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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Amazon does have the ability to remove downloaded items from your Kindles (assuming they sync with Amazon, of course); they've publicly used it before [ https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/c
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
It's nothing really to do with them being massive and better understood. Google was heavily attacked (SEO) and massively used, long before their quality started going downhill.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
To be fair, this is almost certainly an issue with whoever was selling the item on Amazon, rather than Amazon. Which of course is nothing more than a convenient excuse for them to use when the only ones with the power to regulate what selle
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
The delays, interpolation, etc. are a big problem in games like FPS, but I fail to see why they'd be a large problem in an MMO. Why can't you just send the new position of other visible players, and then client-side play those cha
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
How many more people does it take to manage on-prem (or dedicated or colo) versus managing AWS? For many businesses, the answer is "less than the cost of AWS".
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> In addition, we are focused on reducing the reach of notifications about violent incidents, and increasing the reach of notifications about incidents such as missing people or pets being reunited with their families—we could all use so
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Man... those quotes... I really wanna know how much he spent on drugs that night.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> This is being shown in Southern California lol and they are reporting on minor weather risks a thousand miles away. Well, yeah. The Weather Channel is nationwide. ???
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
We've already seen several instances of Waymo's approach not working. I agree that ultimately they need a significant amount of local training data. But I believe they would be better off having a human drive a car around to map t
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
5 seconds is not nearly enough time. If you need to drive 3 seconds behind a vehicle going the same speed as you to have safe reaction time & stopping distance, then you certainly can't (a) move your attention back to the road yo
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
It doesn't actually need full general AI, but it does need to know and understand all of the roads in its "service area". IMHO the real solution will be building a database of roads (and lanes, speed limits, traffic lights,
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
This is false. Many, many IRC clients implement encryption, both in one-to-one and group (channel) forms. That's the beauty of IRC. The client can support almost anything it wants to. And if you don't like one client... there&#x27
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Because prawnsalad basically says to do what you're doing: not trust anyone. ;)
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> I appreciate the caveat here as I very much do not and believe that the concept of kibibytes being distinct from kilobytes are a scam perpetuated by hard-drive and floppy disk manufacturers as a way to cut costs while still advertising
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Yes. It's always the case that some people are left out, you're right. For example, not everyone in the MTA's service area uses the MTA . The suggestion at hand is literally unprecedented. Most taxes have some people payin
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> That's a problem that can be fixed without making the government the sole customer: Make people pay for their own healthcare. People do pay for their own healthcare. That's our current system. Hello? > That's simply n
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
I'm in that situation myself, between an insulin-dependent diabetic and an epileptic toddler on my insurance. But overall the percentage of people, in my experience, who care about what the benefits will be like at a new job is tiny .
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
The ads almost always take less time than finding the end of the sponsor segment would take me. (Plus they can be skipped if you have an adblocker. The only time I see YouTube ads is on my Roku in bed.)
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
They sent an email out regarding this: > YouTube’s right to monetize: YouTube has the right to monetize all content on the platform and ads may appear on videos from channels not in the YouTube Partner Program. So... "you can't
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
So... if I leave my house, am I subject to a warrantless search? (The road is government property, after all.) The answer is no, I'm not (at least in theory; there are so many exceptions that you really are). Moreover, you're not
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> But that doesn't make any sense, as I previously asserted. Correct. It is an extreme used as an illustration to point out that you can not simply take the time savings on one compile and assume it will save the same percentage on
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
The X-axis is complexity. Please go back and re-read the context of my comment.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> It fosters a more competitive work environment, by allowing capable workers to choose the best firms. I dunno about that. Most people don't really care if their benefits are any good. And I've never seen a single job listing
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
I certainly agree with you there. As the other person mentions though, it didn't appear any time recently and it's not going to go away any time soon. Most people don't think about things logically or critically. See also: ad
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Presumably they would do so after consultation with kernel developers, like uhh... themselves.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> Who gets to decide what an "American *" is? Their intended audience. Keep in mind, this is written to appeal to someone who is already likely to agree that Oregon is handling these topics poorly.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> Both sides have appeals to emotion and appeals to logic in their platform. For instance, what basis is there for universal healthcare other than 'we should help each other'? You can't make the argument that it would &#x2
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
More accurate title: "People whose sleep patterns don't match up with their work shifts don't drive as well" I don't know why this is surprising. Cognitive function is significantly impaired when you're sleepy.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
It's more of "the" downside than "the MTA would no longer have as good of a reason to incentivize ridership".
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No, what I'm pointing out is that the scales involved are preposterous in this case. 100% of the residents would be paying for services that are only available to ~41% of the residents. On the other hand, if it were, say, a tax in th

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