pervycreeper

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by pervycreeper 10y ago
>I have no idea how $55M in economic harm was reached either. >Bollea's net worth, at it's peak, was $25M It would include potential losses as well. His net worth is irrelevant.
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by pervycreeper 10y ago
>“I’m well aware that it is bogus but it is a common marketing tactic that works very well at boosting sales,” It seems to work on enough people, though.
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by pervycreeper 10y ago
>submit some proof of their use of the Other OS functionality What proof would users even reasonably be able to furnish?
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by pervycreeper 10y ago
They both stem from similar emotional instincts. It was very canny and apt to identify them together in characterizing the current cultural Zeitgeist.
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by pervycreeper 10y ago
We (entrepreneurs and technologists) urgently need to create an alternative to academia.
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by pervycreeper 10y ago
If there are nonetheless economic consequences for the publishers, the end result will be the trimming of some fat.
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by pervycreeper 10y ago
He seems to be saying that vetting info about people who are not known to have enough resources to pursue legal remedy themselves is too large a hardship for journalists to endure. In all of the voluminous writing about this topic this week
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by pervycreeper 10y ago
tl;dr--- Google is the equivalent of 90s-era Microsoft because it is angrily disliked by some Apple fans, and it incorporates Material Design in its iOS apps.
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by pervycreeper 10y ago
>Which leads to a fairly obvious observation: providing insufficient editorial guidelines leaves room for unconscious bias to take over. Fully agree. Things like this tend to be better explained, as a rule, as side effects, without resor
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by pervycreeper 10y ago
Unfortunately, the article provides no insight about the recent allegations regarding political bias in "trending" topics.
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by pervycreeper 10y ago
They are distinct explanations, though. I suppose you can idealize what's average, technically.
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by pervycreeper 10y ago
Maybe so, but the two explanations are at odds in any case.
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by pervycreeper 10y ago
Key quote from the Quora link: > (1) Long, thick penises were considered--at least in the highbrow view-- grotesque, comic, or both and were usually found on fertility gods, half-animal critters such as satyrs, ugly old men, and barbaria
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by pervycreeper 10y ago
More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dither#Algorithms This particular one seems to look pretty good when the pixel size is relatively large, but would give an inferior result compared to some of the others li
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Fine-particle pollution linked to wider number of cancers, premature births(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by pervycreeper 10y ago|0 comments
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by pervycreeper 10y ago
I fully agree, in fact, the comment's intention was to counteract generic ideological thinking. I do see how it could be interpreted as ideological crusading, though, and it probably was excessively inflammatory in any case. I will avo
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by pervycreeper 10y ago
>I don't see why any of those desires should be in conflict with my progressive ideals This is precisely the origin of the problem.
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by pervycreeper 10y ago
Could you elaborate on this?
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Meet the woman who put 50M stolen articles online(independent.co.uk)
3 points by pervycreeper 11y ago|0 comments
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by pervycreeper 11y ago
The response that Microsoft gave was really the worst of both worlds, combining the systematic corporate shirking of responsibility which enables and gives cover to a great deal of evil, with a complete accedence to and embracing of politic
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by pervycreeper 11y ago
Godwin's law (the probably of a reference to Nazis approaches 1 as the length of an internet discussion approaches infinity) follows as a simple corollary of the Infinite Monkey Theorem. The irony of Godwin's law is that it was or
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by pervycreeper 11y ago
Clandestine, very often, certainly. Admittedly this use principally reflects the employers' perspective, and maybe a better (more accurate, more neutral) term could be used, but this is a separate issue from any association with huntin
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by pervycreeper 11y ago
A sense provided by Google for "poaching": >take or acquire in an unfair or clandestine way Which fits this use perfectly. Mindless thought policing of this type seldom produces any good; please employ with great caution.
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by pervycreeper 11y ago
Same dimensions as the 5s actually, but with 1g more mass.
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by pervycreeper 11y ago
Thanks.
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by pervycreeper 11y ago
Could anyone suggest a good introduction to the rules and basic strategies of this game?
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by pervycreeper 11y ago
They are extracting rents from research far beyond the value they add to it.
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by pervycreeper 11y ago
I have no idea what this means, but can't imagine how it could be significant as a theorem, assuming the correct statement is reasonably similar.
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by pervycreeper 11y ago
IUPAC names are needlessly verbose and insufficiently descriptive.
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by pervycreeper 11y ago
This writeup (found a few pages into the thread) explains things in a little bit more detail for a newcomer. https://niginsblog.wordpress.com/2016/03/07/new-spaceship-sp...

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