PascalsMugger

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by PascalsMugger 10y ago
Since we invitably have legislatures heavily influence (and sometimes fully captured) by moneyed interests, often the best we can hope for is competition between the different factions of moneyed interests to shape policy such that the outc
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by PascalsMugger 10y ago
I think this was a plot to a Michael Crichton novel, except instead of Zina it was a terrorist group's bioweapon.
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by PascalsMugger 10y ago
Is it even possible to compress it down tha much?
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by PascalsMugger 10y ago
So in a vacuum, yes people probably perform on a bell curve. But that bell curve is self-aware and will start sabotaging itself if you incentivize it to.
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by PascalsMugger 10y ago
That kind of bacteria sounds like something that would spread very quickly in unleashed in the wild. I wonder what the outcome would be.
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by PascalsMugger 10y ago
CEOs get the credit when the company does well and they get paid extraordinarily well. Either they don't deserve that credit and shouldn't get paid nearly as well as they do, or they should get just as much credit when the company
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by PascalsMugger 10y ago
I think perhaps a more subtle warning would be to have the container sense an rfid tag in peanut allergic peoples' hands and set off a warning alarm and flashing lights.
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by PascalsMugger 10y ago
I'd call "__proto__" a magic string, but it's kind of an accident of history and a one off that everyone wants to get rid of, but can't.
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The New York Times is surveying 700,000 readers who use ad blockers(digiday.com)
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by PascalsMugger 10y ago
This pain is one of the most potent things that keeps people from trying to pull off fraud more often.
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by PascalsMugger 10y ago
Can't let that precious link juice spill out to other websites! Don't you remember link juice? Bullshit SEO tactics are killing the web.
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by PascalsMugger 10y ago
Bathroom breaks are not a form of compensation any more than than breathable air is a form of compensation. They are bare necessitates of life. That kind of thinking is what leads to this kind of dystopian shit.
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by PascalsMugger 10y ago
I'm sure this has been asked and answered before, but why do companies acquire startups just to shut their product down within a year so often? Is this just an acquihire? Or do big tech companies just play whack-a-mole with startups, b
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by PascalsMugger 10y ago
Why are we adding (2016) to current year submissions now?
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by PascalsMugger 10y ago
Absolutely, but this incident is the perfect example of how new technology will always be used by assholes to do asshole things, along with whatever good uses it was designed for. We should always ask "what would 4chan do with this cap
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by PascalsMugger 10y ago
Sounds kind of like when EA made SimCity have a required online component and claimed it was required for doing some game calculations.
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by PascalsMugger 10y ago
Planet Money is one of the only podcasts I can just let run through all the episodes and still enjoy them all.
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by PascalsMugger 10y ago
It's all about the Tubmans baby.
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by PascalsMugger 10y ago
I think what was meant is that on the grand scale of "aliveness" viruses are more alive than prions. Viruses have DNA, they actively seek out host cells to hijack so they can reproduce, etc. Prions are much simpler and aren't
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by PascalsMugger 10y ago
Just curious, but why do you refer to it as "he", especially in this context where you are touting it as an actual non-human? Not to single you out, I see people referring to all these other things as (usually female) "her&q
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by PascalsMugger 10y ago
It's amazing to think about kids growing up with a wonder box in their house that tells them the answer to any question when they yell at it. It's like straight out of the fables or science fiction of the past. I hope this result
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by PascalsMugger 10y ago
Well whoever acquired Norway's stake in the oil industry probably lost out since making that investment last year, so that fungible money now is gone.
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by PascalsMugger 10y ago
You'd like them to improve people's lives by continutuing to invest in coal? You think that forgoing a minuscule return (or actually probably increasing return) to dampen an industry that is demonstratably harming people in the
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by PascalsMugger 10y ago
Original coke. That's the addictive one. New coke didn't work.
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by PascalsMugger 10y ago
I wonder what the price was.
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by PascalsMugger 10y ago
It's interesting how this leak just seems completely devoid of US involvement. No US news media talking about it or involved. No US people mentioned in the leak.
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by PascalsMugger 10y ago
Does this disclosure requirement apply when the work is contracted to a third party? I have a hard time believing security companies would ever work for the government if doing so required them disclosing the vulnerabilities they use to the
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by PascalsMugger 10y ago
I hope his work doesn't just get undone 12 months from now by whoever Hillary puts in there. She doesn't seem to be very tech savvy and is quite business friendly.
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by PascalsMugger 10y ago
The reason for the name change and the Parma change is that String.prototype.padStart is being added in the next ECMAScript release, and lodash was changed to be compatible with the newly built-in version (so it's a polyfill).
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by PascalsMugger 10y ago
It's one thing to buy a company and then do layoffs to realize efficiency gains, and another to buy a company essentially for its IP and fire everybody. Sure, it's "cost cutting" taken to its logical extreme. But it&#x27

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