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editorializing: (of a newspaper, editor, or broadcasting organization) make comments or express opinions rather than just report the news News isnt to tell us how to feel. That's a…

What is it with people saying we need to sugar coat, bubble wrap, and insulate our tender egoes from the reality of the world? Psychologists have a term for that. It's called denia…

Yeah. So if you skipped 60 seconds on a 30 second commercial you'd cut into your program. Hence the identification requirement.

How is it any different from ER doctor, coroner, social worker, or investigator?

It creates a time series of frequencies then checks a db for that same series. A problem that is easily parallelizable. Probably does some filtering first. It's a very useful and c…

Just find someone else who has it and ask to add your radio to their "family plan", it's only a couple bucks

Just because it can doesn't mean it's tolerable to have one core of their CPU eaten up just working on AES all day. Plus if it wasn't task set to a CPU you'd see massive latency hi…

I'm not your enemy. I don't even know you. So please send me your passwords to your online accounts. And I'd like to take a look at your home computer. So please install VNC and op…

sampling inspection. Not a hard software check: `assert ( numWelds == 30);` Or a camera that takes a picture of each vehicles undercarriage. They probably thought that was unnecess…

That's not awesome that you hacked the system to prescribe yourself anything you want. At best you're going to get the least efficient path to treatment. At worst you could miss a …

That's a feature, not a bug.

There's clearly not enough in deposit to sustain this model. In the US, a large majority of people don't have enough saved to last 3 months.

How much does the transaction cost eat into the coupon though?

Suppose, for the sake of argument, that "coming for your jobs " is completely overblown and no different than automation throughout the previous decades. Isn't there a separate sha…

Depends on your swimming ability. You can easily drown if you panic when large waves land on you and force water into your mouth/nose. or if you get swept out by a rip current and …

That only saves a few characters. And "map" is already a data type in C++. How are you going to explain to a student that ambiguity, that you can "map a vector, but oh yeah map is …

How would you ensure nothing was used in the region after the original allocation?

The Nevada gaming industry is lobbing heavily to legalize them. So they can target younger demographics.

There are laws in the US that ban using any machine that enhances your ability to win, even if you never tamper with the machine. This covers attacking the RNG by analyzing past ou…

It's troubling because when I worked there as a developer their journalists seemed to be really on their game. I loved the UX of their site, and the articles seemed thorough, well …

What if there was a "cash back" rebate available inside the venue? So TM sells each ticket for $1000, and you get $500 back once you get inside? This would make it very expensive f…

> by offloading risk Offload it straight onto the consumer. If I pay 2x the TM price from a scalper and the event is cancelled and TM offers "full refunds " I'm out the difference.…

I think the ticket should be matched to a government ID or passport. Drivers licenses have barcodes on them. Sell cheap tickets that rewire ID and sell "unlocked" tickets for 2x as…