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by ximeng 6y ago
Not too long before it's man versus man rather than man versus nature.
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by ximeng 6y ago
If renting a 3,500 USD camera costs 70 USD, the return is 2%, so less voluntary parting rate of 0.02% this is still 1.98%. Or in other words, KitSplit can theoretically cover the risks by taking an additional 1% of the profit earned by the
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by ximeng 6y ago
Also makes sense as they are in the best position to estimate the risk.
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by ximeng 6y ago
As mentioned in response to your other comment KitSplit did appear to address this: https://blog.kitsplit.com/announcing-kitsplit-theft-protecti...
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by ximeng 6y ago
Interestingly the article linked to states that the company in question started providing relevant insurance in response to this case. So appears what you are saying is not entirely correct. https://blog.kitsplit.com/announc
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by ximeng 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23894742 And the call that it was gpt 3 with the complaint about this being rude
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by ximeng 6y ago
Unfortunate this appears next to the post about deep learning jobs collapsing on the front page
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by ximeng 6y ago
You sue whoever looks to be to blame. So perhaps the victim’s family sues the car owner. The car owner then sues the car manufacturer if they feel it was to blame. If the company feels an individual engineer was to blame they might sue the
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by ximeng 6y ago
Seems a big jump in valuation (1bn) from previous round. “Redis Labs, the provider of a database management system, has raised USD60 million in Series E funding round to accelerate the delivery of the most efficient database to the world. T
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by ximeng 6y ago
https://www.skritter.com for writing Pleco for dictionary HelloTalk for connecting with natives
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by ximeng 6y ago
End game then is VPN providers get sued for piracy. So people use VPN providers in uncooperative jurisdictions. Then VPNs eventually get coopted into sharing user information as IP owners invest more over time in copyright enforcement.
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by ximeng 6y ago
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chief_petty_officer#English CPO=chief petty officer
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by ximeng 6y ago
“Byte pair encoding”: more discussion at https://www.gwern.net/GPT-3#bpes
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by ximeng 6y ago
Ads that can be turned off. If they’re not adding enough value to users for them to turn them on, get rid of them.
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by ximeng 6y ago
https://mobile.twitter.com/johnismay/status/1291007795316297... think this is what you meant
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by ximeng 6y ago
http://www.sporkful.com/when-celery-was-more-special-than-ca... - podcast ($). Interested in the pyramidal black prince pineapple too. https://www.tastecooking.com/celery-was-the-avocado-toast-of... better
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by ximeng 6y ago
Your link from NZ doesn’t advise against masks: “Healthy members of the public may choose to purchase and wear a face mask, or make their own.“ Scandinavia is not a unified political entity. US in-fighting more worrying than funny.
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by ximeng 6y ago
https://youtu.be/Wimo09WV-rY?t=237
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by ximeng 6y ago
https://ai.facebook.com/research/publications/vibe-dressing-...
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by ximeng 6y ago
You don't need to wait for kid to leave for college to stand up for yourself. Make plans to be ready to leave is first step to communicating. You can't influence her behaviour without changing your own.
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by ximeng 6y ago
Those shouldn’t be in opposition to each other, surely.
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by ximeng 6y ago
The conference this is advertising is rather buried in this long article. It's tomorrow, online and free, and the talks sound interesting and varied. Schedule below: https://2020.stateofthemap.org/
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by ximeng 6y ago
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wjwbmm/inside-the-phone-c... this is another crazy story about links between secure phone companies and organised crime including torture and murder
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by ximeng 6y ago
You're repeating what's on that page, which is exactly what everyone is worried about in the first place.
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by ximeng 6y ago
I'm assuming that doesn't affect the browser, which is what this issue relates to.
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by ximeng 6y ago
You'll get further issues once Getty Images automatically generates copyrighted images covering as much of the latent space of interesting images as possible.
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by ximeng 6y ago
This is the entire purpose of extradition treaties.
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by ximeng 6y ago
Sorry I wasn’t clear - basically my concern was that you still have a dependency on a third party email address.
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by ximeng 6y ago
Right, that is what I meant - you’re then pushing the risk to the management of that secondary protonmail or gmail account. So you basically always rely on a third party to manage the registrar account.
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by ximeng 6y ago
Then you are pushing the problem to someone else to manage the domains right? How do you set this up?

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