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by syrrim 5y ago
Google is offering a service, namely a way to connect your customers to your website. Arguably, on brand ads are just a way to pay for that service.
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The initial contention was that tesla's autopilot was superior to humans, at a specific task. If this were true, it would be very interesting, and represent real progress in the self driving space. Thus I'm interested in whether i
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>In fact (and I don't have a link handy) if you extrapolate out from a few different data sources it looks like Tesla's on AP get in these crashes about half as much as vehicles in the general fleet. Why use that as a compariso
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It detects whether the user is using the computer, not just the tab. If they were using another program for a prolonged period it would still report them as active.
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We tax cigarettes. My understanding is the tax is restricted in the budget to only go towards paying for healthcare for smokers. So the smokers can stay, at least.
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Werks on my machine. There's an anal process to enable it, and I think it only works in beta/fennec, but it works.
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Didn't the patriot act expire without renewal?
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One thing I've noticed: very few ads are topic focused. Take an ad for a car, or for life insurance. This ad isn't aimed at someone who likes cars, or insurance. It's aimed at an average person, within a certain income bracke
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Of course they do. That merely slows the rate at which you can create accounts.
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>Unfortunately, it turns out that the minimum altitude necessary to avoid any shading is 2750 m, rather taller than any structure ever built on Earth. Well, you wouldn't be building it on earth. The gravity on the moon is 1/6 a
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>yet another request I believe it used to work this way, but they changed it after people complained. Go figure
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Monopolies aren't illegal. Abuse of monopoly through anti-competitive practices is illegal.
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Email is push, websites are pull. If you never choose to visit a website, then you'll never see a link on it. Most of the websites you do visit already prevent obfuscating links. Emails just show up in your inbox when an attacker wants
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It the tail is fat, then it absolutely matters to youtube that it is monetized as well. The value proposition of youtube over traditional media has long been that it offers a chance for individuals to be seen, though I don't know to wh
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Your reference says they are illegal only on regulated markets in the US.
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>phone numbers are owned by carriers >they get to keep their number as long as they stay with their carrier. You can move phone numbers between carriers.
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Use the referer, is my guess. Whereas browsers are starting to limit the sharing of referers, I don't think there are any plans to limit first party referers. So as long as the referer is your domain, you know the user navigated from w
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Most people would prefer an extra vacation day that they can take any day they want, or accumulate and take in a block, over a mandated holiday on a particular day.
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People make out fine without a useless protocol, I think. There are still a large number of people creating blogs and websites without analytics etc., and with no expectation of being able to monetize their work. As the lobste.rs quote poin
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I believe it had to do with the way they irrigated. They would flood their fields, which would leave sediment from the river as the water evaporated. The sediment contained salt, which slowly accumulated, and made the fields infertile.
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I have trouble believing that this is the fault of the techie lobby, considering that said lobby otherwise has no meaningful accomplishments under its belt. My explanation would be that the web is massively successful because it enables use
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See this: http://www.digitalmedia.fi/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/UC_rep... Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25024552
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Porn is covered under an exception. A tweet saying you merely want to assassinate the president is fine, what's illegal is inciting others to commit crimes.
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I was on the bus on time, a cute family was ahead of me, speaking some incomprehensible babble. "I wonder what part of scandinavia they're from", thought I. Then the father turns to me and asks some pleasantry with his britis
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Different formulations of insulin offer different benefits to diabetics. Ones that are more slow acting more closely resemble the body's natural regulation of insulin, and therefore do less harm to the body. Or so I hear.
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Most cars have AI technology to prevent crashes. What differentiates tesla is that they have technology that enables the driver to stop paying attention. Automatic braking has likely saved lives, but in this dimension it isn't clear th
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I have to assume that tesla's cars aren't confused by those things either, for the most part . The difference is that most car's emergency brake systems act when a driver has failed to respond; the driver and the computer ar
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Suppose that everyone has raised their house up on a pile of dirt. The rain comes down. It fills up the large ditches between people's houses, and leaves the houses dry. Suppose I implement better, but imperfect, security. It now costs
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This isn't an attestation of personhood. This is attestation of access to a hardware module with certain properties. These are very different things. Obnoxiously different. Do any of the listed manufacturers implement any sort of rate
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>Usually, the local government owns the stadium, while the team and its ownership control the revenues. This arrangement leaves taxpayers on the hook for maintaining the stadium year after year, team or not. From here: https:/&#x2F

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