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https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/09/online-trackers-and-so...
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Aren't you manipulating him into not leaving his house? /jt The kinds of ads Ad Block Plus allows will be interesting. With the push for analytics, enabling any ads may allow some crafty shnooks to manipulate the system and figure
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Agreed. Similar name issue happened with Tox.
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Stop making me want to read it!
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It says "mosaicing (also known as pixelation)".
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That definition is listed as "obsolete" with regards to that term: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/decimate
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Someone beat you to posting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12418081
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Some years ago, I used to wonder why all kinds of companies were getting into "big data". Turns out, most of the examples I learned about were all doing analytics. Marketing teams have become like day-traders on wall street: Rathe
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This screams Bitcoin BitTorrent until you get to the end of the article. First thoughts would be all the lawsuits that would compound. We already have lazy people ripping and reposting Youtube videos in order to gain subscribers and make a
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True, true comments. For me at least, it's generally nice to find some toolkit in the language you're working in if you want to ease integration and usage (which is why I mentioned Servo and Piston). I've considered writing a
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I love the idea of Rust. One of the issues holding me back from Rust is the GUI system. Unless I copy Servo or Piston, there isn't much else out there. Sad to say I've been trained to enjoy using pointers and a tree of GUI nodes t
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That's a terrible analogy. Your home is private, websites are not. The fact is that websites are posted online for all to see, so it's more like saying certain people at a park may take pictures while others are not allowed. That&
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Agreeable, in theory at least. The fact is, though, when one person gains, someone else loses out, in this case, biz owners. Corporate execs aren't going to raise wages and keep prices the same, not unless they have some means to compe
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> Mathematical definitions are usually abstractions of concrete observations, but they aren't the observations themselves. This is why coming up with a mathematical definition often requires more work than coming up with any other k
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> People will still have the same incentive to work they always had (to make money) -- but some people will quit jobs they don't like, which will drive wages up (due to falling supply in the labor market). The market is already &quo
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Whenever that new tech excites you, just remember that behind the scenes, everything is that same "old" tech you've always been using, and that your could do "the next big thing". Nothing is really "new" i
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Professor Matt Strassler has had excellent coverage of the events at LHC, including detailed explanations. For anyone interested in reading: https://profmattstrassler.com/
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Funny how this doesn't account for night time. Any math on that? Edit: I mean with reference to heat retained over time.
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I believe we have plenty of food. We could put panels in our backyards, but solar panels are rather expensive, and it's usually more convenient paying a power company and forgetting about the matter than setting up our own mini power p
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So what would you like to happen if you open a lossy format and then open as layers a .png? Do you want it to downgrade the quality or bump it up? Some people might want the former, some might want the latter. What if Gimp always has to con
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This. As an artist, I found Gimp too precise in its pixel-drawing. You want a dot, you get exactly that. Krita, however, uses an algorithm that smooths its brush edges so that the result - even after holding the brush in one spot for awhile
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> In my opinion, this type of "technical" thinking contributes to misdiagnosing why the majority do not use decentralized services. A good point, but I don't think it's economics. I believe the issue is more just inte
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One of the problems with RSS is that it's very one-sided. Facebook capitalized on user interaction, not just a news feed. Diaspora is like a boring Twitter feed. We already have Twitter. Browsers also put no emphasis on making RSS expe
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Define "loose". Edit: Jokes aside, nothing is really "strictly-defined" as we would like it to be since definitions (even the most rudimentary ones) are based on -what we might call- statistical sets of observations. We
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To each their own. Yes, I'm sure one day more people will use software that allows them to put together amazing programs using complex GUIs that do wonderful magic. These may be business programs that do statistics, or games, and we&#x
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Imagine wireless devices communicating with each other at frequencies higher than humanly audible? No, I don't mean radios. I mean some sort of "bot speak" that would allow for localized communication without an internet conn
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Sad thing is, those balloons pop when they get too high. The density of air decreases, allowing the helium to push outward and pop the balloon. Had we made stronger balloons, we might have been able to just float up and collect them when we
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>> "The BSD license allows the software to be made non-free." Let's clarify: Technically, it allows the copy (distributed with the proprietary software) to become non-free, though the original and any other copies of th
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Thanks for the links! Good to see such books aren't lost in total obscurity as I had suspected. Seems to me that "educational fiction" tended to be text-books poorly-disguised as stories, so I intend to do book for Physical C