xarball

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by xarball 3y ago
50% of migrants can't find a job. Our banks are publishing papers that for every 1% our population increases, home prices appreciate 3% above the target CPI of 2%; AFTER accounting for interest rates. It's flat out a Ponzi Scheme.
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by xarball 4y ago
Oh my goodness, I typed "My Butt", and then couldn't catch my breath laughing. A+, that was a journey I wasn't prepared for =P
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by xarball 4y ago
Did he say anywhere that he wasn't logging into them :)
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by xarball 5y ago
Wow I'd never have known the line between day and night ever had a name, before you used that word! :)
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by xarball 5y ago
This isn't really relevant to bring up in 2022. But this thread always brings a huge grin to my face. I'm probably one of the few that really likes watching the "Steve Jobs" level of product quality, just blast across t
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by xarball 5y ago
I agree that your point on cloud gaming is probably valid for companies trying to maintain a rigid grip over software piracy when the companies still build things that can be stolen -- But I don't think it's strictly necessary for
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by xarball 6y ago
> Negative associations have been highlighted by virtue of the darkness and unilluminated things in general being traditionally considered negative. It really depends where you go. Contrary to popular belief, America is not the center o
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by xarball 7y ago
I work in the auto industry in HMDs, and I think the last comment was somewhat on the right track, but perhaps missing bits of a larger issue at hand. We can get the impression that Waze was built on a lot of technical debt by the amount of
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by xarball 8y ago
The ridiculous part is if you had once had location tracking on before, and had previously set your Home/Work address - Android Auto will still occasionally offer you directions to Home/Work spontaneously , despite Android Auto r
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by xarball 8y ago
Hiring discrimination is not the same thing as advertising/outreach. You are free to to apply to any company you want, and they are legally required to judge you on the basis of your skills (equality of opportunity). They are not lega
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by xarball 8y ago
You can even go the extra step and get them realistic noise-canceling ones for sleeping. They'll probably even thank you for it!
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by xarball 8y ago
Selenium sets up the browser profile for you, so you can disable images, videos, css, javascript, embeds, all to your heart's content. I've recently started using Selenium with the privoxy proxy, exactly because browser headless m
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by xarball 8y ago
Why would you switch from selenium to beautiful soup halfway through what you're trying to do, and force your program to re-request the same information from the web server? Selenium has access to the entire DOM, and the entire JavaSc
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by xarball 8y ago
I don't think the video depicts any need for a new law. Harassment already has laws. But I think what happened in the video was clearly a step up from that, and would fall under criminal assault. Not sure what the woman in the video e
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by xarball 8y ago
That sounds a lot more like what they should aim for: Formalizing algebra. It's probably a far safer bet that algebra won't be changing very often, much less so than any graphics pipeline! I think they would be wise to think a l
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by xarball 8y ago
I find fourth-wave feminist articles like this to be a complete sham, because they completely stop short of asking a far more constructive question: 'Why is this happening?' Is there something unique about South Korea that motivat
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by xarball 8y ago
As a dead animal carcass whos insides are torn out and spewed out along the side of the road, I wish I could use reddit for similar, yet somewhat more distant categories too ^.^
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by xarball 8y ago
While I agree with the general thrust of this, and am perfectly fine with the consequences and outcomes that redpill might land you if you're showing responsibility and taking steps to flirt with someone to such length -- I genuinely l
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by xarball 8y ago
Metro's branding was a failure of imagination and a failure to properly capture and convey intent. There are many other options out there: | "Touch UI" | "Mobile UI" | "Everywhere UI" | "Fishe
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by xarball 9y ago
I think Microsoft is trying to fill in a meaningful, yet tentative part of the pie. It wouldn't be right for them to put forward the full cost of every cloud company's potential losses. At the same time it raises the stakes by be
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by xarball 9y ago
This is where hardware signing comes into play.
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by xarball 9y ago
I followed a few links to Abseil: > Consisting of the foundational C++ and Python code at Google, Abseil includes libraries that will grow to underpin other Google-backed open source projects like gRPC, Protobuf and TensorFlow. This libr
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by xarball 9y ago
> machines are not submerged in an environment that effects them, giving them no merit to be intelligent about anything You're alluding to the problem of having to 'raise' a super-intelligence with a vested interest in the
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by xarball 9y ago
Agree 100% that this test sounds like asking someone to prove a negative in order to force action at their expense. The retailer in this case is Google, and their entire business model rides on being able to ship an information product worl
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by xarball 10y ago
So their answer is corruption/fascism?
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by xarball 10y ago
I need to play devil's advocate here -- and hoping everyone will stop and think about this in a more practical way for a minute. This has less to do with VR/AR, and more to do with pre-existing overlap: o What if Tesla is interes
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by xarball 12y ago
Can I give. Money. To have that? -The internet.
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by xarball 12y ago
This is a horrific idea. What we need is zero-tolerance for this kind of quality and architecture, from high to low. Security software CAN be understandable. You just have to focus on perfecting the expression and interactions. Think high
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by xarball 12y ago
Don't jump to conclusions yet -- I'm still reading this analysis. https://pay.reddit.com/r/crypto/comments/26px1i/truecrypt_sh...
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by xarball 12y ago
>> who are more interested in finding a relationship than in making a "B-roll". ^^ THIS. There must be some pretty lonely guys out there. I can only hope the more genuine ones learned their lesson after it ended. Best exam

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