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by rgblambda 7y ago
Just yesterday had my face scanned at an EU airport. It appears that this is more do do with using facial recognition in public spaces (streets, town squares etc).
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At the risk of reducing the reflectiveness of said land from the rays of the sun and causing an increase in global temperatures.
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In the real life situation above, the solution was; to cover up the atrocity (by planting weapons on the bodies), claim the soldiers were fired on (they weren't), and prevent the only MP in the House of Commons who had personally witne
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by rgblambda 7y ago
Wouldn't they just delete their accounts and start over if it went poorly? Any kind of Proof of Identity verification to stop people doing that would probably put them off signing up in the first place.
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Banks say there's no shortage of machine learning talent(news.efinancialcareers.com)
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There was an article on HN a few weeks ago about people moving to Boise to get away from the high cost of living in Silicon Valley. Is it a hellhole as in crime ridden or more because there's nothing there?
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by rgblambda 7y ago
That was my guess as well. Maybe a first part of a sentence was edited out by accident.
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There was a movie "Last of the Dogmen" based on this premise. Can't remember if it was any good. Starred Tom Berenger.
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In the article they talk about how the airships would be unmanned due to the risk of fire.
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by rgblambda 7y ago
I'm surprised no one has mentioned "Bullshit Jobs" by David Graeber. He goes into detail on why and how people have so much work to do yet so little of it translates into practical or social value.
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Not with Home edition, though you'd be ill advised to use that in a production server
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Naive question: What would this mean for Xbox 360 emulators?
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It should be noted that asking "How are you?" while not expecting an actual answer is largely limited to English speaking countries. Someone from outside the Anglosphere would see this ritual as being ridiculous, which to be fair,
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by rgblambda 7y ago
I (a non-Slavic language speaker) would imagine the divergence between the modern Slavic languages would be dwarfed by the divergence between those languages and Proto-Slavic or Old Church Slavonic.
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by rgblambda 7y ago
A few years ago, a journalist reporting on how the Mosuo culture is being affected by the modern world found that many Mosuo men and women were abandoning their traditions in favour of modern Chinese social values. They also had to leave th
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by rgblambda 7y ago
Tried my email address. Only leak was due to Warframe (which I've played a total of 15 minutes of back in 2014). Tried my parents email accounts and both had zero breaches. I know for a fact my mother's email account has been in a
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by rgblambda 7y ago
Like maybe a week ago there was an article on HN arguing that true blended remote/onsite is impossible. That at least some of your office co-workers won't be inclusive to remote workers (e.g. refuse to use slack). I work remotely
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by rgblambda 7y ago
One way to think of it: Computers enabled massive economic growth, which in turn led to higher carbon emissions. It would be interesting to try to quantify the increase/decrease in carbon emissions due to computing.
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The Irish Times do something similar with the view from their Dublin Office. Only difference being they use it as a measure of economic growth.
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During the Greek war of Independence I believe, children on a small island in the Aegean ran out to see the Greek soldiers who landed. A reporter asked them "why do you want to see them". The children replied "to see what the
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by rgblambda 7y ago
The heirs to the German Kaisar seem to be doing well for themselves. Then again, Kaisar Wilhelm was only forced to abdicate and exiled.
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In Ireland we were taught in school that coinage was introduced by the Vikings and previous to that was a primitive system of cattle trading.