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Wikipedia, sort of. Certainly in terms of devotion to openness, collaboration, etc. Haven't heard of a similar project for essays or fiction.
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huh? is label revenue unrelated to artist revenue?
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>Every organization has whistleblowers. this is not clear. A sufficiently small organization needn't have whistleblowers. The extreme level of confidentially practiced in the relevant organizations ensures that the number of people
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C is interesting as a language in being almost completely dependent on the system in which it is embedded. Many other languages are expected to provide facilities to the programmers which c leaves to the operating system. The result is that
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There are search engines that offer search without collecting user data. Advertising provides enough revenue to make this sustainable. I doubt that google will switch to this model of it's own volition of course.
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>eventually the cap is going to achieve equilibrium with the environment the environment is probably around 25 degrees. It's sitting between the environment and some heat producing element, so it will reach steady state somewhere be
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Code lies all the time. This is called an abstraction, and is very useful. The abstraction that rob's code provides is that it makes you think of writing not as doing something with the OS, but as merely pushing to a buffer, with flush
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"Mainstream" as in outside of technology circles.
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If it renders in a facsimile of the correct script, this allows you to: - see that it's foreign text, rather than pictographs or weird english text. - see when the shapes of other languages are used to make pictures (¯\_(ツ)_/¯) -
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>Its my data and I should own it. Then don't give it to them. >Is this Facebook trolls I personally don't use facebook, and don't advocate for others to use facebook. If you do use facebook, then you are accepting the d
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From my experience it's true in python (ie not a static type system). Removing the distinction between compiling and running makes this point even stronger.
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This is what IronPython was invented for.
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>web game Possible the 10% were using adblockers, and so didn't notice the change.
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Cookie warnings don't show up for any old cookie usage. HN has no cookie warnings, despite having accounts and logins. Cookie warnings are shown when the "evil bit" or the "color" of the cookie is set; that is, ther
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Even the greats make mistakes: https://media.8ch.net/file_store/685c60d14c5b269cb9571c1f630...
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They're curating for user experience, not for political opinions. If someone uploaded a vim clone google isn't taking a stance in the editor war by letting it stay up. "Saying it's OK with them." If they made a publ
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Wouldn't work for people with referers disabled. I wonder if browsers have a max redirect count to prevent looping like this?
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He's shuffling smartphones in under embedded I believe. His thesis is that if you want a platform to take off, start shipping developer boxes of the platform. So mobile and pc will merge when and only when you can do all your developme
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Given two dimensions: Destroy any cell with only a left neighbour. Create any cell with only a bottom neighbour. Start with a single cell: in the forward direction a vertical tower appears. In the reverse direction a horizontal row appears.
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text user interface. A terminal interface that isn't restricted to a command line.
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The ten MB block size limit lowers the number of transactions that can occur in a single block therefore inflating what miners can charge for a transaction. Increasing the blocksise would require miners to choose to mine a hard fork. See th
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The police can find the ip address of whoever's serving it, ask the isp for their name, and give a knock on their door.
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Believe it. Go to almost any song, click "see more" in the description, and it will tell you who they licensed it from.
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What's wrong with python?
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Shark fin soup as well.
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So this uses ethereum to verify that a video was taken at a certain time. Altering the video is impossible, because the altered video will necessarily be created much later than the original. If you can plan to fake something ahead of time
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Although this may be a myth, I've heard tell of someone who once managed to memorize... two phone numbers . e: no seriously though. With area code, phone numbers already are 10 digits. Are you baiting?
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>I feel this fails a user expectation that simply hovering over a link doesn't inform the server of anything. The validity of that expectation died with the advent of web analytics probably two decades ago now. The wholly general so
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The US is a big ass country with a relatively small population. When you get a data plan from t-mobile, they promise it will work well even in many remote rural areas. That increased coverage has a cost.
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The false negative rate may be very low, this doesn't speak to the false postive rate. Considering the goal was supposed to be "telling humans and computers apart" both kinds of errors are important to consider. Google predic

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