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The "multiple unrelated games" part. You can have game studios/creators that don't know each other build upon an existing persistent shared world without opening their database/server to the other studios.
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Virtual land. You could have a persistent game world with ownership rights and then multiple unrelated games using the public information about who owns what. Club membership. Similarly multiple unrelated games could verify that a user is a
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For those wondering like me, K9 = canine.
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5y ago
Some highly repetitive jobs are better left to machines if we can. Every programmer is a farmer that has been automated out.
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5y ago
But you can send a letter with proof of reception so at least they know if you received it or not.
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5y ago
But will you also need to update it when you move?
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Probably the issue is with your insurance having a full record of where you go and what you do with your car.
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The same person might have different body language during an in-person meeting in an uncomfortable office vs their home so if you use that for decision it's already biased. Some people are also more comfortable with casual text chat th
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You can't really win the debate anyway: if everybody had followed strict isolation from the get go there wouldn't have been a pandemic and people would have said the restrictions were completely uncalled for.
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I don't think the spot is in international waters. There is also a maritime dispute with Morocco in the area.
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That would also describe an organic brain though.
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What about the calculator or unit conversion? I don't use Google myself but if this stuff is commodity I'm not sure why they couldn't shortcut the results. Users are still free to use something else if it adds value.
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Signal just lets you create a convo with yourself.
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> I have had grown men in tears on the phone just at the thought to having to contemplate killing healthy animals. They are also healthy when they are killed to make food, I don't quite understand this posture. This just reduces the
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And to protest they go use their product instead.
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Maybe have a part of the store dedicated to pre-release/experimental versions and have interested users beta test and review these. Then based on early feedback the app graduates or not to the general public.
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I would think it would take a lot more than a week end to develop the necessary machine learning models capable of accurately predicting future events based on the user's birth day.
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I'm not an English native speaker but I don't think powder is slang, it describes a specific kind of non compact snow, freshly fallen. The fact that skiers like it is coincidental. I don't think there is any other word for it
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Unfortunately all the others are worse.
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I thought you added some zeroes by mistake. $15 Billions, wow.
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Most city maps I used would have a street index and a grid coordinate system overlaid on the map so you would only search within a square like "D5" for example.
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I have one that should be relatively easy: get popular magazines in PDF format and train a network to predict if a page is a full page ad or actual content. Then rebuild the PDF without the ads.
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WFH advocates just want choice for everyone. WFO advocates, which include managers and execs, want everyone back in the office.
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> In California, for example, non-competes are illegal. Illegal or just non enforceable? What is the fine or punishment to a company that would do it anyway?
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> Smart people know that you gain nothing by sacrificing yourself for society. Even if you cared enough to say no, all that would happen is that Facebook would pay somebody else to work for them. Nothing? Not even a clear conscience? The
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It would be interesting to know the rate of infected but not counted, and death attributed to something else, in both cases. There could be a correlation where people that don't trust the vaccine also tend to not trust the hospital or
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When we say an elite high jumper or pole vaulter or gymnast is defying gravity, it's hyperbole. Here it's just nonsense.
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Maybe you can look at micromorts, it's a unit of risk designed exactly to make these kind of comparisons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort
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> like every other turn signal you’ve seen in your entire life. You don't know a priori that they work like other turn signals. You are presented with a new paradigm. Blinking side AND arrow direction. All bets are off. You now have
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5y ago
But "dishonest" is simpler language register than "deceitful". Doesn't that weakens your argument?
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