Jiro

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by Jiro 5y ago
No, he wrote passid upside down.
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by Jiro 5y ago
>You can argue "the user should have basic knowledge of the tools they're using". After all, if they're connecting to a WEP network, they should be aware it's not secure. >But users don't care about any o
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by Jiro 5y ago
The biggest thing the US should learn from recent wars is "do what you went there to do, then leave and don't try to engage in any nation building". And they're still around, so no, they haven't been bombed enough.
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by Jiro 5y ago
Or bomb them. (Not the ship, them.) Because when a group who rules an area is doing something that, when continued, is going to cause you serious harm and diplomatic measures have failed, that's called an act of war (or the equivalen
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by Jiro 5y ago
What it tells you about the candidate pool may be less than what it tells you about the qualifications for the position. Job requirements in the computer industry routinely include nonsensical requirements (5 years experience in something
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by Jiro 5y ago
If you can ban something for being hate speech, calling something hate speech becomes a weapon. I absolutely don't trust any of the people banning "hate speech" to not have double standards that make it easy to call anything
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by Jiro 5y ago
I had one of those on my Pebble: https://github.com/mattrossman/forecaswatch2/issues/44
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by Jiro 5y ago
If I was a plumber, and my wife was dying, and as a result I was unable to repair plumbing, I would not expect anyone to give me money to repair their plumbing, not even if I told them my wife is dying and they should be sympathetic.
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by Jiro 5y ago
I looked at Dragon Ball Z. The first two entries were for actual episodes, but of Dragon Ball Heroes, not Dragon Ball Z. The last one was for "season 5 episode 65" but was actually a thread for the most recent movie, that contai
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by Jiro 5y ago
People make decisions at the margin. What you'll actually get is that a lot of people will become a small percentage less likely to buy it. Some of those people will be driven over the edge, since they were just barely going to buy i
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by Jiro 5y ago
What I usually use Amazon for is physical media books and videos. (There's some irony there, similar to watching a music video on MTV.) Nobody counterfeits them (there are counterfeit Chinese DVDs, but I've yet to get one), and
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by Jiro 5y ago
Search at least is nearly useless, because of the sponsored results that are extremely similar visually to desired results. I've also searched for books and gotten results that weren't sponsored, but didn't fit my keywords,
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by Jiro 5y ago
Not having a SD card isn't "they rely on the community to develop the software", it's hardware. Not designing the thing to include a SD card is their own fault. And "well, if you disassemble a later model you can
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by Jiro 5y ago
>Where is the microSD card slot? The case design of the PineNote is fixed, making physical changes like adding a microSD card slot would raise the cost unreasonably. However, revisions of the PineNote motherboard after 1.1 will feature a
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by Jiro 5y ago
Big budget superhero movies are perfectly capable of failing because of bad writing and directing regardless of the CGI, and many of them have, particularly many DC movies. By your theory, Justice League should have made a fortune.
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by Jiro 5y ago
Reading this, it seems like part of the problem was the false message. If there aren't any unauthorized charges, the system shouldn't be sending people rejections falsely claiming that there are. Mistaken rejections are unavoida
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by Jiro 5y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by your reference to a free market. Patents are a government-granted monopoly, violation of which can get you fined or jailed. If a company hurts people because hurting people allows them to make money from
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by Jiro 5y ago
>The point of noting that 90% figure is not so you can come up with some sort of Bayesian probability of your getting assaulted based on population level statistics. It's quite common that people have a point when they are presentin
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by Jiro 5y ago
No, you don't understand. That's only the second half of the objection. The first half of the objection is that "most rapists are people you know" just does not imply that a person you know is more dangerous than a stra
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by Jiro 5y ago
He should be downvoted. The fact that most rapists are people you know is related to the fact that most people you encounter are people you know. It does not mean that one individual person who you know is more likely to be a rapist t
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by Jiro 5y ago
"Megacomet" is exaggeration. Chiron, which is anomalous in its own way, is of similar size.
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by Jiro 5y ago
Data that is incorrectly analyzed much of the time is still a privacy threat, and sometimes a bigger privacy threat. It's bad enough if your purchases are correlated with being a terrorist, but having your purchases sometimes incorrec
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by Jiro 5y ago
The flip side is that it's as easy to blow someone off by sneering at "just asking questions" when they either honestly don't know, or where they disagree with you but honestly think you can't answer the questions.
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by Jiro 5y ago
Incorrectly believing you'll be penalized is still the company's fault, because you're going to be penalized at some point and the company is hiding what that point is. Taking the PTO becomes a gamble. Nobody would accept
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by Jiro 5y ago
Suppose that for some reason tap water was actually completely neutral for the environment. It produced zero change in either direction. They could have headlines reading "bottled water is over 3000 million billion trillion googol tim
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by Jiro 5y ago
I don't remember where I saw it, but there's a version of that: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet .
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by Jiro 5y ago
There's also the problem that people have red-green color blindness, but not red-blue color blindness. Having the light be blue enough that color blind people can tell the difference makes sense.
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by Jiro 5y ago
I also read a partial rebuttal which amounted to "Rich people pay less because they can buy more durable boots, but they also pay more because they buy fancier boots, and the increased expense from buying fancier boots is more than the
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by Jiro 5y ago
Since there are many times more straight men than lesbians, I would expect that most people who do it would be straight men, even if lesbians were just as likely to do it as straight men on a per-capita basis.
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by Jiro 5y ago
To state the obvious, this is entirely consistent with the hypothesis that people earn more because they inherited something from their parents, but that what they inherited is cultural or genetic, rather than their parents' money. I w

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