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by stubish 2y ago
In the last few decades, it seems rarer and rarer for companies to give references, or at least meaningful ones beyond 'Yes, they worked here. No, we have nothing bad to say about them.' I'd wager the companies with a culture
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Back in the dark ages, the University I worked for had a lab full of computers stolen. I discovered that the University did not have insurance for this, or for a lot of things, because the University was a large organization with a lot of a
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I'd wager most books are content someone wants. A lot are even content a lot of people want. This is not good enough. Reaching the audience is the problem. Also, writing a book can take years. Writing for what people want today is ho
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Data has value, but it also has a cost. The value tends to decrease over time, and at some point it makes economic sense to destroy it. The cost is interesting, as it might be going up as privacy becomes a bigger issue. Particularly locatio
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Is not wrong because it is slower. It is wrong because it is a security problem. A typo in your search or a phisher who managed to SEO their results above the genuine one, and you end up on a malicious site identical except for a hard to sp
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The contract between Sony and Steam in this case. Sony has chosen to restrict the regions Steam can sell in. Steam could honor the contract, or just pay lip service to it and hope Sony don't care enough to invoke their lawyers.
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Even today, some people and companies choose to follow the law without being forced to. It might even be important from a business perspective to remain squeaky clean if you are in a dominant market position, when competitors are looking fo
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Not only is there no financial incentive to do it, but there is also unknown risk. Maybe you make a few enthusiasts happy. Maybe someone sues you because they think you violated their patent. Just quantifying the unknown risks takes time an
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Curious what sort of processing power or chipsets the 'onboard embedded computer' needs. Could this be an iPhone app? Or is this going to require new, specialized hardware to commoditize?
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And we almost all will be where you are now, if we live long enough. If you can pick out audio from individuals, you could also send it through speech recognition and subtitle real world conversations for when hearing is worse or not there
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Nobody except governments (plural) has the authority to regulate things. If you think regulation is required, there is no choice except governments to do it. Industries can only regulate themselves if given the power to do so by a governmen
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Now I'm curious as to the reasoning Sam got back in. The board is there for a purpose and has legal duties. Did they have some duty to cave in when the company was threatened, overriding their oversight duties that caused them to sack
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Tourist numbers dropped after the '97 Luxor massacre, then after the first gulf war, and probably further after the second. It was reasonably busy when I visited several months before the second gulf war, but nowhere near as much as yo
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"For 100 years, Egypt’s scientists have watched as their nation’s story was largely told by institutions from Europe and the United States." Really? I thought Egyptology had been under iron control for at least 30 years, to the po
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Look at the heating bar on a 1200W electric radiator? That is a lot of infrared, often unshielded to the eyes.
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It seems to be the steady state of the ad sponsored economy. Ads generate money. Outrage serves more ads. To maximize money, outrage is good, even if it attacks you. So you and your middlemen develop a thick skin and get on with making mone
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"in which countries switch away from simple, whole-food diets as they become wealthier" Is this actually the case? I see the switch away happening when whole-food diets become more expensive. The whole point of processed foods is
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Dumb devices can have smarts; they just need to be incapable of shenanigans. Maybe a monitor can be reprogrammed to capture screen shots, but without storage or a network connection, that isn't useful.
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The real use case is eye catching advertising, distracting passers by and stealing attention. Price is getting more competitive though with VR and 3D TV, once you include the cost of the PC needed to drive them. Might start seeing them in a
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Yes. My reading is they are printing wires, and the sensor bit is science fiction. Maybe the actual sensors are external, picking up deformation or position of the printed gunk?
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And on the other hand, if you start recognizing 'play' in other species, it can help you learn what 'play' actually is and why we do it. What was frivolous is now how we learn and discover and invent and develop.
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A few decades ago, we chose the most awful color combinations for the UI of an internal system to encourage the designer to get on with it (they wore multiple hats). By the time I'd left a year or so later, the people using the system
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Does that actually matter? You see the same sort of embarrassingly low numbers in all artistic mediums. Writer, painter, musician, sculptor, interpretive dancer, comedian, indy game dev - on average none of these pay enough to count as a ca
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Over here dark fiber has meant private, dedicated fiber since the '90s. As opposed to connections managed by your telco. Seems similar in the US per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_fibre
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Physical drives is just one part of the service. Everything else is subject to inflation. Usual solution is to automate and cut staffing, but we know that often doesn't work out well.
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I asked two questions specifically because a clause like this in an employment contract is there to enable termination no matter if the act is legal or not. Also, breaking your employment contract can make you liable for damages if the empl
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> haven't seen it do something that isn't already possible using a "not-intelligent" solution This is dismissing time and resources. I think things like this game maker project are extremely impressive, because it e
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I fully understand why this is considered unethical. I fully understand that employees will get fired for taking the bounties. But what actual law is being broken here? I suspect it is legally a bribe, because it is facilitating a non-routi
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The article is about domestic horses, not about their extinct ancestors. The article says that previously the Mongolian breed were believed to be the last truly wild, undomesticated horses (predating domestication 5.5k years ago). Now they
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I'm not sure how Google an claim they have covered the monetary damages, when in this case a jury is required to decide what the monetary damages actually are. I don't think they will be allowed to opt-out of risking punitive dama

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