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Everything is politics. Remember when the US forced the Ukrainian investor of Firefly to sell? https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/07/feds-who-forced-ukrain... https://www.prnewswir…

Unsolicited life advice. If you have to drink or do drugs to do your job, you should probably question your career path. If you have to drink or do drugs to feel satisfied with you…

Two of the largest advertisers don’t think Facebook ads are effective. The latest, P&G, specifically call out how narrow targeting is ineffective. > After cutting back on certain d…

It also appears to reduce the amount of available rentals. http://conference.nber.org/confer/2017/PEf17/Diamond_McQuade...

ln 221: if snp_taxID not in samples_of_interest.keys():#Check if Genome is of interest Tracing through, looks like samples_of_interest is a dict. `snp_taxID not in samples_of_inter…

https://msorvig.github.io/qt-webassembly-examples/gui_opengl... [edit] There is also emscripten-qt. Full circle. http://vps2.etotheipiplusone.com:30176/redmine/projects/emsc...

Presumably, the AV suite would send "telemetry" and related "data" to their servers for analysis... "Microsoft Wins Appeal on Overseas Data Searches" https://www.nytimes.com/2016/0…

Eh, on the inverse... In this situation, GoDaddy, Google, et. al. are the technocratic equivalent to Kim Davis. While, I respect their right to decide what they "host" on their pla…

My hand is cramping... I volunteer to write the emacs one first. But really, this is something I dream about as a spinal disease survivor.

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had t…

Can't load on iPad with Focus filter...

Or, correctly teller.io to www.teller.io. Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11004396

The here was an EFF article that mentioned a few cases where the courts have deemed code = speech. The question now is what protections this specific instance of speech is awarded.…

> Is that why you invest in a company? > I personally am anoyed that, now, every purchase I make is a political statement. [sic] Edit: "Buffett, of course, has long centered his in…

Although agree, ...with your position, I disagree in your reasoning. Corporations are persons because they are an organized group of people established to carry out the intentions …

Maybe the principle of the law; as opposed to the letter of the law. The legislature writes, literally, thousands of bad laws and SCOTS sees a handful of edge cases. I, as an optim…

Sounds like a stack Reggie Watts would create. But then there is the node/js fronted community to one up everyone. Does your stack manage complexity, or add too it... Why is such a…

This is the study of human nature in all this that I find most amusing. For $249, there are much more straight forward and guaranteed ways to have an affair. Even if affair is not …

> You would think something like a microprocessor would have the same level of checks. Yeah, the chips themselves are easy, but some chips get programmed along the food chain at di…

Defense contractors aren't the most efficient manufacturers. Wouldn't surprise me if they shipped the vehicle from SC to Oshkosh to have the tires installed. But it was probably so…

> not this L-ATV. It looked like something out of Mad Max. It looked like it had a single seat, cockpit up high, very narrow with big wheels. Probably a Husky 2G. They are tandem t…

Yet, apparently fail to understand what constitutes speech.

There is also a bug report from a year ago. https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=381747

I have never had the "OK Google" voice search option enabled and chrome://voicesearch/ shown below. I deleted the hotword file specified as the extension path and also `rm rf` dire…