mcherm

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by mcherm 5y ago
The issue is that those are mechanisms to validate a card against a central authority. But most usages are in cases where the ID is self-validating and cannot be authenticated against a central authority.
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by mcherm 5y ago
I would suggest "if we can see two eyes that are closed and there wasn't a change made within the past 5 seconds".
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by mcherm 5y ago
A key part of the argument here seems to be that certain people were inclined to take precautions or not take precautions and government mandates didn't change things much. But that doesn't pass the smell test to me. My employer t
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by mcherm 5y ago
Thank you for explaining this so clearly.
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by mcherm 5y ago
> They get a call that someone is shot, and that soon others will be killed, they are going to call SWAT. There is no law of nature requiring that police departments react that way. It is up to us as a society to decide what behavior we
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by mcherm 5y ago
I believe that the outcome would be this: You would go to court to sue Amazon. They would claim the suit should be dismissed because you had agreed to mandatory arbitration. You would claim you had NOT agreed to that clause, because you con
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by mcherm 5y ago
In the US, arbitration HAS developed the equivalent of class action cases. However, most companies that require their customers to agree to mandatory arbitration also require them to agree not to utilize class action options.
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by mcherm 5y ago
> It will force major banks to rethink their overdraft fees as a revenue center. I wish that were true. For significantly more than 10 years I have worked for a major bank that does not charge fees for overdrafts that pull from a loan or
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by mcherm 5y ago
But that was a one-time effect. It affects the current money supply, but does not affect inflation/deflation over time.
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by mcherm 5y ago
> Logic itself is a human construct that comes from observing nature - God's surely didn't hand it over to us. I'm not sure that is true. If we estimate Pi by tossing needles onto a grid of lines[1] then we are obtaining t
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by mcherm 5y ago
Yes, but urgent care would not have been able to address the issue described here. In general urgent care is only qualified to address simple, common illnesses and conditions.
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by mcherm 5y ago
This article seems to completely miss the alternative explanation: that trees make a location more desirable and thus more valuable (and that the racial differences in tree coverage stem from racial differences in income). Now, the redlinin
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by mcherm 5y ago
Try reading paragraphs 3-7. Whatever else you may feel about them, they are clearly quite specific about the behavior experienced.
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by mcherm 5y ago
No they didn't. I wish they had.
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by mcherm 5y ago
Sounds useful. Which such tools do you recommend?
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by mcherm 5y ago
Most people do not consider ants to be conscious. But, on reflection, I'm not going to disagree with you. I'm not sure that the word "conscious" actually has a clear meaning other than human exceptionalism.
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by mcherm 5y ago
Eusocial behavior does not imply conscious decisions. Ants do not apply their conscious intelligence to choose whether to become a worker drone or soldier drone; it is controlled by chemical signals. Bee hives feed royal honey to form a new
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by mcherm 5y ago
This is my superpower. When I attend meetings I take notes. I'm willing to share those notes with anyone who needs them. I look back at my notes to recall details or find key links and figures. This makes me a significantly better engi
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by mcherm 5y ago
Honestly, I think there has been very little banning of bubbles for "wrongthink", it's mostly been banning of bubbles for "wrongbehavior".
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by mcherm 5y ago
> you can also base your solution on hamilton cycles I don't know what that means. Can you illustrate (preferably with a code example)?
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by mcherm 5y ago
A major goal of a diversity leader in a tech-focused company like Google is to influence the behavior of engineers. A fellow engineer is often able to do that far more effectively than someone without a strong technical background.
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by mcherm 5y ago
> This should be illegal for Paypal to do, period. Absolutely illegal. In the US, it *is* illegal for any bank or other regulated financial company. But PayPal claims that they aren't that. There are lots of other ways to send or re
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by mcherm 5y ago
> Are many workplaces really so strict or people so embarrassed about nudity that being caught reading an article with an image of tastefully painted nudity is an issue? Yes. Many are. Labeling thing with "NSFW" is a polite ste
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by mcherm 5y ago
> Arbitration really only works when the two parties need speed. I disagree. Arbitration also works when one party wants to win all the time and the arbitrators will allow that. At least, it normally works under those circumstances... Am
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by mcherm 5y ago
In that situation, why do you WANT tests? If, for example, someone intends to refactor the code into something more maintainable and wants tests to prevent any accidental changes in functionality, then this is useful. If the goal is to catc
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by mcherm 5y ago
Ok, now I'm done with this "controversy". There is no longer even the slightest doubt in my mind who has the higher ground now.
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by mcherm 5y ago
> So no changes really, except they've made it a distinct category so that people can find this content easily Making it a distinct category also means that both advertisers and viewers can AVOID the content easily.
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by mcherm 5y ago
It wasn't a TOS violation until today's announcement... at the time her revenue stream was cut off her content was in compliance with the letter (if not the spirit) of twitch's published policy.
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by mcherm 5y ago
Yes, but it is more effective to let someone else own the second site that offers adult content. Then, for advertisers, there is no brand confusion caused by a common owner.
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by mcherm 5y ago
I've seen this before. Not often, because the companies I have worked at have rarely hired someone from this social strata. But in the cases where we have, I have seen the alienation. Aside from the obvious "be genuinely friendly&

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