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by olliej 3y ago
In fairness to Amazon, Google was also doing that - by scanning everyone's receipts in gmail. I recall that coming up a few years (a decade?) ago, and was why companies like amazon no longer include useful information directly in email
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by olliej 3y ago
The standard headline text rule of capitalizing each word had me read this as Intel (the company) and I was really confused :D Now that out of the way: is this really novel or weird? I don't work in sales/marketing/market res
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Uh what? This isn’t _just_ bankruptcy through heart attack or whatever. Plenty of people are on treatments that absent insurance (in the US) become unaffordable the moment you don’t have actual good insurance (ACA care is basically “don’t g
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Short stints of extreme rainfall don’t do anything beneficial. You need existing mass water storage, and even if you can keep the water it doesn’t magically solve the problem of limited nutrients in sand (and in fact can reduce the amount o
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This is literally a look: they're discussing the marketing pictures. In any normal article a "first look" means hands on and used, not a discussion of marketing pictures.
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Are you speaking from experience? I’ve never seen this on any of the 8gb Macs I’ve used. You understand that browsers don’t need gigs of ram per tab right?
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by olliej 3y ago
It sounds to me and others like they literally sold people's messages to netflix: https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/facebook-let-netflix-...
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by olliej 3y ago
Sorry I didn’t include that as well, but it’s the same category of “cheap high calorie”, and nestle is still not alone in that. That’s most cheap baby formula producers
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by olliej 3y ago
Yeah, there’s a real failure to understand that sugar and junk food while unhealthy in the long term remains the most cost effective source of calories . Having little money doesn’t mean your kids don’t magically need fewer calories (and n
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by olliej 3y ago
Nestlé is a truly awful company, and their CEO has historically been a terrible human being, but… this isn’t a nestlé specific activity? As far as I can tell this is standard behaviour from every company involved in snack foods, candy, soda
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by olliej 3y ago
I assumed software but couldn’t work out why that would have had a long hidden issue or suddenly started. The issue was they upgraded the software and it went wrong somehow, and Alaska airlines requested the ground stop be issued. ie the FA
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It does when the attack mechanism is a completely standard attack (cache eviction on aes tables) with an established solution (not running aes on shared resources, various masking operations, or simply doing the correct thing and using the
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by olliej 3y ago
Facebook does monitor - and sell - all user data. You don’t get to say “we will read your messages to sell ads, we will straight up sell your message history to other companies, but no we can’t do anything to protect users from trivially de
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by olliej 3y ago
Average Taylor swift concerts are 80000+, your example of the biggest available facility is both atypical (it was originally a non-church facility) and it’s still smaller than small concerts. This is before we get to the notoriously censori
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Mega churches do not have anything like the capacity required for folk like Taylor swift, etc Not in capacity of people nor production facilities. The whole reason for this suit is that essentially the same outfits doing ticketing have excl
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by olliej 3y ago
I believe so, but they have a notorious track record of not doing so. But from other articles it sounds like these prosecutions involved some kind of parallel legal system just for the mail? I think though that the issue that this saga hit
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It was pretty standard for the time - therac-25 was another example where the logic is “computer don’t make mistakes therefore code running on computers does not make mistakes” which is strictly true in the sense that it’s exceedingly unlik
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by olliej 3y ago
this is still just 'is A > B' cruft. Why add a pile of opaque superfluous - and presumably challengeable and likely biased - AI nonsense to that when you could just go "do your cell/rent/bank/travel records
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by olliej 3y ago
I do not understand the universe in which “AI” is needed for this. Putting aside the “remote workers should pay local taxes” issue, which even to me, a pro-taxation person, seems questionable (this is also different from ‘I claim to work re
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I’m sorry, what has this guy done? It really doesn’t sound like he’s actually done much? I’ve also read about fabrication and that means jack all - it doesn’t sound like this guy is doing his own fabrication, if anything it sounds like pret
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Now That’s What I Call A Trainwreck Volumes 1-infinity
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I really don’t understand the “you must buy a new phone every year” crowd. It hasn’t been the case that year on year hardware improvement remotely warranted upgrading - for iPhones or android for almost a decade. You get the majority of new
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by olliej 3y ago
So for you, not providing OS updates to old phones is supporting them? That’s a new one.
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Essentially the same things but reimplemented safely - see WTF in webkit. There are still issues (the iterator API used by for(:) is very hard to make safe without terrible perf issues, though I was looking at this recently and the compiler
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I phrased that badly - it should have been “I don’t know every edge case in the STL, and so I don’t know why this would have different behavior”. However thanks for explaining the issue. This one is obvious and I just completely failed to t
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Yeah, it’s really amazing I had a republican/now-maga coworker who vehemently opposed Obamacare and said it was unnecessary as people who were risky should shoulder increased insurance costs, and could not understand that my partner li
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Is that a multi semaphore/mutex primitive? Something to try and resolve the perf and/or correctness issues you can hit when dealing with multiple locks (ie things like straight deadlocks `a.lock();b.lock()` vs `b.lock();a.lock()`
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by olliej 3y ago
I know C++ the language but not the STL (the overwhelming abundance of UB and total lack of safety make it an anathema), so my question is why the STL allows/requires non-move here copying here dependent on whether an object has a no t
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Sounds like you want to apply value calculation to people - is this person's life worth the same or more than this other person's? Then they can get healthcare. And we can see that because you're complaining about, for exampl
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Do you have data to back up the claim that private healthcare out performs public? I don't mean "if I have millions of dollars I can get treated for whatever I want, whenever I want", I mean "if you are an average person

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