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by mseebach 9y ago
The relevant metric for deciding if something is rare (in this context) is the number of available substitutes, including by other artists, not uniqueness. A snowflake is unique, but not rare. The artist concerned here "is considered a
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by mseebach 9y ago
It may well be that foreign companies are merely encouraged to participate in mutually beneficial exchanges of know-how. I have no information either way on the subject, but generally, no, it not exactly a novelty that a government announce
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by mseebach 9y ago
And what specific benefits did you get from this? What actionable insights did you get that your colleagues missed out on? I've known quite a few monday morning quarterbacks/sophomore kremlinologists/cynics who would regale a
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by mseebach 9y ago
It appears to be based on a quote from the 1979 film "The China Syndrome". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_meltdown#China_syndrom...
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by mseebach 9y ago
The Economist had the same thought: https://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/217308...
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by mseebach 9y ago
I mean this in the politest possible way, I have no reason not to believe you, but all of your examples, GGP and down, would benefit immensely from a link to the contested revisions.
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by mseebach 9y ago
Most of the rest of the world has "two-block" politics in practice, if not formally. The vast majority of national elections are between two prime minister candidates, whatever the makeup of their underlying coalitions is fairly m
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by mseebach 9y ago
I believe that I read something about upgrading the signalling and/or "third rail" electrical systems was part of it, so they can shut the line down in stages behind the last train and reversely in front of the first, rather
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by mseebach 9y ago
That's not a very practical way to think about democracy. Yes, that's the middle school government-class platonic ideal of democracy and government, but that's not exactly the whole dynamic. I mean do you also find it hard to
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by mseebach 9y ago
That's definitely stupid and childish behaviour on Amazon's part, and will not help them one bit in winning this argument, but if that's the main piece of evidence that they are "definitely" like Microsoft, then, no
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by mseebach 9y ago
That's a funny definition of "the problem". The problem should be what's actually the problem, not what we can write novel blog posts about.
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by mseebach 9y ago
I meant for legacy oil companies. They won't be able to draw out a long decline. Oil will be around basically forever, but play a diminishing part.
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by mseebach 9y ago
> Yet, within a decade, we've seen a few of them announce that they're going to diversify. The important development in this decade is that we have turned some corners in technology, primarily electrical cars with sensible mass
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by mseebach 9y ago
I doubt that the physical manifestation of the metaverse (you "plug in" and navigate in a virtual 3D-world, especially one that requires you to transport yourself around) will happen, it's simply not very compelling. What w
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by mseebach 9y ago
The Kindle and it's e-reader kin are pretty successful? I think the problem is that a device with an e-ink display is necessarily single purpose. General purpose devices can't use e-ink, they need to support video playback and bro
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by mseebach 9y ago
My argument is that I don't think that's what people hear when you ask them about "legal loopholes". And so the survey accidentally, implicitly ends up comparing "legal tax avoidance" with "benefits fraud&
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by mseebach 9y ago
I think "survivable" is to be understood on a civilization scale, not for individuals. It would definitely be a calamitous event with massive loss of life - but if you survive the attack itself and can feed yourself and otherwise
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by mseebach 9y ago
It's not about "speaking publicly", it's about claiming (implicitly, typically) that Science supports a particular side in a political debate. Science very rarely actually has the power to do that - it can advise on how
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by mseebach 9y ago
This seems to be the central data point of the article: > less than half (48%) thought that legal tax avoidance was “usually or always wrong”. > By contrast, more than 60% of Britons believe it is “usually or always wrong” for poor
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by mseebach 9y ago
Yeah, but SourceForge wasn't exactly supplanted by a random guy with a dodgy-looking domain. Crucially, there's no imperative to leave a platform just because it might be slowly dying. If it does what you need it to do, and do it
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by mseebach 9y ago
Upward mobility is higher in Denmark, where I'm from, so that's what I'm familiar with. I don't think this metric necessarily measures exactly what people expect: The spread of possible outcomes is simply much tighter. M
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by mseebach 9y ago
It sounds like you've hit some unfortunate combination of deeply discounted economy and/or expensive flexible fare premium to get to that markup -- for 5x you can generally get into business class on long haul flights. I've f
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by mseebach 9y ago
I get the dystopian flavour of surveillance in general society -- but I don't really get why it's specifically dystopian that you are recorded by a camera while you stand in line to hand over your government issued photo ID to a
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by mseebach 9y ago
Amphetamines were in common civil use, available over the counter and only restricted in the US in the 70s. They were in diet pills and pep pills etc. You grandparents may very well have taken amphetamines at some point in their lives. But
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by mseebach 9y ago
All the best locks in the world doesn't help one iota if your attack is to get the janitor to open the gate for you. The compromised component at Equifax was the running application which is built to retrieve data from the database - i
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by mseebach 9y ago
I don't think the issue it with "political", but rather with "glib [...] and of little informational value". There's a comment in this thread saying "Welcome to late stage capitalism, folks" with a fo
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by mseebach 9y ago
Not really. This is well-understood problem with well-understood solutions. There is no reason to believe that Facebook doesn't have both the resources and the motivation to get this right.
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by mseebach 9y ago
It wasn't anybody's "old shitty IM messages", it was details about a product under development. The IM messages has been out there since the very early days. The linked article references the "dumb fucks" IM me
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by mseebach 9y ago
There are some relatively easy countermeasures you can put in place to avoid this. Never display identifying information with the images. Never allow analysts to freely lookup images from specific profiles. Make sure the terminals that thes
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by mseebach 9y ago
What about that article suggests that he has or hasn't changed? It seems to seeks to stir up outrage, that it's somehow sinister to expect that when you tell somebody something in confidence, they keep it confident - and if you do

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