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Did they really just try to define "amount pledged" as different from "amount the end user actually pays" so they can say "well now you always get 95% of amount pledged" but, of course, not 95% of what the user paid. Seems like a bad experience for the user that wants to pledge X and gets charged X+fees. At least the people who are getting paid are used to Patreon taking a cut.

Probably, the first thing I thought about when I saw this was WiSee ("Whole-home gesture recognition using wireless signals"), which is also from UW: http://wisee.cs.washington.edu/

Is it possible Credit Karma shows self-reported "monthly income" statements you have made when applying for credit?

Unless Jekyll has changed a lot, using themes is a major pain. Since Jekyll doesn't enforce any particular structure, there's no way to have drop-in themes. Using a new theme is really about cloning a theme and then re-writing your site to hopefully make use of it. Or pick at bits and pieces you like and make your own custom theme.

Like this? https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/09/coca-cola-funds-sc...

What sites would you list for conservative then? Also drudge is just an aggregator/curator, they don't publish anything.

You could try TDD katas (see http://osherove.com/tdd-kata-1/ for a starting point). For me, the value in this practice is becoming hyper-proficient with your chosen development environment, not neccesarily learning TDD well. TDD is just a good problem domain that enforces the rest. I think of it in terms of "mechanics" practice. How quickly can you add a new file to your project? How quickly can you integrate it into your workflow? Do you have a tightly focused write/run/debug loop? Are you proficient with keyboard shortcuts and templates or whatever else will accelerate your speed. It's about being able to keep up with your mind when you get into flow and are ready to crank out code.

I was wondering if I was the only one who thought the book was terrible. Once I made it past the first third (it was tough, but I didn't pay for the book so I just read it on my phone when I was bored) I was able to enjoy it for what it was.. mediocre fanfiction.

I guess what I was trying to say, in general, was that since SC2 required less micromanagement of your macro (auto-harvesting, etc), players had more free time to spend on unit tactics.

In GSL season 2, MarineKing showed that stimmed marines could counter banelings. Then the rest of the playerbase quickly adapted his tactics.

At MLG Anaheim (2013), the SlayerS terrans (ie multiple members of the SlayerS team) placed 2nd, 3rd, and 4th and destroyed all zergs with their blue flame hellion play.

Those are just two examples of the sorts of tactics that once discovered are quickly assimilated into the metagame and quickly go from innovative to standard play. So my hope was that AI could speed up the pace of tactical innovation.

Yes, very nitpicky. MarineKingPrime didn't invent marine micro but he was known for it/popularized in the early GSL seasons before it became a standard tactic. SlayerS (the team) dominated MLG Anaheim with blue flame hellions and basically caused them to get nerfed if I recall.

The API Blizzard is exposing is really nice. Sadly most of the advantages AI had in SC1 were just due to the fact that an automated process could micro-manage the tasks the game didn't automate for you (a lot of boring, repetitive work). SC2 got rid of a lot of that while still allowing room for innovative and overpowered tactics to be discovered (MarineKing's insane marine micro, SlayerS killing everyone with blue flame hellions, some more recent stuff I'm sure from the newest expansions). Hopefully the API lets AIs converge on optimal resource management and get to exploring new and innovative timings, transitions, army makeups, etc.

Ok, not democratic in that each person doesn't have an equal voice, but democratic in that anyone could buy some twitter botnet time and get their own message out.

Distribution of propaganda by bots is at least sort-of democratic. I wish there was more analysis of the automated suppression of news by the various platforms (twitter, facebook et al).

NFL players are probably compensated the worst out of the 4 major US sports. That's just in terms of what they get paid and doesn't even look at the total package of the risk they expose themselves to in terms of chronic injury, painkiller addiction, etc.

> This is ridiculous because it lumps refined sugars in the same category as nutritious vegetables.

It doesn't, though. Low carb diets focus on net carbs, which is carbs minus dietary fiber, and guess what: nutritious vegetables have a lot of dietary fiber and a lot fewer carbohydrates than refined sugar products.

An optimal low carb diet is mostly protein, vegetables and greens (especially nutrient dense ones like kale, spinach, collard greens, etc). It seems like your brother-in-law was just ill-informed about his diet.

As far as a meat-centered goes, protein is the only absolutely essential macronutrient. You can live without fat and/or carbohydrates, assuming you get your other micronutrients (vitamins, electrolytes, etc). You cannot live without protein.

It's a useful product. I'm actually surprised that the state of Stack Overflow clones isn't better. Although much of the value of SO comes from its knowledge base, the UI and organization and administration is nice to have pre-built. When I was looking around the top choices among open source/free were askbot (https://github.com/ASKBOT/askbot-devel) and osqa (https://github.com/dzone/osqa). There was also a plug-in for Confluence (Questions) and Answerhub (seemed to be the pro/paid version of OSQA). But none of them were as nice as stack overflow, which was surprising to me.

Yes, this is the major issue. Authors also can sell their extension, then re-publish their own non-malwared version as an alternative, then just keep doing it over and over again.

I wrote some scripts to provide version pinning (just automates the manual editing of the manifests) but then you have to consider critical vulnerabilities in things like the LastPass extension where you absolutely want updates ASAP. So then you either have to have a curated extension list or maybe just separate extensions into "trusted" ie provided by reputable businesses as part of their product (lastpass, okta, etc) and "un-trusted." Even then, if the malware isn't in your face, you have no idea if the pinned version of your un-trusted extensions is actually non-malicious without auditing the code.

Amazon has no ethics, so I don't know why you think it would be an issue..

Don't you get a lot of "are you a bot?" captchas (or just outright bans) from google / cloudflare / others? Happens to me with AWS.

For those who want to try and disable their ME: https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner

It's amusing to see owners of disinformation platforms lose control of their content. They are put in the losing position of always playing catch-up to censor information which is often a pointless endeavor since by the time they catch up the mob's attention has moved on (but sometimes they can stop kill movements in their infancy). This is just the first wave, though. Newer platforms will be even more heavily AI-censored and manipulated; hopefully adversarial / chaos content keeps slipping through.

You could share the pre-trained models that take tons and tons of data and compute time to generate? The models themselves are abstract enough to be considered anonymous, by their very nature.. I think.

Hopefully Mycroft (or similar open-source alternatives) can provide the benefits without all the privacy / behavioral modification downsides. But I fear open source products like this will always languish behind commercial offerings. Makes me think that the democratization of AI is very important in this regard (you shouldn't have to sell your soul to get good speech recognition, etc).

Sports franchise values are increasing, in general, because they're artificially limited in number (there are only 32 NFL teams) and specifically because of (a) increased rights fees, (b) rising value of local broadcast deals, especially in large markets like LA and NY and (c) taxpayer-subsidized stadiums. At the same time, there's more competition than ever for the national broadcast deals which is why ESPN had to overpay for its NFL and NBA deals. And those broadcasting rights keep decreasing in value as each league gets to sell its product multiple times (for the NFL there are games on broadcast networks, ESPN, streaming-only games, NFL network games, Sunday Ticket, and RedZone). ESPN is in a bad spot since they have to have NFL games, because even though their Sunday Night Football deal only lets them air one (usually terrible) game a week, it means they get to fill their network the rest of the time with NFL highlight / analysis shows.

Dealing with legacy code.

What's wrong with strong config and deploy primitives + containers?

Is it stupidity to think that twitter wouldn't try to monetize itelf by selling "reputation management services" to corporate customers? I guess one can get away with a lot of malice if they just affect the outward appearance of stupidity.

Some do

You should check out Jodoorowsky's Dune if you haven't - a documentary about an unsuccessful attempt to make a Dune movie in the 1970s.

Put it where it will have the most impact / get adopted, then that can cultivate a desire to have it for other browsers, and someone may get motivated to write those versions.