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> That seems hard to believe as it would imply that they have code specifically to cripple the Firefox experience. I think it's more the case of enhancing the Chrome experience and not doing anything to deliberately impact firefox.
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We seems fine with a future where AI becomes integrated into our legal system. Here is an excellent opportunity for AI to identify potential innocent people.
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In California, the Sherif is often the coroner and can issue or revise the medical examiner's cause of death. This represents a conflict of interest. The governor has decided to leave these matters to county governments.
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Why is 22 particularly interesting?
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> I can see pretty clearly how it would be possible to argue legally that advertising a job internally and not externally (to a company) is discriminatory. I think the precedent is the opposite. Companies and governments in the US do thi
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> On a side note, this made me realise why there is so much conflict in some mineral rich areas in Africa. Honestly if we weren't peaceful people there could have been serious conflict. Care to elaborate?
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Is your app, appsee.com?
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Maybe looking at a region in terms of industry isn't the best measuring tool. Defense was a major industry (before that gold/mining) as was shipping and education and the related services to support these industries. The industrie
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The Bay Area was utopian before tech. The tech is just a peripheral. It can be argued, though obviously not in this article, that tech ruined utopia. Should it leave, which it won't due to the high desirability of culture and universit
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Your replies seem to support downvoted outliers. Is this a no broken windows community moderation effort. If not, great idea.
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One number: 2009. The author hasn't worked with Java since Tiger Woods won a major.
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For me, it's the user experience. Searching for anything recreational will bombard you with hotels, restaurants, etc. It's nice to be free of this information at times.
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I hope you get your back button back.
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That, and OSM helps you find things other than retail outlets.
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> Shits so polarizing these days it seems there's no room for negotiation, as much as I'd like there to be. Far worse if you're being polarized. Also they ACLU hasn't released their methodology, are you jumping to con
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I haven't worked there, but from a lot of anecdotes I hear it's not a happy place. Quality of life is a thing.
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I don't think that the corporations really leave they Bay Area. It seems to me that they, especially the largest one's are expanding, here not elsewhere.
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Seems that she disagrees with you.
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There are a lot of people who have moved to be closer to fish. I'm thinking about experiences I've had in the northwest, and Canada, but there are hundreds more places. Fishing is definitely a lifestyle.
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Neilsen has a similar API. Trigger your phone, send coordinate data when inside a geofence. Sure it's for a better user experience.
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As an economic principal what you suggest is not the best use of inventor assets and compounds when you factor in employee efficiency/return per employee. If you invested your hard earned money into this business you would want cost ef
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Recently the board voted against recommendations made by employees to increase diversity. It's pretty clear what priority the Google board gives to diversity, which is their right even if wrong.
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If your business has competitors, and they move to the cloud, conceivably they will be able to lower prices, and/or provide more service/features because of cloud scale. In most instances, the less your competitors charge, the mor
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Tracking an individuals mouse movement across devices for perpetuity, packaging said data as a product offering to potential advertisers, seems to be a more extensive undertaking than simply UI/UX improvements.
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Maybe telling your friends that you didn't actually see their message and that instead the algorithm FB uses to record my mouse activity sometimes reports that I have read messages that I have not. This sounds dangerous and could be ha
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From a UI perspective it makes sense to persist my mouse activity to a database for eternity?
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I would imagine that FB is not using these libraries but instead using their engineering teams to develop these "solutions." Perhaps some of our friends are actually "working against" our privacy.
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Maybe this means some relief for people from here who have family here and don't work in tech. It was an awesome area before tech and can be again. It's OK if the spotlight wants to move to Austin or NYC or Seattle, but I don'
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For me, I dig Spring Boot and Elastic Beanstalk. It's just: mvn install; eb deploy
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Carmax is so successful because they emphasize the "why" and not the "how." Carmax believes buying and selling cars should be easy not cost effective for consumers. I sold a 2000 Toyota Tacoma with over 100k miles for $2
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