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by xyst 7y ago
Seeing journalists source from Twitter just shows the sad state of the journalism industry. 1 tweet from a single man from an uninformed perspective triggered this cascade of misinformation. What happened to "research" and integri
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by xyst 7y ago
To be honest, Google is the last company I want handling my health data. If you don't check the right boxes, it could end up being "anonymized", and sold off.
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by xyst 7y ago
D'Von?
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by xyst 7y ago
Also the first set of slides are about feelings of despair, What an odd opener for a presentation.
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by xyst 7y ago
So this is where my parallel computing professor got his material from. Definitely a good read for parallel computing, but that matrix multiplication problem was discussed to ad nauseum in the first few weeks.
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by xyst 7y ago
Surprisingly these protests appear to work. Last summer, employees protested a multi-billion dollar contract with the DoD and was subsequently not renewed for 2019. Albeit, their efforts may have been wasted since the work will just be tran
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by xyst 7y ago
AWS costs add up over time. $166 per month is not bad, especially if it's a high volume traffic site.
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by xyst 7y ago
Fitbit was absolute trash before the buyout. Garbage in, garbage out. My previous company provided one of those Fitbit bracelets and it just stopped working one day after a month of usage. While it did work, step tracking was spotty, at bes
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by xyst 7y ago
What’s wrong with reminder apps that are default with all smart phones?
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by xyst 7y ago
City tax payers are ultimately paying the price for “2-day shipping” in the form of more congestion and pollution, and compromised safety. Shouldn’t the companies causing these problems pay for enhancing the infrastructure (roads, parking)
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by xyst 7y ago
The only way for Blizzard to get back any PR is to clean house or offer a “blood sacrifice.” Fire all ELT and upper management that approved the heinous decision to ban this Hearthstone player.
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by xyst 7y ago
What's the point of nested subtasks? I hate creating subtasks as it is, but now I have to create this nasty tree of sub-subtasks? Almost seems like "micro-tasks" at this point.
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by xyst 7y ago
Study was performed in 1996, so I suspect this arose when Brita was being heavily advertised to remove contaminants. This study and others similar to it likely caused Brita to change the wording on their products. IIRC, their filters are ad
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by xyst 7y ago
This seems similar to Zelle. Used to facilitate p2p payments. I have used it with family members and the transactions take <1 minute to complete.
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by xyst 7y ago
Isn’t ACH slow though? I have personally used ACH to transfer between personal bank accounts and it usually takes 2-3 days for each transaction to complete. Also a 1% transaction fee for something that takes 2-3 days to process seems very h
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by xyst 7y ago
The "ObjectId" type gives it away
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by xyst 7y ago
The Spinnaker project is looking more appealing with every outage. Outage detected in X provider in Y region? Deploy infrastructure to Z provider in Y region.
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by xyst 7y ago
While I have no doubts or reservations about the ill effects of E-cigarettes, can a sample size of 31 people provide a definitive conclusion?
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by xyst 7y ago
"Demand better business practices" signal
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by xyst 7y ago
I’m skeptical, but it’s too early in the morning to deep dive into the white papers. Will save it for later. Based on what I have read though, this digital currency isn’t really a crypto coin. The users are verified through government issue