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by ufmace 6y ago
I've dealt with enough types of data that I feel super skeptical that you can just dump numbers from hundreds of studies into some data store programmatically, do statistical calculations, and get valid results. It's very difficul
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by ufmace 6y ago
This, the article comes off as very cynical and bitter to me. Yes, there are some managers and executives who are just jerks. And there are a few perverse incentives around that are worth keeping in mind. But if you go into a job with this
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by ufmace 6y ago
Somebody bigger than you stomping on your toes is always a possibility. This is somewhat mitigated by the fact that VCs are looking for super huge 1000x growth possibilities. If your market will only bear a modest level of growth and possib
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by ufmace 6y ago
They claimed the error was on their side. https://twitter.com/getongab/status/1348779447768412160 Seems to be back up now.
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by ufmace 6y ago
The only "bad faith" going on here is the left's pathetic attempt to shut down any mention of the political violence that they have been encouraging and celebrating for the last 4 years and the 6 months of nationwide rioting
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by ufmace 6y ago
Not by the sitting President, but by every single mainstream media organization and a pretty solid fraction of sitting Democrat Congresspeople and Senators, who spent months excusing and denying violent riots as they raged for months.
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by ufmace 6y ago
Well yeah it's simplistic, since it's 2 sentences. I'm not really prepared or qualified to write a 30 page paper on the nature of medieval combat. Yet there seems to be an obvious truth to it. There are of course exceptions,
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by ufmace 6y ago
They're a little unclear about exactly what morality they are advocating for. The nature of weapon technology transforms the way society works. In the era of sword and shield, for example, combat effectiveness is hugely dependent on ra
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by ufmace 6y ago
Does anybody remember when Bradley/Chelsea Manning released ~hundreds of thousands of classified diplomatic cables? I seem to remember that most of the tech world at the time thought that was awesome. I wonder why this time they'r
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by ufmace 6y ago
I wonder why they vanished immediately. When 3.5" disks came out, didn't people have data on 5.25" disks they wanted to continue to access for a while? I would have thought they'd be kept around as second drives on newer
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by ufmace 6y ago
It's an individual-level realpolitik. You (the general you) are welcome to take such a stand if you care to, but the price is that your social opportunities may be severely constrained. There might be other things about you or your lif
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by ufmace 6y ago
There's a "social capital" thing going on here. Your friends are usually willing to make some amount of effort to talk and hang out with you, depending on how close friends you are, but there are limits to that. Nobody wants
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by ufmace 6y ago
Yup this. I bought my device to do useful things on and store a bunch of personal private information. I'm a lot more concerned about keeping it working at 100% reliability and keeping all of that data as secure as I can than whether I
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by ufmace 6y ago
I am on it and like it. It seems to explicitly forbid a bunch of edge cases in the login auth that would otherwise be tricky to configure properly and keep up to date. Yes, you can set up and use hardware key auth without it, but it's
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by ufmace 6y ago
jgurewitz's post is probably closer to the expectation. $330k/month is a nice chunk of change, but that's their primary revenue that's expected to mostly go to support the rest of their business operations. They're
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by ufmace 6y ago
I think they have some kind of special optimized chip that can listen for only a specific phrase at very low power and wake the rest of the device when it hears it. It seems super unlikely that they can listen constantly to anything anyone
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by ufmace 6y ago
Minifying usually doesn't touch string literals. If you have a function like connectToSite, and tell it to connect to " https://mysite.com/ ", then minification will rename connectToSite to just the letter &quo
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by ufmace 6y ago
I've found it's generally really tough to find guides for getting into new languages that are written for experienced programmers who don't know that language yet. Everything seems to be written for complete newbies, or be a
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by ufmace 6y ago
It's absurd in the sense that, if you accept that definition, then anything at all - taking any action or even taking no action at all - could be called violent, which makes the word meaningless. It points to an Orwellian level of thou
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by ufmace 6y ago
Uhhh I'm not particularly a fan of Bitcoin, but implying that this is anything like violence is absurd. I gotta go against the trend of anything you don't like that could conceivably lead to somebody being harmed somehow is the sa
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by ufmace 6y ago
> In this case, I think the sufficient explanation for the phenomenon is that HOAs are good at protecting property values. Uh yeah, that's their defined purpose that everybody knows about and agrees upon. I've lived in several
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by ufmace 6y ago
No. Certain internet communities have a culture of dunking on them, but they do not represent any kind of real majority. The housing market continues to show a preference towards communities with HOAs.
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by ufmace 6y ago
Agree on this being a good strategy. It also does a good job of covering the case where you learn that you aren't actually that interested in X, or are only interested enough to get a particular task done.
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by ufmace 6y ago
It's cool, but I don't think it would work like you think until it got like 1000x more popular. It's pretty much common knowledge now that if you see a QR code, you scan it with a phone app, and it takes you to a webpage or s
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by ufmace 6y ago
> We had a mountain side in Norway that was near collapsing and all the residents below it were evacuated every two weeks. The geologists wanted to use dynamite to dislodge it, but it was too dangerous for humans. In the future we might
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by ufmace 6y ago
I'm extremely wary of a law that would potentially criminalize that. It would almost certainly have to be very vague and prone to being abused by malicious prosecutors. How would you set it up such that it's illegal to sell an exp
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by ufmace 6y ago
Weird, I don't do anything at all to block pinterest, and I just did that same search on Google Image search, and pinterest results are 6 out of 20 on the first 3 rows, and 1 per row at most for all of the rows below that.
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by ufmace 6y ago
This seems like something different to me. Most books, TV shows, movies, etc that do anything with technology above the most basic level usually get at least one thing incredibly wrong. It's not necessarily a deal-breaker though - almo
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by ufmace 6y ago
Exactly what you should do depends on a lot of details about exactly what your business setup looks like, what your personal situation is, and what the other parties to the situation think. Way more detail is needed than you'd provide
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by ufmace 6y ago
Don't agree with AOC on much, but she's dead right on this one. I do wish the New Left and New Right could at least unite around getting rid of this kind of entrenched BS instead of (okay, at least in addition to) constantly dunki

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