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by tetrep 3y ago
If you think about it a bit, it's almost expected. Ads are a (the only?) effective way to monetize any digital device. So an advertiser has an interest in nearly all (internet connected) digital technology, as all areas can be exploite
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by tetrep 3y ago
That sort of phrasing is almost to be expected, no? This might just be a cynical atheist's interpretation of Abrahamic religions, but Islam seems to be loosely doing the same thing to Christianity that Christianity did to Judaism, i.e.
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by tetrep 3y ago
Do you have access to the source code / would you be willing to share it?
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by tetrep 3y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if there was some sort of legislated PC terminology for government workers somewhere (but, ironically, what first comes to mind is the banning of "Latinx" by Sanders). What about NYC protecting fat wor
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by tetrep 3y ago
> It’s also an explicit goal to ensure that user agents can browse the web without this proposal How, in an information theory sense, can you stop website operators from using this attestation information to block subsets of users? The
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by tetrep 3y ago
And that's why everyone knows there's no relationship between autism and vaccines? I think you're underestimating the ability for people to abuse trust, i.e. lie. You can't say "trust scientist A but not scientist B
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by tetrep 3y ago
I might be reading a bit too deep into this, but the source of data for the study titled it as "Fragile Families" (since renamed to "Future of Families") and it really makes it sound to me, as a laymen, that the data is
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by tetrep 3y ago
> But out of the myriad of various opinions coming from politicians, CEOs, propagandists, flat out out idiots, and everything else in between, scientists are arguably the class of truth sayers you should be least skeptical of. If the CEO
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by tetrep 3y ago
> Depictions in real life that would be illegal should remain illegal in the synthetic world. I think creative works would be severely limited if nothing illegal could be depicted within them. If you're arguing only pornographic con
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by tetrep 3y ago
> There is a concern about the conjunctions that are occurring where no maneuvers are being made," said Lewis. "You could argue that the probability [of a collision in these cases] is very low, but given the very large number o
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by tetrep 3y ago
You can't apply cake slicing logic because in that scenario everyone likes the (implied homogeneous) cake equally. With gerrymandering, how we slice the cake determines how appealing it is to each party involved, so the gerrymandering
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by tetrep 3y ago
While there is much talk of protest, nobody in a position of power (like those organizing protests in various subreddits) seems to be offering a diaspora option. The protests are extremely time boxed too, so if I were Reddit, it seems like
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by tetrep 3y ago
I don't have any experience with this, but maybe they found a store or something that they could use to get a refund to a specific card and they used your stolen debit card info to get the refund and then proceed to spend it all hopefu
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by tetrep 3y ago
It'd be cool if you could submit a specific Github commit (or similar) and then have the app store build it and distribute it. Then the user only needs to trust Apple or Google to not be malicious, which they kinda already need to do i
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Study finds pollinators are attracted to humidity, not just scent(phys.org)
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by tetrep 3y ago
> If anything the opposite is far more bleak. Imagine if there was a drug that meant you're less easily satisfied, who on earth would want that? That sounds like stimulants. You wouldn't be motivated to do things if you were sa
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by tetrep 3y ago
I think it also promotes a culture of "bullshit patents are good, just pay up and move on." Which aligns very well with large companies' large bullshit patent portfolios.
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by tetrep 3y ago
While I agree with some others here that the idea of the government watching public tweets is generally fine, I think the concern here is that there's various legal restrictions on how the government can conduct surveillance, and by
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by tetrep 4y ago
As others have pointed out, the article contains almost no details about the waste. Here are the details directly from the government meeting: https://documents.dps.ny.gov/public/Common/ViewDoc.aspx?DocR... Full d
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by tetrep 4y ago
Kale is a nutrient rich leafy green food in the same family as broccoli. A lot of people seem to hate the flavor, I don't mind it and I wonder if it's because I ate a lot of broccoli as a kid (didn't have any kale until decad
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by tetrep 4y ago
What if they're not? What if it really is economically better for Microsoft to "double dip" and try to monetize Windows beyond its purchase price?
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by tetrep 4y ago
Sounds like they're on-prem: The computers are submerged in mineral oil that captures heat that gets transferred into pool water with a heat exchanger. The pool still has a gas boiler to boost the water's temperature if required.
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by tetrep 4y ago
It's less NIH and more "cache your dependencies." Details will very greatly depending on what your tech stack looks like, if you're lucky you can just inline a cache. I know Artifactory is a relatively general commercial
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by tetrep 4y ago
A deserving; that which makes one deserving of reward or punishment; merit or demerit; good conferred, or evil inflicted, which merits an equivalent return: as, to reward or punish men according to their deserts. "Just deserts" is
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by tetrep 4y ago
> Not mentioned in the video is that Philips Ventures is effectively buying up MedTech companies with proven tech, and hovering up the IP into their portfolio as an 'innovation' strategy. Why is that bad? Unless there's so
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by tetrep 4y ago
There's a reason why the science community demands rigorous papers and not "you saw it with your own eyes so it must be true." See also: Professional illusionists.
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by tetrep 4y ago
I can't speak for literally all businesses, but more or less everything a business publishes is marketing/PR. They fully control what they allow to be published, why wouldn't they make sure it paints them in a positive light
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by tetrep 4y ago
IDK, seems perfectly inline with certain demographics aging, accumulating wealth, and business exploiting that. I don't think it's a coincidence that things from the same era, like super heroes, are also currently popular. Nostalg
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by tetrep 4y ago
I think it's less blindly doing and more seeing your attractive friends dieting and becoming more self-conscious about your own weight. I don't want to give reactionary CEOs too much credit, but I dont think it's fair to desc
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by tetrep 4y ago
What's your source for areas of the U.S. without doppler? It looks like NEXRAD dopplers are "everywhere" in the U.S. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEXRAD

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