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by valicord 2y ago
The better word is "content policy"
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by valicord 2y ago
Reminds me of the "Silicon Valley" quote: "I don't want to live in a world where someone else makes the world a better place better than we do"
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by valicord 2y ago
I'm not asking what her parents did (which is indeed explained in the article), I'm asking "why did the author bother to put word 'heiress' in the headline when it doesn't tell the reader any additional informa
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by valicord 2y ago
She was a woman at Harvard in the middle of 20th century, it's already obvious that she was rich, which once again supports my point that the word "heiress" provides virtually no new information here.
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by valicord 2y ago
"Golden Age film star" descriptor has fairly high information content because there are not that many film stars in the world. Just saying "heiress" without any additional qualifiers (unlike say "heiress to a large
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by valicord 2y ago
That's paragraph 10 of the article, the question was about the headline.
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by valicord 2y ago
Then why put it in the headline?
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by valicord 2y ago
Bitmasks, enumerating combinations (subsets), parsing binary data, ...
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by valicord 2y ago
How do you propose to have a conversation about whether X is good or bad when one side defines X as "bad things" while the other defines the same word as "good things"?
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by valicord 2y ago
"Doesn't mean anything" is a shorthand for "not well-defined" and "means completely different things to different people" which makes it a useless word for any serious conversation.
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by valicord 2y ago
You do when you're on the phone and need to attract attention of someone nearby. I guess waving a hand in front of their face also works...
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by valicord 2y ago
Charge customers twice?
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by valicord 2y ago
Hint: it works just as well if you replace the acos argument with 0 value = sin(repeated) * acos(0) * (10 ** repeat) (keep in mind that that acos(0) = pi/2)
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by valicord 2y ago
Any number works if you adjust the multiplier to preserve the 1000.../555... = 1.8 property. For example: https://www.online-python.com/Um4qevAzo2
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by valicord 2y ago
Nope, that is not what it does. First, sin(x) ~= x for small x. Second, 1000.../555... = 1.8. Neither of these have anything to do with pi. With these in mind, the program can be simplified as sin(radians(repeated)) * (10 ** (repea
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by valicord 2y ago
The thing is that in this particular case it does in fact just copy the pi. You're essentially calculating radians(x)*180/x, which by definition is equal to pi. The radians function is doing all the heavy lifting, unlike say using
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by valicord 2y ago
Not to worry, McAfee CTO was not actually in charge of technology https://archive.is/20240724213623/https://www.barrons.com/ar...
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by valicord 2y ago
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/widget#Noun "A placeholder name for an unnamed, unspecified, or hypothetical manufactured good or product, typically as an example for purposes of explaining concepts."
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by valicord 2y ago
> just throwing out punishments willy-nilly because they want a snack That's not the claim. https://www.nbcnews.com/better/pop-culture/science-behind-be...
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by valicord 2y ago
That doesn't mean that the MITM traffic interception would be enabled for regular users that have downloaded the app from the store. As stated both in the article and in the comments here, both "free" VPN and "paid marke
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by valicord 2y ago
> if I support you but threaten to stop supporting you as soon as you get to work for money—suddenly working for money looks less attractive So you agree that "the problem with welfare today is that its a disincentive to work"?
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by valicord 2y ago
Just because you can't come up with a counterexample easily doesn't make it obvious or even true. Of course in this case it is indeed true, but I'm asking what makes it obvious
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by valicord 2y ago
Why is that obvious?
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by valicord 2y ago
No, that would be more like sleeping at the office (purely because of employee preferences, not because the employer forces you to or anything like that) and complaining about security cameras.
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by valicord 2y ago
The point is that if you do do it, it's on you to understand the limitations of using someone else property. Just like the difference between rental vs owned housing. There are also fairly obvious differences between work-issued comput
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by valicord 2y ago
> the employee could reasonably conclude that it'd be silly for them to maintain a separate "personal" computer — and so would potentially sell any such devices What a bizarre leap of logic. Can Fedex employees reasonably
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by valicord 2y ago
You mean like AV software is meant to safeguard the computer from malware? I'm sure banks have a lot of annoying security related processes that make teller's job more difficult.
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by valicord 2y ago
Setting aside the question whether these security tools are effective at their stated goal, what does this have to do with trust at all? Does the existence of a bank vault break the trust between the bank and the tellers? What is the mechan
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by valicord 2y ago
Just like in real life, there's no perfect solution to most problems, only different trade-offs.
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by valicord 2y ago
If by "most" you mean people in this very thread who are claiming that binary trees is some crazy obscure thing that nobody can be expected to be familiar with, then sure.

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