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The "your parents" are only harmed if the public benefit from taxes don't offset the benefit that is received directly in the funding of the 401k or other relevant investment accounts.

In America anyway, the wealthiest 1% own 53% of the stock market. I highly doubt that the "your parents" would benefit more from funding of their investment accounts than they would benefit from the tax revenue generated. Of course my assumption is highly dependent on public policy.

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After hovering around record lows for much of the pandemic, consumer delinquencies are rising across the industry.

It lost slightly more than $1 billion in 2021 and $783 million in 2020, after accounting for operating expenses and money set aside to cover possible losses on loans

That seems like an enormous amount of money to support buy now and pay later

Flight information provided to the FAA is considered public information. This is funded with taxpayer money, and is not privy to privacy.

I've got a few smart switches that adjust the lights at a specific time in the evening. It really helps my children transition into the evening routine. It also helps me not lose track of time so I can keep that evening routine.

Avoid NULL 11 years ago

In the last example, wouldn't a Singleton to represent a null student be more effective since you could do a check for the null student by reference?

Why are you saying this? There is literally no mention of social media in this article. The data (at least from the original project) is mined from publicly available data, which could be social media data, but that data has to be made public in the first place.

It is possible that the "Research Grade" version of the program does use that data, but there is no evidence of that here.

It's quite ironic that Apple is setting a precedent for the intolerance of any symbol of slavery while they are knowingly supporting manufacturing which utilizes child labor, which is often forced labor. The epitome of hypocrisy which hopefully leads Apple to change.

Careful. Don't miss the precedent to the "every planet could have a drink". It all hinges on "if the solar system’s formation was typical", which is a question that has not been answered.

Also, why don't they address the implications if the solar system's formation was not typical?

Something really cool about this approach is the marching squares algorithm is highly parallelizable which would make this a good candidate for GPU acceleration provided that there is enough memory.

That's more of an ideal, not really an achievable goal. How does Google measure the diversity of its users? How does Google measure the quality of their service to each people group? Does this mean Google's ideal workforce would be a near 1:1 mapping of employees to the general user population?

You are confusing "accepting" with "respecting". These are not the same thing. For example: I can accept a view I don't respect. To avoid a straw man, you should state your phrases unequivocally.

This is a red herring for I was not talking specifically. My main point was "a person and lifestyle are NOT the same thing" regarding the negative attitudes in the wikipedia definition of "homophobia".

The problem with the word "homophobia" is that it tells us almost nothing about a person. Not only does it include people who have negative attitudes toward the people, it also includes people who have a negative attitude towards homosexuality. There is a major difference here: a person and lifestyle are NOT the same thing.

Someone who does not like homosexuality can have a positive attitude toward homosexuals. The Wikipedia definition of "homophobia" is just a straw man fallacy waiting to happen.

While this algorithm could suffer from a large false positive problem, that issue could also work to his advantage when implemented as a "find similar images to this", which was addressed later in the article.

The non-minified source is pretty self-explanatory. It modifies a lot of the standard javascript functions. My favorite is the document.write(element) is modified to surround the element with <marquee> and <blink> tags and then write that to the DOM.