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That's why Blizzard decided to come out against the Hong Kong people? Western companies don't move in lockstep because they scramble in whatever direction they think a dollar is in. I can name plenty of western companies that have
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6y ago
But does the phrase internment camp actually bring to mind abuses such as denying children hygiene supplies such as toothbrushes or basic necessities like blankets in an American reader? The separation of families? The disappearance of chil
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6y ago
So the problem is it's hard to give a definitive answer because there are many different types of facial recognition systems. ML systems have a phase when you are training the algorithm. When you are adding data in this phase you are
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6y ago
But now explain to me the difference between Bob's face and another humans face without referencing what another humans face looks like, or the difference between bob's face in front of a white wall vs a blue sky. Basically to tra
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6y ago
Just like everyone is free to leave their power company and install solar panels, just like everyone can leave their water company and have water tankered in. Just like you can leave your telecom company and use satellite data. Just because
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7y ago
I think the sarcasm is just highlighting the 'oh just do something else' refrain is not as easy as just saying it. It may be that easy single in your 20s and with a bit of savings (or the ability to search while still employed) bu
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7y ago
In one case you're talking about the rules on if people can gather information. In the second you're talking about the rules on what it's reasonable to publish. Few are going to argue the merits of China publishing lies which
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7y ago
I believe they're advocating for an 'advanced search' type page. Something like these: https://www.novelupdates.com/series-finder/ https://www.google.com/advanced_search Where you can se
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7y ago
Almost any business that has physical suppliers or business customers. PDF is de-facto standard for any invoicing, POs, quotes, etc. If you solve the problem you can effectively programmatically deal with invoicing/payments/ large
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7y ago
Because you can still buy and sell the coins on an exchange. It's just that you can't withdraw or deposit coins from your exchange account only trade between other exchange accounts. No wallet to wallet trades only trades of the c
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7y ago
The main issue I see with all these tax avoidance measures is they are all based on not realizing profits in the tax year they were earned (and realistically it'll become tax evasion in spirit if not by legal definition when a future g
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7y ago
Depending on state servers are supposed to be paid non-tipped rate for not tipped parts of work including training and meetings. Of course good luck getting that without being at willed for "unrelated" reasons.
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7y ago
I don't disagree that Bing can give great results and is better than google in at least a few areas and use cases. So I probably painted with a broad brush in that subjective statement. I do think the point that the bing results (at le
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7y ago
It might be a bit of a stretch but I wonder what standing someone has to sue when search results are noticeably worse and changed in this way. e.g. I just searched "<my town name> emergency" in google and bing. Bing came up
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7y ago
I know a common line for vehicles was basically: 3rd party parts (and service) can't be guaranteed to be to the same quality as 1st party parts (and service) which can cause extra wear and disruptions to other parts of the vehicle even
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7y ago
One such feature is the ability to play from local network storage. Possibly also ambient lighting control. I guess if we were talking about possible features rather than actual one's: the ability to use the tv's tuner to stream t
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7y ago
Yes, but the whole point of the attorney is to make sure that the correct laws are applied to you. This ensures that it's the country that's determining who is admissible rather than just a petty tyrant who got out on the wrong si
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7y ago
I'm unsure of behaviour in firefox, but at least for me chrome at work will keep session information for the private window until chrome is closed completely not just the private window. Having said that anecdotally I'm sure googl
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7y ago
As to your second question here's an example with the old version on the right. [1] Your looking at removal of blood and skeletons mostly. Similar changes have been made in other video games. For example this [2] story shows a reversal
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7y ago
It is part of our moral duty to punish a company for ignoring public good rather than excuse it as what a company must do. That's because if a company is punished financially (say by boycott) for making immoral decisions then they must
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7y ago
It would mean the search company would be different than the ad company. They could still work together but it would probably result in lawsuits (by shareholder claiming they're not looking after their interests by not looking to highe
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7y ago
What was the loss for the company if KSP failed? They were sponsoring the cost of KSP dev time to keep their lead developer not to actually create KSP. Under your mercenary evaluation of this the company didn't actually have any chanc
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7y ago
Yes it sucks for developers. Especially as others have pointed out because of the lack of an ability to submit the app early to have it reviewed and release at a later time. Really though Google gets a huge pass on the Android app front for
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7y ago
Generally a fixed term has a worse rate for the borrower than the floating rate (assuming the floating rate isn't expected to change hugely in the future). As a rule of thumb if you refinance from a fixed rate to a better rate you have
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7y ago
>>The government to withdraw the use of the word “riot” in relation to protests >Unfortunately, not reasonable. It's completely reasonable the word riot carries legal implications that should not apply here. It doesn't ma
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7y ago
Since I don't generally see ads I honestly don't mind watching them the first time they come on in the rare cases I'm watching TV. Then of course less than 10 minutes later (or 4 when I'm in America and that's just
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7y ago
Yes but if Apple is trying to "be seen as the secure and private platform" then really from a consumers point of view they should be diverting resources to being secure and private. The fact that this is possibly two faced by goog
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7y ago
Sure but then it becomes much more morally/ethically easy to justify running ad blockers (while allowing <ad/> through). Hell at that stage Mozilla could probably justify rolling ad blocking lists in as a default as long as
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Sure they have monopolies on their platforms, but the key point is how they act within their monopolies The argument is that what Apple's doing inside there 'monopoly' is egregious enough to run afoul of these laws. Whether c
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Oh undoubtedly the quality shows are worth more when siloed off like this. We know, in the US, cable pricing is $107 a month on average and the average advertised price of internet is $60. Assuming you use the internet only for streaming th
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