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by 1shooner 5mo ago
Would you believe NERC? https://www.nerc.com/newsroom/nerc-issues-level-3-alert-reli...
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by 1shooner 5mo ago
I generally agree, but I don't think XML is the best example. Getting HTML out of XML is considered to have been the right move isn't it? I was pro-XHTML2 at the time but in retrospect, have we suffered much for not sending webpag
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by 1shooner 5mo ago
Also from the 414 page: >Complain to whoever gave you the bad link, and ask them to stop modifying URLs, because it’s bad manners. It's ironic that an error response so blatantly violating the robustness principle is throwing shade
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by 1shooner 5mo ago
>So I’ve decided to try a blanket ban for this site: no unauthorised query strings. His site returns (I think incorrectly) a 414 if a request includes a query string. If this protest is meant to advocate for the user, who presumably wasn
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by 1shooner 5mo ago
But you are also equivocating: >Anyone can get behaviorally addicted to anything. This disregards the broad range of observed likelihood of a behavioral addiction to a given substance, and the magnitude of negative effects of such an add
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by 1shooner 5mo ago
Is WebSub not a reasonable solution to this?
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by 1shooner 5mo ago
Do you oppose the federal highway system (or rail systems) as well?
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by 1shooner 6mo ago
This FAQ from the NASA website seemed particularly intellectually dishonest: >Why do we need astronauts to view the Moon when we have robotic observers? Human eyes and brains are highly sensitive to subtle changes in color, texture, and
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by 1shooner 6mo ago
There is nothing reasonable about the app's privacy policy.
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by 1shooner 6mo ago
Autism as a contemporary identity and autism as a DSM-V diagnosis seem to have diverged in the past few years.
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by 1shooner 6mo ago
>Calling the title misleading because they didn't breach the browser sandbox is wrong By this logic we could also say that LinkedIn scans your home network.
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by 1shooner 6mo ago
>They’ve killed dozens during the shuttle program Columbia and Challenger crew totaled 14, who else are you referring to?
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by 1shooner 7mo ago
I'm sure there is an engineering or physics reason, but why can't the occulter be an attached, smaller-diameter disc?
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by 1shooner 7mo ago
On most US highways (i.e. multi-lane limited access roads), it's customary to leave a path in the left 'passing lane' for any traffic that wants/needs to go faster than you. If cars match speeds across lanes, it impedes
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by 1shooner 7mo ago
> it is never too late to lobby against these things. Putting aside the real possibility that the ability to lobby against certain things is already actively under attack, it isn't speech alone that is being addressed, it's pol
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by 1shooner 7mo ago
I appreciate the sentiment, but this doesn't really seem to put itself in the context of the state of play at the federal level. Namely, pro-privacy states have existing legislation they want to be the 'floor' of privacy prot
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by 1shooner 7mo ago
Is this actually a broad trend, or more just your personal experience? There is very little that could get me to move back to the suburbs, but this kind of thing is compelling.
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by 1shooner 7mo ago
I'm not following you. The concern isn't that they somehow destroy the water, it's the consumption of processed water that has a limited supply. Are you saying a gallon of data center water use has less impact on supply than
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by 1shooner 7mo ago
Could you elaborate on this? Are you saying that datacenter water usage is not a significant community issue? Or that such community issues should be irrelevant to VC conversations?
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by 1shooner 7mo ago
In this case, it was in the headline of the article. I don't know how much clearer one would expect it to be.
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by 1shooner 7mo ago
This seems to be a recent anti-science meme to dismiss studies that use mouse models. I'm sure there is an interesting line of discussion about the strengths and limits of those models, but that's probably a complex, nuanced threa
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by 1shooner 7mo ago
>"I've been ticketed here twice, and it's ridiculous because they it's just not fair," one driver said who didn't want to be identified. The person that does the determination when you ran the light, it&#x27
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by 1shooner 7mo ago
Do you have a citation for said actuarial tables? I think HN is often critical of objective claims without objective references.
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by 1shooner 7mo ago
>do your taxes. Are you not using software to do your taxes?
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by 1shooner 7mo ago
I wondered how it could be considered 'controversial', but they do quote at least a couple groups speaking against it. The NSPCC for instance, who incidentally also warned parents about a Harry Potter video game because their chil
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by 1shooner 7mo ago
I wish that were the clean delineation, but Google's gonna Google: https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/10064044?sjid=1536...
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by 1shooner 7mo ago
First of all, if you don't practice any tracking limitation, you're almost certainly giving additional parties (directly or otherwise) access to your personal information. This is marketing data brokerage, this is the whole ballga
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by 1shooner 7mo ago
What would be your suggestion for monetization without ads or subscription? Or are you thinking some type of privacy-respecting ad system? Because those have definitely been tried.
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by 1shooner 7mo ago
I'm not an expert on all of Meta's historical criminal activity, but just going back a few months: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/jury-finds-meta-...
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by 1shooner 7mo ago
How are the consequences of war not germane to its necessity?

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