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Re:How to find hidden cameras (2002) [pdf] on Thursday February 15, 2018 @09:23AM (#16384151)
Cameras are getting so small and with such a good resolution that the safest thing to do is to assume that you are being recorded the 100% of your time. Again, privacy is a thing of the past. I am sorry George https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox-shlDXKO4
Re:Inside Amazon Go on Sunday January 21, 2018 @03:45PM (#16199915)
>Seems like the total investment in this store/technology is probably in the single digit digit millions (or maybe low double digit).

It was much more than that. They bought Whole Foods which was worth 13 billion.

Re:Burn the Programmer on Friday November 10, 2017 @12:16PM (#15671323)
We have found the grumpy wizard
Re:108 F-35s Will Not Be Combat Capable on Monday October 30, 2017 @09:49AM (#15584949)
Wars are not only won by dropping missiles but by intimidating the enemy.
Re:Overweight and obesity are linked to cancer on Saturday October 07, 2017 @05:05PM (#15425700)
> Also, unless you are training for the Olympics, you do not need to linearly scale your food intake in proportion to your exercise.

Lets assume that you are. Would that mean you will die earlier? Does that mean that the more exercise you do the earlier you die?

Re:Overweight and obesity are linked to cancer on Saturday October 07, 2017 @04:30PM (#15425540)
The more exercise you do the more you have to eat to maintain your body. If you are following a healthy diet you will need to increase even more your total amount of food due the fact that generally healthy food has less calories. Also, there is nothing more stressful for the body than exercise.
Re:Overweight and obesity are linked to cancer on Saturday October 07, 2017 @02:10PM (#15424894)
But that would mean a direct relationship between physical exercise and death, which I believe is not the case.
Re:Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js on Saturday September 23, 2017 @10:29AM (#15319883)
They changed the patents to MIT now. FB can't sue anyone anymore for that reason.
Re:Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js on Saturday September 23, 2017 @04:31AM (#15318801)
Why wouldn't they?
Anyone else thinks this is just a Rotten Tomatoes publicity campaign?
Re:Ask HN: Why continue to use Firefox? on Saturday September 09, 2017 @12:58PM (#15207894)
Scrachtpad is awesome for prototyping. It has Vim keymap support.
Re:We Need to Nationalise Google, Facebook and Amazon on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @09:15AM (#15131838)
If you nationalise Google and Amazon, say good bye to innovation.
Everyone seems to agree that only the best should be hired. But may I ask isn't that a form of discrimination as well?. Being the best in an intelectual activity such as programming is highly corelated with the level of intelligence of an individual. No matter how hard you try if your IQ is below 80 you will never enter in Google. I even dare to say that even if you are in the normal range of intelligene your chances of entering in Google are still very low. Isn't intelligence a biological attribute in the same way of the color of the skin or a gender?. Who decided its own IQ level before they were born?.
Re:Big brother is here, and his name is Facebook on Saturday August 12, 2017 @06:33PM (#15000411)
We have to be careful with the 'evil' thing. The fact that they are not 'evil' now does not mean that in the future they will not. People retire, companies evolve, the information stays.
Re:A note on programmer salaries on Friday August 11, 2017 @04:05AM (#14987556)
May I ask how much are you making?
I wouldn't mind dying of old age inside a space ship. As long as I have internet connection / computer / private room, I am all good.
Re:Designing Zachtronics' TIS-100 (2015) on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @05:30PM (#14973834)
Yep, agree. My record so far is creating a bunch of crap.