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by m12k 6y ago
Firefox says parts of the page are not https (most likely images). The site is the personal site of professor and statistician, Edward Tufte, known for having strong opinions about data visualization and the use of PowerPoint.
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It's not uncommon for a company that could have been profitable to instead choose to invest in getting even bigger reach, and potentially getting an even bigger profit down the road - and VCs tend to press hard for this course. For som
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I'm not quite sure what you mean by the PDFs and EPUBs being rasterized - that's always happening with anything that is displayed on a screen. Do you mean that it is converted to a raster format and stored like that? (outside of a
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I wonder if they were using numbers from the IEA? That agency seems to have been massively hit by regulatory capture by the fossil fuel industry, and consistently underestimates the price reductions of renewables year after year.
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I think one of the main benefits of writing tests before implementation rather than after, is that it forces you to think about making a testable design. But if you are already in the habit of making testable designs, then IMO TDD isn'
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So basically "see also" in Latin?
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If Epic wins their lawsuit and Apple is forced to allow sideloading/other app stores, is that a move toward a more open market?
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Do you know of any examples of companies that failed due to tech issues? I tried coming up with one, but I actually couldn't think of any
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You can ensure it doesn't interpret a right-click as a left click by lifting the fingers on the left side before right-clicking, then it'll work every time. Or do like me and ditch the magic mouse, since it's insane that a mo
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Even better, let WHO shoulder the cost of trialing promising candidate drugs. The current system means every successful drug needs to also shoulder the cost of developing and (especially) trialing nine other drugs that didn't make it.
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I agree that a UBI will probably be needed in the future, and that a wealth tax alone won't fund it - but it could be part of it. The way I see it a wealth tax is more like a 'catch all' tax - it's a fallback in case the
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> Jobs don't just grow out of thin air Correct, they grow out of having a middle class with purchasing power, who can buy products and services, thus creating jobs for those who provide those things. But the middle class's effe
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Off the top of my head, Go and goroutines are built around message-passing as well. And Scala/Java with Akka seems pretty well-established at this point too - although it'll likely never have as broad support as something built in
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It's amazing how well a society can function, if you ensure that the money that circulates in it doesn't leak out of it, fueling further investment and purchases. I think it's worth actually re-examining our view of globaliza
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The way I see it, the likely, big ethical issue with AI isn't some Terminator/Butlerian Jihad scenario, or even mass surveillance - it's that the wealth created by the technology will benefit the already wealthy much, much mo
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Are you on macOS? I held off on switching until a rendering optimization landed a bit less than a year ago, which brought Firefox up to par with Chrome.
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I'm still using 1Password self-hosted - works fine.
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American publishers, YouTube and newspapers all suffer from the same affliction of rewarding their content creators for how long they can keep their audience engaged, nudging the content creators toward bury the lede.
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Any particular reason why Lisp doesn't also tend to compose with smaller functions? Did it just happen to evolve that way? Is it easier to get the types of the smaller functions right when you have a compiler to help you like you do in
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Trying to read this on iOS, but the site is completely obscured by an expanded menu that I can't seem to close in any way. Could anyone give a TL;DR of what this is?
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Seeing worse ads (or none if you install an adblocker), but there's less info about you floating around the web, beyond your control. I'll take that any day of that week.
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Advertisers pay Google, which then pays publishers (people who own websites) to have the ads displayed on their sites. This display ad network was largely established when Google bought DoubleClick, and should not be confused with Google&#x
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From the page: Flipper was inspired by the pwnagotchi project. However, unlike all the other DIY boards for hackers, it's designed with the convenience of everyday usage in mind. Flipper has a robust case, handy buttons and shape, and
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Reminds me of how the first version of AlphaGo used recorded games played by humans, but later versions were able to surpass that using self-play.
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Not mentioned here, but bitcoin is also a much better tool for tax evasion than banks are, with all their mandatory reporting to the tax authorities. That also makes it less of an ally for a socialist, since it helps the wealthy starve the
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I think there is a simpler explanation for the fall of empires: They are built on assumptions about the world in which they are founded, and they come with coping-mechanisms to deal with the kinds of problems that their founders expect the
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Nah, you're just in an unbounded recursion - don't worry, I can already now tell you that it ends with stack overflow.
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Sounds like the Netflix chaos engineering team
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I live just across the border from Sweden, in Denmark. Our health authorities proposed the same strategy as Sweden - but our prime minister overruled them, and chose a bigger lockdown quickly, after a serious warning from the Italian health
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AKA Militant Agnosticism

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