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by xhkkffbf 2y ago
There was a big battle over whether Amazon would sell a book about transgender children. For a while, it was banned for a bit but then the company changed its mind. https://www.intomore.com/culture/amazon-reverses-ban-a
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by xhkkffbf 2y ago
Yes, I was disappointed by the article too. It used "money laundering" and "scamming" pretty much interchangeably. But there's a difference. It needs to have a clean origin and this article doesn't describe how
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by xhkkffbf 2y ago
Yes, I'm sure they have some patents because that's what big companies do/have to do. But the basic idea has been around for a long time, not just in audio but also in microwave space/domain. So I'm sure there'
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by xhkkffbf 2y ago
Okay, I know that it's more than that. I was just trying to be concise. But back to the topic. I'm sure that history class needs to add new events. High school physics might include a bit more detail about the shifting ideas about
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by xhkkffbf 2y ago
I'm not trying to be snarky, but why are they even bothering to make new episodes? It's really only targeted at a narrow age range. Why can't they just watch reruns? It's not like the vowels or consonants change that muc
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by xhkkffbf 2y ago
Yeah, let's cut through the hype. First, the expense accounts were never unlimited, even in the good old days. The editors gave a tight budget and you had to justify any request for more. Now, onto this stretch. I'm sure that not
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by xhkkffbf 2y ago
Donate to authors? How many ever do this. Please. I'm sure if your livelihood was affected by piracy, you would feel differently.
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by xhkkffbf 2y ago
No better? Maybe something shorter. I love that little imp but it's quite a bit of time to invest in something that ended up failing.
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by xhkkffbf 2y ago
In my experience, a huge number of people spend the most they can on housing. So the local price level is set by the local income distribution. Their observation lines up perfectly with my experiences. This also suggests two solutions that
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by xhkkffbf 2y ago
Given that they weren't optimizing around them, I'm guessing not-so-good. But maybe I'm wrong.
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Exactly. We should all be grateful to any journalist doing this kind of reporting. And we should reward them with money. I just don't see people doing more than paying lipservice to this idea.
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by xhkkffbf 2y ago
You've got fame-- and then in an MMMbob it's gone.
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by xhkkffbf 2y ago
I agree that it doesn't matter to many people. If the image is great, then it's great art. End of story. But when it comes to history, fake art can pollute our knowledge of the painter and the history. While many fakes use the sam
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by xhkkffbf 2y ago
I got lots of questions going from the US to Canada. But we were just waved through going in the other direction.
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It's a great piece of software. A bit quirky, but it shows how open source projects can build on each other. Wonderful in many ways.
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by xhkkffbf 2y ago
What are the relative costs of producing methanol or ammonia from a kilowatt hour of electricity? I've always assumed methanol would be cheaper over all because it's less deadly.
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by xhkkffbf 2y ago
There are some who dream of McFlurries. So maybe it is giving us the stuff of their dreams?
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by xhkkffbf 2y ago
Just because there's a PR process in place doesn't mean that it's any good. At one place, we desperately avoided some sections of the code base because we didn't want to trigger a PR that would force us to interact with
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by xhkkffbf 2y ago
It's written into the story line of some stories like the mystery solving ones. But in the story lines, the affections seem very mutual. So I'm not sure it's fair to call him a "harasser". Dirty? Perhaps. Old man? Y
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by xhkkffbf 2y ago
Why not just squares or rectangles? Is there a simple explanation?
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by xhkkffbf 2y ago
So if a wolf "culls" the deer, it's good. But if a human does it, it's bad?
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by xhkkffbf 2y ago
There was a time that it did. But once someone started abusing the loophole, they closed it.
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by xhkkffbf 2y ago
There's a whole lot of nothing out there. Why rush to get a closer look at nothing?
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by xhkkffbf 2y ago
I watched this happen decades ago. Smart coders knew about memory allocations. Okay coders just assumed that the garbage collector would handle it. One friend of mine wrote code that was 1000 times faster than the people in the next cubicle
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by xhkkffbf 2y ago
I see your point, but many times people use their phone to look up data. It's where I keep many documents. Would you be happier if they were reading some piece of paper in front of them? That looks very official and serious, but their
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by xhkkffbf 2y ago
Metacomment: There are 100 comments here. Only 2 on the NY Times. That's a huge difference. Of course only paid subscribers can comment. Maybe that's the root of difference.
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by xhkkffbf 2y ago
It is quite good on its own. And it's a bit ironic given "The Conversation". But it's up against some great competition in this debate.
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"French Connection" is truly great. Such a good chase scene.
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by xhkkffbf 2y ago
Well, who expects a private company be able to compete with a ARPA-funded system that gets an extra $26m to pull fiber optics throughout the county? The wording here is just a tad biased. Two companies, Charter and Verizon, are said to be,
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by xhkkffbf 2y ago
That's a nice list, but most of the real great ones were over FORTY years ago. Maybe she changed. Maybe her influence back then was limited by her youth and the blatant sexism in the industry. Who knows? But something about her work ha

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