a file that you could be responsible for yourself.
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by freepor 7y ago
But shit like not allowing seeking from the lock screen for Spotify but allowing it for Apple Music is not “curation,” it’s anticompetitive behavior which should be illegal.
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by freepor 7y ago
I try to minimize my exposure to non-actionable news. Once we went into total lockdown almost all news became non actionable so I’ve insulated myself from pretty much all of it. Just working through the $2000 of food we stocked up.

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