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by hackuser 9y ago
> Ideally you would want to exclude the expenses incurred to sustain a reasonable minimum quality of life and only consider taxation on income in excess of that I don't agree that is ideal. Ideally, everyone makes an equal sacrifice
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by hackuser 9y ago
If the U.S. stops doing business with people in other countries, either hiring them or buying their products, then who will hire Americans and buy American products?
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Netflix is ditching five-star ratings in favor of a thumbs-up(theverge.com)
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by hackuser 9y ago
> what the algorithm should do, namely what politicians will/can not It's dangerous to imagine that the algorithms won't be used just as politically as anything else. The difference is, instead of a mostly transparent proc
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by hackuser 9y ago
> "Scientism" "Numerology" might be a better word.
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by hackuser 9y ago
> It'd be better to just set fair, uniform standards Aren't uniform standards as likely as a universal algorithm? There always will be messy edge cases where human judgment is needed. Mandatory sentencing rules worked out badly
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by hackuser 9y ago
> blindly ignoring all data that correlates with race is also bad This is a very theoretical, futuristic red herring. Race factors into decision-making far, far too much. It's like worrying that if someone developed a perfect, bug-f
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by hackuser 9y ago
> easily ... easy ... vanilla ... simple ... these things happen ... I disagree that all these high-level departures are normal - again, name another company where this is happening (and where it wasn't failing) - or easily explain
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by hackuser 9y ago
> Is the rate of executives departing greater than at a similar-sized tech company? This seems like a big stretch. Can you name a company that has lost its "head of comms, president, head of AI Labs, VP of growth and SVP of engineer
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by hackuser 9y ago
> even the CBO's reports are highly politicized I'm pretty sure I've read about many CBO reports that disagreed with the party in power. What basis is there for saying they are highly politicized?
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by hackuser 9y ago
For those interested, Panix in NY offers Unix shell access (and much more). http://www.panix.com/
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by hackuser 9y ago
I know you were wondering: SDF stands for Super Dimension Fortress, or at least that's what they tell a noob. "a networked community of free software authors, teachers, students, researchers, hobbyists, enthusiasts and the blind.
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by hackuser 9y ago
Thanks, but why?
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by hackuser 9y ago
> the only difference between non-profit and for-profit is that the owners of a non-profit don't get to keep them money for themselves per se, although they're just like for-profits in all other ways, including the ability to n
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by hackuser 9y ago
> I wish Firefox Nightly automatically did the new-profile thing like Firefox Dev Edition/Chrome Canary does, though. Not being able to run them side-by-side out of the box is quite annoying. I don't know about Nightly or the m
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by hackuser 9y ago
The author links to a much more technically informative article: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/apfs-apple-file-system/
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by hackuser 9y ago
AFAIK, something similar applies to road infrastructure, at least sometimes: There are rush hour traffic jams on the highway so the government adds lanes. As a result, more people move homes and offices to locations near the highway and the
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by hackuser 9y ago
That was the last I heard too, but it seems to be actively updated. For example, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/52.0/releasenotes/ Does anyone know the story?
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by hackuser 9y ago
Data about you is valuable. Netflix can sell it without displaying the ads itself. I'd be surprised if they aren't tracking users and monetizing that information, like seemingly every other business in the world. But maybe someone
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by hackuser 9y ago
The article doesn't say that; it says TV is at risk because it lacks data about its viewers.
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by hackuser 9y ago
Thanks. What I meant to ask was, given X is the same topic, what is the difference between X overflow and x.stackexchange.com? That is, if there is a general rule. Perhaps the answer is the same: It's just age. But then if X Overflow a
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by hackuser 9y ago
Based on that mailing list post and other things I've seen, I'm a little concerned that OpenBSD lacks sufficient funding or that Theo De Raadt is burnt out enough not to care (which would be completely understandable; I'm cer
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by hackuser 9y ago
> Yugoslavia -> Serbia and Montenegro Yugoslavia broke up in a civil war. I wouldn't count it as a 'rebranding' any more than British Empire -> United States.
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by hackuser 9y ago
What is generally the difference between X Overflow and x.stackexchange.com? Both are from Stack Exchange, AFAICT.
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by hackuser 9y ago
What about Confucianism? It's odd to read an article about religion in China that doesn't even mention it (other than reference to the temples, which I assume were Confucian). Perhaps there's something I misunderstand. AFAIK
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Name one or two?
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by hackuser 9y ago
> History tells us as these budgets grow uncontrollably sooner or later the empire runs out of cash to pay the soldier. In which nation has that happened? The U.S. certainly has had more serious problems in its defense institutions, and
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by hackuser 9y ago
> have there been any exploits for FreeBSD ? ShadowBrokers is releasing these exploits to make a loud noise. FreeBSD exploits probably won't be covered on CNN.
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by hackuser 9y ago
I'm more interested in their NSA hacking "tools". If the NSA can be compromised and have dangerous assets stolen, whether or not there are Windows cracking tools available seems to beg the question. Also, will heads ever roll
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by hackuser 9y ago
> There is zero lock-in. If Lyft is cheaper this week, I'm riding Lyft. It makes sense, but I'm not sure it works out that way. Many web services have zero lock-in (not including those with a network effect such as Twitter and

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