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Who Created the Marvel Universe?(newyorker.com)
1 points by pr0zac 6y ago|0 comments
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by pr0zac 6y ago
I'm currently running Manjaro (also based on Arch) on my work laptop. It also has the snapshots feature. I had to use it recently when a kernel update broke my GPU and my external monitor stopped working. https://manjaro.org
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CC Sabathia and the painful but all-too-relatable path to sobriety(espn.com)
1 points by pr0zac 6y ago|0 comments
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by pr0zac 6y ago
So I generally agree with you and feel like there's some amount of market manipulation and wall street types taking advantage of normal retail investor folks going on here. That said, I'd like to challenge some of my axioms and st
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by pr0zac 6y ago
Honest question, why should market making organizations be allowed to take the upsides involved in their position but be able to avoid the downsides by just not doing the job they signed up for when they feel the risk is too high? The argum
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by pr0zac 6y ago
Instagram pictures don't show up on Twitter because Facebook blocked it. They did that in response to Twitter blocking Instagram from finding contacts via Twitter. Its FAANG in-fighting from like 8 years ago that I'm still kind of
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by pr0zac 6y ago
Was interested also so I looked it up. Source: https://educationdata.org/number-of-college-graduates For bachelors degrees: 432,077 STEM 386,201 business 244,909 healthcare 44,262 liberal arts 82,621 education So business i
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by pr0zac 6y ago
It does yes. This is why for example message history data export is a paid feature. Its a requirement for certain types of compliance.
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by pr0zac 6y ago
I really agree Discord is amazing and wish I could use it for work instead of Slack. I think the big things that prevent it from being adopted more for professional use is the lack of a threading model (even though I hate it when people use
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by pr0zac 6y ago
Be careful using eBay, a rather scary number of listings on there are people just relisting items from Amazon at a higher price and reshipping (or just ordering with your shipping address, I had one eBay purchase come directly from Amazon).
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by pr0zac 6y ago
> What if you could have done something more productive or rewarding with your life instead, like developed new friendships or deepened existing ones, learned new skills, or read something that opened your eyes or changed your life So th
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by pr0zac 6y ago
I believe the point they are trying to make is Reddit is tying access to pornography to installing the app, thus making an explicit connection between porn and their app, while Apple bans apps featuring adult content from the app store comp
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by pr0zac 6y ago
Even if you take that as an axiom there is still the issue of results being biased (in the academic sense of deviation of expected value from a statistical estimate) related to gender and race. The ethical discussion of the impact of that b
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by pr0zac 6y ago
From the perspective of the people at the top of Google that team almost certainly exists for whitewashing purposes. However corporations are made up of people and that perspective may not be shared by the folks that actually work for and w
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by pr0zac 6y ago
I don't necessarily disagree with your point regarding letting a disgruntled employee go (and do agree with both grandparent that mentioning resignation was a dangerous negotiating tactic and parent that this seems like Google attempti
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by pr0zac 6y ago
That assumes AI and technology in general will stagnate and never change or grow or create new previously unforeseen technologies. Unless that occurs the job of analysing the ethical and sociological impacts of technology will continue to b
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by pr0zac 6y ago
Private corporations have a mission of generating wealth for the people that make it up, their stockholders. Unions have the same mission just for their members. Its pretty comparable. Private corporations also have a pretty consistent thre
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YouTube suspends and demonetizes One America News Network over Covid-19 video(techcrunch.com)
40 points by pr0zac 6y ago|33 comments
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by pr0zac 6y ago
Eggs don't feel pain, live chicks do. For some people that is very important, it might not be for you but its a very clear difference.
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by pr0zac 6y ago
Its not a solution for Safari, but if you use Firefox (which you can now finally set as your default browser) you can add new search engines like Startpage and use them as the default.
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by pr0zac 6y ago
I have a first release Oculus Rift and ended up not really using if after the first few weeks because it mostly just felt like a cool tech demo and not really ready for regular use. A friend recently brought over his Valve Index and using i
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In Twitch’s fight with the music industry, streamers are paying the price(theverge.com)
5 points by pr0zac 6y ago|1 comments
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The Problem with Seraphine(step-nie.medium.com)
1 points by pr0zac 6y ago|0 comments
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An Oral History of Marge vs. the Monorail, the Episode That Changed the Simpsons(vice.com)
3 points by pr0zac 6y ago|0 comments
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The Messy Politics of Nextdoor(vox.com)
1 points by pr0zac 6y ago|0 comments
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by pr0zac 6y ago
As much as I dislike him and dislike the idea of the privatization of space, Bezos is also funding a rocket company with his billions, Blue Origin.
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by pr0zac 6y ago
Its pretty easy to detect whether something was removed with a chisel (thus purposely) through marks that are left. Theres also textual evidence supporting the reasoning.
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by pr0zac 6y ago
I agree with all your points but do think its important to clarify that The Expanse was originally cancelled by SyFy not Netflix before being picked up by Amazon, Netflix just had streaming rights at the time.
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by pr0zac 6y ago
It is mentioned in there but its really damn hard to find it and the part on it doesn't actually make it clear its describing the new taste. I read the entire article, reached the same conclusion, then went back over it closely cause I
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by pr0zac 6y ago
Ironically, one example is an app that was useful for detecting malware or other security problems: https://www.sektioneins.de/en/blog/16-08-11-sysinfo-what-hap...

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