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Humans are frequently in this scenario, especially at night. For example, a reflection from a rural roadside mailbox's prism looks similar to the eyes of a deer, and shredded truck tire treads look similar to chunks of automotive bodyw
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In one of the major announcements for Chrome, 'Moving towards a more secure web' (2016-09-08) [1], the Chrome Security Team writes: "Chrome currently indicates HTTP connections with a neutral indicator. This doesn't ref
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This is a very recent dupe [1] of a thread 3 hours older, with 180+ upvotes and 180+ comments. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17144160
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I prefer to think of this as a feature, not a bug, because it incentivizes vested parties to keep PoW-mining power parity with each other. Successful execution of a 51% attack shows that there's not sufficient volume and diversity of v
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Most higher-end grocery stores in the US sell trays in which the raw, unfrozen ingredients are assembled and require baking -- a sort of upmarket TV dinner. Some sell kits that have some groupings of the ingredients packaged separately, bec
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Initially, they did [1]. "Uber moved from two employees in every car to one. The paired employees had been splitting duties — one ready to take over if the autonomous system failed, and another to keep an eye on what the computers wer
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There's a confusion and conflation of terminology here, even if the original meaning can stand on its own too. The Weather Channel isn't an advertiser here. They're a user -- a corporate one, but they supply content they want
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It sort of happened, just 20 years later, and the details are different. The web's user experience proved to be superior to that of physical media you had to switch out, but Internet speeds had to get fast enough (and the usage billed
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In many ways, the focus on educational markets and rich magazine content made sense: presumably the revenue model would be based on licensing per volume, and a subscription publication guarantees an ongoing flow of new copies to be sold. Th
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What a fascinating design constraint: to retrofit a useful feature into the Java ecosystem while keeping as many things backwards-compatible as possible. This proposal has a much stronger answer to backward compatibility than the previous o
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It's more widespread to be wary of people than goods. Goods could be handed off at trading posts and in fact were rarely carried end-to-end in one go. There might have been a flow of goods, but it's doubtful there was free of move
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Roller Coaster Tycoon (1999) had a basic loan system where you'd start most scenarios off with a 10k loan, and every week of the month you'd be paying back some interest. RCT 2 had a more sophisticated system where the interest ra
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In the US, this algorithm is used to place medical graduates at teaching hospitals, by the National Resident Matching Program. And of course, college admissions was the topic of Gale and Shapley's 1962 paper, 'College Admissions a
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The classic, low-tech (and sustainable!) way of adding thermal mass is to embed it in the ground and leverage the thermal mass of the earth around you; seemingly pointed out by comments [1][2] that haven't gotten as much traction as on
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Advertising is a prisoner's dilemma: every ad slot your competitors buy is a slot you could've bought instead. Seasoned companies don't advertise because ads are effective -- although in some cases, they are; they advertise b
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Languages don't live in isolation. They are products of their time and their fates are tied to their ecosystems. JS is a popular porting target because the browser is a widely-deployed environment, but also because platforms like Node
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If you're now in an apocalyptic mood, you can also check out Budapest's subway shelters. The two socialist-era subway lines were designed to double as shelters in case of an emergency, and there's pretty substantial infrastru
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Of course, the top 1000 sites is exactly where I don't want anything to autoplay, because half of these sites have spurious videos instead of the textual content that you'd reasonably expect, just to pump ad engagement metrics. It
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Prop 13 contributes to making this situation worse, but the scenario you laid out is actually how development happens in the US, regardless of where you are. Municipalities at the edge of a built-up area realize there's an overspill of
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Tcl is one of those rock-solid things that have been around for a while, where extrapolating from other projects of the same age you'd expect to find a somewhat muted community, and that's not the case at all. Dormancy and stagnat
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The difference between this and the usual ICO/blockchain/pump-and-dump pivot we've seen from others is that Facebook has four popular apps installed on lots of people's devices. It stands to reason that if anyone has the
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FWIW, every time a browser pops up a modal that I find suspicious, I use a task manager or an OS shell to kill the process. If I have lost faith in anything a program has rendered to the screen, I no longer trust any of the program's o
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There's a fair bit of people who use GNOME because it's the default (in their distro), and if I made an unsubstantiated assertion that those people outnumber those who are discretionary, deliberate users of GNOME, I don't thi
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Harmonization between vendors is good. If all this is is common names for headers and keys to cut down on trivial divergence, this is great. As for the big picture, one of the unfortunate consequences of HTTP having recently won out as the
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Not sure what the OP intended as the context around this submission, but here's some more info: Latest version 1.1.1 released 2018-04-08 [1][2]. Previous version was 1.1 on 2018-03-19, and the one before that dates to 2010-06-13 [2]. T
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If I understand this correctly, this basically uses the drawer's perceived number as an out-of-band signalling mechanism for the algorithm they agreed to follow. Each actor must adhere to the same scheme to address drawers. This means
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The code != the project, and situations like this one demonstrate this. In a typical open source project, it's relatively easy to ensure continuity of the codebase, but continuity of the organization, and all the meta that enable commu
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JSON-LD is a significant cognitive leap to reason about [1], and its descriptive power goes beyond what you could do with XML. A JSON-LD document is effectively an RDF document coupled with a JSON document, in a seemingly human-friendly for
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Telecommuting "succeeded" in the form of offshoring. A seemingly dissimilar form of work, offshore workers nonetheless provide talent at a lower cost, in a locale that's far removed from the home office, but managed closely b
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The interactions are complicated. Government subsidies on many agricultural commodities guarantee a price floor, but that's little comfort to farmers whose livelihoods depend on being able to sell at prices considerably higher. As with

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