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by overeater 5y ago
There's awkward spacing in the characters in the address bar. They're uneven.
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by overeater 5y ago
Several things make me skeptical about this browser. 1) Homepage is a bit uncared for. The Copyright shows "2020" at the bottom, the top screenshot looks doctored rather than being a real screenshot. 2) It's owned by an ad ma
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by overeater 5y ago
You're generalizing too much by averaging averages, so that your numbers are off. Salaries depend on university, campus, field, etc. These are average salaries over 5 years ago: "The Daily Californian created a database of profess
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by overeater 5y ago
How are public schools paid in the UK? Does that mean private schools are the free schools? Or do they call free public schools something else?
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by overeater 5y ago
Thanks for that thought. So what if we're back pre-WWII, and people were on the public streets giving speeches about joining the Nazi party? You'd support their right to spread their message, knowing what would happen? And I'
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by overeater 5y ago
How strongly does this hold in cases where the speech is actually effective? I'm genuinely interested in a discussion without taking a side, because I feel like when people advocate for free speech, they are mainly thinking about unpop
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by overeater 5y ago
The climatic question he's asking is, "What are the big physical world areas where we may see even more issues with state capacity?" I think the one that's been most underreported and affects all this is money management
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by overeater 5y ago
What's the O in FAANGMO? It's not Oracle is it? That wouldn't make any sense.
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by overeater 6y ago
So about a quarter of a percent of their tuition income? That's pretty massive, considering this is an unexpected cost.
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by overeater 6y ago
Could who watched it give a review of what it covers? There's a lot of ethics lectures that follow a formula of 1) show (usually slightly misleading) news stories of bad outcomes from automation / AI like the Target diaper story,
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by overeater 6y ago
I was using it to make GUI-centric web apps. Back then, web applications were a nightmare, and the idea of being able to have .NET for layout instead of the mess that html/css layout was at that time, was compelling.
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by overeater 6y ago
My sympathies. That's a really sad story. I don't know if it's any consolation that it was at least discussed among the executives. I don't know why you originally eschewed the web. I've developed on closed platform
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by overeater 6y ago
It sounds like an opinion, and you can certainly make a case there. But I feel equally strong that networked technology today is amazing, and 1999 sucked. Being able to look up how to do anything, talk to people I know instantly. Cameras in
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by overeater 6y ago
Tech used to be unified in support of open and free information, and against monopolies and closed platforms. During the era of Slashdot, everyone in tech came through and saw the downside of Windows and Office and Internet Explorer dominan
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by overeater 6y ago
It's quite easy to remove "race" as a feature in the program. The more realistic and difficult question is what about features that are correlated with race, but are not race itself, like: zip code, or proportion of spending
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by overeater 6y ago
No, boycott Safari. Just like the successful IE boycott on Windows.
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by overeater 6y ago
Yes, and would Apple please support WebP in Safari as the only remaining holdout? Before we all just boycott Safari and go ahead and use WebP anyways.
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by overeater 7y ago
You don't know what it is from just reading the link. And even that itself is not upfront -- browsers have been trying to hide the URL for a while now. What if you read it on Google AMP? I agree with the other commenter that this is mi
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by overeater 7y ago
Can you say a bit about how you know this? Like are all these trackers you tested compared against polysomnography/EMG? Wouldn't everything of course be not as good as that (since we're treating that as 100% perfect? How do y
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by overeater 7y ago
Why? Those people chose to do something bad. The programmer was not doing anything intentionally wrong.
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by overeater 7y ago
Seems like another thing that would help is every browser and media service adopted AV1 for video and WEBP for images. That itself would save an insane amount of bandwidth (maybe a quarter of the world's bandwidth).
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by overeater 7y ago
no
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by overeater 7y ago
I wish they would differentiate on connectivity. Like usb-c ports for video and power delivery, Bluetooth 5.0, WiFi 6, usb-c rechargeable controllers, etc.
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by overeater 7y ago
While this may be true, and perhaps even for the dollar the United States benefits more than the cost (while the rest of the world gets a bit of a free ride). But as a taxpayer, I'd rather the US spend that dollar elsewhere, even if th
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by overeater 7y ago
Right, but they voted to give the union the power to negotiate on their behalf without any checks. It seems too late then to change your mind once they have that power. I guess I don't understand how union politics work, but it might m
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by overeater 7y ago
Weren't they the ones who had to vote in the union in the first place? Seems like they should have figured out what they want from the union before giving it the power to negotiate a contract on their behalf.
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by overeater 7y ago
This is the first time I've heard of this. Do you have any data to support this claim? None of the places I know about have lengthening PhDs, in fact the opposite -- they are decreasing PhD lengths from 6+ to 5-6 being the norm, becaus
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by overeater 7y ago
If so, wouldn't the opposite be true too -- making less efficient images will reduce demand? If that sounds absurd, then I think the fear is unfounded.
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by overeater 7y ago
This kind of thing certainly does help, but there are other promising paths that are complementary. For example, adopting better compression for images and video would cut down loading times by almost half. All it takes is something tiny, l
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by overeater 8y ago
If this is anything like frequent flier programs, my cynical interpretation is that if you're a casual rider, you'll get: - less leeway on cancellations since you now need to earn them - worse support, since the higher status folk

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