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6mo ago
The bad publicity is all in tech spaces and they do ads IRL.
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6mo ago
Causing your fellow student to do better shouldn't be harmful to you. Students should feel comfortable helping one another without fear of it worsening their own mark.
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6mo ago
Was it actually superior though? The usual treatment is that packet switching works better at the scale of the internet. With voice, hogging a whole line works, but for the internet it makes more sense to slow everybody down when congestion
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6mo ago
The hertz is formally defined as 1/s, except this leaves open the question of 1 what each second. I've seen it argued that since the numerator is unitless, and radians are also unitless, that the hertz as defined refers to one r
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6mo ago
nonsense can have the excuse of being benign, and danger can have the excuse of being well thought out.
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6mo ago
It does offer you legal protection. In the US, the right to not self incriminate protect you from divulging passwords but does not protect you from giving up biometrics. In other countries the rule is different.
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6mo ago
Index funds won't get in at ipo prices. They wait a year or so before including new stocks, so the price is guaranteed to have settled by then. OpenAI also isn't profitable yet so that's another point against them in terms of
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6mo ago
That's exactly what's going on in africa, people are installing solar panels in order to avoid having their power be out half the time.
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International law consists of treaties that have been bilaterally agreed to by several countries, in most cases including the US. Being treaties, they are US laws that are much more difficult for the US to amend than ordinary laws. US law&#
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6mo ago
Be chatbot first ig. I had envisioned a portal where you land on the front page and drop your question in the box. It would do some rag thing over the SO question database then try to answer your question. You could chat back and forth with
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6mo ago
It's a noun too
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7mo ago
As retribution for the attacks on their country I believe.
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7mo ago
> Huh, why? The opposite change was already justified, it would obviously be ridiculous to have to constantly rejustify every law in our society. > They didn't change any laws, did they? So it was as legal earlier as it is now, i
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7mo ago
Malice is not required. If it thinks it is in the right, then it will do whatever it takes to get around limitations.
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It was banned most everywhere, then with no public debate on the subject, much less consensus, all of a sudden it was legal and in your face wherever you went. If it's going to be made legal, it needs to be justified, rather than there
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7mo ago
> Chris Lattner, inventor of the Swift programming language More proximately, the creator of the clang c compiler.
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7mo ago
depends what the fstab says. nofail is highly recommended for anything nonessential to boot.
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7mo ago
It's called the "brush" tool.
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7mo ago
They're human specific ailments. We create a fake version of them in mice, then we fix the fake version. The basic problem with these issues is we don't understand the root cause. So we can replicate the symptoms in a mouse model
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8mo ago
The first three are presumably just hardware advancements? Apple certainly deserves credit for refining the concept and making it into a neat package.
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8mo ago
If this is actually viable, then SaaS will (be forced to) lower costs until it is no longer worthwhile.
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8mo ago
In 1930, if a person starts paying into the pension at 30, at that point they have a life expectancy of 37 years, ie they will benefit from the pension for 2 years. Life expectancy at age 30 goes up to 48 in 2020, which gives them 13 years
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Your explanation makes it sound like an incredibly stupid decision. I imagine what you're getting at is that 3 bytes were/are sufficient for the basic multilingual plane, which is incidentally also what can be represented in a sin
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8mo ago
what does this have to do with gamergate? If you smell the same thing everywhere you go, you might want to check under your nose.
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I already preempted your response. You're behind.
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8mo ago
And which will frequently be completely wrong, but they will believe it absolutely because it fits with their political biases.
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And if two official statements from two different organization differ, what do you do? And if, of the two, the government is known to be a bad faith actor, how does that affect your answer? Organizations lie, that is a simple fact of life.
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It depends. If the law says "you must perform such-and-such steps to verify age" then no, they don't care if you can counter it. If the law says "you must use an approach that is at least x% effective" then yes they
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> Surely the law prohibits all copyright infringement, not just infringement of companies with lawyers and deep pockets. No. The DMCA is capricious by design in that if ceases to provide safe harbor if too much copyright infringement is
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ub0 with all the annoyances lists on also hides it
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