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by sangnoir 2y ago
> I will just build an admin dashboard that allows a site owner manage their content With WordPress, there are 5 different plugins already built that have more features than the dashboard you're planning to build, and the agency&#x2
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Fat margins on licensing Lighting accessories were good for Apple.
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Consider the editorial board to be the equivalent of Fox's Opinion shows. They opinion side if the house is nominally independent from the News-gathering operations. If you're arguing purveyors of news should not carey opinion-pie
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The hedonic treadmill comes for everyone. Even the billionaires want more.
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> California is not even close to being a swing state, afaik? As the most populous state, California has a lot of political donors - likely the most registered members in a state for both major parties. 1 in 8 Americans are in Californ
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> However, in light of their failure to accomplish their mission, and actually hindering peace, Israel asked them to leave. Asked them to leave a whole other country, that is not Israel or Israeli territory. Would this be reasonable to
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> UNIFIL has not done this. ...and therefore they deserve to be shot at, maimed or killed?
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UN peacekeeper should be treated as civilians - even when armed.
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> What is the point of the troops being there? Let's assume they are completely useless at peacekeeping - does this justify them being attacked?
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> I've been involved in this discussion many times as well, and the correct answer is that one isn't inherently "better", and you shouldn't _always_ prefer one over the other. That depends entirely on your organi
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It's Elixir's[1] equivalent of a Foreign Function Interface. 1. More accurately, NIFs sre BEAM's take on FFI functions, and Elixir is a BEAM language.
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You are right there is no single national case that clearly ruled in either way, but the status quo is that it's de facto ok. Adjacent case law made white room reverse engineering & API re-implementation "ok" de jure ,
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Open source isn't charity - just like playing non-professional sports isn't charity: the vast majority of participants see it as a hobby or social activity. A minority get paid, and a minority of the minority "break even&quot
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It was a little more nuance than that. Oracle was hoping SCOTUS would rule that API Structure, sequence and organization are copyrightable - the court sidestepped that question altogether by ruling that if APIs are copyrightable[1], the c
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"I think we should look at this from the military point of view. I mean, supposing the Chinese stashes away some big cluster, see. When they come out in a ten years they could take over!" "I agree, Mr. President. In fact,
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You're describing the paparazzi. Yes - it's legal.
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Do you think Mark felt guilty about Cambridge Analytica? Or feels guilty every time a Meta company is subpoenaed because his intentions were purely for advertising? If the potential of individuals being stalked as bad as you say, how much s
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> People are applying to thousands of jobs using automated tools Employers were already screening thousands of applications using automated tools for years. Candidates are catching up to the automation cat-and-mouse game.
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It's not good for any entity to role play without signaling that they are role-playing. If your premise is wrong, would you rather be corrected, or have the person you're talking to always play along? Humans have a lot of non-verb
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I bet you weren't buying midrange Motorolas. I bought a Moto G for $179 (forgot the model: may have been G1/G2, and that may have been promo pricing for an unlocked phone) and used it for close to 5 years. I only stopped using it
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> The movers just do what the stickers said. I'd be pretty pissed if movers ignored instructions and tossed any of my stuff away of their own volition. I keep some non-functional belongings that may appear worthless to others, and
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Correcting an inaccuracy in the last sentence I introduced in an edit: Kepler's laws means you cant have different velocities in the same orbit - bit its possible for an explosion to cause a projectile to intercept a satellite that was
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> Wait what? Why is a headlight influenced by a turn signal All cars with "Daylight Running Lights" (housed in the headlight assembly) turn them off for that side when the turn signal is active. I assumed this is to make the tu
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by sangnoir 2y ago
1k RPM for wind turbines? Is that the usual gearing ratio? Is there any reason to maintain that gearing for a different rupe of motor? From my observation of wind farms, the blades spin well under 1 Hz (<60 RPM)
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Speeding up does not work, that'll just put it in a higher orbit Speeding up doesn't raise the orbit; it makes it (more) elliptical while still intersecting with the old orbit (shared with neighbouring satellites)- you need a
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It's not just courteous, it's self serving, AFAIK, a self-emergent phenomenon. If you're driving at 65 mph and anticipate a slow down in your lane due merging traffic, do you stay in your lane and slow down to 40 mph, or do y
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You don't have a right of way over a slow moving vehicle that merged ahead of you. Most ramps are not long enough to allow merging traffic to accelerate to highway speeds before merging, so many drivers free up the right-most lane fo
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All of the people working in CS don't know if P=NP: working in a field doesn't mean you have all the answers.
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> so their conversation logs are their moat Google and Meta aren't exactly lacking in conversation data: Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, Google Talk, Google Groups, Google Plus, Blogspot comments, Youtube Transcripts, &tc. The b
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GitHub, naturally.

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