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by osteele 9y ago
Don’t you need to audit the extension source, and verify it matches the build (or build it yourself), to make sure it’s not exfiltrating data from visited web sites? I’ve been reluctant to install extensions, because I’d have to extend my t
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by osteele 9y ago
Ten years ago my home page showed up on the first page (top ten) of search results for a Google search for just my first name, or just my last name. I've never been particular famous—there were just no individuals with a web presence
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by osteele 9y ago
functools.lru_cache[1] from the standard library is a decorator that memoizes[2] a function. https://github.com/osteele/callgraph/blob/master/examples/ca... has some examples of using @lru_cache, to
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by osteele 9y ago
They're a kind of advice [1]. Advice was indeed subsumed by CLOS method combination, but existed prior to that and has a life of its own, for example in Aspect Oriented Programming. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by osteele 9y ago
Consider functools.wraps[1] in your own decorators. This uses functools.update_wrapper to copy the name, docstring, and some other other attributes[2] from the wrapped function to the wrapper. [1]: https://docs.python.org/3&
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by osteele 9y ago
This is anecdata but… I have to reboot my late 2013 MacBook Pro a few times a week, when it freezes or becomes partially unresponsive in weird ways. Previous to High Sierra, I tried to remember to reboot it every few months, mostly out of s
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Scott Alexander calibrates his predictions http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/01/02/2017-predictions-calibr...
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I read this as saying "our lawyers do not want us to preemptively strengthen the case for legal liability for damages", and as being completely independent of plans for mitigation or future product changes.
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The brain has a couple of regions (the somatosensory context, the primary and supplementary motor cortex) with maps of the body. You'd need to add the limbs to those maps. Brains have enough plasticity to re-allocate the area responsib
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by osteele 9y ago
Nicholas Negroponte joked that there's a “brightness” setting on the television, but it doesn't work.
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by osteele 9y ago
It doesn't even require a human advisor. Many banks participate in CDAR, which spreads large deposits across multiple accounts at other banks in the network. Fidelity isn't a bank, but their cash management feature includes checks
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Soviet Armenian Observatory That Held First Conference on Alien Communication(armenianweekly.com)
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This would be a significant vulnerability if bank customers were sophisticated at security, and if those passwords were the only input into their fraud detection systems.
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The price on the web site is for the pencil, not the book.
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by osteele 9y ago
“I chat, I sleep, I listen to music, my mind wanders, I think about the past and the future.”
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by osteele 9y ago
This is a fun and well-told anecdote. Maybe correlation in this case was indeed causation. But… There's less consensus among scientists than there is on Quora. A few interviews and quotes: * “Ecology: A world without mosquitoes”, Janet
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by osteele 9y ago
Something similar happened to Microsoft employees: * "Microsoft Employees Face Tax Nightmare", AccountingWEB, Apr 19, 2001. https://www.accountingweb.com/tax/irs/microsoft-employees-fa... * "Why Mic
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by osteele 9y ago
On the one hand, a lower salary ensures people don't do it for the money. On the other hand, low pay can restrict the candidate to wealthier or higher-income individuals. This is a challenge in deciding out how much to compensate peopl
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Alan Kay's “Computer Software” (1984) [pdf](frameworker.files.wordpress.com)
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Alan Kay's “Computer Software” (1984) [pdf](home.cc.gatech.edu)
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by osteele 9y ago
"The dynamic spreadsheet is a good example of such a tissuelike superobject. It is a simulation kit, and it provides a remarkable degree of direct leverage. Spreadsheets at their best combine the genres established in the 1970s (object
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by osteele 9y ago
I've been deposed, in a case involving my employer of twenty years ago. The defendant was trying to invalidate a patent; one of several at play in a multi-billion-dollar infringement case. The fraction that someone will spend on lawyer
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by osteele 9y ago
Idea: insurance (that looks like or is part of an extended warranty or service contract) for cloud services. Companies should be required to label whether a device depends on cloud service. Customers could buy a guarantee, like a service co
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by osteele 9y ago
Last year's version of this story featured Nest in the role of Logitech, and Revolv in the role of Link. It ended with refunds to Revolv owners [5]. [1] "Nest's Hub Shutdown Proves You're Crazy to Buy Into the Internet o
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One reason, mentioned, is in order to reserve premium features. Others are to maintain control over user experience; to simplify QA (making it less expensive, and leading to faster release cycles); reduce support costs; and increase enginee
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>>As a government, raise corporate taxes too high, and corporations leave >Only when there's almost no cost to leaving, which in itself is a tax loophole. If you declare that residency is about where you do the most business a
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It's a balancing act, not (just) an arms race. As a government, raise corporate taxes too high, and corporations leave and/or overseas corporations outcompete them and/or new corporations form overseas instead of domestically
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My understanding of the economics (via popular-press reporting [1,2]) is that corporate taxes are effectively paid by workers and shareholders. In the case of Apple, many employees are high-income individuals. One way to tax them is to rais
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by osteele 9y ago
There actually is a fair amount of argument [1-4] that a near-zero corporate tax rate is ideal. [5-6] argue that it isn't. (These are all, except [2], popular press articles. I imagine that there's more considered discussion in th
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> If you make it clear there will never be a tax holiday, but that you will instead keep adjusting the rules to go after earnings withheld abroad, at some point the rational choice for them will be to bite the bullet and repatriate the i

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