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by tetrep 9y ago
> Companies should defer judgement to the courts rather than make arbitrary moral judgements. Uh, no. Please no. I do not want the courts to arbitrate morality. That's a far far far more dystopian world than one where corporations
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by tetrep 9y ago
> The line that if it compiles, it’s probably correct is often true. That is the meat of why Haskell is so great. I've never so reckless refactored code as much as I do in Haskell, I just wait for the compiler to tell me what I miss
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by tetrep 9y ago
> ...that I always write my letters in a language they can understand, etc. And more importantly, with legible handwriting! The FBI has limited resources and we wouldn't want them to waste time deciphering your handwriting only to l
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by tetrep 9y ago
They're also a work laptop option for Google employees.
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by tetrep 9y ago
Well, Tesla is getting into the large vehicle industry, so it's not crazy to think they'd make autonomous vehicles for public transit if there was a market for it.
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by tetrep 9y ago
Can't read the Journal article so not sure if it has this or not, but reply from Theranos: This is a one-sided filing by one party to litigation, and we will respond at the appropriate time in the appropriate forum. We disagree with mu
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by tetrep 9y ago
> A company called Ambriosa in particular matches older people with younger people for blood routine blood transfusions. All sorts of interesting setups could come out of this, with the rich paying the (compatible) poor for their youthfu
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by tetrep 9y ago
In essence, a big reason why the Intel team was able to do this was because they're getting optimized IR from GHC's front-end[0], and then applying further optimizations with their compiler (HRC) and then converting it into yet an
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by tetrep 10y ago
> Chatting is having to write the same thing a million times. If you find yourself repeating the same thing a lot in chat, it would be a good idea to document it somewhere and just paste a link. With a link to the relevant documentation,
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by tetrep 10y ago
> If people can't get there, or park there, then its less valuable to them. So the natural response to that is to force businesses to have greater value? Is this not exactly what market forces would do naturally? A business with ins
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by tetrep 10y ago
Why is it insufficient? If the site doesn't want to leak that information, it doesn't participate in cache sharing. Since sharing is opt-in, sites won't unknowingly leak this information. Edit: whoops. I see what you mean. I
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by tetrep 10y ago
> It'd be cool if the browser used this to allow cross-origin caching as well. As a caveat, there's info leaking here depending on whether the cache hits/misses, so this would need to be opt-in from the cache source, e.g.
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by tetrep 10y ago
I think this quote (from the first chapter of the "book") sums it up nicely: > Category theory is extreme in the sense that it actively discourages us from looking inside the objects. An object in category theory is an abstract
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by tetrep 10y ago
I think this article missed a huge reason for the race to the bottom, and that's internet advertising. Articles are not written for "engagement" (per se), they're written to make the publishers money. I think nobody is a
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by tetrep 10y ago
With ~5g of carbs per 200 calories, you would have to eat these things pretty much exclusively to break keto, the only diet I'm aware of with an actual need for virtually no carbs.
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by tetrep 10y ago
> Similarly, zero-rating isn't usually considered a network neutrality problem as long as the option is open to everyone at the same pricing. That's still extremely anti-competitive. Incumbents are in an much better position to
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by tetrep 10y ago
> Always start off by asking the candidate, "Is this still a good time?" Is there a better way to ask this? It would be relatively awkward for the candidate to bring up on their own, so it seems like a good idea to make sure no
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by tetrep 10y ago
> such as Little Snitch (I think?) Correct. It is likely users allow their primary browser full access to all hosts on ports 80 and 443, if not all ports. Additionally, launching the browser gives you easy access to all the tastey sessio
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by tetrep 10y ago
> This doesn't help the root cause of people starting to use them in the first place. I don't think you can stop at drug use and claim "root cause." There's a variety of motivating factors involved in using parti
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by tetrep 10y ago
> There can certainly be reasonable limits (for example, noncompliant buildings that predate the ADA were not torn down). And yet, here we are, with a building build after the ADA, that is noncompliant. It's too expensive to make
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by tetrep 10y ago
> I'd rather be spied on by a forgien government than my own. They will keep quiet. Not among allies. If you can spy on everyone but your own citizens, you only need 2 nation-states cooperating to spy on everyone. Which is already o
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by tetrep 10y ago
Don't use passwords/secrets/credentials that you can't rotate. If you've created a product in such a way that you can't rotate secrets, you have a large security issue that you should fix ASAP. It's like s
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by tetrep 10y ago
Mutt is intended to be an insult. While I'm fairly confident I've never heard it used as such first hand, it's still the 2nd definition on whatever Google uses for defining things: a person regarded as stupid or incompe
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by tetrep 10y ago
Defect rate dropped by 80%, I wonder how much of the productivity boost is related to that.
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by tetrep 10y ago
Yeah, the "You don't have backups unless you can restore them" stikes again. Virtually the only way to lose data is to not have backups. We live in such fancy times that there's no reason to ever lose data that you care
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Facebook challenges email for control of your online identity(techcrunch.com)
20 points by tetrep 10y ago|4 comments
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by tetrep 10y ago
And the article doesn't appear to have any links with further technical detail. As given, I'd say it amounts to clickbait.
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by tetrep 10y ago
> If this blanket policy saves even one life I would find it justified. Seems like you'd be in favor of banning peanuts and their related products, as well as guns, considering how many accidental deaths occur from both each year. A
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by tetrep 10y ago
> ...but I do see hiring based on personality or "fit" remaining a target even when it makes sense and is done appropriately and the right intentions. I think "fit" is a cop-out when left unspecified. It's a reas
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by tetrep 10y ago
This is fixed by relying on CORS and using a key of (domain, hash) rather than just the hash.

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