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by mcbits 8y ago
Snack food. I'd love a snack food producer that only makes really healthy products that taste amazing, but which doesn't actually market anything as being healthy. They don't have to mimic existing snacks and probably shouldn
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Assuming the potential performance of actively engaged people is roughly normally distributed (even if, as a group, they come from the upper end of the general population on that axis), then I think 50% is too conservative. Nobody can perfo
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Even not being biodegradable, they degrade in a couple of years and wouldn't cover the shoulders of every road if the supply wasn't constantly being replenished.
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No, that's not an obvious or safe assumption at all, and in fact I believe this is from the study that inspired the article linked in the root comment: > The lack of objective confirmation of actual amount of alcohol consumed, lack
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by mcbits 8y ago
Another reason people abstain from drink is because they used to drink heavily until it caused noticeable harm. If some of that damage is permanent, it can make moderate alcohol use seem comparatively healthy even if it's also slightly
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by mcbits 8y ago
I think the humor comes from the shock and incongruity of a "battle" where he's brutally murdering innocent civilians and clueless guards for no reason. He probably could have just sauntered past them all. It's called th
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by mcbits 8y ago
> when you get a request id from a user Just a public service reminder that "never trust the client" still applies, in case you were imagining user agents generating their own ULIDs to relive servers of the duty or something. N
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by mcbits 8y ago
JWT is fine if "revoke" isn't in your vocabulary for the service. If you do need to revoke tokens, JWT becomes a racey contraption that requires synchronizing and looking up state on every request, the avoidance of which was
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by mcbits 8y ago
I'm uncomfortable with that for the same reason I'd be uncomfortable with "if you connect rocks in such-and-such a way, you have a computer." It's not a very enlightening explanation.
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What if you controlled the backdoor in the baseband processor and pointed a thousand 5G phones' beamforming antennas with full power at one bird (or one person on stage at a protest)?
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Similar logic also works the other way. If someone really offered all Facebook users $1000 to quit for a year, almost everyone would quit because even those who currently value it above $1000 know that it won't be worth that much aft
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The rightsholders still have to be proactive about marketing to maintain the popularity of the work and hire lawyers for enforcement. There's a lot of copyrighted work from the late 20th century on YouTube where apparently nobody is do
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I had never even read 7-Zip's landing page until now, even though it is always one of the first programs I install on Windows. The page is just fine for that purpose because the download link is clearly marked at the top of the page. T
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by mcbits 8y ago
My memories of AOL have faded, but I believe the early web access was only through their built-in browser and was very limited. ("Enter keyword: DEALS" etc.) At some point they started providing SLIP/PPP or whatever it was th
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It was already just as "real" as any license, and I'm disappointed that they caved to the ridiculous people, but it just validates my point that they were in fact giving permission to use it. The new license is more restricti
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by mcbits 8y ago
I agree that science is more than just making falsifiable claims, but I don't think that's a fair characterization of Popper. From what I understand of Popper's philosophy (not having read his work first-hand), science is the
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Testing and refining the "theories" of astrology would qualify as scientific inquiry, but what practitioners of astrology actually do is far from scientific, so the subject itself really shouldn't be considered a science.
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So don't use it. Just be clear that it's a self-imposed limitation based on irrational fantasies and there is little to no actual risk. Back on Earth, the font's creators clearly gave permission to use it under one simple con
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The legal department can give advice, but they can't stop the company from using it anyway. So just ask the legal department: Realistically, how likely are we to be sued if we use this font according to the most obvious interpretation
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by mcbits 8y ago
The creators are obviously not interested in suing some chap for using the font unless he claims it's his own font. And even then, the poorly worded license would make suing harder, not easier. People should be able to share their work
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by mcbits 8y ago
It's a license, just not a very tightly worded one. "I was not being a jerk AND distributing ..." But the intent is clear enough.
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It's simply the plural of "universe". If there actually is more than one universe, it would imply that "universe" was a misnomer, much like "atom" turned out to be. People might keep using the word with a
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Given the shady things people have found their smart TVs doing, I'd feel about as safe typing a password into a smart TV as I would changing the password to "hunter2". The TV should display (or maybe email) a link that I woul
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by mcbits 8y ago
Maybe you should clarify what you meant by "naive full text search" because that usually means scanning all documents character-by-character to match the characters in the query, which is definitely not what Google does.
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Shoestring startups would use a $10 shareware database, which is still a proprietary commercial database. Or they would use the stripped-down, free/cheap version of the $100k database. Or they would pirate it and scramble to make $100k
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Arxiv accidentally created a crackpot filter from apparently a simple semantic classifier along with a count of stop words used in the article, which acts as a very coarse "style" metric.[1] Reasonable-looking crackpot work is usu
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I'd favor something like clustering and client-side filtering over gatekeeping. Mainstream academic research can coexist just fine with fringe theories and industry research in the same database as long as one can efficiently distingui
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If your mother has never heard of Instagram, Netflix, eBay, or Yahoo, that doesn't mean nobody has heard of them. They're still almost as popular as Reddit.
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I think it's too late to get publishers to agree on any kind of sensible conventions within the wild wild web ecosystem. It would require a massive user exodus to an entirely different application for producing, sharing, discovering, c
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by mcbits 8y ago
Stylus (not Stylish) can make sites like this readable enough if you visit them often enough to be worth a couple minutes to fix them. Here's a tiny bit of CSS: body { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; li

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