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691.
by thwarted 10y ago
That isn't an appropriate description of how PageRank works.
692.
by thwarted 10y ago
Monitors are bigger than ever today. I promise, people can spare 10 pixels of vertical space so that they can see the name of the application being run (and the name of documents open in said application), and have a very easy area to clic
693.
by thwarted 10y ago
It would be interesting to recreate the backend/server side portion in a (modern?) MUD system, and use the C64 Habitat as a MUD client.
694.
by thwarted 10y ago
For the same reason ISPs and telcos have traditionally included "value-adds" on their Internet connectivity, like email accounts, portals, news, business websites, etc, etc, etc, because they don't want to become commodity &q
695.
by thwarted 10y ago
When does a collection of hardware running some software become a "robot"? If I can replace an intern with a Python script, does that script start having to pay social security too? Alternatively, if the description of a job can
696.
by thwarted 10y ago
(anecdote: over the last 15 years I've met over a dozen people who were and/or still are like this) I'm advocating for turning anecdotes such as this into data by actually performing a study.
697.
by thwarted 10y ago
You're making an awful lot of assumptions there. It appears you're referring to when I said "(assuming a highly controlled, completely reproducible experiment actually can be set up in social/economic sciences)".
698.
by thwarted 10y ago
IIUC you are arguing that people that grew up with UBI would behave differently compared to people that just switched to UBI? To be honest I don't feel this particular convincing, why should this be the case? There probably isn't
699.
by thwarted 10y ago
While this is true, it is the closest thing that already exists to a basic income, so it should be the first place to go for material to study before/while setting up a more controlled experiment (assuming a highly controlled, complete
700.
by thwarted 10y ago
Don't give them the money just for two years, but guarantee them the money over their whole life and you will see vastly different results. Since people born into wealth are "guaranteed money over their whole life", can&#x2
701.
by thwarted 10y ago
Trump knows that these guys value their careers more than their credibility, and he's making Elon Musk, Mitt Romney etc. 'kiss the ring' and 'eat their own words'. You really think the likes of Musk and Bezos can&
702.
by thwarted 10y ago
I think it's mainly because software engineering is still more an art than a science. The use of the word "still" here implies that it will be, or that it should be, more "science" than "art". As an act
703.
by thwarted 10y ago
Yes the encrypted message is safe to be sent to the whole world, but there is no single public folder for "the whole world". That would be too many files. I think USENET and nntp came really close to fulfilling most of "sin
704.
by thwarted 10y ago
Your talking about fear not actual danger. Crime statistics are very much down from the 1950's. As are playground accidents and automobile fatalities.. It's not necessarily fear, from the parents, of actual danger, it's fea
705.
by thwarted 10y ago
It's the extent of the different styles of game play, and the kinds of things you can get out of it, is a huge advantage to these kinds of games. When I got bored with GTA5's regular mission based mechanics, had finished all the m
706.
by thwarted 10y ago
If someone strongly claims they know something and I later find out that they were wrong, I simply can't trust that person ever again. I'm glad you're a critical enough thinker to do that (although it's unfortunate tha
707.
by thwarted 10y ago
In that case, why not just say that you simply don't know enough to have an informed opinion? Up against a dishonest debater, this is exploitable to lessen your influence, even if your position is relatively stronger, against (unsubs
708.
by thwarted 10y ago
Issues being that you are suppressing the right to run for office. Their ability to run for office isn't being suppressed, they ran for office the first time and lost. They could possibly run again at the end of the next term. This
709.
by thwarted 10y ago
The California DMV website has changed recently, and the headshot are in the footer, as links to their respective sites. This is an improvement, but the branding is still all over the place.
710.
by thwarted 10y ago
AirBNB can block them from renting out to other people for that time period Then this opens up a competitive hole where another, similar service will let you rent on their platform during that same period. Hosts will just use multiple se
711.
by thwarted 10y ago
What business does a government agency have spending nearly 800 hours (plus inevitable expenses on stationery, biz cards, signage, etc) on a logo? How does this benefit the taxpayer? Why do they need this logo? One thing that bothers me a
712.
by thwarted 10y ago
It took 5 years to name this 'one of the "25 Worst Tech Products of All Time"', but the idea was already being made fun of 5 years before this product hit the market. http://web.archive.org/web/19961
713.
by thwarted 10y ago
So that if someone posts a Trump tweet on Facebook, in the preview it’d also display a short fact-check from both sides I don't even know what a partisan fact check is. If the intent is to fact check, there can't be multiple in
714.
by thwarted 10y ago
I bet half of what looks like slap-dash in retrospect is actually attempts to achieve perfection too soon by being uninformed (of the tools, or of the requirements, or of the environment the solution must exist in). Either way, what you end
715.
by thwarted 10y ago
Looks like some kind of debris pile, perhaps from the mine. The corners are angled like it's building up to an eventual truncated pyramid shape, and the one in the upper left looks higher, and "finished" compared to the othe
716.
by thwarted 10y ago
Yes, I said there's a lot here that is interesting, and I think the actual interesting stuff was seriously downplayed. I don't find the stuff that was presented as "earth-shattering". The ability to show a moving video
717.
by thwarted 10y ago
Being able to place a video call from the outside world into VR is pretty amazing. Youtube and twitch are capable of doing the conference call equivalent, streaming live video of content that doesn't actually exist, such as a video g
718.
by thwarted 10y ago
I view this as the banks want to get the experts who are working on the standard to sign-off on their requirements, so they can continue to say they are secure purely because they do what the standards say, and ignoring if the standard is a
719.
by thwarted 10y ago
IPv4 addresses have been more expensive than IPv6 subnets on every dedicated uplink I've gotten prices for over the last two years. In fact, an IPv6 /56 is usually free, or cheap enough to be effectively free since the fee is mai
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by thwarted 10y ago
Then you eat crow and post a retraction, which also can't be deleted. The other alternative is to not have a verified account, then you can post whatever you want and then, ahem, delete it.

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