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by papln 7y ago
This is exactly the problem free market capitalism attempts to solve. To put it oversimply, you have a choice: * "command&control model" the risk is born by the client, paying cost+15% for everything where they oversee all the
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by papln 7y ago
Isn't that a Browser feature that was/is fixed in 2019? Unrequested audio is flat-out absurd behavior in a browser.
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by papln 7y ago
Because moral fiber includes some notion of acceptable ads, even if current models tend to bad. However, I suspect that Easylist already supports acceptable ads in the form of "route the ads through the publisher's domain/s
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by papln 7y ago
How can it distinguish itself without giving up the name that Aljoudi (and not AdBlock) has been hijacking? Imagine if a company launched a (non-Google) "Chromium" browser or non-Microsoft "Explorer" or "Edge",
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by papln 7y ago
Aljoudi hijacked the "uBlock" name from gorhill (apparently because gorhill was more concernted about building a good tool than maintaining trademark protection, and I guess no one volunteered to donate (para)legal work), so handi
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by papln 7y ago
Increasing ridership (at any time except peak) would lower the cost per passenger mile, at trivial additional cost. would. Does that $0.43 calculation include the effects of reduced ridership due to auto subsidy? I don't see thatin th
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by papln 7y ago
That link vindicates the news coverage, that the court found that repeating true facts about child rape is illegal defamation, because marrying her or also having sex with adults justifies the rape. The case appears to turn on the claim tha
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by papln 7y ago
Yes. Browser have been making partial attempts to resist this, but it's an intractable problem in general -- You can't interact with a website without leaking information about yourself. Using a trusted proxy that serves many peop
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by papln 7y ago
> Try doing a [X] competitively at a high level That covers maybe 1% of the population. Meanwhile the other 99% of us have environment effects (nutrition, education and training, role models, weather, exposure to niche opportunities and
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IQ tests scores are on the same as IQ, which puts a hge asterisk on every test score. It's an unfortunate cloudiness of using maps for territories. This phenomenan is especially notable nowadays where wealthy parents canb buy a diagnos
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by papln 7y ago
https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a20814362/50-years-ago-ken... "50 Years Ago, Kenya Established Its Distance Running Dominance The African country became a medal-winning power at the British Empire and Commo
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by papln 7y ago
I've noticed that people who invest a lot of their ego into defending the primacy of IQ tend to low on non-IQ measures of talent/potential (such as "EQ" or physical abilities), even bending into logical contortions about
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by papln 7y ago
You example being about women runners weakens the argument. Top women are much slower than top men runners, so there are a lot of relatively obvious anatomical/physiological adjustment that could improve performanec beyond the current
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by papln 7y ago
I don't for a second belief that the mean IQ in Equitorial Guinea is only 59, but it's certainly possible to have a society where half the people have a reasonably functional level of intelligence, but due to some debilitating rec
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by papln 7y ago
Are you intentionally giving a sarcastic example to show how shoddy IQ science is? > Honestly, this could be put to rest fairly "easily" (obviously this wouldn't be that easy and is never going to happen) if you took 1000
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by papln 7y ago
> I would expect a group of more intelligent people to achieve more than a group of less intelligent people, or is that a polemic claim? Imagine if a bunch of "more intelligent" people invent a nuclear bomb and blow themselves
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by papln 7y ago
You aren't logically wrong, but you are invoking the Strong Anthropic Principle very heavily, which is a rather poor rhetorical basis akin to to using Efficient Market Hypothesis to prove that it's impossible to find a $20 bill on
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by papln 7y ago
It's not weird at all. Caloric intake in children correlates to height very well below the median(+), and then it stops. You can't grow arbitarily tall by eating more food, but if you underfeed a child enough, it will end up short
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by papln 7y ago
> Liberals and conservatives oddly never disagree on the value of Pi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill > The Indiana Pi Bill is the popular name for bill #246 of the 1897 sitting of the Indiana Genera
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by papln 7y ago
Why hasn't Slack built a P2P fallback for Enterprise teams? Slack server knows at least which clients has recently been active in a chatroom, so the server could send that information to clients (per privacy opt-in) who can then make a
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by papln 7y ago
Assuming the failures are deterministic across workspaces (is that true?) Slack has been down for over an hour for some workspaces, since the problem started at 10:54 AM EDT. What is the A part of Stack's SLA?
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by papln 7y ago
"more pleasant to use and less buggy." Borrowing from Lin Manuel-Miranda's Thomas Jefferson: > These are wise words, enterprising men quote 'em > Don't act surprised, you guys, 'anaphor wrote 'em It
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by papln 7y ago
> for the most part, is a terrible standard for main content. You should be able to read it for the all . You can read it, but many people do not have high-performance monitor and high-performance eyes. Users can configure monitor/
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by papln 7y ago
Web devs, please don't do this: p { color: #707070 !important; } body { color: #7b7b7b; } This is a deeply hostile attack on your users, telling your users that you don't want them to read your site's primary
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by papln 7y ago
> Windows by default has cloud sync on Mac and iOS and Linux and Android? > macOS does as well. On Windows and Linux and Android?
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by papln 7y ago
> Can the information collected in incognito mode be traced back to you Absolutely, but not necessarily with Google/FB's tracking systems. Your IP is enough to identify you and join to your other Internet activity, in most case
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by papln 7y ago
What was the judgment without facts? The seminars cited Muslim biographies, no? Surely telling people what's in the Quran can't be considered anti-Muslim incitement, or else every imam and mosque would be guilty. > The courts
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by papln 7y ago
What's an EM? Engineering Manager? What was "turned down"? You mean during team-matching? You described one (long) interview cycle, with apparently an offer (since you seem to know the compensation) that you declined.
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by papln 7y ago
Is selecting a prelaunch program much worse than selecting an incorrect post-launch program? Or was there still a major risk of selecting an unsafe post-lauch program?
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Water dries eventually.

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