jobigoud

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by jobigoud 5y ago
The ubiquitous computing term "bit" means cock in French, should it be changed as well? /s
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by jobigoud 5y ago
If you try to learn a foreign language you quickly realize that 80% is actually a very low percentile. If you ignore or don't understand one thing out of every five you are really missing a ton and don't pass the threshold of usef
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by jobigoud 5y ago
> Netflix provides entertainment. Bitcoin provides the ability for speculators to make money A.k.a gambling, a.k.a entertainment. It's essentially the same. Especially people that play a lot with altcoins and constantly buy and sell
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by jobigoud 5y ago
Title of linked article "U.S. court authorizes IRS to seek identities of taxpayers who have used cryptocurrency". This is puzzling. The IRS didn't have that right before? It seems obvious. Any large transfer from any external
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by jobigoud 5y ago
Here as part of the process to regain your points they made you visit a hospital where car crash patients were treated.
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by jobigoud 5y ago
Yeah wipers are kind of a security feature, imagine if they stopped working while under heavy rain.
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by jobigoud 5y ago
You'll have to pick two among fast, safe and cheap.
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by jobigoud 5y ago
They do, unless you are talking about efficiency and 'per transaction' cost, but environmental impact is measured with absolute numbers.
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by jobigoud 5y ago
They ate working on the other side of the equation now, making displays that directly reproduce light fields. Checkout https://www.lightfieldlab.com/
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by jobigoud 5y ago
Why? You can sell a dream.
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by jobigoud 5y ago
> only real difference between most animals and humans But if I'm not mistaken this is not true of early humans, even "anatomically modern" humans. We don't really know when language evolved but it's probable tha
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by jobigoud 5y ago
There is also another Twilight Zone episode where common words gradually change meaning and the hero slowly lose his ability to communicate and has to fake understanding. Pretty scary one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by jobigoud 5y ago
There is also the case of these dogs that have grown up using sound boards to communicate with their humans (sound on): https://www.instagram.com/p/CMuXy3mBcVw/
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by jobigoud 5y ago
And scammers love them.
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by jobigoud 5y ago
Don't sell the tokens for fiat. The token transfer itself isn't taxable (at least in my jurisdiction it works like this).
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by jobigoud 5y ago
They don't need "time", it's automated, as part of the spam protection. A real profile is much more valuable to them than a fake one.
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by jobigoud 6y ago
Your FB account will most likely be flagged/ banned if you don't use it as a normal person, unless you are lucky. Not respectiing the TOS is not a crime but them enforcing them is also not a crime...
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by jobigoud 6y ago
This particular type of unintended consequence has been repeated multiple times during the crisis, it's puzzling. For example here in order to avoid contamination in public transports they limited the hours of service. Consequence: sam
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by jobigoud 6y ago
It's an experiment on the real World with no undo button. We better be damn sure nothing bad will happen. Are they liable for dammages if something goes wrong? Unintended consequences, unkown unknowns...
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by jobigoud 6y ago
> Since they don’t have children, she would not qualify for an exception from her employer, Gill said. Oh how I hate these unfair double standards. Some of us explicitly choose to not have children so we can have more personal time.
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by jobigoud 6y ago
I have +1000 entries in my KeePass. Some of them don't have a username associated. Or a service (passphrases to decrypt private keys for instance). I use different usernames for different aspects of my online life anyway. I also store
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by jobigoud 6y ago
Pen and paper doesn't work when you have hundreds of 20-char good passwords and it doesn't work for backups if you regularly create new ones. You need search and you need to sync the new entries to offsite backup as they are creat
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by jobigoud 6y ago
This is an interesting conundrum. If it's currently on autopilot (for whatever reason) and the requirements aren't met anymore it should probably handle it gracefully and wind it down progressively until a human driver takes over,
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by jobigoud 6y ago
Any normal car can be made to drive by itself if you put a weight on the gas pedal... If you are actively trying to circumvent the foolproofing you will always find a way.
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by jobigoud 6y ago
People from the US are estadounidense in Spanish-speaking countries. "American" is always ambiguous and pretty arrogant to think it should be universally understood in other cultures of America to be honest. The way to split the c
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by jobigoud 6y ago
It's the perfect analogy. Most people will understand it without an explanation.
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by jobigoud 6y ago
The issue with Covid is that we all started to say LE covid for a few months until June/July or so, maybe because we say LE coronavirus, and then they come and tell us we must say LA Covid.
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by jobigoud 6y ago
> Social scientists do need race-based concepts Do they? There are places like France where the whole concept of race doesn't apply to humans. Race terminology is for things like dog breeds. Humans don't really have races in th
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by jobigoud 6y ago
Lights from regular aircrafts deformed by the lens/aperture.
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by jobigoud 6y ago
It's the other way around. Their finding is that lower levels of inflammation correlates with survival, capability and cognition in centenarians.

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