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by D13Fd 4y ago
Wow I don’t agree at all. I use the flashlight all of the time, and I rarely if ever activate it accidentally. I actually used to hit it accidentally more often when it was a 3D touch button rather than a delay-based button.
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by D13Fd 4y ago
I used to love taking the bus when I lived a block away from a major bus line. It took maybe 25-50% longer overall but I could actually use that time rather than driving and sitting in rush hour traffic. Honestly I’m not sure why anyone is
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by D13Fd 4y ago
I think the better way to put it is that very few people care about faceless credit card companies or banks knowing what they are buying, or about the government having subpoena access to those records. That's very different from not c
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by D13Fd 4y ago
Having an opinion and applying it to a situation doesn't make you "biased."
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by D13Fd 4y ago
> If "web2" hadn't shut off its own users from any semblance of ownership in the platforms What are you talking about?
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by D13Fd 4y ago
This is a good one. Same with daycares. It used to be that the teachers would tell us if we needed to actually do something or bring something in. Now, our kids miss out on school events because they are buried in single lines in one of the
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by D13Fd 4y ago
Are you talking about its effects on you or on society in general? I feel it doesn't affect me directly since I don't use it (at least, not of the Facebook/Twitter variety). But I think it definitely contributes to polarizati
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by D13Fd 4y ago
Have you tried digital ear thermometers? They work well enough for us, just based on the seeming consistency between "forehead feels hot" and "thermometer found a fever."
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by D13Fd 4y ago
Benjamin Franklin said, paraphrasing William Blackstone, that “it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer.” I feel like society chucks that principal out of the window as soon as children are
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by D13Fd 4y ago
> everything fails eventually I don’t think this is true. I’ve been using a folder full of text files for 10+ years now and still use it basically the same way I did when I started (now with Ulysses rather than NValt, but few technique c
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by D13Fd 4y ago
It sounds like you didn’t read the article. The discussion of slavery is just brief context for the majority of the article, which is about the post-slavery period.
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by D13Fd 4y ago
I feel like so much has moved to Discord. That’s great for immediacy and back-and-fourth interaction but it puts all of that information that used to be Google searchable into a black hole of Discord searches.
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by D13Fd 4y ago
Politicians have been doing their best to improve the economy for a very long time. If we have to wait for them to succeed before we take action on climate change, then we are never taking action on climate change.
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by D13Fd 4y ago
Wow. I lost much less than that, a bit more than 20 lbs, in the last 2 months and it feels like a big change to me. My old clothes fit again and I don’t snore as much. It’s different for everyone I guess.
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by D13Fd 4y ago
> I still remember the times when computers for private usage didn't have fans yet. What time was that? I remember fans going waaaay back, at least to the 386 days. Maybe the 286 days.
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by D13Fd 4y ago
> The bar exam and law school have different purposes. A law school teaches the laws of the entire country. A bar exam tests the law of the specific state. While many laws are similar, they're not the same, and the differences matte
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by D13Fd 4y ago
It's literally painful to do an essay exam on pen and paper. Only part of the exam is an essay exam, but modern law is going to be practiced on a computer, and it makes sense for the test to be administered on a computer. (if only they
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by D13Fd 4y ago
> But even ordinary people (much less corporations) rely on law school pedigree as a signal for competence and quality. This isn't that different from any other profession though. A doctor, professor, or engineer from Harvard or Sta
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by D13Fd 4y ago
Examsoft sucks. They are a horrible pain to deal with, they are entrenched in their market, and they have no fear of imposing ridiculous requirements on their users (e.g. bar exam takers) because their users aren't their customers. The
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by D13Fd 4y ago
What kind of law do you practice? In my view every litigator has to be ready to go to trial. I guess if you are going to be a contract document review attorney or something then maybe the bar is overkill in some ways. But I would argue that
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by D13Fd 4y ago
What you have to do to pass the bar, even now, is extremely basic by lawyer standards. It's the floor. It is not like a programming whiteboard interview. It's a test that you study for, learning basic legal concepts, and knowing e
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by D13Fd 4y ago
Who is going to run all the little dams and turbines, though? And how would it ever be cost effective to do so? There is so much maintenance on small lakes that don’t even have a turbine (mainly dealing with silt, which accumulates steadily
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by D13Fd 4y ago
Maybe if you want to heat a subset of rooms for the cost of heating the whole house. Electric heaters are extremely expensive to run relative to gas or heat pumps. Heat pumps are great and extremely efficient, but not they are as hard to in
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by D13Fd 4y ago
Do you think republicans planned Trump’s candidacy in advance? Because that certainly wasn’t what it looked like at the time.
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by D13Fd 4y ago
Depends where you are I guess. Plenty of people on the east coast, or at least in my area, seem to think his presidency is exactly what it said on the tin: basically unobjectionable, albeit kind of annoying. Hard not to vote for that when t
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by D13Fd 4y ago
To my knowledge Steam/Valve is in the business of selling games, not monetizing my personal info by selling it to third parties.
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by D13Fd 4y ago
Delaware sets the gold standard on corporate law, and has a special courts of law and equity (the CCLD division and the Court of Chancery) that are set up to handle high-value corporate matters. I don’t think most American judges are suscep
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by D13Fd 4y ago
I'm still disappointed that Facebook bought Oculus. I was a big Oculus Rift user, but I switched to a Valve Index when Facebook got involved. I don't want Facebook monetizing my data and my gaming life. It sucks because the Valve
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by D13Fd 4y ago
That doesn’t seem right, or I’m missing something. If I dam a stream and create a 12’ diameter pool, but the incoming water flows over the spillway, that’s a lake?
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by D13Fd 4y ago
I saw that, nothing there says that cold climates are easier.

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