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The first line of the article is, "Facebook launched a new product today, ..." My question is, how can this possibly be a new product? It is supposed to be a unit of time so how can it be sold?
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Rick York wrote: t is supposed to be a unit of time so how can it be sold?
They will find a way, no worries...
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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If you get paid by the hour, aren't you selling time?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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With 58 genders, I'm not surprised of the lag. Not even slightly interested in another version of the inch.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Called "wasted".
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
modified 22-Jan-18 23:23pm.
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If you can flick her at that rate, she'll never let you go.
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As part of its Hard Questions series, Facebook has decided to explore the question of whether social media is good for democracy. "A democratic *form* of government is okay, as long as it doesn't work."
Sorry if too political, I do try to keep it un-Soapbox, and this one just might go off the rails.
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I'd love to see; "After extensive exploration, Facebook has determined that social media is pretty much sh*t for all forms of government."
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I'm no fan of social media but is it really any more of an echo-chamber than traditional internet forums? Both seem to readily descend into tribalism, group-think and extremism.
Then again, the first half of the 20th century managed a very similar descent without any assistance from the internet. Maybe the problem is the message not the medium.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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PeejayAdams wrote: I'm no fan of social media but is it really any more of an echo-chamber than traditional internet forums?
Probably not, just that social media is on a much larger scale than traditional internet forums, and so have more of an impact
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It was my attempt at snark, though my statement could be considered in two ways; that it's bad, or that it's irrelevant.
I agree with you. People are self-selecting, especially with social groups, and always have been. To me, the problems aren't like-minded people gathering, but people being disrespectful and hijacking groups for their own purposes.
In 2016, I quit several Facebook groups when they were taken over by a minority of very vocal extremists. Even the most light-hearted discussions were all to often turned vitriolic by these agitators. (It strikes me that, generally, the people accusing others of group-think, are the ones preventing genuine debate over controversial issues.)
(To paraphrase someone else, somewhere else; isn't it odd that you can have two people agree on 99% of things, yet won't speak to each other because they are polar opposites on 1%.)
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The study of over 1,200 IT leaders, conducted by analysts Freeform Dynamics for software company CA Technologies, finds 58 percent of respondents cite existing culture and lack of skills as hurdles to being able to embed security within processes. So, it's management's fault? Do they know that?
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I strongly suspect the study in question framed the questions such that "cultural issues" was the only logical answer since a study with the option "Management are idiots" isn't going to be funded by, well, management.
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The Lunar Xprize is about to come to an anticlimactic end after more than a decade. I knew I forgot to do something last year
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Agile software development. Death March projects. And now: Agile software development and Death March projects in the same sentence. Pretty scary, eh? It's like a regular death march, but every sprint
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The timelines are always unrealistic, and the business team always says "yes, we can do 6 months of work in one month." --> thus the death march.
This has nothing to do with Agile. Everything to do with project negotiations and unrealistic RFP's.
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Ah, memories...
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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Researchers at the University of Nottingham's Institute for Aerospace Technology (IAT), together with academic staff from the Bioengineering and Human Factors Research Groups, have demonstrated that facial temperatures, which can be easily measured using a non-invasive thermal camera, are strongly correlated to mental workload. Cold nose, warm heart?
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Linux guru complains about approach to patching the chip flaw. "Old Man Yells at Cloud"
But in this case, he's not wrong.
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Intel has a patching problem. All last week, users reported computers spontaneously rebooting after installing Intel’s Spectre/Meltdown patch. Now, Intel seems to be giving up on those patches entirely. Quailty is Job None
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Digital Music News reports that Apple, the company that was key in legitimizing downloaded music with its iTunes service, is set to kill it off. "Just take those old records off the shelf"
It's not as silly as the headline makes it sound. Kind of.
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I haven't bought a CD in at least 8 years or so; I don't have anything to play them anyway; and most of the time I only put them in the CD player of my PC to rip them up to MP3.
I haven't bought a digital download in at least 2 years (since I registered Apple Music).
One good thing is that I listen to a lot of new music every week; and since I can download them, I can listen to them without network.
One bad thing is that I cannot use the downloaded files in Traktor (DJ software).
I'd rather be phishing!
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"When was the last time you downloaded an MP3?"
Last week. Since then, I've queued up another four or five on Amazon, which I'll buy and download in the next week or so.
At Christmas, I downloaded three obscure albums for my youngest daughter's Christmas present. I had to install iTunes for one since I couldn't find it anywhere else.
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Meh, I still like buying a CD, ripping it MP3. The streaming services are awesome, but decent WIFI isn't always practical.
In my truck or the garage, I never have to listen to a DJ! 
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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As the Sun ages and sheds mass, the gravitational pull it exerts on its planets weakens. The sky isn't falling, but we are
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