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by new_guy 7y ago
They're starting from a false premise. The idea isn't to 'punish' Facebook, the people fining them really couldn't care less. What they want is to line their own pockets, they do that by fining them in a way the stu
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by new_guy 7y ago
I've got Prime Video, I dropped Netflix because of the nightmarish autoplay when you hover over anything even for a second. I'd rather pirate than tolerate that. The market can't support so many different players though.
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Scientists see the 'rarest event ever recorded' in attempt to solve dark matter(independent.co.uk)
2 points by new_guy 7y ago|0 comments
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by new_guy 8y ago
Good? Passwords should NEVER be encrypted. The correct terminology is 'hashed'.
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by new_guy 8y ago
Maybe "the algorithm™" knows something we don't. Interesting rabbit hole, if you want to take a look: https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/bdlbo1/heres_th... https://old
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Zapping Nuclear Waste in Minutes Is Nobel Winner’s Holy Grail Quest(bloomberg.com)
11 points by new_guy 8y ago|0 comments
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by new_guy 8y ago
> Several weeks later, FamilyTreeDNA changed their rules to allow customers to block the FBI from accessing their information. All that's gonna do is flag you for priority analysis!
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After an employee backlash, Google has cancelled its AI ethics board(businessinsider.com)
5 points by new_guy 8y ago|2 comments
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An Oxford researcher says there are seven moral rules that unite humanity(qz.com)
1 points by new_guy 8y ago|0 comments
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by new_guy 8y ago
What's wrong with just taking a screen shot? lol
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by new_guy 8y ago
I think there's different standards. There's 'good enough' which is 4 hours and you're going to have bugs (maybe), it won't be as polished or as perfect as you like but it'll pass their test. And then ther
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by new_guy 8y ago
That's actually a difficult question! Javascript is probably a good bet to get started with, stay away from frameworks (angular, react, vue etc) until you know the language. Once you know a language you can pick up any framework crazy
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by new_guy 8y ago
Do as I say, not as I do?
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by new_guy 8y ago
One of the arguments for being vegetarian/vegan is that animals have sentience etc I wonder if this was true (and real research already shows plants can communicate etc) would that impact vegetarians? Are there 'degrees of sentien
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by new_guy 8y ago
It's not without historical precedent. Look at the Congo under King Leopold for one example. Everyone is in the accessible areas, not as many in the harder to reach places that makes it extremely economically viable for them to set up
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The uncontacted tribes of Brazil face genocide under Jair Bolsonaro (Dec 2018)(theguardian.com)
2 points by new_guy 8y ago|0 comments
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by new_guy 8y ago
This is a horribly cynical interpretation but the new Brazilian President has said he wants to open the Amazon to logging and he doesn't care much about the indigenous people[0] Of course if he tries anything the international communit
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by new_guy 8y ago
Full Title: A Texas scientist was called ‘foolish’ for arguing the immune system could fight cancer. Then he won the Nobel Prize. It got a little mangled with the length constraint.
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Texas cancer researcher was called ‘foolish’, then won the Nobel Prize (2018)(washingtonpost.com)
160 points by new_guy 8y ago|43 comments
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A 30M page library is heading to the moon to help preserve civilization(nbcnews.com)
12 points by new_guy 8y ago|3 comments
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by new_guy 8y ago
Try https://www.openstreetmap.org it's free.
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by new_guy 8y ago
Because it ostracizes 'anti-vaxxers' as a group and creates a 'them' or 'us' mentality. Vaccines aren't 100% safe, there's been something like $4 billion paid out in compensation for them, and to get
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In Spain, prisoners’ brains are being electrically stimulated for science(vox.com)
2 points by new_guy 8y ago|2 comments
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Retiree to Spend Rest of Life at Holiday Inn, It’s Cheaper Than a Senior Home(gritpost.com)
5 points by new_guy 8y ago|0 comments
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by new_guy 8y ago
Simply, by it doing what you tell it but not the way you expect. It's a little contrived but you tell it 'solve world hunger', so it 'does a Thanos' and wipes out half the human population by releasing a pathogen or
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by new_guy 8y ago
I think they would have been more successful if you could have actually gotten them for the products you wanted, not just a random selection of stuff you probably never ordered.
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by new_guy 8y ago
Your browser history! Correlate that with a diary, grocery receipts, bank statements etc. You can export it as a CSV and get some surprising info.
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by new_guy 8y ago
I wouldn't consider either HN or Reddit to be addictive. I guess it depends on a persons mental state though and if they've anything else going on. Lack of friends in 'real' life etc might lead people to over compensate
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by new_guy 8y ago
So they laid off 200 workers but they now have 200 job openings? Why not just retrain existing workers instead of laying them off? Stuff like this seems like the quickest way to kill morale and run the business into the ground.
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Twitter’s Micro-Slavery(quillette.com)
4 points by new_guy 8y ago|1 comments

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