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by ghayes 6y ago
The wealth of knowledge is unreal, however, I feel it's unorganized. For example, I wish I could see the most noteworthy examples of a trope, but often times you basically get a list of "In season 2, episode 6 of Avatar: The Last
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by ghayes 6y ago
I'd argue the show has worked their way out of this trope in the recent 5 seasons or so. Ned Flanders in recent episodes has figuratively grown a backbone: he stands up to Homer, he remarries a woman with a colored past, etc. His chara
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by ghayes 6y ago
Roger Stone, a former Trump campaign advisor and friend, is a convicted felon due to his communication with Julian Assange and his subsequent cover-up during the FBI investigation. Trump commuted Roger Stone's sentence.
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by ghayes 6y ago
For context, there was a recent case on civil orfeiture in the Supreme Court (Timbs v Indiana 2019), but it was on whether or not the Eighth Amendment was incorporated (i.e., required to be upheld by the states and not just the federal gove
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by ghayes 6y ago
Well, I was being a little unfair. Clearly press releases are less likely to use “in-speak” since, by definition, they are meant for outsiders.
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by ghayes 6y ago
The linked article, an official press release on FDA.gov, uses "the FDA" no less than 12 times? Am I missing something here? > The FDA has determined that ... > In making this determination, the FDA can assure the public ...
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by ghayes 6y ago
In either case, your answer is NO to the poll.
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by ghayes 6y ago
On a similar vein: https://teddit.net/r/eddit10yearsago/
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by ghayes 6y ago
You would agree that people "making their own decisions" do affect others, though, correct?
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Plus the market would no longer be two-sided, which significantly reduces Uber, et al.’s moat.
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by ghayes 6y ago
To answer your question: presumably it's easier for a self-driving car company to offer "ride sharing" than a ride sharing company to offer self-driving cars. The power imbalance could be an existential threat to Uber or Lyft
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by ghayes 6y ago
Do you have a viable alternative to property taxes for raising municipal revenues? Additionally, certain acts like California Prop 13 of 1978 attempt to solve the problem you’re addressing but, in my opinion, ended up causing much more harm
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by ghayes 6y ago
And with all things in life, the answer lies in the middle. You should ask programming questions, but they should be applicable, universal and not “trick” questions. You can do a take home, but if you do, make it 60 minutes and fun. You wil
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by ghayes 6y ago
Serious question: if an airline changes the aircraft, is that grounds for a refund on your flight?
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by ghayes 6y ago
I think the downvotes are coming from the fact that net neutrality was the de facto standard, and once it was visibly broken by ISPs (e.g. after the Netflix and similar situations), Net Neutrality was quickly applied by the FCC under Tom
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by ghayes 6y ago
Which effectively states that the downside is that ISPs make less profit. I agree we want them to be competitive but I really don’t understand why many commenters here think that’s a design goal. The only consumer argument should be: “I wan
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by ghayes 6y ago
You can run homebrew Rosetta though, right? Native is, of course, the preferred direction, but this doesn’t mean you’re hosed on an M1 MacBook by any means.
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by ghayes 6y ago
Not necessarily. You could use homomorphic encryption and, for example, encode the file with a hash of the file as the key material for encryption. All such files will encode identically for each user, but it will be opaque to the server wh
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by ghayes 6y ago
Not sure if this went far enough (even before it was deprecated), but SMIL was a standard for vector animation: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/SVG_animati...
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This is also a great resource for getting around JavaScript-based paywalls.
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The paywall shows up at the literal end of the text. Though, you could always try to decode the rest of the author's text from his shorthand...
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by ghayes 6y ago
> How to think for yourself... let me teach you! I actually find this advice (taken literally) to be the best advice for thinking for yourself. Teach others and you’ll find yourself opening up to new viewpoints on topics versus “learni
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by ghayes 6y ago
hCaptcha, for me, has such weird angles of objects, like a boat cropped to just the hull. Makes it super easy to pass over correct answers.
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by ghayes 6y ago
We should refrain from ad hominem statements and stick to the merits of the argument. Personally, I agree with GP that Meduza doesn't really inspire confidence in its reporting here.
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by ghayes 6y ago
I'd also argue that it _is_ surprising, as we'd expect the majority of unknown species to be similar to known species. It's not like every unknown species is just randomly created-- most will have ancestors that are well know
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by ghayes 6y ago
I know these are all jokes, but this doesn't actually assume the role of YAML or JSON, which are focused around human-readable, human-editable formats. This would be way cooler, IMO, if it didn't encode into base36 since there ar
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by ghayes 6y ago
I'd argue there's some benefit to being able to code on a train. While Internet connectivity has grown with tethering, it's just nice sometimes to not need to be connected to do your work. That's my opinion, anyway.
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by ghayes 6y ago
Wouldn't Trump being diagnosed with Covid be more akin to the first (or second) 737 Max crashing and its effect on Boeing? This was not an expected outcome and would be likely to shift the entire distribution of outcomes. If you'r
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Do you honestly think that Trump's chances, even in the moments following his Covid diagnosis, were truly static? That would take a serious pill of prescience to think his chances weren't volatile at some points over the previous
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The article states one of the earlier tests failed because the ICBM was inadvertently marked as a friendly by a sailor. So, I'm mostly agreeing that 1/6 is meaningless at this point, not showing if it's highly precise or not

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