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by pavement 9y ago
This seems to be a recurring problem with the new generation of non-industrial food suppliers which, reduce the use of undesirable ingredients, but with food friendly logistics pipelines that aren't as harsh or distant, many seem to sl
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by pavement 9y ago
Plastics are pretty bad for the world, and not so much impossible to replace, as much as they are plentiful cruft that's merely incidentally practical. Synthesizing organic compounds sounds pretty reasonable given our modern advanced a
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by pavement 9y ago
I have to wonder by how long this technique predates WWI, since history is littered with subversive cues and signals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_in_the_American_R... Probably, any earlier than the 19th
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by pavement 9y ago
Oh, geeze. This is about: terraform.io
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by pavement 9y ago
Pretty interesting tangent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociocybernetics
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by pavement 9y ago
Related: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/12/world/middleeast/isis-cyb...
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by pavement 9y ago
Is there a code repo for this?
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by pavement 9y ago
No, no shorthand values or semantic values are currently permitted. Only six digit hex codes are accepted.
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by pavement 9y ago
My comment is to be taken as anecdotal evidence only. My personal experience. Nothing more. It's just what I've encountered as an American interacting with other Americanized Americans in the United States, with whom I've had
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by pavement 9y ago
HN feature request: three character hex code support for topcolor. Bonus points: named color support for valid CSS colors, such as dodgerblue.
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by pavement 9y ago
Within a certain age bracket, many American girls who prefer to be perceived as cute and girly, simply type the letters " kk " to exude a sense of affable agreeableness. This is often paired with " oo " to present surpri
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by pavement 9y ago
I see. (ic)
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by pavement 9y ago
It'd be interesting to see a composite of reflected sunlight included around the builings with highly reflective exteriors.
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by pavement 9y ago
Eh, 3 pieces of a randomly generated string... hashed in memory, and only the result of the hash function is stored. Pretty basic concept. Soon, dear throwaway, you'll be telling me we should live in fear of the locksmiths, for all the
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by pavement 9y ago
Nope. It could be system generated and disseminated over secure channels. Password rotation becomes necessary, and a little bit riskier, because now you have to deal with accidental lock-outs in a sane, coordinated manner.
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by pavement 9y ago
covfefe So THAT'S what it means!
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by pavement 9y ago
> 4 low-latency locations in ISO/IEC 27001 > certified Tier 3+ data centers in United > States, Netherlands, France and Canada. Entirely possible.
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by pavement 9y ago
Being fired for an honest error made in good faith is a misclassification of such a problem. If a single current, acting employee causes an outage by way of human error, then process and planning are to blame for the destruction. If there i
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by pavement 9y ago
I would expect to see some kind of police report, and prosecution of an individual charged with a crime, no?
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by pavement 9y ago
Oh come on, this is an easy one. They need to include the complete audio channel in their training model, and identify important audio cues. 99% of Homer's characterization is really Dan Castellaneta's voice. The rest is simply th
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by pavement 9y ago
Spreading via internet is an immeasuably more potent propagation pathway than particles on the wind.
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by pavement 9y ago
We assume that some horde of evil robots would put us out of our current misery faster and with greater efficiency than the powers that be, but what if the current powers replaced themselves with highly durable robots crafted in their own i
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by pavement 9y ago
Or bitcoins will simply be devalued, and lose buying power until electrical demand changes or all of the last possible bitcoins are finally mined into existence.
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by pavement 9y ago
If we react like this about transgenic flowers, imagine the reaction to transhumanism, when cybernetic implants, CRISPR genome editing and human cloning all converge.
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by pavement 9y ago
The problem is not that Google is unreliable. The problem is that the servers are not yours, and thus the services that depend on the servers are not really yours. Therefore, if you write software to match, or foster methodologies that depe
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by pavement 9y ago
From your cited link: Quantity of alcohol taken: Consumption of 60–80g per day (14g is considered one standard drink in the USA; drinking a six-pack of beer daily would be at the top of the range) for 20 years or more in men, o
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by pavement 9y ago
Everyone takes issue with this definition, except the medical community, which has used this standard for decades, to account for how reasonable people consume drinks casually. It's important to inspect the effects of drinking, even at
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by pavement 9y ago
It's about perspective. One definition or opinion does not necessarily invalidate the other. Each is an expression of a point of view. You say safety equipment. Others might say encumbrance, or unnatural performance enhancer, or lazine
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by pavement 9y ago
It's wonderful, when the punishment for murder is a Norwegian prison, terrible when the punishment for shoplifting is ISIS chops off your hand. There's a broad region in between those two poles, where some cases are merely somewha
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by pavement 9y ago
Fidget spinners: theraputic for ADHD and other assorted modern phrenological maladies.

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