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by koboll 7y ago
That seems like a tremendous waste of time and resources for everyone involved.
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I'm astonished no competitor like Walmart or Wayfair has gone on the offensive yet with TV ads stating flat-out that you can't trust Amazon anymore because their counterfeit problem is out of control. They'd make a killing wi
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>A mistake no human driver would make. And probably prosecutable as felony manslaughter, the same way removing a stop sign would be, because you're acting in a way you know will get people killed.
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by koboll 7y ago
If I invent a machine that passes out six thousand flyers per second, and allow people to feed text into it at will, then yes, it is insane to describe these as my "speech". I may provide a mechanism for the words to get onto a pa
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by koboll 7y ago
>Publishers can publish (or decline to publish) whatever they want, but they do have some responsibility for what they say. It is abjectly insane to label a tweet as something Twitter, the company, is "saying". If we're re
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by koboll 7y ago
>WWE 2K20, a professional wrestling video game, also stopped working at midnight on 1 January 2020. Within 24 hours, the game’s developers, 2K, issued a downloadable fix. An almost poetic irony
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>Um, no. You can't take a public domain image and claim you own it and are thus due licensing fees Yes, you can. You would be wrong. And you would lose in court when attempting to extract those license fees. But the act of making su
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>What happens when more people move into the area from the rest of the country and start driving to work from their newly built housing units? What happens is they congest traffic far less than they do now, driving from farther-flung pla
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by koboll 7y ago
I remember some of the first time I did salvia. I was sitting on a couch at the end of a room, and I looked up at the corner of the ceiling, where the ceiling met two walls. Then I looked back at the people I was sitting with, but all I cou
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by koboll 7y ago
Sounds like the main problems, besides whatever was wrong with the self-driving software, were that area of the freeway being unacceptably unsafe... > which the NTSB determined had been damaged and repaired more frequently than any other
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by koboll 7y ago
It might have something to do with >A select group of faculty and staff, those identified as opinion leaders, are being offered all-expenses paid trips to the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando “to gain first-hand insight into Disney’s
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by koboll 7y ago
The message I'm getting from this article is that headless Chrome should offer an 'undetectable' mode where its unique, fingerprintable globals are replaced with those from the headful version.
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This is nice syntax, but since there are two competing proposals and they're collectively at stage 1, this isn't something anyone should really be using for nontrivial code, since there's a good chance either way that you&#x2
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Homeowners are disproportionately likely to vote, so their constituents no doubt agree with them on this issue. The real problem is that when you incentivize and subsidize putting your net worth into a single large investment vehicle, and t
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by koboll 7y ago
I think their point is that environmental concerns are a convenient criticism when you don't want to come out and say "building adequate housing in my neighborhood threatens to slightly slow the growth in value of the investment I
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by koboll 7y ago
Unlike "high-speed drives", magic mushrooms don't typically endanger anyone. The worst that's likely to happen is a slight uptick in emergency room visits when people experience frightening but physically harmless bad tr
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by koboll 7y ago
Some favorites off the top of my feed: - karlkopinski - justingerardillustration - joel_chaim_holtzman - kienan_lafferty - thealexrossart - spudonkey - miles_art - etheringtonbrothers - monafinden - jesper_ejsing - evanefimov - deviantart (
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by koboll 7y ago
I do digital painting on the side, as a hobby. In that field, the iPad Pro, specifically the Procreate app, has been revolutionary -- every single famous digital illustrator, concept artist, and comics artist I follow on Instagram has one,
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by koboll 7y ago
I gotta say, a Mint-that-doesn't-suck is something I could absolutely see myself paying $5 a month for, for the rest of my life. The core functionality is indispensable, but it's become so outdated, inefficient, and difficult to u
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A short but great book came out last year called Black Death at the Golden Gate that explores the epidemic(s) of plague in turn-of-the-century San Francisco, and how epidemiological efforts to study and fight it were hamstrung by local pr
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by koboll 7y ago
Netlify's stupid-easy for small projects. You just point it at a Github repo and it does the rest. As long as you're staying under its usage caps, and you can run all the server code in lambda functions, it seems like the best cho
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by koboll 7y ago
>Shouldn't the copyright therefore belong to the robot? The company is therefore not party to the ip infringement case. A series of if/else blocks is not a "robot", or a legal person in any sense, any more than a pain
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That would incentivize respondents to cheat and look it up. I think you'd find that would make the results much worse .
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You're right, it's not possible to eliminate the need for testing/fixes. I didn't say it was. It's a tradeoff; compiling to a stable older set of features reduces bugs but doesn't eliminate them. Part of the
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It's not about struggling so much as about avoiding a situation where one small problem makes a site either look visually 'broken' or (worse) fail to function correctly. There are way too many small bugs and incompatibilities
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Just append " lang" when you Google it. And I'm pretty sure religious food prohibitions don't generally extend to using software that happens to share a name with the prohibited food. This complaint makes the top 3 comme
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With any public opinion survey there's going to be a certain amount of "noise" results. You can't _force_ people to give serious answers. But if your methodology is sound (Morning Consult's certainly is) then they w
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by koboll 7y ago
If you can't discharge student loans in bankruptcy, you damn well shouldn't be able to discharge pensions you've promised your employees for decades.
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What? He's explicitly saying it will impact him directly.
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An explanation for 2 could also be drugs getting stronger . Given how much more potent modern cannabis is than it was in the 20th century, people might be spending the same amount relative to THC content--but there's much more THC in

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