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by otakucode 7y ago
It's easier than that. If she's posting all 5-star reviews on products that don't get rated 5-stars by other customers, those other customers shouldn't be seeing her reviews. Preferentially weight the visibility of rev
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by otakucode 7y ago
I've never understood why online reviews, at least on sites as large as Amazon with a competent technical team behind the company, aren't better. First step, if I review a product, then you should immediately be weighting the vis
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by otakucode 7y ago
It has never, at any point since the introduction of electronic transfers, made the slightest bit of sense for 'payment processing' services to charge a fee which scales based upon the amount being transacted. Yet, every means of
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by otakucode 7y ago
Is the coating food-safe without the lubricant? I have wanted a superhydrophobic+superoligophobic coating for dishes since I learned of the existence of such nanocoatings, but I haven't seen any that are durable and/or regarded a
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by otakucode 7y ago
Prejudice based upon age is the last remaining socially acceptable form of prejudice. Most articles about adolescents read exactly like opinions about various races, women, etc in the past. The arguments are the same, and the conclusions
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by otakucode 7y ago
I would love to hear the original audio from that game between a precoscious 6 year old and Garfield. It sounds like it would be totally adorable and also informative. I got the Magic bug in junior high school in the early 90s and it was
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by otakucode 7y ago
As a person who prefers profanity and hyperbolic exaggeration and over-reaction when dealing with technical topics (about which no sane person would do things like threaten violence, so it becomes funny for someone you know to do so), I ent
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by otakucode 7y ago
I was not aware of this at all. How did Backcountry get the trademark in the first place? It should definitely fail on the first challenge if backcountry is literally a subtype of ski and pre-existed. I know nothing about skis, and all t
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by otakucode 7y ago
>They're not required to choose a word already ubiquitous in their industry and trademark it. That has nothing whatsoever to do with the comment you replied to. >They're taking "defense" to a ridiculous, douchy ext
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by otakucode 7y ago
Correct. This article reads like someone who has no knowledge of, or familiarity with, trademark law. Trademarks have to be defended or they are lost, and additionally almost all trademarks are applied to a very broad list of things just
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by otakucode 7y ago
So it's not just me. I've considered developing a toy OS as a fun project for a long time, but I was always mystified about what to do about graphics. The whole reason I wanted to do an OS was to do a sort of 'start fresh&#
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by otakucode 7y ago
That doesn't make any sense. The reason SDI is suicide to build is because the countermeasures are ridiculously cheap and compensating for them is ridiculously expensive. It will always be an order of magnitude (or ten) cheaper to bu
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by otakucode 7y ago
That is a stupendously dangerous question to ask, and that the answer is not crystal clear from the outset is terrifying. When humanity and computers collide, the computer is always in the wrong. Every single time, forever. At no point i
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by otakucode 7y ago
The way I have thought about software's necessary complexity for a long time is by considering what software IS. Software, no matter what it does or how it is written, boils down to instructions and data that operate on transistor gat
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by otakucode 7y ago
I think they're just being honest. All of the features they boast were completely possible in the 90s. The only reason we didn't get them in the 90s was people not realizing they were so possible, or perhaps not wanting to leave
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by otakucode 7y ago
Not to mention something that almost all NLP systems are resounding terrible at - short-term memory. If we've been talking about corporate financials for an hour and I say 'Justify the margins', it should be crystal clear wh
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by otakucode 7y ago
Every action has a consequence, and intentions do not matter. What will the consequences of millions of non-life-saving interventions be? We need to keep in mind that we are rolling these technologies out in an entirely blanket fashion, a
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by otakucode 7y ago
What children can do at what age is a direct function of how they are raised. Americans, unfortunately, have been sold on the notion that what a child is capable of is instead somehow a biological limitation. There are some biological lim
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by otakucode 7y ago
Usually surveillance is something parents aren't mature enough to handle. It wouldn't be a big problem if the parents were mature enough to step back and say 'is there any actual probability of actual harm here?' Unfor
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by otakucode 7y ago
I would never expect a company that did log to refuse to give those logs to a court. That would be corporate suicide and executives would end up in actual prisons. I also wouldn't expect a VPN provider to refuse a court ordered warra
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by otakucode 7y ago
>There is no way for you to verify that, and of course this is what a malicious VPN provider would claim as well. In short: the only safe assumption is that every VPN provider logs. If the VPN provider has been ordered by a US court to p
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by otakucode 7y ago
I do think there are certainly problems, but I don't agree what you describe is any rational conclusion of the principles of a free market. No one wants to live in a world where all resources are consumed to make widgets. Therefore,
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by otakucode 7y ago
I don't know if it's to coerce loyalty. I would presume that the main motivation is that they know that you are what generates profit. So if they can exploit you as a profit-generating resource, and get away with it, they will d
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by otakucode 7y ago
Legally speaking, age discrimination can not exist if you are under 40. There is zero protection with respect to age discrimination prior to 40 years of age, and the younger you get, the more enthusiastically age discrimination is accepted
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by otakucode 7y ago
Just an observation, frat houses do focus very heavily on mob mentality, while hipsters are just a trend group. No one is going to get lectured by their fellow hipsters about being insufficiently loyal to the hipster brotherhood. Hipsters
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by otakucode 7y ago
This is pretty brilliant. I hadn't accounted for this, despite doing a lot of thinking in this area, but this sort of issue, where the business focuses upon forming itself around the mentality of the employee rather than the other way
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by otakucode 7y ago
The same is true of cash. Almost all of the complaints I have seen with regards to cryptocurrency limitations are in the ways in which it resembles cash. The transactions are untraceable and permit criminals to hide transactions - same as
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by otakucode 7y ago
My concern with fiat money and the benefits that cryptocurrency provides align very well. My concern with fiat currency is that it is entirely possible that tomorrow we will wake up to discover that the digital systems banks use to trace a
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by otakucode 7y ago
I would like to suggest a tremendously simple (4) : Every day, each employee spends no more than 5 minutes reporting what they did the prior day, and what they are planning to work on that day. If they're blocked by anything, they can
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by otakucode 7y ago
I find it hard to imagine that viewing such videos in the context of a society which vociferously opposes sexual violence could result in anyone thinking the videos are depicting reality. Are we meant to believe that a significant number o

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