JediWing

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by JediWing 7y ago
Yeah I agreed that this call-out seemed out of place. I wouldn't even categorize it as passive aggressive. I see it as attempting to give input as to what ought to be prioritized. The intent seems positive to me as long as it's no
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by JediWing 7y ago
I think there's a bit of talking past one another here. Certainly the many Americans who have retirement plans benefit from stocks increasing, as do the very wealthy who own large shares of stocks in non-retirement earnings. However, t
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by JediWing 7y ago
> Within no time at all, I would be deliberately letting obvious bugs sail past just to avoid having to have interactions that I was finding to be increasingly mentally and emotionally taxing. This is 100% my experience. I don't do
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by JediWing 7y ago
You're focusing too much on the home assistant part, and not enough on the local control part. There are solutions with hubs such as some parts of the Wink hub that do work locally without internet. I'm sure there are professional
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by JediWing 7y ago
As someone who is perfectly happy with Home Assistant and Z-Wave, I worry that a bunch of mega corps getting together to create a standard will crowd out the market, and prevent non-local, privacy-honoring options from continuing to be manu
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by JediWing 7y ago
To an extent there is. Z-Wave and Zigbee are intended for this, and do have some commercial traction. Wink hubs use Z-Wave, Samsung SmartThings use Zigbee. There are many other branded experiences that use these underlying technologies. I m
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by JediWing 7y ago
I would think this could be simply another (probably quick) round of deliberations by the jury, not a whole other trial.
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by JediWing 7y ago
But given the current state of frivolous lawsuits, it would seem the criteria needs to be loosened and/or the enforcement stepped up.
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by JediWing 7y ago
"ambulance chaser" is a colloquial term for a reason. I've sat on a jury for 2 days on a malpractice case that had no factual basis, that relied on a tortured interpretation of medical notes. We unanimously decided the case f
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by JediWing 7y ago
If the finding of frivolity was separate from the verdict, though, it could work. Set the standard as, on a unanimous verdict for the defendant, the jury may decide the case was frivolous on the standard that "no reasonable jury would
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by JediWing 7y ago
The solution, as I see it, is to fix the misaligned incentives. A lawyer has every incentive to take a case on contingency, in the hopes that a few of them will strike gold. In doing so, the lawyer is incentivized to never turn down a case,
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by JediWing 7y ago
Know what else distorts the marketplace of ideas? Money. Money allows for buying advertisements, essentially allowing you to buy a platform to spread your ideas. Having money typically has a pretty clear bias: protecting the money of those
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by JediWing 7y ago
The problem as it's explained is that those being regulated are the ONLY ones presenting informed commentary on the issue. Surely hearing a perspective from someone striving (at the very least) to be objective rather than ONLY hearin
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by JediWing 7y ago
The point is a good one that few people realize. If your holdings are in index funds, you're forfeiting your right to vote. It's almost criminal. I don't know if a separate fund is the answer, though. Will my 401k offer Matt
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by JediWing 8y ago
Did not know about rebase with exec! I'll have to try that! Thank you for the insight.
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by JediWing 8y ago
So I have a solid mental of git, and I understand the theoretical need for the staging area. However, I find the occasions for using the staging area in practice are few and far between, for the simple reason that I can't test and exe
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by JediWing 8y ago
One detail that really bugs me about this article:How is a cellist making 81k 2013 dollars as a cellist a failure of the web? That sounds like a decent amount of success to me, for what is a pretty niche genre. Would anything other than
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by JediWing 8y ago
Lots of risk to free speech, with little benefit. Who decides the truth? All the same problems with automatic/AI approaches to fact-checking are repeated but in the legal arena. Also, I don't think it's really comparable to
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by JediWing 8y ago
Dividends are a flat 15% for earners under ~425k income, and a flat 20% for those over. This means that a stock grant with a generous dividend is a loophole for high earners...in addition to simply adding complexity and magic thresholds to
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by JediWing 8y ago
Dividends are income. It's farcical that they are not treated as such in the US tax code. I believe the point is that in the example above, someone living off their nest egg, able to do nothing, are paying less in taxes than someone st
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by JediWing 9y ago
Title: "We Are At War For A Free And Open Internet" Domain: "medium.com" Irony meter rating: off charts
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by JediWing 9y ago
Http status code 402 - payment required
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by JediWing 9y ago
> The first version of something is rarely the best version Second, actually https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articles_of_Confederation As another comment mentioned, it's arguably greater if you include subsequent
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by JediWing 9y ago
> if you give a child something he can do 2/3 of the time, he may remain engaged in the task; 1/3 of the time, he will be bored and frustrated. Ironic considering you volunteered to coach baseball, where _failing_ 2/3 of t
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by JediWing 9y ago
The battery life is excellent by all accounts, and keep in mind also that most of the reviews you find will be without the extended battery 'mod' that fits fairly well with the phone and often runs as a deal.
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by JediWing 9y ago
> The flat tax being regressive means that the poor would have to actually pay more in taxes than they do now, which is very little. That's seen as a bad thing. It is a bad thing. In low-income households, there is less disposable i
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by JediWing 10y ago
Sure, "some kind of public network", but then it can't be advertised as "Internet access" because at that point you're providing access to your public network, not access to the Internet as a whole. The issue i
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by JediWing 10y ago
Huh? The only reason you could connect "any lawful device" after 1968 was because of the FCC "Carterphone" rulemaking. In its absence, Ma Bell would have kept forced leasing of standard phones as long as possible. Perhap
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by JediWing 10y ago
Sounds like someone told an Apple exec they can't innovate their way out of a paper bag and they took it way too literally.
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by JediWing 11y ago
Nice! Could see myself using something like this for exactly one of the use cases you described: looking for houses. Found a bug: URL custom field type wasn't saving. Also, grabbing images from a URL rather than download/upload wo

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