overeater

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by overeater 4y ago
Sure your point is a good one in general, but you're combining multiple profiles to create this narrative. Dylan didn't go to Stanford, he went to Brown University. Being an intern, you usually don't have a car, and it's
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What Russians See in the News: A War over Western Plans to Subjugate Them(nytimes.com)
8 points by overeater 4y ago|3 comments
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by overeater 4y ago
> Uber has engaged in some pretty "creative" (i.e. unethical) business tactics to muscle their way into the taxi industry while avoiding both regulations and the payment of decent wages. They moved fast, but it was only a matte
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Prosecutors Struggle to Catch Up to a Tidal Wave of Pandemic Fraud(nytimes.com)
3 points by overeater 4y ago|0 comments
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The Democratization of Airport Lounges(nytimes.com)
2 points by overeater 4y ago|0 comments
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China's SMIC Shipping 7nm Chips, Reportedly Copied TSMC's Tech(tomshardware.com)
5 points by overeater 4y ago|0 comments
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by overeater 4y ago
As a base law, that's helpful, but I'm wondering when it gets into cfaa territory. What if you violate the terms of service to scrape it? What if you have to implement tricks like IP rotating or useragent lying to get the data? Wh
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by overeater 4y ago
What was that hobby?
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by overeater 4y ago
This stories reminds me of the times before tech dominance, when programmers and innovators needed to get permission to do almost anything. Tech people were not allowed to run companies, or even manage people -- you needed MBAs for that. An
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by overeater 4y ago
I think the procedure I described also can do this, but the 6-digit code is sent in the background. I don't see why a human has to physically write out 6 digits from phone to computer, instead of it just happening automatically. I main
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by overeater 4y ago
I"m not seeing a huge benefit of the personal device being offline, while you're trying to log into an online service. But let's say there was a need for that, what about using bluetooth or wifi direct to push to the device?
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by overeater 4y ago
I don't understand why authentication usually requires you to type in some 6-digit number from your phone. From an ideal user experience point of view, why not just pop up a dialog on your phone, wait 1 second (to prevent accidental ta
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by overeater 4y ago
Does anyone know why there has never been any breakthroughs in air conditioning for 50 years? Windows air conditioners have been incredibly heavy, loud, expensive, and resource-intensive for so long. Even a small room needs one that is back
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by overeater 4y ago
> Note that the definition of "international student" excludes those with permanent visas. The number of foreign born PhD students is therefore significantly higher than 64%. Don't know if there are any stats for citizen&#
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by overeater 5y ago
I didn't downvote you but your tone is overly dramatic for some simple heuristics. Specifically you're just repeating two things over and over. Here's some simple answers: 1) you're right that ASCII was English only, but
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by overeater 5y ago
Fair point, can a moderator delete my comment above? I apologize for spreading rumor.
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by overeater 5y ago
This Reddit post offers an explanation, "From what I understand (second-hand info), personality not productivity drove this decision. He ran an unhappy lab, and he was arrogant even for MIT. I can definitely see that in the way he pres
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by overeater 5y ago
Yes, why use the old micro-usb port? Now I would need a separate cable just to charge this.
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by overeater 5y ago
> The article just happens to use a photo of Mayer because she was the CEO at the time Flickr was sold to SmugMug. Wait, isn't that just another way of saying that she sold Flicker to SmugMug? If so, she sounds very blamable.
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by overeater 5y ago
That's a great answer. I can see it that way now. Thanks.
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by overeater 5y ago
Pretty sure emails don't magically disappear even if you use Org Mode.
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US Secret Service says $US100B stolen from Covid-19 relief funds(abc.net.au)
7 points by overeater 5y ago|0 comments
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by overeater 5y ago
> morally invalid Genuinely curious, because that sounds so definitive; so what's the way to determine whether a viewpoint is morally valid or invalid? I'm not talking about this specific example about military-commercial fundi
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by overeater 5y ago
In option 1, when does the license get invalidated? Is it invalidated in the first place because the offending software broke the license? Or is it invalidated after notification from OBS? Or even later, after some amount of time after noti
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by overeater 5y ago
The Ivy League factor plays a smaller role for CS than for other disciplines, due to less gatekeeping. Yale is about University of Minnesota level across multiple computer science ranking measures: https://drafty.cs.brown.edu&#x2
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by overeater 5y ago
I don't think this is automatic is it? So you have to save each page you want
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by overeater 5y ago
Sounds like this is a term used to make them happy about working additional paid time on a Google-owned product. I mean, if they spent this volunteer time (even if paid) on a public good, I could appreciate that, but choosing to do paid wor
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by overeater 5y ago
Isn't that double counting? In the first scenario, $2252 is the amount that they get in their bank account post-tax (marginal). In the second scenario, they get $0 in their bank account post-tax (marginal), and there is a deduction but
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by overeater 5y ago
It's already been reported, and little enforcement. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-10-29/small-bus...
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by overeater 5y ago
Plus the fraud. I know in some neighborhoods almost everyone is getting "their $10K small business loan", sharing tips on group chat about how to lie on the forms.

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