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by zolthrowaway 9y ago
Could a windowless vehicle help this? If the car is in control, there's really not any need for windows. I know we are a very long way from that level of autonomous cars, but I don't think motion sickness is the biggest hurdle we
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by zolthrowaway 9y ago
If my comment was a little ad hominem, I apologize. I watched my parents struggle growing up. My dad worked in a steel mill. My mom cut hair and cleaned businesses after work. I never saw them not busy. They made a ton of sacrifices to keep
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by zolthrowaway 9y ago
Have you ever been poor? Have you ever been poor and had kids? It's not as simple as taking a 15 minute drive to the DMV and waiting in line. Many of these people lack access to proper transit systems to get to these places. At least w
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by zolthrowaway 9y ago
Yes. Gallup does this ever year. It's been over 60% for the last two years[1]. [1] http://news.gallup.com/poll/221018/record-high-support-legal...
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by zolthrowaway 9y ago
I'm not sure that phones fit into this paradigm very well. First, having a phone is almost a necessity. Note that I did not say smartphone, but having a device that receives calls and texts is something that nearly every functioning ad
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by zolthrowaway 9y ago
It's at least partially fear. Fear can get people to do crazy things. Combine this with the fact that many people are totally tech illiterate (think about some of the elderly who call their grandkids every time they need to check their
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by zolthrowaway 9y ago
We can agree to disagree then. I think your opinion is reasonable and I can understand where you are coming from. To me personally, however, this is a very bad smell. They have shown that they will push unrelated code as a Shield Study. Thi
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by zolthrowaway 9y ago
It would be easier for me to use Chrome. All of my coworkers use Chrome. Before Quantum, Chrome had better performance [1]. Chrome is everywhere. I have to test my web apps on Chrome regardless of whether it is my primary browser or not. I&
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by zolthrowaway 9y ago
I wholeheartedly disagree. It is a security issue, privacy issue, as well as many other types of issues. Installing an extension without my permission is a privacy issue. It doesn't matter what that extension does. It doesn't matt
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by zolthrowaway 9y ago
Exactly. GP is not using an apt comparison. For many people, the primary reason to use Firefox is privacy. They made a massive faux pas against their primary selling point and people are upset. Would you consider switching a product if the
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by zolthrowaway 9y ago
>That's what happened to steel production in the US. *Some of the steel production in the US. I am certainly not making the argument that the steel industry in the US is as large or vibrant as the 70s or 80s. However, USX still does
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by zolthrowaway 9y ago
I disagree with this. Labels are the main beneficiaries of music distribution[0]. In addition, the non-committal nature of streaming makes it so much easier to get people to listen to your music. There are tons of artists I love with <10
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by zolthrowaway 9y ago
I resonate with this so much. I honestly feel incredibly lucky to end up where I did. My sophomore year of high school, I took a programming class almost entirely on accident. I took a business class with a teacher my freshman year and real
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by zolthrowaway 9y ago
This is good PR for them now. "Look we are clearly not at fault and will vehemently defend our innocence." In addition this claim is absolutely non-binding. Also, if the trial lawyer in question is just trying to make a quick buck
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by zolthrowaway 9y ago
GPUs are quite good at doing arithmetic in parallel. A large part of machine learning is doing arithmetic on large data sets. It makes sense to do these operations in parallel. For example, implementing k-nearest neighbors on a GPU is almos
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by zolthrowaway 9y ago
Doctors, police officers, and teachers are individuals hired to do a particular job. They have responsibilities at those jobs. If they cannot or do not want to do them, they are free to quit, switch careers, or face the consequences of thei
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by zolthrowaway 9y ago
To add to this, there is literally a term "the Pittsburgh Left"[1]. Informal etiquette does really help prevent things like a lane getting blocked for three lights when someone needs to make a left at a busy intersection. However,
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by zolthrowaway 9y ago
I 100% do not mean to point this at you in particular. I do not know your situation. But, in a general sense, a lot of the reason for the pressure is because these thing take time. There is no magic cure. Going to a mental health profession
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by zolthrowaway 9y ago
This article is from last year, but at the time Chrome had approximately 60% and Firefox at approximately 15% of the market[0]. It's not like people don't know that other browsers exist. Even non-technically savvy people know abou
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by zolthrowaway 9y ago
Paid time off
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by zolthrowaway 9y ago
That's exactly what an internet shill would want you to think ;)
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by zolthrowaway 9y ago
+1 for this. Try before you "buy" so to speak. In a very similar vein, Linux Mint also allows you to do this. Both OSes work very well out of the box and there are large communities for help.
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by zolthrowaway 9y ago
I subscribe to the Chicago school way of thinking way more than Marx or Keynesian economics, but I totally disagree. Everything about economics can be wrong. You can't control for every variable in a market. It just isn't possible
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by zolthrowaway 9y ago
Did you really expect them to fund you with just an idea and some domain knowledge? Not to sound rude, but that's pretty naive. How many people are out there who have a "million dollar idea" who just need someone to build it?
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by zolthrowaway 9y ago
This is absolutely correct. Proving P=NP doesn't magically create the algorithm, it just proves that there is one. However, the reason why I chose to single out crypto specifically is because it has the most to lose if that algorithm e
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by zolthrowaway 9y ago
The most interesting thing is if P=NP. If that's the case, that means that there is an algorithm that can solve any NP problem in polynomial time. This means that things like crypto would be able to be cracked in polynomial time which