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by xsmasher 10y ago
> Pusey’s contracts [...] bar him from volunteering the fact that for many cheap, generic medicines, co-pays sometimes are more expensive than if patients simply pay out of pocket and bypass insurance Can they give the correct informatio
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by xsmasher 10y ago
Not a lawyer, but that sounds like it touches on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disparate_impact If you have a rule that is neutral in theory, but has disparate impact on a protected class in practice, it is not a neutr
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by xsmasher 10y ago
> those that have lost money in areas outside their wheel house have all followed the same path. I'm pretty sure that's the first story in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Richest_Man_in_Babylon_(bo... Ol
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by xsmasher 10y ago
That "extensible enough" is a good phrase to remember; part of the job is figuring our what parts of the problem are likely to change in the future, and what parts are likely to stay the same, and exposing them accordingly. This c
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by xsmasher 10y ago
One sign of maturity in a developer is a willingness to ignore technically interesting challenges in favor of solving less glamorous, but more important, problems. "Important" problems being the ones with the most impact on the us
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by xsmasher 10y ago
That was probably SHAZAM - based on the Captain Marvel character that is now owned by DC comics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmm781WHxdk
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by xsmasher 10y ago
According to the DMV, having self-driving hardware is enough to require a permit (the permit that Uber doesn't have / claims they don't need). If the police want to sidestep that argument, I'm sure the police could find
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by xsmasher 10y ago
Many animations are simply stylistic, but others convey information. Any animation that gives you "almost there" information about a gesture; fro example, holding your finger on the screen in Minecraft PE starts an animated circle
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by xsmasher 10y ago
Isn't it more likely to be lag and inner ear related, not related to light angles? Why do you think it's light angles?
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by xsmasher 10y ago
That sounds similar in concept to the CSS Acid tests http://origin.arstechnica.com/staff.media/acidtrip.gif
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by xsmasher 10y ago
Specific ideology, sure, but banning all theists from immigrating would be too broad of a brush. So would banning all Muslims.
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by xsmasher 10y ago
Because they're in an arms race with review spammers, and telling the spammers how they were detected causes them to evolve new, undetected behaviors. It might not be fair, but it's logical.
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by xsmasher 10y ago
End goal is to make code that is easier to maintain and understand. The intermediate goals should be to reduce coupling, increase encapsulation, etc. These are tools to achieve the end goal. Multiple dots is just a code smell, indicating th
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by xsmasher 10y ago
There's depression the feeling, which may be caused by un-live-with-able circumstances and serve as a stimulus to make life changes. Then there is depression the illness, which and may or may not be brought on by some circumstances, bu
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by xsmasher 10y ago
Hyperdev does the cloud IDE thing pretty well; I spun up a half-serious prototype of a web app in a weekend, and sitting down at any nearby computer to hack / run / test really was a joy. I even logged in from my iPad to fix some
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by xsmasher 10y ago
It's fine for most computer users, but not most Photoshop users.
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by xsmasher 10y ago
In SV, one of the characters asks a call girl if she takes bitcoin. She says "I hate this fucking town." It's funny. In an episode of Betas, on character slaps a bitcoin down on a table to place a bet. It showed how well th
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by xsmasher 10y ago
Companies like to use nonstandard terms so they can claim that they are "the only ones working in the artificial reality space."
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by xsmasher 10y ago
This is a huge competitive advantage for Tesla. Google is running a few test cars around mountain view, while Tesla is gathering training data from 50k cars already on the road.
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by xsmasher 10y ago
"upon notification of claimed infringement as described in subsection (c)(3),"
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by xsmasher 11y ago
"Jodorowsky's Dune" is a recent documentary about the aborted pre-lynch production. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_%28film%29#Early_attempts
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by xsmasher 11y ago
A is free to make or not make controversial statements, B is free to provide or not provide a platform for A, C is free to support or not support B. No ones rights have been abridged, and everyone's freedoms have been preserved.
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by xsmasher 11y ago
I'd say they have enough integrity to not support a parent organization that has made an odious decision. There's a different between "allowing someone to speak (anywhere, at all)" and "providing them a platform.&qu
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by xsmasher 11y ago
>pink tiger strips on spaceships That sounds like you're talking about an earlier aborted adaption, before the Lynch movie. There was an (amazing) documentary about it last year. "Jodorowsky's Dune" http://
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by xsmasher 11y ago
To "not code in X correctly" is ambiguous, but I assume/hope the parent poster means that someone makes fundamental, non-syntax errors in their code - in C++ this would be something like returning a pointer to an object that&
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by xsmasher 11y ago
Well, good. It should require a court order (and the associated paper trail) before Apple opens up private user data to scrutiny.
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by xsmasher 11y ago
That sounds pretty defeatist; you can't stay inactive just because you lack 100% certainty, especially if someone else is meddling in a manner contrary to your long-term interests.
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by xsmasher 11y ago
The people you want are still out there, but either you are not filtering for them, or some filter is keeping them out. For junior candidates we use a written test followed by a phone screen to avoid inviting time-wasters and resume spammer
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by xsmasher 11y ago
Curious if your phone was Android or iOS? I know that iOS dropped skyhook in 2010, and always assumed that their new database would self-correct faster due to feedback from phones that had GPS + wifi turned on.
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by xsmasher 11y ago
The obvious solution is to fight back with bots. https://www.reddit.com/r/itslenny/

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