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by pavement 9y ago
Hmmm, a dearth of activity on an article about employers expending significant effort, prying into extracurricular social media activity. Maybe this article just " isn't very interesting " and suddenly there are better thin
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by pavement 9y ago
Holy shit. That is not even a "pull down menu" as previously reported. Good to know. This means that in Hawaii, you should only think about taking action if the magic FALSE ALARM notice never appears. If the FALSE ALARM notice
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by pavement 9y ago
I disagree.
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by pavement 9y ago
Gross. It sounds like a total failure to correctly model reality. Like measuring how blue the sky is, based on how much "blue" is left in the universe. The idea they attempt to quantify is improperly described in terms of qualitie
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by pavement 9y ago
Okay, time to add another entry to the list of terrifying trauma complications. Adding it to the subgroup that includes compartment syndrome. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compartment_syndrome
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by pavement 9y ago
That Napster is depicted as a footnote is pretty inaccurate, considering the title. Paint his story as the story of a kingpin, but this is not "the dawn of" anything beyond his personal tale.
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by pavement 9y ago
wtf am i readin
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by pavement 9y ago
Except... the very premise of the service isn’t particularly reasonable. You won’t change my mind, so don’t bother replying.
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by pavement 9y ago
And this is why I don’t pay for a Netflix subscription. What is it with engineers willing to brainwash themselves regarding what constitutes a “good compromise” within the context of what their paycheck depends on?
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by pavement 9y ago
An infinite spacefiller that produces a flood of wikipedias in a simulation will simply trigger out-of-memory exceptions, silly.
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by pavement 9y ago
Likely, employers and what is possible in the immediate day-to-day sense.
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by pavement 9y ago
Payment processors frequently conduct "no-capture" test transactions for authorizations of possibly $1, before tokenizing CC info. Arguably, this follows the pattern of an integration test. Ecommerce providers often follow a proce
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by pavement 9y ago
Come on, people. Work with me, work with me.
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by pavement 9y ago
Networked resources have listeners. Listeners have ears. Ears have wax. A unit test verifies that your Q-tip is made of cotton, and that the cotton is soft and small enough to fit inside an ear to a depth that will fetch wax. Another unit t
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by pavement 9y ago
Getting extremely creative, one might run a surprisingly unprofitable farm, while paying one's self minimum wage to operate the farm, single-handedly. Getting creative , of course... But you know, a legitimate business would never
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by pavement 9y ago
Just because they have easier ways, doesn't mean they need more ways.
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by pavement 9y ago
We’re not great at environmentally friendly mining. Mountain top removal mining, open pit mining and strip mining are brute force tactics that demonstrate a capacity for efficiency, but remain controversial because of their destructive qu
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by pavement 9y ago
A smart human raised in the jungle is but a hairless ape. Similarly, an AI with a superhuman brain, dropped into a human body in our modern world, would likely not develop greater capabilities than a smart contemporary huma
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by pavement 9y ago
"Paying people to do nothing" I think you have the wrong concept in your head. You've missed other portions of the larger economic system, by focusing on an individual atomic result as a platonic hypothesis of persona
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by pavement 9y ago
Interesting tidbit: Sweethearts also seem clueless to the presence of jerks, offering concessions to, and excuses for jerk behavior. Question: what's with jerks teaming up? How does jerk signaling work, such that it attracts jerks-of-a
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by pavement 9y ago
In many parts of the United States, well into the nineties, there were no Taco Bell tacos. I didn't get to try Taco Bell until 1995. Growing up, Burritos were these frozen bean-paste wraps, with "meat" included sometimes, tha
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by pavement 9y ago
Did you mean: something you definitely did not mean ? Showing results for something you definitely did not mean Search instead for something you meant No, Google, that's not what I meant. Put these links way, I did not mean t
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by pavement 9y ago
So, news, fake news, trolls, counter -trolls, content farms , revenge porn scanning (?), surveillance and censorship, large-internet-property moderation (special classes for special sites), content curation , “influencers” (???),
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by pavement 9y ago
Yeah, trolling and counter-trolling? Gee... Also, note that there’s mention of specific political groups exclusively as trolls, but who are the professional counter-trolls? As my mom used to say, when it comes to fighting, it takes two to t
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by pavement 9y ago
That’s how the cargo cult works. You’re teachers couldn’t explain why cursive was “better” but forced its use anyway. Similarly, forcing left handed students to write with their right hand finds a rationalized basis in superstition, althoug
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by pavement 9y ago
Yes. That specific difference is the classic vector to corruption, bribery and selling out.
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by pavement 9y ago
Which is to conclude, either all ants are sentient, or no ants are sentient (but a variety of degrees of sentience is not expected), and the emergent behavior of a colony is its own phenomenon.
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by pavement 9y ago
The mnemonic " opaque, obtuse, and obscure " is a valid denotation of targeted qualities, not unlike the qualities targeted for drone activity are related, with the mnemonic " dull, dirty or dangerous ." So, the three O&
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by pavement 9y ago
You misinterpret my reference to "frame rate." And you're cherry picking. In the sense that flicker is detectable, when we view a movie in a dark room, we know there are frames in a film reel, if the shutter speed of the proj
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by pavement 9y ago
I dunno. We’ve seen lots of (well maybe a number of famous) cases where an entire hemisphere gets taken out by stroke or trauma, and the sense of self manages to recover. The brain is extremely sensitive to status across the rest of the bod

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