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by snomad 9y ago
The suicide rate for teens, especially teen girls, has risen along with the explosion in social media https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/03/health/teen-suicide-cdc-study... . Instinctively, above cyber bullying
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by snomad 9y ago
The fundamental unacknowledged problem with Keynes is it relies on natural rate of inflation, which only happens with population growth. See Japan's continual stagnation despite endless amounts of inflationary policies. The 4 main econ
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Some comments as watching video... Corporation as AI is good analogy. But as with many, he stops short and repeatedly just says corporations. Please, every large group entity - governmental bodies, unions, non-profits - is an AI. And with&#
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Their is some measurable chance the NFL and football disappear w/in 30 years. Sooner or later a college / high school will lose a lawsuit for a player w/CTE, and schools will have no choice but to stop participation. Once tha
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by snomad 9y ago
This could be one of those things that definitely grabs developers attention in a good way. I disagree it needs to be for all Office apps - if it was just Excel and Access that would be plenty.
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As the MOOCs found out, you can't just "replace" certain societal services - especially those beset with volumes of regulation and numerous groups of powerful stakeholders happy to reach out to politicians and the public (AAR
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by snomad 9y ago
Key takeaway (spoiler) > King and White determined that it only took three stories in small outlets to boost public discussion of a given topic by 62.7 percent on Twitter. The same number of stories also swayed public opinion by about 2.
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by snomad 9y ago
These statements + the 60 minutes piece awhile back ( https://www.cbsnews.com/videos/brain-hacking-2/ ) make this a very likely outcome. I wonder what the equivalent warning label + restrictions will look like.
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I seem to recall one of Jon Skeet's abusing C# videos with something similar. He has 4 or so up on YouTube, each is an hour and totally worth it.
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Nice idea, but she outlined more than enough reasons not to do it. Political (Israel-Palestine, China-Taiwan, Ukraine, etc). In my limited experience with automating international shipping I seem to recall UPS treats Guam, Puerto Rico, and
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HTTP 103 – An HTTP Status Code for Indicating Hints(datatracker.ietf.org)
417 points by snomad 9y ago|120 comments
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The other day, Troy Hunt found a leak from a coupon website that was storing customer CVVs. If a doctor, lawyer, accountant, etc was similarly negligent they could be financially ruined (at least here in the US). The industry may not face a
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by snomad 9y ago
It was all the rage on Twitter when it changed. They should have just made it a Halloween thing and walked it back next week :) In fairness to the outcries, I still miss Outlook's Gold icon. More than once have opened Outlook / Wo
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by snomad 9y ago
Just a minor clarification to your point. In "industry" towns like the Bay Area, Detroit, and Chicago - corporations are definitely the powerful non-state actors. Outside of those though, their are many cities of considerable size
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And that is the exact same calculation the local transportation agency makes every time their is a car accident with fatalities on a major undivided highway / road. Roads become known as dangerous (eg Blood Alley, officially the 126 is
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by snomad 9y ago
Problem is easy to identify - We are using waterfall for massive scale urban projects, and getting the known associated problems. Add to that massive corruption and cronyism. The fix is not clear. Can't just drop in agile, every attemp
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I wonder if this will spark student athletes in major football and basketball programs to follow suit.
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One question I have - should we keep building apps in the document model (http / https), or finally create a true static document model and add a separate app layer? I can't believe after 2 decades that browsers are still missing
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by snomad 9y ago
Only racists? What about other forms of bigotry? And who defines which bigotry is unaccepted and which is accepted?
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Very cool, hope they add New Horizons pics too (they may have already, it is not clear from the blog post).
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I guess that will depend on Widnows Store, if that is working, even a little, I would guess UWP is safe. The fall creator's update has some nice new features -including SQL and acrylic - it will be interesting to watch adoption rates o
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This article doesn't even answer its own question of "how". For those interested in the topic, I highly recommend Connie Bruick's Predators' Ball and Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis. > Adam Smith, the father o
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May I point out - to YC and others interested in the space - their is a fairly large market for continuing education. Nurses, accountants, lawyers, and lots of other industries require practitioners keep up to date and take courses througho
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There are some really good talks on a wide variety of .net things at https://dotnetrocks.com/ For ASP, David Fowler without a doubt, also recommend Barry Dorans and Scott Sauber
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This would be interesting, especially if it included sector along with sector. Do all health ins companies have a blue, all oil companies a red, etc..
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This is why servers /network should be configured to reject/prevent out bound calls by default, only allowing connections from a white list.
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The hack isn't just SSNs - it includes address history, date of birth, drivers license number - everything reasonably necessary to establish identity. Not sure why the focus is SSNs, any solution needs to be even higher. This is about
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by snomad 9y ago
This is really the concern. With this level of detail, someone can open any kind of new account - not just credit card - dig into everyone's lives (or political opponents on social media for doxxing). And the threat remains in perpetui
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Facebook inflates its ad reach by millions, analyst claims(cnbc.com)
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To be fair, have you read about the VA system? That is a system with limited scope, understood problems, strong bipartisan support, that can easily pull the public's hearts for budget. And it still falls way too short in its mission an

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