Rotten194

I used a mail order prescription service for a while (ExpressScripts). It was awful. They routinely lost, failed to ship, or double-shipped packages, and I got multiple bottles of pills that had expired due to being left in the heat. I, personally, will never trust mail order prescriptions again.

Do you sincerely believe that us dropping bombs in the middle east is "protecting American lives"? If anything, it's spawned a whole generation of terrorists who hate the US for destroying their country.

The best way to protect Americans would be for our country to get out of expensive, overseas wars and invest that money in healthcare and ending the drug war, things that actually kill Americans in large numbers.

The point of 911 is to have emergency responders come to your location. If you don't want emergency responders to come to your location, you shouldn't be calling 911, full stop.

maybe apple could actually pay taxes and those could be used for the same benefit ;)

- tons of unique content on Youtube

- every Blogger blog

- every website hosted on Google's cloud (quite a few) or using Google DNS

- lots of unique Android apps that arent available on iOS because the barrier to entry is higher

- emailing anyone with an @gmail address

- working at any company using GApps

etc.etc.

Because they changed the title in response, so it's irrelevant.

Do you think Netflix gets internet access for free?? They pay for their bandwidth fair and square like everyone else.

Owning a house is an intergenerational investment -- your kids can sell it and make a tidy unearned profit on what you spent, or live in it and pocket that amount of money in not having to pay for another living arrangement. It contributes to the high IGE of the US the author was talking about.

I went through this up to where it actually asked for Ether -- is it real? Have people actually bought it?

Regardless, this is art.

How does it do that? Do browsers set a flag? That seems like a privacy hole.

The arguments here don't really make sense.

The author says that a constant lookup table is extra implementation complexity while also saying it's simple and something every programmer should have done as an educational exercise. Considering the density of browser specifications, talking about symbolic constants as feature bloat is some serious windmill-tilting.

They then say that named constants make code harder to understand -- which is obviously an opinion, but one that goes against almost all standard practice. The benefits of naming constants and avoiding magic numbers are well documented, I think. Yes people can go overboard with this, but the solution isn't to not have named constants as an option at all.

The kicker I think is the sheer popularity of CSS preprocessors. When people are compiling to something you designed as an end-user interface, you've failed.

The problem with CSS variables isn't the concept, its that --this-syntax is ugly and unreadable af (admittedly bikeshedding here).

Most journalists don't have a technical background and don't know how Unicode works. Plus round-tripping through 7bit ASCII is lossy to characters you may want to keep (accented loanwords / names, non-english text) and doesnt prevent all the attacks in the article (providing text with slightly different spellings / word orders / etc). 7bit ASCII also has invisible control characters of its own in the 0x0 - 0xF1 range...

>helps you convert your google slides into animated jeff

What are you talking about? Lower class people are only able to afford grad school because of tuition waivers. By taxing them as income, only people who are able to pay out of pocket will have access to postsecondary degrees that grant higher incomes.

The Hagia Sophia was completed in just 5 years and "Earthquakes in August 553 and on 14 December 557 caused cracks in the main dome and eastern half-dome. The main dome collapsed completely during a subsequent earthquake on 7 May 558,[21] destroying the ambon, altar, and ciborium. The collapse was due mainly to the unfeasibly high bearing load and to the enormous shear load of the dome, which was too flat.[18] These caused the deformation of the piers which sustained the dome.[18] The emperor ordered an immediate restoration. He entrusted it to Isidorus the Younger, nephew of Isidore of Miletus, who used lighter materials and elevated the dome by "30 feet"[18] (about 6.25 meters or 20.5 feet)[clarification needed] – giving the building its current interior height of 55.6 meters (182 ft).[22] Moreover, Isidorus changed the dome type, erecting a ribbed dome with pendentives, whose diameter lay between 32.7 and 33.5 m.[18] Under Justinian's orders, eight Corinthian columns were disassembled from Baalbek, Lebanon, and shipped to Constantinople around 560.[23] This reconstruction, giving the church its present 6th-century form, was completed in 562."

Only $100k? They really should have tried for more... not that I support stealing PII.

Do you really not think that only allowing certain races to rent houses isn't racist? Please google redlining.

Seamless singleplayer / multiplayer is an orthagonal problem to P2P network architectures, though. You can have one without the other.

It's very frustrating if you keep your programming projects backed up through Dropbox, and want to back up the code but not gigabytes of node_modules and python virtualenvs. Not that Dropbox has any incentive to make it easier to use less space...

Their point was to not run mission-critical API traffic on those domains, which seems reasonable.

I'm just imagining opening the door and getting a 10 second long 2000wpm recording of someone reading the TaC.

On my phone the body only takes up about 50% of my screen width. Probably a bug?

Maybe self-driving car vision systems? I'm not sure if this is how they're actually implemented, but it would make sense to me.

unless the images were a screenshot of each frame of the episode, how exactly they were used doesn't matter for the cited clause of fair use. in what way could a small number of screenshots ever be a substitute for an episode of a tv show?

But ensuring correct datasets is a problem that people new to machine learning have to be made aware of. It's easy for people to see that NNs are good with 'noisy' data and incorrectly assume they can throw any data at it and get good results. And I think the quote is a false dilemma -- its not like we can't have multiple different stories for different problems. Make up / find a "truthy" story to spread for misoptimized utility functions if one doesn't exist, but there's no need to kill this useful story in the process.

I get the author's feelings about why we shouldn't tell this story, but I still disagree. It's a pithy, funny example of GIGO in machine learning. People could read conclusions about the abilities of neural networks from the story, but they're wrong to do so -- it's a PEBKAC error, not a technology one. "Truthy" cautionary tales are a near-universal feature of human cultures -- why shouldn't machine learning have some?

Oh yikes, I didn't recognize her. That's even worse.

FWIW, I found the original post on the Wayback Machine and it's pretty gross: http://i.imgur.com/NYJiQXc.jpg (I pixelated the face, was fully in view before)

Taking someone's Tinder picture and sharing it on the internet to mock them is harassment (especially nowadays when software can take a person's face and look up their social media profiles). Say what you will about free speech, but this isn't a hill I particularly care about dying on.

It wouldn't.

what's wrong with snopes?