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With the chatbot hype, there was a healthy number of skeptics throughout: people who wondered about the technical realities of delivering satisfying UX, ones who worried about unanswered questions about business models, and ones who figured
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People seek to draw a link between suicide and mental illness because the drastic outcome of suicide stretches one's comfort with the notion of informed consent. The widespread societal taboo against suicide supposes that no rational p
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AMP being marketed on "performance" was always a hook primarily to sway end-users to associate AMP with performance, build mindshare, and cut down on opt-outs, a strategy helped by the fact that every developer, publisher, and dec
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The post makes it sound like it's a copy of https://github.com/cjb/serverless-webrtc uploaded to IPFS; examining the code [1] shows that '23.21.150.121' is hardcoded for STUN. This was seemingly set up b
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This is a tough and awkward problem, because accounting for the externalities of a "good thing" would curtail progress towards a good thing. Meanwhile, the externalities of bad things get a free pass. Ouch. The solutions are eithe
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I can't figure out why everyone seeks to imbue so much meaning to the GitHub acquisition. Is it not sufficient to suggest that GitHub was looking for a buyer, and Microsoft took a calculated risk and offered more for them than one of t
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Kallithea originated in 2014 [1] as a fork of RhodeCode 1.7.2 to rectify a licensing ambiguity that the fork-author felt arose in 2013. The GUI web interface was the most affected by hasty replacements, which perhaps explains the lack of po
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This is the same one built into GitHub's onboarding flow. It greatly aids understanding by laypeople, and goes a long way towards bridging the awkward divide between making one's labor permissively available, and navigating the ve
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CSRF tokens are a popular mitigation against CSRF, where CSRF is a "vulnerability" that arises in part when a user is tricked into asking its user-agent to make a request the user didn't actually intend. This is particularly
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Browsers, by consensus, adhere to a security approach called 'same-origin policy', which limits the situations that data from one context can be read by another context. CORS is a targeted way of relaxing some of those restric
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Firefox's DOH client ignores /etc/hosts, but it shouldn't be too hard to host your own DOH server [1][2] that you could then configure how you see fit. I can see this pattern becoming widespread someday, and with DOH, pe
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Some did, but they're not widely known. Kune: https://kune.ourproject.org/about/ (ex-Novell) Vibe: https://www.microfocus.com/products/vibe/features/ SwellRT: http://swel
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Hyperlocal advertising is the space that tries to gather up the long tail as the efficacy of mainstream adtech is questioned. Ad money is dominated by spray-and-pray big name brand awareness whose correspondence to conversions is opaque, bu
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WAMP is a sort of tech that did the same thing as Socket.io when the latter was still really popular, while having nice AMQP-like semantics that gave you full routing, and PubSub and RPC with the same stack. A few years ago, it was promisin
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The article lays out its thesis pretty well. In the wild wild days of little regulation on personal data, everyone vacuumed up as much as they could, because it might be useful someday, and there were few laws with teeth to stop them. Usual
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My source for that assertion is from this different, April 2016 incident [1]. Relevant quote from the article: "In contrast, Tesla says that the vehicle logs show that its adaptive cruise control system is not to blame. Data points to
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A fascinating account of a feature we'd now recognize as 'cruise control'. Despite the technical details being different than modern systems, many of its behaviors are familiar -- like the surreal rollercoaster-tow hillclimbi
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Out of curiosity, what are some of the reasons why you dislike MVS?
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All of calendaring is essentially conditions, though. Your point about this being a separate concept still stands. It's unfortunate how few libraries exist to handle abstract datetime constructs, and how frequently programming environm
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Java.time (Java Platform SE 8 )(docs.oracle.com)
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Your reading that they define 'data broker' as a business in Vermont is not substantiated by the text of the bill [1]. Some excerpts that define some key terms: "(2) "Business" means a commercial entity, including
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You're wrong. Having read the bill, specifically page 57 of the Official 'As Passed by Both House and Senate' PDF and its environs, it's clear that they intend to regulate the brokering of information about 'Consume
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If property values are rising, it becomes more difficult to move there. People who do move are either wealthier (because they are increasingly the only ones who can afford it), or poorer (because a higher amount of their income is going t
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Factors like water supply make me think that the Sunbelt migration, whose targets, especially the southwest, were are among the most water-poor areas, is a trend that won't last beyond another 40 years. As these areas become built out,
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Depends on the food company; and I'd say more of them outsource it than don't. McDonald's, frequently considered to run one of the best supply chains in the world, outsources nearly all of their logistics to "white label
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As of 2017, Whole Foods' marketshare in grocery and retail was 1.2%. Walmart 14.5%, Kroger 7.2%. Data from GlobalData Retail, via CNBC [1][2]. [1] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/16/amazon-whole-foods-contro
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True, but Amazon Prime is a de facto warehouse club (cf. Costco) where you pay $100+/year for the privilege and perks to shop there. Once you're in the Prime ecosystem, your switching costs become higher. Within Amazon's ecos
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Walmart's model is based around footprint, and separately, low prices -- and the two competitive advantages don't really overlap. In US rural areas, they're often the only supermarket around, as "dollar"-style gener
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Vevo was a partially thought-out venture, executed well but not well enough. It was always hampered by the studios' stubborn direction: licensing limitations that kept it out of lots of markets, not enough cross-promotion through spons
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"The Walt Disney Company to Acquire Majority Ownership of BAMTech" [1]. "The company's major clients include the NHL, HBO (for its HBO Now service), the PGA Tour, Riot Games, WatchESPN, PlayStation Vue, WWE Network an

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