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by ridaj 7y ago
I was given almost the opposite advice by a math teacher. Considering that speed was very important during exams, he urged us to spend no time with pretty calligraphy or presentation when turning in papers. Basically anything that could be
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by ridaj 7y ago
Didn't they block Winnie the Pooh images because it had come to represent Xi Jinping? Those images maybe weren't deliberately provocative when produced as a children's cartoon, but the context made them so. Sane thing could h
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by ridaj 7y ago
At "ultimate", I thought the author was going to aim for consciousness... But what, databases?!
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A recession would be the best time to build out capacity because they could snap up long-term leases and maybe even building equity on the cheap, but they've been building now that the market is frothy and getting into long-term leases
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No, because that's worked around with tape on the led. I think the use case that they are trying to solve for is to avoid camera owners unintentionally recording activities of other people who are unaware that they are being recorded,
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by ridaj 7y ago
I want to believe that the future is decentralized but I'm convinced of the opposite when it comes to online media, primarily because spam, abuse and content moderation are expensive functions to perform in which there are strong scale
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by ridaj 7y ago
I don't really care about tracking within a session and private browsing had other downsides (e.g. limited history support). It's the cross session stuff that tends to be creepier in my experience.
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by ridaj 7y ago
Partly for this reason I use Firefox with its "delete cookies when quitting" mode instead.
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by ridaj 7y ago
Thanks for the references. So basically the bargain of the ID claim is that if someone's use wasn't fair, the penalty is relatively lenient vs what it could've been in court, but then the disadvantage is that you don't g
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by ridaj 7y ago
Why blame YouTube? They're doing it at the request of the right holders, who would otherwise have a claim to pull the whole video down. They also provide an automated tool to scrub claimed music from already-uploaded videos ( https:&#x
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Good idea but > Needless to say, isolated initiatives will waste effort and resources. If the centralized procurement approach is what put everyone in the current mess, what indication is there that a centralized approach to open source
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It's funny how Google is perceived in the public as an all-knowing organism, gobbling up petabytes of data public and private to fuel a superior intelligence... Actually it can't even get clean data about its own internal operatio
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by ridaj 7y ago
I used to work at a cell phone company. One day I needed to change my SIM card so I call up the help desk : "Hi I have a new SIM card, can you please activate it? — Sure what's your number and IMSI? — My number is ..., the IMSI is
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by ridaj 7y ago
> Being imperfect is different than being pointless. In particular, we'd see a lot more places than Kazakhstan do this if good countermeasures weren't in place...
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by ridaj 7y ago
Not only is this mistake immaterial to Amazon's bottom line in the first place, it is even less material to Amazon's stock price (which is almost entirely predicated on the future), and retirement accounts / college funds div
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by ridaj 7y ago
I don't see anything here where it says people had to bring back TVs. Seems like orders were unilaterally cancelled by the seller.
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by ridaj 7y ago
Rental car companies frequently resort to personalized pricing. I've been in situations where just by using a different country TLD to make your reservation you could get a 2x price difference. Same car, same options, everything. So, g
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Neither of these things. I am certainly not arguing that Amazon is unethical. Only that it can be ethical for people to make different decisions about when to take advantage of someone else's mistake on a case-by-case basis, based on t
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by ridaj 7y ago
Whose mistakes is it ok to take advantage from? It's hard to draw a bright line to split the continuum that goes from, say, the neighborhood nonprofit shop that employs homeless and disabled people from the community, all the way to a
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by ridaj 7y ago
This reminds me of a "rule" I've heard from TV series writers. They operate with a dozen people locked up in a large writing room for the whole day. Their job is literally to "say one thing in the morning, and one thing
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by ridaj 7y ago
OnePlus is great, very close to Android stock. Samsung has so much crapware... - when you search for an app and it's not on your phone, the first place it wants to take you to, before the Play Store, is the freaking Galaxy store (who u
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by ridaj 7y ago
Uses a nice trick to uninstall built-in bloatware apps on a phone (removing them "only for the default user", since removing them system wide requires rooting the phone). I guess you don't reclaim the storage space but at lea
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by ridaj 7y ago
How do researchers just "come across" these massive data dumps
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Whereas with this English symbol that might not fit on a screen, there are none of those problems?! If the concept is foreign to you to begin with, but you have to care about it for some reason, you're going to have a bad time with eit
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by ridaj 7y ago
I am genuinely curious why not. Interesting to know that history about php! A middle ground might have been to use a transliteration such as CNContactLabelRelationBiaoJie. Your point about input makes sense in that it's technically pos
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I'm not sure it's the only culture having this specific relationship, but it's perhaps better to make sense to some than to none? A Chinese person, an Apple engineer and a HN reader walk into a bikeshed...
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by ridaj 7y ago
Exactly... Could it not just have been named CNContactLabelRelation表姐 ?
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Well yes and certainly much much more expensive than free. But the real term for free hosting is "paid for out of someone else's ad budget"
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! So it's legal to write something like... panic(panic()) or a := try(try(f())) ...?
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by ridaj 7y ago
The way errors are handled in go feels like the people were thinking hard "let's not repeat the horror of C++ exceptions" and are ok with ugly warts so long as they're not uglier than exceptions... It's clear that t

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