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by brainfire 9y ago
Ben Goldacre (of "Bad Science" fame) has been doing work in this area for a while: http://www.badscience.net/
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by brainfire 9y ago
As far as I can tell the first specific thing that the author calls out as something that should disturb all humans is that the Aladdin characters are joined by a character from a different IP. Truly terrifying to any company or copyright h
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by brainfire 9y ago
Something very close to that did launch first: Amazon Hub. It's a shared unit for apartment buildings though. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/07/amazo...
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by brainfire 9y ago
This was flagged to death but I'm vouching it because it should be addressed. First, I'm not sure I believe your numbers to begin with. Is there a source? Second, a huge issue is racism in law and police policies (not necessarily
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by brainfire 9y ago
I think you might be... extrapolating a lot from this.
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by brainfire 9y ago
Those are some... pretty strange views. Where do you see them expressed?
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by brainfire 9y ago
Just like all those stubborn meat eaters ignoring the science that eating meat increases cancer risk.
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by brainfire 9y ago
Federal employees wouldn't implement a project like that - contractors would. Like Equifax. (Or my employer, for whom I am not speaking.)
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by brainfire 9y ago
Can you relate your comment to the article? What does obesity have to do with fake body shapes?
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by brainfire 9y ago
The techniques detailed on the page (reweighting lines, removing fine details) seem like a worthwhile reason to at least use a different file for the "tiny" image. Unless SVG renderers start using those techniques at a small enoug
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by brainfire 9y ago
Anything that can be prevented at a cost. Anything that seems like a less serious illness that wouldn't be worth missing a rent payment over. You can get emergency care and just not pay for it if you can't afford it. You can'
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by brainfire 9y ago
Or if you want more manual control, Play Music can also be set to download the contents of a playlist (or artist or etc.) Add your new album to that playlist and it'll be downloaded.
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by brainfire 9y ago
It doesn't matter what it means to me, but your intended meaning is essential to interpreting your proposal that they should pay a "fair amount".
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by brainfire 9y ago
You keep using the word "fair". What do you think it means?
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by brainfire 9y ago
One of those was probably mine. I was banned within five minutes of signing up, I'm guessing because I was using semi-public wifi and didn't provide a phone number (although the signup form says it's optional.) The stated rea
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by brainfire 9y ago
Why are you changing the subject from the reliability of the source to the correctness of a specific article?
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by brainfire 9y ago
The developer once noted that 96% of subscribers are male.
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by brainfire 9y ago
Is it possible to set Twitter (not a third party client) to show you all unread items- that is, to give you a gap-free view of your feed? Or is it still just "whatever was most recent, mostly"?
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by brainfire 9y ago
Amusingly, the loading time for the "full experience" is long enough that it's cut off in the video. I think that says everything needed about the "full experience" on the web in 2017.
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by brainfire 9y ago
There's a configuration option in the omnibus CE config file to add additional lines to the built-in nginx configuration, it seems pretty straightforward to me - although we use a different web server so that we can integrate with our
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by brainfire 9y ago
In the US, the FTC. Or do you consider them toothless? It does seem like they're at least making the appearance of trying: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2016/03/lord-...
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by brainfire 9y ago
"This product is known to the State of California to..."
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by brainfire 9y ago
If I play Russian Roulette and don't get shot, does that mean the people who told me it was dangerous were wrong?
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by brainfire 9y ago
I think it is the specific scripts that are prehistoric, not the idea of scripting.
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by brainfire 9y ago
Weird! It's on the only menu in Focus for me, the same level as "settings." I wouldn't have thought a launcher could do that. I use Nova Launcher.
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by brainfire 9y ago
Definitely yes on Android. I don't know for iOS.
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by brainfire 9y ago
No in-app bookmarks, but you can use "add to home screen" to get a shortcut.
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by brainfire 9y ago
People love a "lone hero" story and journalists/Twitter personalities are trying to squeeze as much milage as they can out of the genius who saved the entire world from malware.
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by brainfire 9y ago
Just make sure you update exa when there's a vulnerability in whatever got statically linked to it.
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by brainfire 9y ago
And it's back: https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/89244909895099187...

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