tomtimtall

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by tomtimtall 8y ago
If they make a ton of money but give users an easy 3% account I wont complain. Why is everyone so mad at them for being successful when they are offering cheaper services then the rest of the market!? Do they need to hire a homeless CEO to
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by tomtimtall 8y ago
Chrome iPhone, just seeing purple nothing else.
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by tomtimtall 8y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic...
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by tomtimtall 8y ago
Essentially free energy... except the cost to install, the cost to operate, maintainable and of cause the cost when one of them breaks and causes damage. For a lot of these “why don’t they just” the answer is simply that they did the math a
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by tomtimtall 8y ago
I know nothing about fonts. Got 18/20 just picking whichever felt older looking.
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by tomtimtall 8y ago
That would be dumb, so why assume that would happen? You don’t download every picture on every refresh.
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by tomtimtall 8y ago
Dark pattern? The author is advertising a mailing list, not stealing your social security number. The author is providing all of this content free of charge and giving you an opportunity to get more free content if you subscribe. There is n
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by tomtimtall 8y ago
The computer doesn’t create the art anymore than a brush painted the Mona Lisa. It’s not just pointing a computer at a canvas and waiting for stuff to happen. There are people behind the models people with intentions, human context and an i
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by tomtimtall 8y ago
Do you have any examples? In all my years of teaching and working with matlab I have literally never seen any student or code that showed such issues so I am very curious?
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by tomtimtall 8y ago
Having reached introductionary programming to university studendts, I would say that it’s subjective for the individual but still generally true that 1-based indexing is more intuitive.
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by tomtimtall 8y ago
Your income wouldn’t exist without the existance of your parents. This does not mean they own your income. You are arguing based on a contrived and unuseful philosophical basis. Who owns the data is a matter of law not philosophy, and havi
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by tomtimtall 8y ago
This likely won’t have huge concequences for Wikipedia, but they lost at least one donor.
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by tomtimtall 8y ago
Also, using gps to track on site time and a task tracker are things that myself and other do completely voluntarily, so I feel like it’s a stretch to call it inhumane to enforce this. Though I get there is a different sentiment towards it w
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by tomtimtall 8y ago
How does using the brackets to communicate someone engaging with it suddenly become racist? That’s like saying a news reporter is antisemetic if he says: “And now a report on Tom who is a veteran who fought Nazies during ww2”. Omg, he said
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by tomtimtall 8y ago
And to add to the list: except for the “we a new sexy start up that’s going to revolutionize the world”-hype, how is this business any different from the already well established leasing companies that seem to already be doing what it is Gr
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by tomtimtall 8y ago
You are contradicting yourself. The fines are indeed small relative to the profits they are making. That’s exactly why playing by the rules is very expensive for them.
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by tomtimtall 8y ago
Well that’s nice to hear, so I take it that you are in on investing a million in my company who’s making useful software for scientists with no monetsation strategy? No, there is absolutely no chance of you making any money on it. No, we do
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by tomtimtall 8y ago
In that world neither Apple nor Google would have ever invested even a cent in self-driving technology and almost all major medical advancements would not have come to pass. You don’t invest billions of dollars and have thousands of people
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by tomtimtall 8y ago
Are you a dumbass if you are honest? No. Are you a dumbass if you steal and then honestly tell that you did it? Yes. Now don’t get me wrong, all criminals are bad. But you have to admit that there is a difference between smart criminals and
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by tomtimtall 8y ago
They are not mutually exclusive though. And your tent would tend to have a higher temperature gradient during the night when there’s no sun.
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by tomtimtall 8y ago
Or in other words it would be possible to continually power an iPhone with the temperature difference and area available in a tent. I think the context is important to whether this is presented as something negilable or something useful. Th
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by tomtimtall 8y ago
All clickbait is self-aware. People aren’t not doing it by accident.
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by tomtimtall 8y ago
They do have free speech, but the company can and should be allowed to fire you if you are sexist or racist towards fans, free speech does not mean free from consequences. In this case she wasn’t sexist but inappropriately pulled the victim
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by tomtimtall 8y ago
So you want to do the redistribution in shares issued in ownership the state will sieze from every single company rather than just doing the redistribution in cash. Seems like a really destructive way to achieve the same goal with no added
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by tomtimtall 8y ago
Calm down, the cultural significant works will make it to the libraries, sociaty is not at a huge loss that the libraries aren’t stocking the next season of game of thrones as its airing.
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by tomtimtall 8y ago
The web isn’t broken.
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by tomtimtall 8y ago
For some reason the opposition on this matter is really vocal. I’ll make the controversial but extremely low risk prediction that this feature won’t be the death of Python and that most will come to find it relatively harmless like fstrings
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by tomtimtall 8y ago
The police aren’t THAT dumb. They where likely given marching orders to provide plausible dinability and cease as much or hardware as possible with the belief that they can find something after the fact that justifies their actions in publi
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by tomtimtall 8y ago
Oh wait I see where you are going wrong. “The presence of a bank account in fact suggests otherwise; ” Let’s switch out the entities and see what you think. An anonymous blog posts terror threats and links an email @gmail.com, the investiga
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by tomtimtall 8y ago
It’s explained quite well in the source, what exactly do you take issue with?

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