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901.
by huffmsa 8y ago
Good point. The education system is populated by people who love education and probably loved homework when they were young. So they design and build for what they know.
902.
by huffmsa 8y ago
How does she get home at 5pm? Does the school offer a bus service at that hour?
903.
by huffmsa 8y ago
If you're doing fine in the tests without homework, then the homework is unnecessary. My biggest issue with it was that you'd be graded on completeness for the 50 assigned examples. If I can learn it in 5-10 examples, why am I goi
904.
by huffmsa 8y ago
Did the same thing is science. Would stub out the full report, look busy / work on something else, wait for a rule-follower to actually do the experiment, then apply so some stats modeling to their numbers and go about my business (usu
905.
by huffmsa 8y ago
"Sedentary, overworked office are jobs making us fat, stressing us out and killing us" But hey, we'd better have our children sitting for 8 hours a day at school and 1-3 hours at home, and 30-60 minutes on the bus and 2-3 h
906.
by huffmsa 8y ago
A good breeze, doesn't have to be that strong, really helps outside.
907.
by huffmsa 8y ago
It's both interesting and expected that we're only just now really getting a grasp on mosquito targeting. Viruses and bacteria tend to have single targets, easier for us to figure out, whereas more complex mosquitoes logically hav
908.
by huffmsa 8y ago
It does. It's not that cancer or cancerous substances are "new", we've just eliminated / managed the causes of death which used to kill us.
909.
by huffmsa 8y ago
A bit too legion of Doom in retrospect. But you would get to heavily influence what contractors and vendors the company works with are good vectors. As well as partnership and integrations.
910.
by huffmsa 8y ago
It's a private firm, and the voting example I gave isn't really that good. A more reasonable case is that they can heavily influence what contractors and 3rd parties are used for projects. Not something that needs a board vote, bu
911.
by huffmsa 8y ago
But also easy to revoke. If you own the code, you don't have to let anyone know what you're sneaking in.
912.
by huffmsa 8y ago
Because you can't build a homosexual scoring model for the social credit system by learning that one person is secretly gay. You can build that model if you have access to the data of 20 million people.
913.
by huffmsa 8y ago
I don't. But I did make a conscious decision recently to not buy a phone from them.
914.
by huffmsa 8y ago
A dedicated team? Of course not. But it's still worthwhile to protect oneself from being an easy target for a system which just scoops anything interesting off the disk it's installed on.
915.
by huffmsa 8y ago
Ah yes, brave and valiant humans who took 12 years to blow the whistle on PRISM. I shouldn't have mentioned attack vectors, the first case is the better opportunity these days. Data data data.
916.
by huffmsa 8y ago
You're thinking too small. Yes, stealing individual secrets is best done with old school tradecraft. Spies in suits, photos of scandals with dominatrixes. But what if you want build a system which can identify homosexuals based on text
917.
by huffmsa 8y ago
They only need to get another 11% to vote with them.(assuming they have 40% voting representation). That's one or two other shareholders you need to bribe / convince. Not difficult, especially when the company you just invested in
918.
by huffmsa 8y ago
I'd say it's the other way around. You can avoid Huawei devices because it's easy to say "this brand is bad." But he average consumer doesn't know what software Tencent has ties to. You think you're gettin
919.
by huffmsa 8y ago
Sent me into a small panic there. But I remembered I've got work and play on separate OSes, on separate encrypted disks.
920.
by huffmsa 8y ago
Like Google's Dragonfly. Or AT&T letting the NSA splice intercepts in the main fiber room. Ntk only.
921.
by huffmsa 8y ago
Or for you mathamatican, it's as if every square on a Cartesian plane had some arbitrary value assigned to it.
922.
by huffmsa 8y ago
I'm trying to understand it, but I can't. Latitude and longitude can be used without an internet connection if you can get a GPS signal. If you're a boy scout or doomsday prepper or 1800s explorer who fell through a wormhole,
923.
by huffmsa 8y ago
The x-32 was just happy to be there. Like a big metal basking shark.
924.
by huffmsa 8y ago
Great for prototyping, and cases where you can contain everything in one document, but as soon as you're referencing model2 from model1 , it's probably time to switch to a SQL based DB. I know MongoDB supports references, but i
925.
by huffmsa 8y ago
What are the guys at Google getting paid for other than building a system which can intelligently apply those exclusion filters? My two word query should not have one of it's words excluded. OR If the typical user is asking conversatio
926.
by huffmsa 8y ago
Or when the first result says > "missing {keyword}, require {keyword}?" Great job big G, I'm definitely the one who made the mistake with my query and didn't want to include that word.
927.
by huffmsa 8y ago
Basically every vehicle the US produced in WW2 had an M2 mounted to it. It's a great platform.
928.
by huffmsa 8y ago
Interestingly, the M14 is only now finally getting entirely phased out. It found quite the niche doing exactly what it was designed for, middle to long range precision fire. Entirely tangential, but I really don't think John Browning g
929.
by huffmsa 8y ago
It was "so bad the Germans had trouble getting it to work" is the anecdote I usually hear. Which is a mixed bag, Nazis small arms were pretty bad, but the Germans have been making pretty good firearms since 1950.
930.
by huffmsa 8y ago
Then have a vote about rejoining the EU after you crash out. Real life isn't a video game. You don't get to replay from your last save if you don't like the outcome.

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