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by mithr 6y ago
Does you personally heating your house, or driving a car, or flying planes, for a year match the energy consumption of an entire country? > At current rates, bitcoin mining uses the same amount of energy every year as the Netherlands did
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by mithr 6y ago
Fair point, though I think that wording leaves room for interpretation... Does learning your social graph by looking at email metadata (sender/addressee, location, time) count as "scan[ning] or reading your Gmail messages"? T
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by mithr 6y ago
The sentence right before the one you quoted is > When you open Gmail, you'll see ads that were selected to show you the most useful and relevant ads. The process of selecting and showing personalized ads in Gmail is fully automated
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by mithr 6y ago
On a trip through Sicily with my SO, I was driving through mountain roads in a compact rental car, and using a combination of an old GPS unit provided by the agency and Google Maps to guide us to our hotel (Maps' spoken directions were
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by mithr 6y ago
I don't think it's quite as clear as that. Let's start with the simple case: in a democracy, people vote to affect policy. There's a referendum, and the will of the majority of the people voting in it determines the outc
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by mithr 6y ago
That... doesn't really matter when it comes to this issue. However you feel about Apple or Facebook or anything else, what Apple is doing here is saying "you must tell users what you're tracking, and ask them if they're
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by mithr 6y ago
See also https://pbfcomics.com/comics/youll-be-ok/
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Facebook lifts ban on political ads for Georgia runoff elections(nytimes.com)
17 points by mithr 6y ago|1 comments
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by mithr 6y ago
> we are proposing to send ill-equipped people to a potential life or death situation nobody is able to predict. But no one is proposing that at all. The proposal is to send well-trained but unarmed people to these situations. You ar
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by mithr 6y ago
That sounds like a terrible situation. It's also completely anecdotal, and doesn't really contribute one way or the other to the validity of this pilot's approach. The point isn't that there are never any cases where a
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by mithr 6y ago
Presumably because they'd want something that another union state provides, and/or benefits that comes with being a larger country rather than an small independent one. A union can't really be "equal" between all st
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by mithr 6y ago
There are a few factors -- one is that the major goal is to measure the side effects and safety of a particular new drug, in relative isolation... someone who is already sick is more likely to be on other drugs, thereby greatly increasing t
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by mithr 6y ago
The part of the original statement that seems inconsistent to me is this. Armstrong says that one of the things that helps Coinbase achieve their mission is: > Enable belonging for everyone: We work to create an environment where everyon
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Gross Domestic Misery Is Rising(nytimes.com)
12 points by mithr 6y ago|0 comments
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by mithr 6y ago
Came here to say this. The past few months have been some of the most emotionally stressful in recent memory. Even work-wise -- less of a commute, sure, but unless you already had a job that was compatible with working from home, the transi
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by mithr 6y ago
Please explain your plan for what happens the following semester, once in-person classes resume, and these students are stuck abroad until such time that they are able to renew their visa stamps (which is a notoriously expensive, long proce
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by mithr 6y ago
Also, it might not be actually possible -- or at least be quite risky for the student. Whenever you enter the US, border agents have almost unlimited authority as to whether you are allowed in, especially as a student. Speaking as someone w
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by mithr 6y ago
I don't think anyone's forcing you to use the rails CLI's "new" command to start a new rails project, if you're concerned about all of that and just don't want to deal with it... the docs explicitly say th
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by mithr 6y ago
You sort of missed the point. The point isn't "there's 106mb of code that will make it into production, but it's ok because other frameworks do it" -- the point is "looking at the size of the node_modules direc
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by mithr 6y ago
The “so what” is related to the fact that people aren’t telling others they have a permit from the pope, where the implied consequence is that the gullible person loses some money. They’re telling people that, for example, immigrants are th
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by mithr 6y ago
> I know the first million, as illustrated in the scenario this article presents, is exempted. I'm using myself as an example. The point still stands - extreme wealth would be hidden, and the rest of us would have to pay. Except, th
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How Apples Go Bad(newyorker.com)
2 points by mithr 6y ago|0 comments
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by mithr 6y ago
Job Simulator is one of my favorite VR games, and is the one I most often show as demo. The humor is just spot-on, and (as one anecdote) watching people try to interact with a virtual computer by touching it, fail, and then realize they hav
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by mithr 7y ago
As long as the process for getting refunds is frictionless and well-implemented (perhaps similar to Prime Now), then if you can afford holding the charge on your credit card for a few days, this doesn't really seem like a problem. The
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by mithr 7y ago
I think they have both. Super anecdotal, but just last week I randomly discovered Altered Carbon through an online "best of decade" list. It's exactly in my wheelhouse. I watched it and loved every minute. It's been out
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Gett Shuts Down Juno, Partners with Lyft in US(prnewswire.com)
2 points by mithr 7y ago|0 comments
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by mithr 7y ago
I'm somewhere in the middle. I enjoy taking photos, especially on trips, but will rarely pull my phone out during an event, and almost never post anything on social media in any case. One way that has perhaps been personally helpful in
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by mithr 7y ago
Looks pretty cool! Had to laugh at this bit though: > “My girlfriend and I can simply enjoy our time together making memories and leave the rest to Mavic Mini.” ... followed by a lengthy video of them either centering their entire attent
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by mithr 7y ago
> if someone starts firing open borders advocates or basic income activist would that be ok as well? Not all opinions are the same. Advocating for open borders and basic income are fairly straightforward political opinions. So is being a
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by mithr 7y ago
> This assumes that the rules cannot be changed by the AI. And sidesteps the fact that many of Asimov's stories were precisely about robots finding ways around these rules :)

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