yakult

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by yakult 10y ago
>For example, some female characters in game from China show too much skin to be appealing, which would be offensive to both female and male players in the West. Oh the many ironies. Things have truly come full circle.
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by yakult 10y ago
What I'd really want is an adblock extension that automatically hides clickbait articles on, say, google news. Or maybe a crowd-sourced thing that converts titles into nonclickbait titles. People need to think of it as just another f
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by yakult 10y ago
...or who is smart enough to realize there is a social metagame outside the obvious game of cake optimization. The REALLY smart ones may have done a cost-benefit analysis and decided that the payoff from the metagame - an increment in your
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by yakult 10y ago
The irony is that Times is partnered with advertisers torun these exact algorithms on the readers of this very article. In fact, they have anti-adblocking scripts to prevent circumvention, which unfortunately breaks reader mode.
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by yakult 10y ago
The government keeps legally meaningful records of deaths. It can be done. Blockchain assassination market was a thing a few years ago, IIRC. Obama and Bernake had prices on their heads. I wonder if these two products can be combined some
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by yakult 10y ago
>Chen said it's just "an interesting kind of psychological fact of human behaviour." He stressed the company is not going to act on the information to set fares. ...but battery optimization of the Uber app is now a lower p
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by yakult 10y ago
here's how it'll work: they'll have two phone-readers: one 'by the book' which really 'just' reads the metadata and puts it i their database. The second is basically an exploit kit that dumps your data b
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by yakult 10y ago
You mean the ones made by google, connected to the cloud 24/7, dumps its logs remotely on demand, and will lock its doors and drive you to the police station if its bayesian analysis thinks you're probably a terrorist?
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by yakult 11y ago
Is there a plugin for ms word?
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by yakult 11y ago
Something something dysentery.
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by yakult 11y ago
Online gambling is a solved problem, but airbnb with hookers looks like it could be lucrative. I'm guessing airbnb is the de-facto "airbnb with hookers" at the moment?
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by yakult 11y ago
As metaphors go it's actually pretty good: people often have very specific, very individual, and entirely valid reasons to not eat something. Just as they can have the same for experiences under different conditions. Change the condi
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by yakult 11y ago
The butt-chip. It's like the punchline of a joke. Still... Put a reader in your chair so that when you sit down somewhere, things turn on and log in? Butt-thentication, if you will. Might be cool in a car. ...maybe that's how t
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by yakult 11y ago
>What you refer to as cliques - are actually friendships. Friendships and socializing, are hugely important. While I don't disagree, the effect is the same from the school's perspective: 1. they are hostile to group outsiders 2
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by yakult 11y ago
From what I recall of highschool here in Australia, students are deliberately rotated and mixed up as much as possible to prevent cliques and long-term rivalries from forming. A teacher once told me this makes it easier to assert control.
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by yakult 11y ago
That would require the developers to know years in advance that they're going to remove something. In many cases they don't even know if they'll still be around in six months.
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by yakult 11y ago
The real question is: is a repo purge going to follow from their internal purge? Will they start deleting projects with diverging political views? It's not exactly paranoia: there has been precedents; see Gamergate.
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by yakult 11y ago
It will swing back in thirty years. In thirty years I plan to be retired. Or have died of my unhealthy lifestyle. Or at the most optimistic become too old to code competitively. My point is, far as I'm concerned I can't afford
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by yakult 11y ago
Where exactly would you draw the line between 'high-level analysis' and 'too much technical detail', here? Which numbers exactly would go into your simple financial analysis? Genuinely curious.
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by yakult 11y ago
I'm a complete amateur at photography, but can you give me some details in the difference in outcomes between your BW setup and just passing your color pictures through a BW filter?
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by yakult 11y ago
a shortage in construction workers -> wages per capita goes up -> disposable income goes up -> and hey, would you look at that, all of a sudden there are magazines celebrating the demographic and using the word 'culture'
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by yakult 11y ago
If we accept the paper's thesis that diversity policy promotion increases stress in white male interviewees leading to worse interview performance, wouldn't that lead to higher ratios of women and minorities in those organisations
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by yakult 11y ago
The solution is to have mandatory terms/keyword for internet-but-less. Something like 'partial internet access', which must appear in any promotional material and take up x% of total area a la mandatory cigarette packaging.
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by yakult 11y ago
>>It's also not clear that the model of background apps requesting the user's attention works. How many iPhones have you seen with a red circle containing "23" on the home screen, indicating that 23 apps need updat
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by yakult 11y ago
Counting down to first multi-million-dollar lawsuit after somebody's suit gets hacked.
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by yakult 11y ago
tl;dr: professor has a few bad experiences with students and, combining them with a choice anecdote from an unnamed colleague, proceeds to generalize to not only the (presumably) hundreds of students he has taught, but students, everywhere,
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by yakult 11y ago
tl;dr: Eric Schmit puts a lot of empty platitudes and applause lights around his call for more internet censorship.
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by yakult 11y ago
Politeness is a nice thing to have, in theory, but any attempt at enforcing politeness is a tax on creativity. Human processes are extremely imperfect and subject to all kinds of biases and conflicts of interest. The cost of attempts at en
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by yakult 11y ago
When I see 'micromorts', my first thought is that it's an euphemism for assassination, possibly with drones.
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by yakult 11y ago
There is also the possibility of a mistake due to some subtle detail in the test methodology, which is also going down but remains the best explanation. Nevertheless, at this point even discovering exotic mistakes in the tests are worth the

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