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by gizmo 5y ago
You don’t fire a customer for being testy. It’s way disproportionate and if customers are unhappy you want to know this. Rude feedback is still feedback, and most businesses struggle to get honest feedback because most people are just way t
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by gizmo 5y ago
Permanent loss of smell/taste is not a thing, and how would you even demonstrate it? The disease is merely 2 years old, after all. Disinformation like yours doesn't help anybody, and makes discourse about covid more contentious th
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by gizmo 5y ago
The problem isn’t simple and certainly not a matter of just vaccinating. A big part of the problem is that govt was confident that two jabs in the summer would be sufficient because of two faulty assumptions: that immunity would last and t
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by gizmo 5y ago
But why can't you just ask for what you want without people automatically assuming you're stupid? If you care that strangers think you're dumb you have to adjust your behavior a lot and some people would rather just be genuin
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by gizmo 5y ago
Because democracy is much better than some kind of authoritarian system where the common people are considered stupid and ignorant and undeserving of having a say in how their society is ran. The big problem here is that many people don’t t
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by gizmo 5y ago
What’s next? No hospital care for the obese or smokers? Do you realize how extreme your proposal is?
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by gizmo 5y ago
Microsoft patented it
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by gizmo 5y ago
It's simple. If you're vaccinated you shouldn't care whether other people in the restaurant are. That's the point of vaccination after all. And if you're not vaccinated obviously you're not going to be in favor
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by gizmo 5y ago
> In conclusion, the empirical research supports the proposition that using memory-safe programming languages for these projects would result in a game-changing reduction in total number of vulnerabilities. I think this is too strong a c
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by gizmo 5y ago
What matters is the amount of money in active circulation. If salaries all went up 4x then you’d see significant inflation across the board. The fed provides extra liquidity to banks which trickles down to the financial system, which makes
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by gizmo 5y ago
In a free society sites like liveleaks and wikileaks absolutely have a right to exist. As well as all the fringe conspiracy sites. The problem with censorship by Facebook, Youtube, Twitter and Google is different. Here the government is put
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by gizmo 5y ago
This "over-connectedness" is also extremely common for brilliant people in finance. When you're surrounded by people playing dirty and things not being as they seem you develop a level of paranoia as a survival/coping me
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by gizmo 5y ago
Because your doctor is right. Serious viral infections are no joke. Long covid asserts that people with very mild symptoms are also likely to suffer long term. This is controversial.
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by gizmo 5y ago
Yes, there's a big difference. In one case it's an art stunt to draw people's attention to a social question, and in the other case maybe security employees are leering at customers through cameras for their own perverse enjo
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by gizmo 5y ago
Everybody who enters an Apple store is already being recorded by hidden video cameras without their consent. Loss prevention. Unless you think being photographed in addition to being unknowingly video recorded is a grave privacy violation,
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by gizmo 5y ago
There are cameras on every street corner. At ATMs. In every store. On public transportation. I never consented to any of this. Art projects that confront people with the reality that they're being recorded and watched are vital to remi
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by gizmo 5y ago
It’s not ironic that my response was pedantic, it was the entire point. When you engage in pedantic nerd sniping you just open yourself up for even more pedantic nerd sniping. “Can’t” can mean impossible, or it can mean nobody can do it. Co
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by gizmo 5y ago
Pedantic and wrong. Considering there is no known algorithm that can sat solve in P, nobody in the world can do well in the worst case. And if nobody can do it, then you can't do it either, for any you. QED.
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by gizmo 5y ago
This kind of retribution mindset doesn't help. Will scientific progress increase when we get more lawyers involved? Is that what society needs? No. Science should be a process where eventually truth wins out. For this to happen scienti
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by gizmo 5y ago
Lives are -always- at stake. Everything in science and society is high consequence. Delay approving a good drug? People die. Prematurely approve a bad drug. People die. Every dollar allocated in the wrong place results in people dying needl
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by gizmo 5y ago
Manslaughter for publishing a bad scientific paper? Have you lost your mind? We don't want to contribute to vaccine hesitancy, but we also don't want to adopt a totalitarian worldview where any deviation from "yay vaccines!&q
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by gizmo 5y ago
Theatrically quitting is performative. Journals publish nonsense all the time and this is widely known, and also inevitable because science is hard. Journals that refuse to publish controversial findings hinder the scientific process by pre
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by gizmo 5y ago
Of course every company already makes judgement calls about which ads to accept and which to reject. There is no fundamental difference between rejecting crypto scam ads that promise immense profits and diet scam ads that promise effortless
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by gizmo 5y ago
I recently skimmed through it, for maybe 30 minutes, but it reads like an introductory text. Maybe useful if you've never heard the terms "replication" and "sharding" before, but not all that useful if you actually
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by gizmo 5y ago
> Please die. You can't post like this here.
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by gizmo 5y ago
It's a truism that secure things are secure. But engineers make mistakes and that's why you need layers of defense. And when you use recovery codes that are in the realm that can be brute forced you automatically have a problem wh
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by gizmo 5y ago
We see, time and time again, password recovery systems getting exploited. Aside from Apple's shitty response to the brute force vulnerabilities discovered here, I'm also annoyed that Apple isn't nearly as paranoid as they oug
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by gizmo 5y ago
Cloudflare and stripe spring to mind. Companies clearly on a trajectory to become dominant, but not so large that they have no more room to grow, like Apple.
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by gizmo 5y ago
> Indeed, it may be one of the advantages of capitalism that it encourages such rewriting. A company that needs software to do something can't use the software already written to do it at another company, and thus has to write their
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by gizmo 5y ago
This suggests you don't commit transactions individually, but buffer them for some time and then write them to disk at once. There are plenty scenarios where you don't need all ACID properties, but in many cases what makes databas

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