tamana

39 ms·

481.
by tamana 11y ago
This is sadly common. There was a famous case where a woman in a car accident was committed to a psychiatric prison because they didn't believe that Obama followed her on Twitter. Psychs believe that anyone who claims to know famous pe
482.
by tamana 11y ago
But you don't need the prevailing zeitgeist. The low quality content can live in /r/bikes with all the crap tha t a front-page sub endures, and the high quality content can be happily moderated in /r/pedalpower
483.
by tamana 11y ago
"Researchers measured the return to full attention by timing participants' response to a flashing light." The description in the article suggests that the time was counted from the start of the voice command action.
484.
by tamana 11y ago
Surely even without maps the problem is the same: the route is unmarked.
485.
by tamana 11y ago
That's a public website, no Google privacy is relevant.
486.
by tamana 11y ago
What is a social interaction service, ans why can't it be federated or peer to peer?
487.
by tamana 11y ago
Many states have voter initiatives, they don't succeed in the way you hypothesize, sadly. Looks at CA. The voters are even worse than the legislators.
488.
by tamana 11y ago
This isn't an age thing, and isn't a majority thing.
489.
by tamana 11y ago
"Charges" is rather generous, isn't it? They don't even charge the property before seizing it.
490.
by tamana 11y ago
Why would any Democrat or Republican candidate prefer that process over the party process?
491.
by tamana 11y ago
Plurality rule, not majority rule.
492.
by tamana 11y ago
It is represented poorly. But it's not clear that combating parliamentary factions would do better. It's mystifying how such a diverse and populous country can be represented well at all. And the evidence is stacking up to show t
493.
by tamana 11y ago
Using Facebook to communicate is totally fine and great. Letting self-selectrd Facebook hordes make decisions is the mistake.
494.
by tamana 11y ago
Those ancient pages could be hosted on a scalable CDN to hand the traffic. The hosting design is antiquated, not the pages.
495.
by tamana 11y ago
What about users who don't claim to be working for the campaign? The problem isn't overt campaigning. The problem is covert astroturf campaigning.
496.
by tamana 11y ago
The campaigns already have an opportunity -- they can create an account, and some services like Reddit give "Verified" tags in the site
497.
by tamana 11y ago
How would that solve any problems? Submitting a petition to be on a ballot is a basic effort for national party. That's practically the the reason a national party exists in the first place.
498.
by tamana 11y ago
Can you give a non-hypothetical example?
499.
by tamana 11y ago
And DVDs are often incomplete anyway, so you still have to download updates and authenticate to a keyserver to play.
500.
by tamana 11y ago
For a company that calls itself "The Everything Store", becoming the "Everything except if we think we can squeeze you for more money" is going to push people into the waiting arms of Walmart and Jet and Google Shopping
501.
by tamana 11y ago
How do "Earth-based observations of the dark portion of the moon" work? Is that the dark part of the light side , where the sun won't overexpose the video?
502.
by tamana 11y ago
And by sitting in traffic, you save money that would have been spent on things to do!
503.
by tamana 11y ago
Google didn't sell you your phone, why were you asking Google for a new OS for your phone? Sony got Marshmallow from Google, Sony is refusing to give it to you.
504.
by tamana 11y ago
It's an excerpt, weird to call that native advertising. Is all of Wired a native ad for the rest of Wired?
505.
by tamana 11y ago
I can only assume the feeling is mutual.
506.
by tamana 11y ago
People are really really good as estimating and sorting access time and creation time, though, so we can binary search through that. People who use paper journals report they are really could at finding items by remembering when the related
507.
by tamana 11y ago
It's rather sexist of you to assume the wife would organize clothes rather than be a supervisor process.
508.
by tamana 11y ago
Not clear if satire or actual founder of clothes rental company having a sense of humor.
509.
by tamana 11y ago
How about organizing closets using appropriate algoritgms from gener computer science, not by mapping it to a completely different hardware atchitecture and access pattern? Submarines aren't fish, though both travel in water.
510.
by tamana 11y ago
DNS could easily become excludable, if it limited service by IP/MAC address. Most people get DNS from their ISP, for example.

More ›