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by wdr1 6y ago
I can't help but wonder how Facebook would react if someone created a bot trained off discussions on Facebook.
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by wdr1 6y ago
FWIW, I'm getting the paywall. EDIT: Ah, if you click from this article, you get the paywall. But if you follow dang's link to the other thread, and click from there, the paywall is removed.
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by wdr1 7y ago
wow, this made me appreciate working from home in an instant.
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by wdr1 7y ago
> As the previous discussion already noted it seems disingenuous. > Schools primary goal should be accessibility when it comes to teaching and Zoom arguably with its better video/audio has the best even with glaring security flaw
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by wdr1 7y ago
The WHO generally considers against such travel restrictions. https://www.who.int/news-room/articles-detail/updated-who-re...
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by wdr1 7y ago
Sorry, are you saying it's impossible to have a Linux laptop configured such that a corporation retains control & not the user? I.e., such that They have root & You don't? And if both Macs & Linux can be configured suc
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by wdr1 7y ago
True, but sometimes what got you here, won't get you there.
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by wdr1 7y ago
Why not just make it a loan?
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by wdr1 7y ago
Will we still be able to get food delivery? The order says only those part of CISA define critical infrastructure should show up to work, which doesn't seem to include pizza delivery or short order cooks. https://www.cisa.go
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by wdr1 7y ago
> This is why I don't understand how there's even a market for the iPad Pro (outside the Apple superfans). Quite simply, a lot of the software I want/need is only on iOS. And while, yes, it's more expensive, the cost
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by wdr1 7y ago
Restricting travel from Europe & China isn't a typical response to a seasonal flu.
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Postmortems.
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by wdr1 7y ago
I don't want to stop Daylight Saving Time. I want it year round. The quirk, due to the Uniform Time Act, is that States have a choice -- either never use DST or only use DST during Spring/Summer dates stipulated by Congress.
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by wdr1 7y ago
I thought people hated me when I worked at Ticketmaster. I can't imagine what your life is like...
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by wdr1 7y ago
That quote you gave is awfully misleading, as Bush was not speaking about flight 655. Ronald Reagan, the actual president at the time, did apologize a few days after the event. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/pol
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How the Grinch (a.k.a. Apple) Stole “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”(twitter.com)
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> I feel like a grumpy fossil for asking this, but if your problem is “Sometimes you have to use non-personal computers where it's not possible/undesirable to install desktop Emacs,” why not run emacs the way it has been run in
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by wdr1 7y ago
> What always baffles me is the term fanboy, how in this day and age do we still have people believing/having faith in a company. "in this day and age" Where things different at some point? Or where you simply less famili
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by wdr1 7y ago
Is Feedly swimming in money?
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by wdr1 7y ago
Does it support Google Drive?
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by wdr1 7y ago
I think this would be better titled how header bidding works. It's a good article on that topic, but leaves out a lot. (Which is fair, Internet Advertising is fairly complex.)
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by wdr1 7y ago
> Behavior like this is completely unacceptable This comment gives a lot more context: https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/dtr6gi/youtube_susp... IMHO, it seems a lot more reasonable.
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> One thing I find crazy is the very same institutions that are generally very left leaning, decry income inequality, and espouse generally liberal views then turn around and having tuition costs that having been rising at rates so far a
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by wdr1 7y ago
Capturing your email also facilitating ad retargeting.
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by wdr1 7y ago
But aren't those up 20%? Your theory suggests the problem is the top line, whereas the article suggests it's the bottom line.
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by wdr1 7y ago
Are SAT Prep classes learning to game the SAT?
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by wdr1 7y ago
That didn't work for me. Because if you had been choosing randomly (i.e., did not know which door had the prize), my understand is that the last two doors are still 50/50? It's only when the person opening the door knows w
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by wdr1 7y ago
Willy-nilly is a bit of stretch. There's quite a bit happening in the space. It's just a hard problem.
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What if the user doesn't?
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by wdr1 7y ago
I wish every NBA player would now tweet in favor of Hong Kong.

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