FrancoDiaz

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by FrancoDiaz 10y ago
The fact that Obamacare was mandatory meant it had to go. Obamacare was really a fascist's wet dream and why the insurance companies ended up being pretty giddy about it. Good riddance!
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by FrancoDiaz 10y ago
If I'm interested in a position, that's one of the first things I ask about. If they're open and don't have alternative accommodations for people that despise open office, I just pass.
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by FrancoDiaz 10y ago
You know my point, you just don't like it. It's far from a stretch of the imagination to see a future where the government essentially has a kill-switch for most roads.
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by FrancoDiaz 10y ago
And banning self-driving also is a convenient way for totalitarians to control the movement of the population. Of course we never hear about that around here.
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by FrancoDiaz 10y ago
Yes, there is objection to that. There's plenty of legitimate reasons to have a large knife in a public place..obviously. There's only a risk of killing people unless you're ISIS or a psychopath. Do we ban everything becaus
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by FrancoDiaz 10y ago
If you want to drive 100mph, you need to either go to a track or go to the Autobahn. Obviously you don't have to go to those places.
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by FrancoDiaz 10y ago
It's a common myth that Adkins died of his own diet. And there was a whole bunch of nutritionists, doctors, "advocates" that went after him after he was six feet under. I'd like to see those prominent people that went
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by FrancoDiaz 10y ago
You're choosing your own doctor, right? Do you just blindly take whatever the doctor prescribes to you without doing your own research? How do you know your doctor is an expert? I'm pretty sure my doctor is not an expert in lots
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by FrancoDiaz 10y ago
The problem with this is that the average consumer is both A) dumb, and B) doesn't know what they need. Unfortunately, a significant number of bureaucrats and statists would prefer consumers to be dumb (or at least say that they are
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by FrancoDiaz 10y ago
“It is certainly something that, before legalization, we almost never saw,” Heard said. “Now we are seeing it quite frequently.” Something doesn't seem right with that statement. Is the increase in usage because of legalization so d
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by FrancoDiaz 10y ago
I work from home now and love it. I'm not saying I won't ever go back to an office, but I absolutely never will work in open office again.
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by FrancoDiaz 10y ago
I trust the German government's ability to declare an objective truth that we can all use to make decisions a lot more than I trust Mark Zuckerberg, at this point. You shouldn't be trusting either.
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by FrancoDiaz 10y ago
The German government? Hah.
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by FrancoDiaz 10y ago
And I hope Facebook fights back with everything it's got if Germany goes through with this. I know why politicians don't care about the consequences of such actions, but I'm always surprised of the support here on HN for such
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by FrancoDiaz 10y ago
I don't have a citation, but I think the CATO institute put it at 7 felonies a day.
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by FrancoDiaz 10y ago
When Eric Schmidt said "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place," this is pretty much what he was talking about. Pretty sure he regrets saying that i
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by FrancoDiaz 10y ago
Put more bluntly: Whenever you take a long haul flight you directly rob a child in Africa from using fossil fuels to better his or her life. Do you really believe this stuff? Or does it just make you feel good because it shows you care?
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by FrancoDiaz 10y ago
Remember downtown Minneapolis being like that for obvious reasons. I think a lot of people in the Minneapolis area have heated garages so essentially you can park in a garage downtown, walk around the skywalks between the downtown skyscrape
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by FrancoDiaz 10y ago
Definitely, as well as being able to eventually differentiate between mom, dad, and the kids.
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by FrancoDiaz 10y ago
I deleted my other reply to you. I understand the difference now. It's about the actual voice vs the query text.
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by FrancoDiaz 10y ago
So we know that they have a record of every query that Alexa has detected. I'm guessing what you're questioning is whether they're storing the actual voices so that they can differentiate between different people that have q
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by FrancoDiaz 10y ago
I'm far from an environmentalist extremist, but at some point in time, increasing population density is going to be the only option.
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by FrancoDiaz 10y ago
Wait a minute, we'd already know if Alexa was recording everything by the network traffic that obviously has already been sniffed. We can assume that Amazon is storing every "Alex,..." query that you've ever done. So
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by FrancoDiaz 10y ago
Yep, I'm amazed at myself on how much privacy I've given up for convenience from 10 years ago. As long as you know the trade-offs... I've started smart-devicing my home and a little wary about that, not from a privacy perspe
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by FrancoDiaz 10y ago
I do a lot of front-end development these days, but I still feel that my CSS skills are weak. CSS is (for whatever reason) hard for me. Does anybody have any CSS learning resources that have exercises? There's plenty of books out th
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by FrancoDiaz 10y ago
Good stuff. I did notice that the normalize.css of Skeleton hadn't been updated since 2014. Is there a more update version of "normalize" out there, or is it still pretty much apropos today?
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by FrancoDiaz 10y ago
The world would call us out for aggressive retaliation here, and rightly so. "The World" would not. I don't know what people think they gain by using the term "the world".
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by FrancoDiaz 10y ago
I feel that the younger generation has very little to no feelings of prejudice towards ethnic or sexual groups. That's only two forms of discrimination. Everybody discriminates.
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by FrancoDiaz 10y ago
The vast majority of zoning laws are done at the local level. You'd actually be better off running for mayor of some city. It's much better to do what you're proposing at a local level anyway.
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by FrancoDiaz 10y ago
You seem to have many misunderstandings on the power that Governors have. Real life isn't Simcity.

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