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by rhizome 5y ago
> Maybe they are, but that bloat is just some static files that are sent to the user as far as the web server is concerned. They should have no practical impact on the battery life of the server." ...and if those static files make
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by rhizome 5y ago
Post-high school football and basketball should be separated from education and run like the farm systems for baseball and hockey (US). Opponents of this idea tend to drag out a "but what about the korfball team?" argument, but I
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by rhizome 5y ago
> I can see a case that targeted ads are less manipulative to the extent it presents you ads for products you’ve already shown a propensity for. Except targeting works the same as recommendations, which is "not," so they might
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by rhizome 5y ago
> You'd think, in the spirit of open source, these multi-billion dollar companies--like Apple and Google and Amazon--would (...) mitigate the problems. Your "(...)" elides the word "help," which completely chan
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by rhizome 5y ago
> Frankly I don't get why this can't be seen as a legitimate very successful business. This is going to sound glib, but I honestly think it's because Pinterest hasn't been able to create a comparable (or even margina
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by rhizome 5y ago
Well they did put the dot in dot-com.
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by rhizome 5y ago
Sounds like Apache's graceful-restart.
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by rhizome 5y ago
But it does have history that we can use: what are its consistencies over the past couple centuries? Genocides and decimations and coups of democratically-elected leaders. Stealing technology and basically every other transgression the US a
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by rhizome 5y ago
A better idea is breaking up Amazon, splitting off, at the very least, AWS and WaPo from the retailer/logistics firm.
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by rhizome 5y ago
Or breaking up Facebook and Google such that they aren't able to commandeer all of the advertising dollars that would be required to "rebuild," at least under the currently dominant business models (which get further entrench
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by rhizome 5y ago
"...the second best time is today."
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by rhizome 5y ago
> Accuracy is improving rapidly though It's asymptotic and it will never achieve 1:1 accuracy. The natural world doesn't have a measurable resolution, and this is apparent in written language, as we're seeing others detai
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by rhizome 5y ago
> There are only very few applications where it would make sense to take the risk and use an AI that occasionally makes gigantic mistakes without any understanding why. Even seemingly harmless applications like automated customer support
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by rhizome 5y ago
It's a make-work project, designed to renew for. ever. The US spends more on defense than the next 10 countries combined, it's absolutely not necessary even on a technical level.
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by rhizome 5y ago
It's easy to throw potshots from the stands, but from the article the whole thing sounds less than half-baked. 25% baked, maybe. One wonders what the spec and milestones are, if in fact it wasn't simply and plainly rushed out for
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by rhizome 5y ago
They automatically give you an extra account when you get famous enough.
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by rhizome 5y ago
If there's no way to specify where the center (or w/e) of your crop is on the source image, it's not going to happen.
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by rhizome 5y ago
Yeah, I've come across sites that allow arbitrary resizing via dimension numbers in the URL. Seems like it would be easy to CPU ddos by submitting random numbers in those fields.
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by rhizome 5y ago
It is. The freedom they're referring to is a freedom from consequences resulting from their speech.
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by rhizome 5y ago
"A little bad is all bad," is an instance of hypodescent, the same morality that gave us the one-drop rule. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule
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by rhizome 5y ago
People have been trying this for over 20 years, the first one I knew about was a Dutch company piping (IIRC) MIDI across the globe with a Shoutcast-style client app. "DragonNet" or something.
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by rhizome 5y ago
tl;dr: faces usually don't matter I read blogs from authors I have no idea what they look like or where they live or anything, some for almost 20 years, and longer than even that with ppl on IRC. All you need is some consistent identit
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by rhizome 5y ago
I think this could be achieved by indexing only tags on blog posts. Aside from having to groom the tag corpus (maintaining sets of synonyms would probably be a big part), this would seem to be a fairly pain-free way of deriving some of thes
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by rhizome 5y ago
Tax the zillionaires, pay the individuals more, and the executives less. "Robber baron" used to be an insult and a sign of disapproval. It was a popular term.
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by rhizome 5y ago
Should we infer zero off-cloud contingency plans, then?
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by rhizome 5y ago
The joke is also on people who have experienced career effects for (correctly) poo-pooh'ing it.
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by rhizome 5y ago
Easier bookkeeping on their part.
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by rhizome 5y ago
This is exactly right. For years it was conventional business wisdom and best practice to focus on getting the CC. We could probably find some pretty embarrassing (for the web industry) threads if we wanted to look.
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by rhizome 5y ago
Freddie doesn't have to be a public figure. He could become a web developer and go by his middle name and quietly cruise out the rest of his years like the drummer for Flock of Seagulls or something.
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by rhizome 5y ago
I have to think there's a lot of YAGNI going on, dependencies that are included to be a better version of native functionality. A faster JSON parser, say, with I dunno, 20 dependencies (a count which may further extend within those dep

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