necessity

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by necessity 10y ago
This is a lot of things, but shocking isn't one of them.
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by necessity 10y ago
This fake epidemic of "fake news" is what is ironically orwellian.
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by necessity 10y ago
Well if you consider all billionaires and not just the top of the top, the trend is the opposite. Billionaires who inherited their wealth were 55.3% in 1996, 41.9% in 2001, and 30.4% in 2014. https://piie.com/publications&#x
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Manual Control Flow Guard in C(nullprogram.com)
3 points by necessity 10y ago|0 comments
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by necessity 10y ago
I am a strong critic of diversity hiring - that is, hiring because of diversity - but this approach is sound. Reaching out to underrepresented groups but hiring solely on the applicant's achievements/merit is the way to go, in m
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by necessity 10y ago
The woman died because the antibiotic that could save her life was not approved in the US by the FDA, not because there was no anti-biotic that could possibly save her. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/20
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by necessity 10y ago
You know what actually is hiring discrimination? Quotas. Racism, if racial quotas.
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by necessity 10y ago
Far more people die because of drugs the FDA does not approve, when compared to deaths avoided by it, despite anecdotal evidence of the contrary.
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by necessity 10y ago
>It should be abundantly clear by now that many of the incoming administration's cabinet/agency picks are aimed at dismantling the federal administrative structure I sure hope so.
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by necessity 10y ago
For me it turns every page completely blank.
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by necessity 10y ago
s/human/me
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by necessity 10y ago
>they powerfully reward violence and punish being law-abiding, in precisely the opposite way that the real world does. Except if you're into politics.
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by necessity 10y ago
I noticed that, I just presumed they did some training.
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by necessity 10y ago
Good luck buying a large format digital camera with a high quality sensor, it'll cost you an arm and a leg. Film cameras are super cheap, you can get 35mms for free on yard sales or Craigslist. Their lenses also. A high quality 50mm pr
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by necessity 10y ago
I was thinking about bringing my old AE-1 and my old rolls with me on my trip to Europe. I guess the xrays would kill them but they're already long expired so who knows if they aren't already dead. I don't even remember if yo
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by necessity 10y ago
I'm guessing they're training the AI independently for each player, with that in mind I wonder how good it would perform when matched against a different player. Knowing your opponent's playing style is one of the main things
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Intel ME cleaner(github.com)
6 points by necessity 10y ago|0 comments
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by necessity 10y ago
The site doesn't even load without javascript.
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by necessity 10y ago
You can simply run a sh script that sets it up... https://github.com/Nyr/openvpn-install
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NYC proposes rule to collect GPS data on car service passengers(freedom-to-tinker.com)
43 points by necessity 10y ago|41 comments
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by necessity 10y ago
More like the clusterfuck that the language is than the community.
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by necessity 10y ago
Yes.
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by necessity 10y ago
>Nov 01 2016 >Mozilla Foundation just reported a 28% leap in revenue for 2015, to $421 million, with cash flow more than tripling, to about $80 million. http://www.forbes.com/sites/georgeanders/2016/12&#
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by necessity 10y ago
Use Wireshark, Chromium still talks to Google even if you disable all configs it allows you to disable. Firefox is the only one you can configure to not talk to it's servers (Mozilla's).
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by necessity 10y ago
Which bad parts?
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by necessity 10y ago
Yup. Some distros (e.g. Gentoo) already ship Developer Edition by default.
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by necessity 10y ago
Probably better to block ads on your cellphone via hostfiles or a custom nameserver that blocks ads. Try turning your phone on and sniffing its packets with tcpdump on a notebook (use Wireshark to decrypt if WPA). You'll be surprised b
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by necessity 10y ago
Can you cite some of those pages? I have been using Firefox forever and haven't had any rendering issues in the past years. I imagine it must be some fancy niche node+webgl websites...
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by necessity 10y ago
There is some discussion on porting Pentadactyl/Vimperator and on alternatives that support Electrolysis here: https://github.com/5digits/dactyl/issues/99
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by necessity 10y ago
MS did pretty much the same with IE and Windows... Someone made something better, people went for it.

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