dhoulb

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by dhoulb 9y ago
> “or, perhaps more usefully, be equipped with a battery that’s 30 times smaller.“ Please no-one tell Jony.
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by dhoulb 9y ago
Excession is an outstanding book. (But note to others: Consider Phlebas or Look to Windward are better starter books if you’ve not read any!)
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by dhoulb 9y ago
What a horrible moan fest of an article. The trypophobia comparison is nonsense and the author is obviously just trying (and failing) to include a memey word in the hopes of minor virality. And it’s always fun to hear ‘reveal the algorithm’
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by dhoulb 9y ago
I broke at ‘not smiling in photos’.
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by dhoulb 9y ago
(Obviously unlikely given the offshore-ness of ot all.)
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by dhoulb 9y ago
Only scenario I can think of for those kinds of numbers is a big bank or hedge fund buying in.
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by dhoulb 9y ago
I’ve definitely noticed tech, especially tech press, getting much more political and negative in the last few years. I don’t really know if it’s the WHOLE of tech (or just how it’s reported), but it definitely feels like a downer right now.
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by dhoulb 9y ago
Seems like a reasonable way to prevent overly-broad fishing by law enforcement. If they have a warrant they can request information through legal channels. The raids are just theatre.
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by dhoulb 9y ago
I’d imagine the employees aren’t told why they’re paging the number, just that they should. The page might also trigger other processes such as alerting council, that they have the right to do. So possibly not as risky?
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by dhoulb 9y ago
I did the same and filled it with things that are relevant to me, and now my ads are generally enjoyable — things I might not have otherwise known about. There was a lot of cruft in there from the early days when it was easy to like everyth
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by dhoulb 9y ago
Yeah this seems like the most reasonable option. Even not having service trade isn’t a great disaster. Companies with sizeable EU revenue can just set up a European subsidiary (in Ireland, etc) to conduct business in Europe from the UK (or
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by dhoulb 9y ago
Probably not a novel thought, but what if appearing in the sky over, say, a 100 year period beginning with the discovery of nuclear technology (or earlier) is a way of ‘warming up’ contact races so we don’t die of shock when they land? It
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by dhoulb 9y ago
Yeah, and didn’t the Pentagon say they’d lost track of $6.5Tn in spending or something? This is nothing compared to that.
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by dhoulb 9y ago
This article expressed a lot of what I’ve been mulling for years. I must’ve spent hours of my life poring over the Wikipedia HTTP Response Codes page, looking for the most expressive error code for my situation. It’s barmy.
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by dhoulb 9y ago
Is the last part about licensing true (or sourced from somewhere)? Surely Amazon could just drop the Cast library into their iPhone and Android apps and they’d be all set? I can’t see Google stopping them (well maybe they would now it’s esc
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by dhoulb 9y ago
That’s a really great point! YouTube is probably the best placed brand in the whole market to offer a true OTT cable replacement. And Amazon wants to own that market with Channels. Amazon would do anything to kill YouTube’s chances of makin
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by dhoulb 9y ago
It’s 100% available in the UK. Bought one officially from Amazon. Not imported.
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by dhoulb 9y ago
I love everything you said. It’d be so easy to structure a clean experiment to test this. Bad science sucks.
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by dhoulb 9y ago
Yawn, nonsense. They obviously just used deep learning to predict these were the kind of people who would want to do a cheesy video, and predicted cat food was an obvious topic they’d pick.
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by dhoulb 9y ago
Yeah, I totally should’ve phrased that bit more carefully The clearer, fuller argument would would be: if something terrible was to happen to Earth it would be objectively better (though obviously still a tragic and nightmarish event) if we
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by dhoulb 9y ago
Tough crowd.
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by dhoulb 9y ago
I mean, two of them have pledged to give away their wealth, and the other is actively seeking ideas to do so. If they’re giving it away anyway, what’s the problem? I guess if you’re in that lower 50% of the US, it might sorta suck that Gate
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by dhoulb 9y ago
I got into a conversation once that I think frames this well. We had WILDLY different views on whether going to Mars was a good idea (like, violently polar opposite views). The strength of our disagreement surprised me. I was arguing that w
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by dhoulb 9y ago
Uncanny valley triggered.
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by dhoulb 9y ago
It’s obviously bots. Frustrating the number of commenters who jumped to the “Facebook is evil” conclusion immediately.
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by dhoulb 9y ago
This is from nearly a month ago. It’s also outrage crap.
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by dhoulb 9y ago
I agree HTML in its entirity is not a great way to store data, but a SUBSET of HTML is often pretty efficient. Storing a paragraph where words might be bold or italic — a string of HTML’s pretty great for that, compared to some convoluted J
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by dhoulb 9y ago
... sounds expensive
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by dhoulb 9y ago
There may be a place for those people — i.e. where a fast confident decision is actually better than a thoroughly discussed ‘correct’ decision. Those people, in my experience, are usually pretty comfortable taking big risks (on their spotty
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by dhoulb 9y ago
That was well dealt with. Especially the part about deleting all long-press recordings from the servers. Very thorough Google!

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