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by tetrep 10y ago
It's awkward that all these statistics seem to focus on the output of system without any regard to the input. There's a passing comment about "improve recruiting" but there's no details presented as to who is actu
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by tetrep 10y ago
> Maybe the European "right to be forgotten" has something to it after all... All the more dangerous if you can't find out someone is a white supremacist because they've politely asked to have the internet scrubbed
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by tetrep 10y ago
> ...he was making sure that Makinde wouldn't be too politically assertive about race issues. I think that gives him far too much credit. It's no different than if you asked someone "Why is it offensive if I grope you, hit
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by tetrep 10y ago
> I'm (further) convinced that healthy eating and corporate interests are completely opposed. This is touched on a bit in the Omnivore's Dilemma, people without heavy encouragement otherwise, have a rough limit on how many calo
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by tetrep 10y ago
Neat! I welcome people making applications such as these that show us just how public information is and how little we truly appreciate that fact (I assume many will find this creepy).
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by tetrep 10y ago
That is more or less how video game replays work, as well as netcode in multiplayer games. They store the series of events that lead to a given state; you don't need to waste resources on a block-chain. There's no technological re
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by tetrep 10y ago
It's very dishertening to see people get pushed around by their employers loke this. Does censoring the opinions of your employees not count as evil?
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by tetrep 10y ago
> I think there's a strong argument to make that university programs are too focused on theory... Is there? I found practical programming knowledge to be very easy to pick up due to having piles of theory that back up why it's
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by tetrep 10y ago
I wonder if it's possible to measure energy spent in court cases? One of the things that amazed me about spam was how many resources we spend just transmitting it across the internet, it's kind of tragic when you think about the w
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by tetrep 10y ago
I find this interesting, as I would almost certainly have forgotten my password by now, it only takes me 4-6 months of never using a password to forget it, so I wonder what happens if you can't decrypt your drives, due to honest forget
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by tetrep 10y ago
> I worry that people read studies like this and suddenly justify going out and driving while impaired. The keyword here is "impaired." It doesn't just have to involve drugs, being exhausted and attempting to drive is also
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by tetrep 10y ago
didn't know i got downvotes and i fat fingered one for you, so i guess i'll contribute... I agree with your sentiment. Being nearby passionate workers is empathetically energetic, and adds motivation for me to do even mundane task
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by tetrep 10y ago
I think that by "learn more" they meant ensure that you're always learning. It's not that you should learn everything, but rather just ensure you're always learning something , always growing. This is something imp
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by tetrep 10y ago
i don't see any contact info in your profile, but i'll report it for you? (not that you have any particular reason to trust me, just thought i'd offer to take the "heat")
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by tetrep 10y ago
i agree. it's quite cathartic to think back on all the information i've lost over the years, vague memories of past events that mainly live on through their consequences on my life and personality. although some things, especially
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by tetrep 10y ago
> Before you tell me to look for another company, I did. All of them know the market rate and all of them set their max salary to it. Where are you looking for companies? This matters greatly as to whether or not they have the resources&
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by tetrep 10y ago
> “This is the first time I have seen language this explicit in an FBI non-disclosure agreement,” Nate Wessler, a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project...
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by tetrep 10y ago
>Put bluntly: to others, we’re jerks. If you don’t think this is a problem, you can stop reading here. Well, that's a great way to have an honest dialogue. > You fume for several minutes, cursing all developers everywhere, but no
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by tetrep 10y ago
Births are what matter, as a pregnant teen can get an abortion, resulting in skewed statistics if you're trying to figure out how many teens are having babies, which (imo) is the thing society should actually care about, as unready par
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by tetrep 10y ago
>...would you really call one of them "inferior" to the other? I think I would consider the dog brain to be generally inferior, sufficiently so that I would simply label it as inferior. With sufficient general intelligence, you
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by tetrep 10y ago
Indeed. The extent of my programming knowledge entering collage was basic HTML/CSS and making and making a form in Visual Basic that swapped the positions of the "Okay" and "Cancel" buttons whenever you moused over
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by tetrep 10y ago
> If somebody can access given url just by guessing it — well, it it unprotected, so implicitly it is supposed to be accessed by anyone. No matter how long it is. Let's see what happens when we apply this logic to cryptography... If
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by tetrep 11y ago
> ...it's the broken ones who turn to crime. If law were derived from universal morals (heh...) then that might be accurate. But due to the relatively arbitrariness of whether or not someone is a criminal, especially with respect to
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by tetrep 11y ago
One of the many practical neat things you can do when you're emulating all the software of a machine, is visually analyzing memory relatively easily: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25nLk1Z8wd0
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by tetrep 11y ago
What's wrong with Signal's encrypted storage? AFAIK if you set a password it will be used to encrypt local storage of your messages.
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by tetrep 11y ago
direct source: http://steamcommunity.com/games/353370/announcements article doesn't really add anything
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by tetrep 11y ago
>How do we change ownership structures to prevent Snapchat, Instagram, and Whatsapp from distributing billion-dollar windfalls among only a couple dozen people? This seems to be the crux of the argument, that concentrated wealth is bad b
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by tetrep 11y ago
you don't want to work for those places..
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by tetrep 11y ago
Yeah, the promise of "do things when you don't have signal" is predicated on a chain of people with these devices existing all the way from where you are to where a cell phone signal is. Which means you need to go to popular
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by tetrep 11y ago
> ...the most beneficial infrastructural policy... That's a nice objective view of free basics. I honestly believe, as I believe the parent to your comment does, that free basics really is bad for the internet and that none of the

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