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https://www.rekt.news/
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You are thinking of “parallel”. This is a fine usage of concurrent.
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“Shop now. Pay over 6 weeks.” How is this technically different from a credit card? Just a longer timer period?
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Why can’t “test prep” then just be fully simulated (as in you come in, same time limits, same setting, etc) practice tests? Or is it more that when you take a test, your results will naturally fall in x +- y, so the more you take it the hig
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Great new conspiracy theory, that the media is purposely trying to make the virus seem worse so people will stay inside looking at ads. Or further “evidence” that the virus was created by the global elite for wealth and control Fortunately
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Why is that?
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Yes, but you could also host a normal Postgres db easily enough
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Video, what is “the video”?
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growth rate. low customer acquisition cost. the expenses weren't from marketing, which is good. My biggest concern would be how much of the growth was from people having free time at home due to covid. And if deep learning will make l
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Why acquire the lock first, then check the cache? Instead of check the cache first, and only acquire lock on cache miss? Seems like a lot of unnecessary locking
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This is like the “fail open vs fail closed” question. It depends on what is worse. For legal reasons, they might need the ability to say “yes, we can guarantee we will be no longer serving this content within 1 hour”.
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Star Wars - “come to the dark side”. Lord of the Rings, Sauron is the “dark lord”. The Dark Ages vs. the Age of Enlightenment. Yin and Yang. I don’t believe all these authors were racist. “Roughly 40% of Americans claim that they would be
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-move_advantage_in_chess
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Isn’t that a far more convoluted explanation, with even less understanding behind it? Now we still need all the explanation for how consciousness arises, but now how it arises from some unknown place outside the brain. And then we need an
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The paper on arxiv, if anyone wants to spot the error: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1004.3702.pdf
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Go ahead and make a Sudoku app. No one at Amazon will care. Contribute to the ML library. The worst that will happen in practice is they ask you to stop, but even that seems unlikely.
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but this implies they own one of the repositories in https://cdnjs.com/libraries ?
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Do they? Their website https://cdnjs.com/libraries says "Couldn't find the library you're looking for? You can make a request to have it added on our GitHub repository." Amusingly you can see the "
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This is funny. There is one group of people pumping carbon out of the ground and burning it. Then there is another group of people capturing the carbon and putting it back into the ground. I'm picturing a power plant burning coal, then
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_box
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2.5M BTC is 83 billion dollars
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Send a few thousand ships to clear the way and find the safest path first?
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Alternatively, 60% of candidates prefer to give "return to office" as the reason they want to leave, rather than explaining why they hate their boss.
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No, they mean increase. Decreased entropy would be cheaper to store and maintain.
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Click the “global” or “animation” tab then.
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https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/global.html Here you can view a globally distributed average. Or click “animation”. This is not “cherry picked” Ironically your anecdote at the end is a great example of irreverent
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Most calls on the web are using it. It’s the webrtc default
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_genocide
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And randomly insults Lauren Sánchez’s appearance; seems like a weird thing to throw into an article about software..
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Remember Stripes main offering - credit card data. They are already PCI compliant

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