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by x1798DE 9y ago
It's because they, like you, get nothing out of revealing information that they aren't required to reveal, except they have training that says, "Don't say anything until you have to, even if it seems rude," whereas
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by x1798DE 9y ago
> I can't think of a legal reason for this policy. Normally, one must be 18 years old to enter into a contract, so the policy of preventing users under 18 from using the service is rational. Depending on where you are, I think this
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by x1798DE 10y ago
This is true, but it is annoying to tout the number of jobs as if it's a benefit, not a cost. It should be kilowatt-hours / human hour, or some measure of labor productivity if you want to show serviced, or some measure of actua
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by x1798DE 10y ago
Why would a technology being labor-intensive be a reason to use that technology? Human labor is an extremely expensive resource.
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by x1798DE 10y ago
> Customer calls in angry about a legitimate problem they're having, but their anger is 2-3 orders of magnitude larger than the actual severity of the problem. I have to say, navigating customer service phone trees seems like perfor
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by x1798DE 10y ago
A lot of science news is sensationalist nonsense spun out of university press departments and that the most overhyped stuff also tends to get the most coverage. I think it's actually fair to look at something you may or may not under
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by x1798DE 10y ago
> explain spooky quantum actions Ugh. Please don't give more life to the meme of "spooky" quantum mechanics. It's mostly propagated by popular science outlets trying to make physics seem weirder than it is.
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by x1798DE 10y ago
Regarding this "feature", none of 1, 2 or 3 are solved at all by what I'm talking about. I'm saying that I would actively join another instance and my old identity is duplicated there, with duplicated posts being merge
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by x1798DE 10y ago
One problem with this is that if an instance is a "mailing list", it's currently not possible to join multiple mailing lists with the same e-mail address. That said this would not be as big a problem with e-mail addresses as
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by x1798DE 10y ago
> Multiple identities seems like a problem best solved by client-side tools (e.g. tweetdeck handles this usage really well IME). I agree in the sense that I might want something like a role / brand identity and a personal identity,
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by x1798DE 10y ago
Currently my process for discovering what to follow is to look at the federated feed, looking at the local feed, and looking at hashtags - the parts of other instances I see on these views is limited to the parts of those instances being fo
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by x1798DE 10y ago
I'm less than impressed by the federation model of Mastodon (though it doesn't need too many tweaks to make it work). The main problem I have is the fact that you are pretty tied in with your instance. I think most of the problems
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by x1798DE 10y ago
Sure, that's going to cause anyone to do a double take - this thing is obviously a cartoonish imitation of a bomb. What's amazing to me, though, is that after they realized it wasn't a bomb, they still bragged about it on Tw
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by x1798DE 10y ago
I think that the parent means that the "Ground Truth" is the high resolution original, and they never show a "low resolution" original. Presumably the process goes: High res. (A') --(Downsample)--> Low res. (A) -
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by x1798DE 10y ago
Whether or not their sampling is impressive given the current state of the art (though in that same set the other, non-bicubic methods seem to do pretty well compared to LapSRN), that gif definitely seems misleading. It's not obvious
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by x1798DE 10y ago
> you are assuming that torrents only work when there are seeders, but that's not true at all. No, I'm saying that if someone is trying to DDoS your torrent, the bandwidth doesn't scale with the number of downloaders becau
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by x1798DE 10y ago
How would that work for malicious nodes in a distributed network? A torrent will be DoSed if there are 10,000 leechers for every seeder.
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by x1798DE 10y ago
> You could always merge storylines later on by symlinking them to the same place! > (Maybe not on Windows). Windows has "shortcuts", which should work if there is some problem with symbolic links.
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by x1798DE 10y ago
Artificial in this context means "man-made", not "fake" or something. If we create intelligence, it is artificial intelligence.
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by x1798DE 10y ago
I don't understand the hate for overbooking flights. Most of the time, I don't care at all about the system where flights are overbooked, because most of the time I don't get bumped. When they do overbook a flight and I&#x2
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by x1798DE 10y ago
I wasn't offended by lack of a physical invitation, but a friend of mine got married and invited my wife and I in a very informal way with a text message. We ended up waiting until way too late to book tickets, because my wife was expe
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by x1798DE 10y ago
> You have to know there is such thing as TOR exists & see first part of the comment. I would suggest that anyone who is in the business of identifying people based on their IP, especially for criminal matters, should be aware of Tor
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by x1798DE 10y ago
Why would running a Tor exit node ever imply that the people exiting at that node are speaking on your behalf? Is a coffee shop "vouching" for you by letting you use its wifi? Is your ISP? And if you're a cop, why would you
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by x1798DE 10y ago
So the primary reason for this ban is nothign to do witih communication or interference, it's just some notion that if cell phones were allowed on flights it would be annoying to the people around you? This is why the judiciary should
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by x1798DE 10y ago
What does this have to do with the good of the whole? I'm not going to catch a genetic disease from you. I'm not going to catch side effects from a medication you are taking. Seems to me that the risk is entirely borne by the indi
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by x1798DE 10y ago
> Part of the world used to buy slaves from another part of the world, and a war was fought to halt the buying part. Do you mean the US civil war? The importation of African slaves was banned in the US well before the civil war was fou
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by x1798DE 10y ago
Quite misleading. This is just an explanation of how he assembled a word list to memorize - the top 1000 unique words used in two TV shows. Making word lists is not even close to the hardest thing about learning a language quickly, and 1000
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by x1798DE 10y ago
You are often weeding through a large number of applicants, so spending 100 hours on each candidate is just not feasible, and, generally, not necessary. Plus, high quality, experienced developers are not going to want to spend 100+ hours do
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by x1798DE 10y ago
April Fools Day nonsense. Would be nice to keep these consolidated in the April Fools thread.
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by x1798DE 10y ago
There's low storage overhead, but there's definitely a quality control cost. You have to have editors maintaining these pages which (if they are being deleted, generally) are not notable enough to have significant reputable source

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