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by lagadu 8y ago
Are you actually arguing that giving less freedom to the consumer is for their own good? Am I just missing the sarcasm maybe?
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by lagadu 8y ago
[Citation needed]
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by lagadu 8y ago
I find the irony in so many Americans being outraged at a foreign state influencing another state's elections to be deliciously intoxicating.
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by lagadu 8y ago
> and then maybe 750 grand a year for the staff salaries. That is completely unrealistic, it arguably won't even cover the operations teams that you need to have in place for keeping it running and the teams for maintaining and upda
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by lagadu 8y ago
> Scapegoat as a Service. I wonder just how common this is in practice. Common enough that they made a book and show (kinda) about it: House of Lies :)
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by lagadu 8y ago
The thing is, yes you can set up a new company and make a new product from scratch whose requirements are exactly defined by you and after a few years of work they'll have a working product. Then what? You'll still be running the
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by lagadu 8y ago
> - creativity in offense (maybe measurable via "target missed from close distance" + "ball passed front of the goal") This one would benefit possession-based teams, so it would fail to give decent odds to the current
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by lagadu 8y ago
I suspect the comment was because the post had a lot of single sentences; the way it's written definitely has some uncanny valley properties going on.
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by lagadu 8y ago
There are a few browser extensions that automatically compare prices from some major retailers based on whether they ship to you. Give one of them a try, sometimes they find you nicer prices.
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by lagadu 8y ago
You most certainly could not have big government, in that scenario each state would be its own sovereign nation.
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by lagadu 8y ago
Easiest way of visualising the pythagorean theorem is to think about it the way it was initially written: think about areas formed by tree squares. This image[0] from wikipedia shows it all: the area of square a plus the area of square b eq
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by lagadu 8y ago
Informally speaking, that can be visualised by asking "how many half pieces can you get if you have x pieces?" If I have two pieces I can break them down into 4 half pieces, which nets the same result as multiplying by two.
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by lagadu 8y ago
Storytime?
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by lagadu 8y ago
Interesting read, my biggest complaint is: confusing unit testing with integration and system testing. On every build you only run unit testing, you don't rely on any external dependencies. If your test suite relies on querying externa
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by lagadu 8y ago
> The easiest way to get actual precedent on the matter is to sue someone over it. Precedent is of little relevance in countries that use civil law (as opposed to common law like the US does) so establishing it sounds somewhat futile.
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by lagadu 8y ago
Being a rescue worker is a profession that carries risk, the only place where we could potentially put blame on a rescuer's death would be if the organization that employs them be negligent or if the rescuees had actively tried to harm
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by lagadu 8y ago
I'm not. I'm saying that even if I were to be protected for standing up for immoral practices (which by and large I'm not) we're still putting the burden of morality in the wrong entity, the employee at the bottom of the
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by lagadu 8y ago
Actually yes, despite your tone. It's significantly easier to control emissions and implement emission control systems at the production side because economies of scale means that for the same cost of making $number of cars cleaner you
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by lagadu 8y ago
Your competitor is only going to lie if he can get away with it. This only shows a lack of enforcement on the state's part.
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by lagadu 8y ago
> but active in fraud. No we're not. We don't have societies that put any such responsibility and restrictions in place, along with benefits, for what we do. Whatever the company does with the code is the sole responsibility of
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by lagadu 8y ago
It'd Saturday. I'll be doing stuff I enjoy, not working.
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by lagadu 8y ago
Your argument is that criminal activity (which is what this now is) is justified in the name of innovation. I agree with you that it's a ridiculous argument, because it's the same exact argument you made.
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by lagadu 8y ago
Yes, it's commercial use on the part of the host.
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by lagadu 8y ago
Maybe it's more of a Danish thing but that description is pretty accurate of the parties here: getting blackout drunk and hooking up is bread and butter.
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by lagadu 8y ago
Have you read it? It's pretty reasonable without those articles.
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by lagadu 8y ago
The way I see it is that while it's definitely extremely interesting and cool, the incentives/benefits of having a presence on the moon are limited at best. Sure we have the means but we don't have an economically strong answ
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by lagadu 8y ago
> Also as I just wrote on twitter it kills innovation. All the ad revenue is supporting some of the most cutting edge machine learning work in the world. So what? What if instead of ad revenue it was financial fraud supporting some field
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by lagadu 8y ago
> Another German court ruling decided that a personal blog containing any sort of advertising qualifies as "commercial use" Erm, you say that like it's something we're supposed to disagree with?
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by lagadu 8y ago
> Even at company parties at big corporations, some Sales and Marketing folks tend go a bit overboard - and employees hooking up with each isn't unusual during such festivities either. Heh, you should see company parties in northern
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by lagadu 8y ago
That a myth; Geekbench results aren't comparable cross-platform.

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