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by chalkandpaste 8y ago
Oh man, I miss what so hard. Can't find anything comparable today. Those were the golden days, when I could find obscure albums that you couldn't even pay good money for.
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by chalkandpaste 8y ago
I didn't pin the blame on them. I place it as a cultural issue.
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by chalkandpaste 8y ago
This is a very short-sighted view. Yes it has some immediate benefit in terms of pay, but you have to consider the long-term societal tradeoff of not developing addictive mental candy for people or developing societally useful technologies
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by chalkandpaste 8y ago
This. I'd always assumed Zuck was like this, great to see some confirmation that my expectations for him weren't too low.
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by chalkandpaste 8y ago
My point was that this isn't as significant as they make it out to be--comparing it to the transition to mobile is marketing BS.
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Apple to use “trust score” such as in Black Mirror(independent.co.uk)
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by chalkandpaste 8y ago
> ... biggest companywide reorientation since our shift from desktops to mobile phones... Putting 20 people behind it?
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by chalkandpaste 8y ago
Yes, he sure doesn't know a d n thing about jazz... Alice and Joe Henderson were doing great stuff in the 70's together too. Beyond the chaos of the late 60's era in jazz, there are a lot of new directions jazz has taken sin
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by chalkandpaste 8y ago
I came here expected here read: Don't use MongoDB, use your noggin you figure out which database you should actually use.
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by chalkandpaste 8y ago
Sounds like all the bad decisions about who to hire (low cost, inexperienced workers) and who to fire (higher cost, experienced workers), how long to force people to work, overuse of automation, etc., has caught up with Tesla. And now Musk
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by chalkandpaste 8y ago
I agree but I didn’t want to say that as it seemed obvious (at least to me). Mozilla, a non-profit, which produces primarily a browser with currently a small market share, needs to do something to bring in some revenue. Having Google as the
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by chalkandpaste 8y ago
I disabled everything from Pocket I possibly can when I downloaded and setup Firefox, in the `about:config`. That integration annoys me to no end. Who decided I needed pocket in my browser?
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by chalkandpaste 8y ago
How does it not (potentially) skew the market? If one such alternative plant had a higher operating efficiency and therefore lower cost, wouldn't the fact that there is a law preventing the lower cost from being reached skew the market
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by chalkandpaste 8y ago
Not really. One of the things prohibiting the market is the Price-Anderson Act, which stipulates, irrespective of the sort of reactor (and since there have been newer and cheaper reactor designs) a level of insurrance that nuclear plants ne
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by chalkandpaste 8y ago
No issue with what you're saying here. The primary point I wanted to emphasize was that our application of regulations to the telephone system is not in line with whom I was replying to said, that there was around a 30-40 year gap.
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by chalkandpaste 8y ago
>Those were built out by private companies, but operated under a regulatory regime called "common carrier," No. "Common Carrier" classification under Title II of the Communications act of 1934 comes more than 30 years
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by chalkandpaste 8y ago
> ... if your company is valued at $62 billion, you can afford to give your workers health care. What? Just because it's "valued" that way (that is, someone thinks it's worth that much) doesn't mean the entity ha
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by chalkandpaste 8y ago
The issue is google doesn't care about they're users. As long as it's good enough to keep the data-gravy-train going.
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by chalkandpaste 8y ago
I believe the issue was repeated stress causing tendons to tear in one leg and one arm. There have been reports that the machinery Tesla uses puts unnecessary strain on the body and the hours this man was working, I can easily see this happ
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by chalkandpaste 8y ago
Hey I don’t blame you for being skeptical, it’s the way of the internet. I don’t think media attention is what he wants as he is still attempting to work through legal recourse.
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by chalkandpaste 8y ago
THIS IS FANTASTIC. I’ve had a friend, a specialist engineer doing failure analysis, who has been largely incapacitated from any work because of Tesla. He sustained an injury during a high urgency project (which failed, whodathunk) which req
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by chalkandpaste 8y ago
I have two issues with this article. First, aren’t people going to be looking to pair up with someone in the same socioeconomic class anyway? That’s what we’ve mostly been doing over the course of history. That an app is based on this is no
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by chalkandpaste 8y ago
> Facebook, however, disputed the implication that it can't exercise proper oversight over these types of apps, telling CNBC that it can't control information that companies mislabel. What does that mean? That’s utter nonsense.
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by chalkandpaste 9y ago
Technically it's here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16323168 But this is the only post that got comments.
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by chalkandpaste 9y ago
I think someone just wanted this thread shutdown...
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by chalkandpaste 9y ago
So, Apple, the richest company on earth, wants to use more bandwidth without paying more, even though bandwidth is a scarce resource and other people have invested millions to providing the infrastructure to transmit data?
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by chalkandpaste 10y ago
Apple's stock price remains constant because they are artificially inflating their own stock through increased dividends (more than 10bn per year) and stock buyback (increased to 175bn for this next year). They do this so the major sha
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by chalkandpaste 10y ago
So many parens. Much cumbersome. Why not Haskell?
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by chalkandpaste 11y ago
"... as mathematics is avoided in many cases where it would greatly aid in reasoning about systems, due to the quantity of people who dislike it." Computer science at Penn has been doing this especially. In the overview of mathema