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by freyir 8y ago
> It feels like colleges are turning into breeding grounds for social justice warriors Is this really the case? All colleges probably have a vocal minority of activists, and some colleges have more than others. But I'd guess the v
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> It's a really unfortunate strategy the Atlantic has taken. The Atlantic's title is "Killer Tulips Hiding in Plain Sight." Or did they change it?
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by freyir 8y ago
How about allowing teenagers to tag photos of each other drunk or high or doing something regrettable? How about not actually deleting those photos from your servers when the kids request them to be deleted?
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by freyir 8y ago
Uber is disrupting walking.
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by freyir 8y ago
"One" person is two, and they made valid points that you refused to acknowledge. > Red light cameras or speeding cameras on a few areas !== all encompassing surveillance that implements 100% compliance with the laws. Who said
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by freyir 8y ago
I like this quote too, but it portrays Facebook leadership as bumbling but good-hearted. I'm not sure if that's the case, or if they've been aware of the problems and just never gave a shit.
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by freyir 8y ago
I had a CEO who always kept a gaggle of yes-men at his heels. They were very enthusiastic about the product, even as degraded into a flaming pile of garbage and the walls crumbled around us.
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by freyir 8y ago
You know who owns WhatsApp, right?
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Of course, but this doesn't negate the fact that more evidence (and better evidence) is generally good.
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by freyir 8y ago
As others have pointed out, your example doesn't hold water: other countries have speeding cameras already, and our speedometers are already sufficiently accurate. Do you have a better example?
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by freyir 8y ago
> Where did I say street crime doesn't exist? Your argument is that if cameras don't help with fraud or wage theft or domestic violence, they serve no purpose. Cameras may impact street crime, and street crime is rampant in m
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by freyir 8y ago
There were 30,000 car break-ins reported in San Francisco last year. Just because fraud exists, this does not mean street crime does not exist. What a strange argument.
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by freyir 8y ago
> "Innocent until proven guilty." Whose innocence being questioned here? The quote is a non-sequitur in this context, unless you consider "being on camera" a punishment reserved for the guilty. I have bad news for y
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by freyir 8y ago
Good thing we leave officers to rely on their intuitions, their biases, and secondhand accounts, instead of video evidence.
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by freyir 8y ago
> We'd never have consented to many of them if we knew they'd be 100% enforced. Like what? Times change with technology, whether we like it or not. Thankfully, laws can adapt too.
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> being able to select targets after-the-fact at little additional cost because of indiscriminate surveillance This seems like a bizarre way of thinking, that crimes should only be punished if the criminal happens to be caught in the act
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by freyir 8y ago
The Art Institute of Chicago is where I appreciated art for the first time. It has an amazing collection, and it's not an overcrowded zoo, especially on weekdays.
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by freyir 8y ago
I believe they’re using GPS data here more for analytics, rather than navigation. They can use GPS data to chart usage metrics, plan pool rides, check for anomalies, and harass journalists, for example.
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by freyir 8y ago
And if he felt so strongly about not working for them, why not just delete the email? You’re not obligated to apply when a recruiter spams you. That said, I do think the big tech companies have abysmal hiring processes. It’s not horrifying,
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by freyir 8y ago
How did Amazon cause the heroin problem in Seattle? There's been a growing heroin and homelessness problem all over the country. Did it cause this too?
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by freyir 8y ago
That’s not the problem. The problem is I can only see about 50% of the slide, and pinch-to-zoom doesn’t work.
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by freyir 8y ago
Ouch, Go not included in languages Google commonly uses.
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by freyir 8y ago
Why don’t the numbers always add up? A Tesla P3 engineer lists his or her base as $130k, stock grant as $150k and TC is listed as as $168,000? Does it not check whether the numbers make sense?
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by freyir 8y ago
Why does he have an axe to grind with Intel?
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by freyir 8y ago
> You don't want a general "radio decoder". You want a 4G modem Might we not want both, for different purposes? Software-defined radio won't match the performance or efficiency of specialized RF hardware, but that d
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by freyir 8y ago
> for flatter schema's I do personally think TOML is more readable than it's JSON, YAML and XML Yes. But for nested data, I find TOML becomes the least readable and I have to fall back to YAML or JSON. Maybe we need just one
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by freyir 8y ago
In my discussions with people, it seems like he’s becoming increasingly polarizing. His fans are idolizing him, but others see his behavior as attention-seeking theatrics. Interesting to see how it plays out in the long run, in terms of com
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$3500 is median asking price for a 1BR now.
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We'll see how that works out for them.
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by freyir 8y ago
I'm not very familiar with the subject, but I've been hearing about academic work on optical integrated circuits for a few years now. Is this work being commercialized yet? Are there photonic ICs in use in industry?

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