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by pryce 8y ago
In Latin America there have been repeated movements for many decades to identify and address these underlying social injustices, including the wealth distribution. These movements often do not fare well, and the US Government is invested (f
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Not having to know all / as many of the structural details up-front could be of value in some use-cases. It can translate to reducing time-to-start cutting code, which can (in some cases) be a business priority, and can lead to identif
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I notice that Alex's claim about you "repeatedly" making accusation(s) regarding "Chinese" users seems to refer to your emails to NPM, not your email to Alex himself that you have provided above. I hope my attempt t
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It may even be completely innocent and valid for a developer to do this, but : 1. there seems to be -intentionally- very little transparency about it, 2. the second most prominent contributor - who was also the most prominent contributor fo
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I get the sense that nearly all social networks have a large financial incentive to either not talk about - or to minimise and downplay - the volume and impact of bots & manipulative actors. The chance of this behaviour getting address
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Suppose we replaced Semantic Versioning with any other approach (of your choice) that still disclosed the same amount of information about whether API was identical, had an additive change, or had a breaking change. Would you object to that
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I had the opposite experience with Uber just recently - my card expired, and I tried to enter the new card (same number, different verification code and different expiry) and the Uber site rejected it complaining that the card had expired.
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These are good questions that will definitely need to provoke further investigation. They'd be out of the scope of this article because the news of paternal mtDNA transmission really is that fresh.
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The six-blocks-in-a-row problem seems less of an impedence to me - because the "legitimate" blocks are still available to the malicious actor. Therefore, if our malicious miner identifies that they have had poor luck and begun to
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> If anything, relying on an outside source is what we're doing now. You are correct of course. To me, problems like this recent attack highlight an inherent contradiction in the blockchain idea - that the "51%+ of hashing pow
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Other people have answered this from a more technical perspective. Philosophically, what the distributed blockchain is , is an agreement for adjudicating whose record (eg list of transactions) should be agreed on as "the valid one&quo
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I didn't take the earlier point as a hagiographic endorsement of licensed professionals, so much as a comment on the changing mindsets of the people making these hiring decisions, and how over several decades that has moved from a sort
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No one except power companies and current holders of large amounts of cryptocurrency benefits by the staggering amount of energy being poured into this completely asinine model. If cryptocurrency is supposed to bring the benefits of decentr
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That's an interesting hypothesis. The alveoli are delicate and highly vascularized, but then they are also already evolved specifically to facilitate rapid gas exchange, and geared to rapidly offload our CO2. It would be fascinating
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Git was not first, and it arguably didn't achieve its dominance based on technical superiority. It almost certainly didn't achieve that dominance based on offering a better learning curve or a bizarre interface choice, even though
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Nafc 'Negation as failure constraint' is still labelled 'experimental', though I'm not familiar with the reasons behind that.
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Even the the author publishing this 0day clearly believes there is a place for that; their protest is calling attention to that this time-to-fix period is, they believe, in practice abused to be a great deal longer than it should be. Puttin
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I'm thrilled to see Prolog logic-engine concepts heavily contributing to Clojure's core.logic library[1]. Because Clojure plays so well with the JVM, having industry applications leveraging logic engines is becoming beautifully fe
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Any 'experiment' of this sort that isn't double-blinded and controlled is not worth doing, and shouldn't even be considered news. We live in a world where decades later our culture is still reading and (even making movie
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There are two major yellow curves that cross the center of the image, one plain, the other segmented into a yellow "dotted line", although perhaps "dashed line" is a better term for it. Follow this "dashed line&quot
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> I say that considering only the needs of inexperienced users is a fundamentally flawed approach. Sure, I don't dispute that for a second. However, we seem to have moved from "UI animation is categorically worse in all cases&
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The problem with your proposal is that the meaning of the "bolded" item is not immediately -or perhaps even with careful thought- obvious to anyone except the person proposing the idea, or the people who have already encountered t
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It is strange. I wonder if it's an approach that lets duplicate vote attempts get automatically responded to by the webserver cache rather than passing through to be detected computationally at the application server level, which would
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My older brother's "solution" to being told he must cut the cake and let me choose which half to take was: a sloped cut similar to the one in this picture [1] but which slightly exaggerated the uppermost surface area of the s
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I think your examples make your conclusions less likely, not more. * Dentists, in particular, would secure more work if they organised and actively promoted dental practices that they knew were harmful. Nevertheless, that doesn't occur
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It has become a lot less perplexing to me after I noticed how frequently this kind of discussion-avoiding proposal appears when the subject matter involves ethics of some kind.
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That's.. actually pretty extraordinary. In my cynicism I had imagined the only possible motivation for positioning new emoji as flagship features of their iOS iterations was a blatant attempt to lure pre-teens into a long (and lucrati
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I agree with your reading of the current situation. The spread of bots, propaganda and disinformation campaigns is of course a huge threat to the longer-term viability of their platform, but I'm not really convinced anyone is prioritiz
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And that having everything being 'implicitly nullable' is a categorically worse for maintainability, readability and comprehensibility than using explicit Option<T> types at the boundaries; such as the implementation in F# [
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I have developed an instinctual reaction to automatically deny permissions like remotely that for any website, and I think most people have. Websites asking for permission to send notifications provokes the same irritation. I think - &quot

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