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Re:1,000 True Fans (2008) on Sunday October 27, 2019 @03:04PM (#21371705)
Wildbow could be probably be monetizing a lot more than he is right now.
It's hard to tell whether you're presenting this as worse or better than the current situation.
Perhaps Tarsnap
The C&D letter mentioned in the post probably already alerted them.
> the only reason

This is an extraordinary claim.

Re:San Francisco’s Slow-Motion Suicide on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @10:15AM (#19614859)
Your examples are more than 2000 years old.
A single six-episode season is going to tip the balance?
Re:Ethereum is Doomed (2016) on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @02:09PM (#18913907)
I don't know why this is downvoted, it's completely accurate. Source: [0]

[0]: twitter.com/vitalikbuterin/status/1051160932699770882

Is there any public info on the numbers for Google and Apple?
There aren't very many axes along which >5% of the population actively try to improve themselves. This makes it easy to reach the top 5% if one is trying.
Re:Chess World Championship: Stockfish live-analyzing game 7 on Sunday November 18, 2018 @03:24PM (#18482338)
Exactly 0.00 can also mean that the engine has no idea what's going on.
My heuristic is that anything co-written by Gentry Lee is not worth my time.
The final reveal was mind-numbingly bad.
I think it's the prequel, A Deepness in the Sky. I thought A Fire Upon the Deep had even cooler concepts though.
Re:Where in the World Is Larry Page? on Thursday September 13, 2018 @10:22AM (#17978798)
They did seem to find Sandberg acceptable.
This seems orthogonal to the topic under discussion though. I don't believe GP was saying the publications are perfect.
This seems orthogonal to the parent comment.
Re:Find and list all your Twitter mutuals on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @02:18PM (#17500774)
Someone that you follow and also follows you.
Which part?
By continuing a security-first mindset that they've been establishing for decades?
Google is, after all, a company famously hurting for business and business prospects.
Re:We don’t need nearly as much protein as we consume on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @06:35PM (#17139055)
Food tends to have some nice micronutrients that supplements lack. There's probably nothing wrong with adding supplements to a diet that is otherwise complete.
Re:Alexa and Siri Can Hear Hidden Commands on Thursday May 10, 2018 @05:18PM (#17043054)
> So, security by obscurity?

Obscurity is a perfectly valid layer in a security system. It's just not sufficient as the primary security mechanism.

Manhattan has a hard natural geographic limitation. Most other parts of the city aren't nearly as bad.
Re:Why Do Fantasy Novels Have So Much Food? on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @03:25AM (#16856253)
I'll check it out. I'll also mention the (prose) web serial Worm, because it has many of the same qualities.
Re:Why Do Fantasy Novels Have So Much Food? on Monday April 16, 2018 @04:21PM (#16852354)
I'm making my way through Wheel of Time right now. There probably could've been two fewer books if the descriptions of food and female characters' breasts were edited down.
Re:Protecting Security Researchers on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @02:54PM (#16641212)
I don't know of any company that publicly advertises the bonuses they give (if any) to employees for finding vulnerabilities in their own software. That seems more like part of someone's job description.
Seems fine to me when "Reserve" is, as in this case, a proper noun.
Re:Bill Gates says crypto-currencies cause deaths on Thursday March 01, 2018 @10:30AM (#16492716)
How many deaths has Windows "caused", through military uses etc.? How about PowerPoint?

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