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by betaclass 5y ago
Irony? Filing taxes is a government-imposed obligation for many Americans. Accessing content from a private company is neither an obligation nor a right.
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by betaclass 5y ago
This goes beyond just breaking the law. This endangers others' lives.
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by betaclass 6y ago
So where has your focus been when it has needed to snap back in?
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by betaclass 6y ago
So the benefit is strictly in slow-moving traffic? And it's never occurred to me that steering wheel torque is an issue. And so many of these processes -- lane centering, not bumping into the car ahead of me -- are subconscious for me
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by betaclass 6y ago
I'm still unclear as to the benefit given that you're required to attend to the road and it detects distracted people in the driver's seat?
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by betaclass 6y ago
But if you still need to keep your attention on the road, what is the actual gain? What else can you be doing that gets past the distraction detection?
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by betaclass 8y ago
You got the core facts wrong -- Tesla will, in fact, continue to patent their technology. They need to to protect themselves from others. What Musk did say is, "Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good fait
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by betaclass 9y ago
Apple has figured out a way to allow us to track the NSA now?
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by betaclass 10y ago
Well there was evidence -- a vehicle that was registered to him was photographed as it was involved in a civil infraction. It wasn't conclusive evidence, much less proof. But it was evidence. And although I'm not a lawyer, my unde
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by betaclass 11y ago
I was not claiming the NYTimes is a commons. Rather I was using the commons as an example of a) how one's short- and long-term interests are not always aligned, and b) how mechanisms that curtail one's own short-term interests can
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by betaclass 11y ago
You haven't demonstrated convincingly that she is wrong. At best you've explained why ad blockers don't serve the short-term interests of those who consume the NYTimes. Your mistake is that you extrapolate that the short-term
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by betaclass 11y ago
I wish they wouldn't have curved/smoothed the graphs. Since it's by year, there are discrete points and values. When you curve a line it has implications for the underlying data, which in this case are incorrect.
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by betaclass 11y ago
I have never heard him referred to as "Steve Woz". Steve Wozniak, sure. Woz, yes. Or even "the Woz".
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by betaclass 12y ago
I'm not sure what Github's stated policy was, but it's clear from Julie Ann Horvath's description of how things operated there that quite a few of her co-workers were far from being fully-formed adults.
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by betaclass 12y ago
Nikoli has a lot of interesting puzzles. [0] https://member.nikoli.com/index.html?lang=en
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by betaclass 12y ago
That idea is just plain silly. And who exactly advocates it? It's just a plain, silly straw man.
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by betaclass 12y ago
Well, I find Dad Meyer's talk to be helpful in thinking about math school education: https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_meyer_math_curriculum_makeover .
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by betaclass 12y ago
'I don't know any evidence, that teaching the "mechanistics" of math should lower the chance of understanding it.' I think that's a bit of a straw man. The challenge is that simply getting the right answer, esp
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by betaclass 12y ago
I predict the average value of fair dice thrown into the future will be 3.5. I predict the next value thrown by a given fair die is _____. Sometimes aggregate predictions are easier than fine-grained ones.
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by betaclass 13y ago
Some people maliciously or accidentally provide another's email address, and now that person is getting your unsolicited commercial email (i.e., spam). And now they must actively do something to try to get off the list. Double opt-in m
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by betaclass 13y ago
Well mine is 4097 bits. Checkmate, Sir.
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by betaclass 13y ago
The work of Roy Baumeister shows many of these interactions. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Baumeister#Self_regulation
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by betaclass 13y ago
Did the fact that MikeRoweSoft.com sounds like Microsoft.com have any bearing on your decision to register the former?
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by betaclass 13y ago
With exceptions you can: a) handle the exceptions higher up the call stack b) consolidate error handling code for multiple error generation points With Go you pretty much have to attach a conditional to many calls. Your obsession with clean
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by betaclass 13y ago
You BUY PUT options -- you buy the right to sale at a given price for some period of time. The most you can lose is what you paid out for the put option. If the price of the underlying commodity falls below the strike price, you essentially
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by betaclass 13y ago
It's important to realize that if AT&T had been able to buy up T-Mobile, this never would have happened. Useful disruptions are less likely when we have too few companies in a given market. Note: OfficeMax and Office Depot are trying to
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by betaclass 15y ago
The original story was submitted by nomoremongo, not nmongo. The original story was very detailed and identified known problems with MongoDB. This post is a one-liner. So prove you were the one who wrote the account in pastebin.