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by hesk 7y ago
But Facebook already filters content in various ways. They boost content according to its engagement which downgrades/hides the other content from your feed. They sell targeted ads to the highest bidder which implies that you do no see
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by hesk 7y ago
This has been legal doctrine in Germany for over a century.
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The main criticism seems to be that the FK relationship makes migrating the referenced table difficult. But why not remove the FK with ALTER TABLE before the migration, migrate, and add the FK back again (which will catch any missing primar
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by hesk 7y ago
Now, if only I could get Emacs running on my iPad mini which is my primary e-reader.
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> If the social benefits of a cryptocurrency are worth the computational power ... They are not.
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That sounds fascinating. Are you willing to share it?
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> I rely heavily on those I follow to retweet interesting tweets. That's interesting. I do the exact opposite. I turn off retweets for the vast majority of people I follow because I'm interested in their original ideas and not
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by hesk 7y ago
Since we're sharing, I lost my wallet in the park on the day before I had to hand in my thesis. When I realized it was gone, I just blocked my bank card, but otherwise I put it out of my mind because I was focused on last-minute change
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by hesk 7y ago
You can get message: URLs using AppleScript which will open the mail. I paste these in my Orgmode files. This allows me to archive the mail (and keep my inbox clean) while still keeping track of tasks.
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by hesk 7y ago
I ran into the same problem but was able to fix it with Time Machine. The contacts app has special support for Time Machine (you can slide through time and don't have to go to the Finder) and I could restore all my contacts from a few
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Photos of Kids Are Powering Surveillance Technology(nytimes.com)
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> Further the US and European trends are already downwards. US CO2 emission trends are downwards because the US stopped burning coal. In the same time, they've switched to natural gas produced by fracking. Fracking leaks methane. Ta
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> In the 90s, it was (probably) faster to do linked-list / chaining as a collision resolution mechanism. But because L1 caches are so fast on today's machines (and DDR4 remains very high latency), linear probing seems to be the
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by hesk 7y ago
There are no well-defined interfaces in human interactions. Human interactions are messy. The closest we get to well-defined interfaces is the law and even that needs regular human intervention in the courts.
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If TikTok is the new Vine than who is the next David Dobrik?
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> Once the courts venture into the political sphere and begin passing judgment on Parliament’s actions, legal analysts say, there is no going back. The court explicitly did not pass judgement on an action of Parliament. From page 3 of th
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by hesk 7y ago
> And it is worth saying: to get that verdict, they had to take the leap of judgement in assuming they knew exactly why the PM did it. They explicitly side-stepped the motive of why Johnson prorogued Parliament. From page 2 of the summar
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by hesk 7y ago
> By the way, anybody here using something other then AirBnB or booking.com? Would love to hear if there are other good options to consider. I usually go with hostelworld.com. I was a bit anxious in the beginning but in the last 3 years
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by hesk 7y ago
Yes, that is still a thing.
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You don't need a developer account anymore to sideload apps on iOS.
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By default the computer will assume that it's shooting an 18% grey card and expose the picture accordingly. There are a basically two knobs you can tune, to change this behavior. One, you can decide what parts of the pictures are used
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by hesk 7y ago
I shoot manual all the time. During the day, I set the exposure once and change it when conditions change. That mostly works out but can be annoying when clouds and sunshine change often. During golden hour or blue hour I want absolute cont
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by hesk 7y ago
Yeah, he really nails Tom Cruise's mannerisms when he shakes his head at 1:27.
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This reminds me of the following joke: A sales representative is advertising his company's invention, a shaving machine. "You put your head in a box", he says, "and two razor sharp knives swoosh down and cut your beard.&
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It is my understanding that this ability to discriminate only applies to acts by the state but not to commerce.
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Thanks for the link! Very interesting read!
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I greatly prefer top posting because it emphasizes what I'm looking for in a email reply which is new information. Moreover, modern email clients automatically hide the quoted text so only the reply, with the new information, is visibl
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by hesk 7y ago
Maybe it was this? Gavin A. Schmidt, Adam Frank: The Silurian Hypothesis: Would it be possible to detect an industrial civilization in the geological record?, https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.03748 I found it through an arti
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by hesk 7y ago
So, the Guardian article says that it uses blockchain but is invite-only at the moment. But if it's not public, why do you need blockchain? So is it blockchain as in Bitcoin (i.e., proof of work) or "blockchain" as in hype? I
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by hesk 7y ago
Brexit was a structural failure of British democracy, not an indictment on British voters.

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