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by sparky_z 8y ago
Married couples.
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by sparky_z 8y ago
>I've stayed in countless Airbnb rentals and the only time I saw a camera was in a common area shared with other guests. This was disclosed. There is no "hidden camera problem" on Airbnb. The thing about hidden cameras is
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by sparky_z 8y ago
That's not the bullet point we were talking about, though.
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What's opaque about the situation you're describing? Everyone understands what happened and why. What other definition of transparent is there?
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I disagree. There's no technical reason why an automated system couldn't be fully transparent to the end user about the criteria on which it is acting. That's not the reason why. I mean, you're correct about the fact tha
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Note that this was from last year. It's not breaking news.
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Pretty sure they're the only ones.
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If you borrow a "demo car" from Tesla for a few days and then give it back to them, then yes they obviously have access to the logs. Whether they have access to the logs of any random customer's car, I have no idea. But this
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by sparky_z 8y ago
No, the Outer Sunset just hadn't been fully developed quite yet. http://www.outsidelands.org/sunset.php
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by sparky_z 8y ago
Yeah, but they aren't who we're talking about here. That's called "work for hire" and it doesn't fall under an author's-life-plus-X-years rule. It has a fixed term. Can you imagine the chaos if, every time
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by sparky_z 8y ago
Builders and doctors have regular salaries (or at least are paid in full upon completion of the work they do). The value of a creative work is in the income stream it creates over time. If you need the money now, you can recoup that by sell
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Not sure what you're getting at. Are you suggesting that the police would leave bait packages at random houses without the informed consent of the occupants? And then arrest them if they picked them up? That would be nuts, but there&#x
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Oh Holy Night, when done very well. But it suffers more than most when the performance is just mediocre.
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I'm not a Fortran or C programmer (so take this with a grain of salt), but as I understand it, Fortran is so optimizable because it's arrays are not fundamentally just a memory layout with pointer math. In Fortran, arrays are ab
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It's not a net loss to the local government. It's a loss to Amazon's competitors that don't get those tax breaks. That local government is picking winners rather than provide a level playing field, and enriching themselv
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by sparky_z 8y ago
I'm fine with jurisdictions competing on taxes, but you have to lower them for everyone. No special tax breaks for individual companies. Provide a level playing field for everyone.
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If you believe they actually had a reason for their actions and are trying to apply their rules consistently, that question is the best way to get everyone on the same page and reach full understanding of the situation. It's only irrel
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I've never heard that about John Williams, but it's probably not quite the same sort of thing. He must watch the nearly-finished rough cuts dozens of times in the process of scoring (which is one of the last steps in the movie mak
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by sparky_z 8y ago
I'm not sure which "problem" you're referring to exactly, but I don't think it's the same problem that the supporters of this law are trying to solve.
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And if this were an optional service that Apple provided for security-conscious customers, then I don't think anybody would have a problem with it.
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by sparky_z 8y ago
Care to provide an example of a recent "dodgy claim"? I'm coming up empty.
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Well, my whole argument was that while it superficially "feels like" a waltz in some ways, it's clearly in 6/8 because of how the underlying beat is grouped. That's what matters. Just as a sanity check, I decided to
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by sparky_z 8y ago
Why do you say it's a waltz? The intended audience is clearly not ballroom dancers. You might argue that anything in "waltz time" is a waltz, but then your argument becomes circular. You would be saying it's a waltz beca
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I'm would call that 6/8, no question. It's slow enough that the accompaniment often subdivides into 16ths, giving the immediate impression of each measure divided into two 3/4 bars. But listen to underlying drum beat, an
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by sparky_z 8y ago
So, I just checked his wikipedia page, and was shocked to find out that Cecil Adams is not a real individual person. He's a pseudonym for a rotating collection of ghostwriters, like Franklin W Dixon.
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It might not have happened through the work laptop. Did you give the bird rescue your contact info, or even just call them before showing up? If their phone has the facebook app on it, then facebook knows you were in touch with them the oth
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by sparky_z 8y ago
Somebody in another thread theorized that he's signaling to future business partners. "Do business with me and I will always publicly have your back, no matter what." Seems plausible to me.
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The stunning numbers behind success of Tesla big battery(reneweconomy.com.au)
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by sparky_z 8y ago
Indeed. I can only think of one other, which probably holds the record. https://www.economist.com/news/obituary/21571379-richard-pla...
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by sparky_z 8y ago
Not sure what you mean. "Just what you do" when you're from a specific area is pretty much the textbook definition of a "custom".

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