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by pasbesoin 8y ago
Their library has increasingly sucked. They've changed their UI to be correspondingly undifferentiating, making this change less apparent without actually viewing the content. There's a good reason -- besides "touchscreen&#
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
I barely watch anything any more on Netflix streaming. When I do try something new -- especially one of their "Netflix originals" -- I increasingly feel I am being fed the same set of tropes. (E.g. There's only so much dyst
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
Even decades ago, I recall from memory a gorgeous nighttime view of parliament, lit up in gold-ish tones, with an emerald green lighting the bridge underside in the intermediate foreground. I'm pretty sure I have a couple of slides of
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
A comment on another thread, made about a day after my GP comment, mentioned an influential paper published in, IIRC, 1944 speculating on crystalline storage of complete human genetic information. (I'm assuming this would encompass a
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
My (big metropolitan) supermarket chain got rid of their loyalty card program. One explanation I've heard, is that so many people are purchasing with credit/debit cards, that most purchasers are readily identified and purchase his
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
It's there. Here's a copy that's in the Wayback Machine (aka archive.org). https://web.archive.org/web/20190113223131/https://cacm.acm....
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
Clarke's "The City and the Stars" Technologically enabled immortality (in an interesting manner). Massive, crystalline data storage. Immersive gaming, including the negative, subsuming aspects of same. The individual as radic
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
One question, is whether the designation is objective or projective. There are a lot of "lazy" people "doing the wrong thing", whom closer analysis -- or just actually listening to them -- indicates are actually acting r
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
Pre-Google-Fi and into Google Fi, I considered the various "un-appeal-able" account scenarios with Google products, including how they sometimes tied back to loss of access to other Google products including one's Gmail accou
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
Don't mistake political opportunism for ethics or moral fiber. Speaking generally -- not just of this instance.
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
I missed that reference elsewhere in this thread. Thank you -- at a first glance, this looks promising! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18876042 https://online-go.com/docs/about Online-go.com is
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
I was resisting posting my OT question on this thread, but I will, briefly: Is there something like Lichess for Go (the board game)? Similar quality and openness. A couple of years ago, I spent a good little chunk of time searching someth
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
Yep. Like the "pick out a toaster for your 5 years of service" awards. Seriously -- if you haven't encountered this -- there are businesses that specialize in... "administering" service awards to employees, for oth
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
This is Derek Lowe, of the excellent column "Things I Won't Work With." https://www.google.com/search?q=things+i+won%27t+work+with
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
2013 -- for others who also thought they'd heard about this in the past.
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
Well, this should be defined as practicing medicine. (Ultimately, you are controlling whether and what treatment occurs.) Correspondingly, their licenses should be on the line, as well as liability for malpractice. Let regulation and tort
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
I thought it was started by some Xooglers. Obviously, the products are coming from China, and I imagine a lot of the design work is done there, now. After its launch, the emphasis seemed to be a decent level of quality, i.e. it will actual
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
I've held a number of "exempt" positions (salary, no overtime pay) where the workload is typically high but there are the occasional slow periods or an abnormal personal schedule demand. When they want you to work extra h
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
It seems law and regulation are going to have to clearly define and constrain what these organizations are allowed to collect and what they are not allowed to collect -- or, rather, that everything else is off-limits. Guests need to be of
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
When companies lobby for this, and come to "own" the respective governing bodies, people not only have the right but are being eminently practical in taking their concerns directly to those companies. Society has already decided
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
One very bright guy maybe still in his 30's. Otherwise, 40's and 50's. Not just experience. Problem solving, including creative thought. Practicality. Reduction in B.S. -- although that can cut both ways, with age, dependi
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
Yep. Midwest metropolis (out in the suburbs, but still fairly dense). It's the rust. Well, and in a few Chrystlers and a Ford I've been familiar with, the trannie. Kind of a race between the two factors. Right now, I have an ol
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
I subsequently lost my copy in a flood, but I quite enjoyed reading it.
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
I don't know why this has been downvoted. It is exactly the case. Maybe not for you and your neighbors, if you live in a well-to-do area (although, you might be surprised at what is happening behind some of the facades). But, try &qu
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
Perhaps no longer surprising, but of note especially to people in other countries, with regard to health care in the U.S. People are frankly -- and justifiably -- scared of going to the emergency room. To the point of declining transport f
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
Thank you!
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
Not my first experience, but I still have a fond if faint memory of prairienet. Out of UIUC (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IIRC. Back when connecting the world was viewed as (and often experienced as) a good thing.
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
Redundancy. It ultimately equates with security -- including national security. A reason we keep the older water navigation beacons active. These people in DC, many of them seem to have absolutely no technological comprehension. Nor bas
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
Yes, the acquisition was fairly well covered -- at least in the tech world.
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
Rural land with fiber data? Do tell. Any tips on locating/verifying such properties? This is a move I'd like to make (well, probably putting more than a camper on it).

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