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by jarfil 8y ago
If it's anonymized data, I see no problem. All scientific datasets should be in the open.
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by jarfil 8y ago
Genghis Khan killed more, and yet he's considered a national hero.
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by jarfil 8y ago
Pop-ups with no data control are no longer enough, but a simple "all or nothing" control is. Why would any company decide that it's better to lose a potential customer than to let them partially opt out, is beyond me... but t
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by jarfil 8y ago
If it doesn't lock in data access like MS Access did, it could be seen as just an interface designer. Whatever data it gets fed, could be migrated from a simple database to a proper backend if such need arises. It could even coexist wi
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by jarfil 8y ago
Actually, becoming good at solving a certain kind of problem is what it means to "get wiser". However, whether "wisdom" an "intelligence" should be considered to be the same, is debatable. There is the view tha
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by jarfil 8y ago
Tests are usually not the same, but they are "the same kind", and it is expected that practicing a kind of problem can give an advantage at solving the same kind of problem in the future. It's pretty much a fundamental aspect
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by jarfil 8y ago
The simplest explanation would be that either the IQ tests are missing some aspect of human cognition that is getting more developed in spite of others, or that the weighting used to calculate the final IQ number based on the particular res
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by jarfil 8y ago
If I understand it correctly, when a user pays they get all of the features available at that time. So there could be users with only feature 1, and users with features 1, 2 and 3, but never a user who only had feature 3. That reduces the n
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by jarfil 8y ago
Easy: what's the feature you're selling? Is it "TLS 1.0" or "secure connections"?
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by jarfil 8y ago
I think this use of "staging area" comes from the military use, which in turn comes from the theater "staging", both predating git and the bottle.
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by jarfil 8y ago
It's GDPR compliant, also GitHub is now MS, so like the dark side, and GitLab is Han Solo. In one word: populism.
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by jarfil 8y ago
Rail systems shine when they can concentrate steering an power in more efficient dedicated locomotives, with as many "dumb cars" as possible "automatically" following them (thanks to the rails). But in order to achieve h
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by jarfil 8y ago
> suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem Sometimes it's a permanent problem, like getting diagnosed with Alzheimer's or going blind. Unfortunately there are still a lot of untreatable conditions which can oblite
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by jarfil 8y ago
"Priceless" has so much price that you can't pick up one.
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by jarfil 8y ago
You know git is distributed? You can keep all your repos both on GitLab, GitHub, as many local machines as you want... etc. all at the same time.
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by jarfil 8y ago
Linus used to be much more polite... until some developer attempted suicide after discovering, too late, that their patches were not going to be merged. Since then he's much more direct, and his SPP (suicide per paragraph) metric is mu
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by jarfil 8y ago
Users will still have to consent for ML treatment of their data if they want to use ML based services. Base whatever service you offer around it, and they'll have to either accept or get no service. The only ones losing on this are the
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by jarfil 8y ago
What has no justification is throwing away 90% of the nutrients just so the rest becomes "steak". Other than that, GMOs still increase yield, allowing for less pesticide, water and land use.
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by jarfil 8y ago
Some people are getting huge amounts of money just because they can, and today's society, with the growing relevance of intellectual property, is geared more and more towards income inequality. It used to be that one could somewhat eas
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by jarfil 8y ago
Many ad-blockers do just that. Of course they also go a step further and block ads altogether, so blocking autoplay becomes unnecessary since there is only "true content" left to be autoplayed.
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by jarfil 8y ago
Or... make Jay walking punishable by death, and autonomous cars won't need to stop, or even look for random pedestrians.
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by jarfil 8y ago
It's an enforcement of individual decision, not a decision replacing users' ones. If I want to use Facebook to some extent but stop them from selling all my data to everyone, I may need something more than just their word to make
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by jarfil 9y ago
Are they? An application leveraging email for its transport layer could easily use standard email libraries, and social networks are little more than mailing lists with a different interface.
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by jarfil 9y ago
The YubiKey NEO has NFC. https://www.yubico.com/product/yubikey-neo/
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by jarfil 9y ago
I think this is a common misunderstanding: Scrum is not just a tool, it's a toolbox. You don't use the whole toolbox for every job, you pick the tools you need and leave the rest. BTW, Exceptions and OOP are used conceptually in m
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by jarfil 9y ago
It's essentially the same, just applied to the particular case of smaller height difference and low pressure.
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by jarfil 9y ago
A water wheel can not have more than 75% of the blades in contact with water at any point (or it would slow it down) and it is rarely practical to have more than 30% of the blades in contact with water. A turbine in a vortex has 100% water-
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by jarfil 9y ago
Unless you can prove that WikiLeaks received some information damaging to Trump and then REFUSED to publish it, all you're saying is that nobody sent them such information.
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by jarfil 9y ago
Having a job is not the only source of purpose there is. Handing out money may not be an incentive to work harder, but it can let those people look for different ways of achieving satisfaction other than just getting high. People with no mo
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by jarfil 10y ago
KeePass uses an encrypted database file to store your passwords, which allows you to store custom fields for each entry, search by field contents, have protected fields, attach files to entries, or keep a revision history of changes made to

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