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by lr1970 3y ago
> We all like the feeling of credit, but this context is very important. Exactly, this is why a field "co-authored-by:" is a nice middle ground that allows for providing partial credit to the original author while maintaining m
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by lr1970 3y ago
He is old like in his 90s, in mental decline consistent with his age, and has little to loose because extradition proceedings take long time. On the flip side, he was given celebrity reception in the Parliament and he got his 15 minutes of
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by lr1970 3y ago
Well, there are anecdotes contrary to this proposition. For example Google's cofounder Sergey Brin [0] comes from an immigrant family of modest means, upper middle class perhaps but not rich. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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Fundamentally, the problem of representing money as Integers is division. A set of integers is not closed over division and, as mathematicians would put it, set of Integers does not form a field. For example, 10/3 is not an integer. Ma
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Finally, in iOS-17 Maps app one can download offline maps -- a very useful feature for navigating in areas with poor or no cell-phone coverage. I have mostly switched from Google Maps to Appel Maps due to Apples better UI and ability to con
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by lr1970 3y ago
> Turns out paying the barbarians to leave you in peace is significantly cheaper than the taxes for the army (by the end almost entirely staffed by the same barbarians) to protect you from them. If you do not want to pay for your own arm
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by lr1970 3y ago
To start, Tim Cook should pledge user-replaceable batteries in iPhones, iPads, MacBooks. People are replacing the entire gadget just because battery capacity went down contributing to electronic waste. Without addressing this elephant in th
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by lr1970 3y ago
Intercept was the first to claim back in 2016 that this building has had a deep NSA connection [1]. Fascinating story... [1] https://theintercept.com/2016/11/16/the-nsas-spy-hub-in-new-...
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Let's use Python unambiguous notation with underscores 100_000 or 40_000.
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> The HOA sold a home worth over $500k (almost paid off) for $85k at auction, to recover $6k of fines. This alone smells as a fraudulent scam. Let me guess -- the person who bought the house is a friend of the HOA board and will flip th
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by lr1970 3y ago
My biggest problem with TOML is absence of `null` values. Null is fundamental in describing missing or undefined values. Especially problematic are (numeric) arrays with missing values. JSON has null as the first-class object. In TOML world
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> It's pretty wild how baked into modern life insecure 2fa is. And a solution to this is very simple. Make telcos legally liable for losses due to SIM-swap attacks and before the ink is dry on such a law, Telcos will ban using phone
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> Can anyone shed light on how this can happen without someone having your phone? I do not know specific details of this particular incident but I would like to emphasize the fact that Google Fi, at least in the US, is a virtual network
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> so they could point to all the empty seats and ask the CAB to raise prices for their route to offset the money they were losing. Strange market logic. Normally you lower the prices to increase demand and fill those empty seats. Raising
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> I'm a manager of a team that's mostly H1Bs at Google. It's mostly fine but a few of them just refuse improve their English I am wondering how did they manage to pass the Google's hiring committee?
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Not really. Dave Clark was always in the shadow of Jeff Wilkie. And Dave left Amazon shortly after Wilkie.
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> The vaccines turned an extremely dangerous pandemic into a tolerable-if-still-worrisome endemic disease. Effective vaccinations were pretty much limited to the first world countries. Third world countries either did not have access to
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by lr1970 3y ago
Robotic laryngectomy has been around for several years already and is quite common in the US. Source: my wife participates in these surgeries.
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> If you want a just world, be a Socialist. Read Marx for real. And join the rest of the historically frustrated who will die watching humanity flagellate itself. If there's hope, it's in the proles. Socialism and Marxism were
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by lr1970 3y ago
Agree with you on Aeron. But HM Embody is in a different league. I have two of them and love it.
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Wrong approach. Person's identity and authentication should not be based on the immutable and public information like social security number, driver's license number, address history, etc. There are many ways such information can
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> A election only means something because of the consent of a large number of average people to abdicate their freedom to someone else based on what they feel was a fair process. Even though paper voting is not perfect and has its own is
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I am really curious whether the current governor of Hawaii should take responsibility for the failures and resign. Out of all 50 states Hawaii is supposed to have the most advanced early warning system and yet, the reality check went disast
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> Why do we have to set the time on our clock radios or on our microwaves or whatever? Why don't they just always use this Tech. The main reason is lack of reliability or better to say strong dependency of reception success from loc
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> All fine but if say 2% is the tipping quantity (I'm pulling numbers out of my arse here) and it happens so that those 10% are the only percents we as humans can influence, shouldn't we push to reduce those 10% and keep an enj
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> All the discussion is about reducing CO2 emissions. But we have nothing to show for it. Even the during the Covid lockdowns, CO2 emissions were reduced by only 10% I am not sure that many here know the fact that man-made CO2 emissions
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> Leadership generally DOES NOT KNOW that error rates are just as dependent on usage - i.e. that if you search for someone who isn't in the database, 100% of the matches will be false. They do not understand which part of the confus
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by lr1970 3y ago
> Could be normal diamagnetism, or even ferromagnetism. I am curious how one could confuse the two? One leads to repulsion, another to attraction.
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> >I have the unit blocked in my router so it can't surreptitiously update its firmware and start doing this. > Maybe this is a silly question, but how do you do this without blocking wifi printing? Are you just stopping netwo
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> Worse than just "backed by the federal government," the loans are basically protected by the government. It is really strange that government does not constrain tuitions of the colleges participating in the loan program. Curr

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