Kadin

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601.
by Kadin 12y ago
The problem, of course, is that the courts have struck down similar (actually, less restrictive) laws. So it doesn't seem as though there is any path that would lead us to that from where we currently stand.
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by Kadin 12y ago
Agreed. To expand: The "excess baggage" argument being made in the article dates back decades, to the earliest RISC vs. CISC days, and within the Mac ecosystem that argument ended when Apple ditched PowerPC and went to x86. Back
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by Kadin 12y ago
I think that it would be more likely that they'd just drop OS X in that scenario, and just have a beefed-up version of iOS with better keyboard and touchpad support. The number of users who would actually benefit from OS X vs iOS, but
604.
by Kadin 12y ago
Statically-rendered websites (Jekyll, Blosxom, etc.) would work fine. Though having a weird port number on a blog URL would probably cause me to think twice before clicking on it, at least from a bare-metal Windows machine; it makes me thin
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by Kadin 12y ago
Is there a good way to mount an encrypted 7z archive as a filesystem, for interactive usage? That was the advantage of TrueCrypt, IMO. Not for FDE (I'm not a huge fan of FDE anyway), but because it created an interactive partition rat
606.
by Kadin 13y ago
I think it's an expectations-management issue. People (well, most reasonably aware people) understand that a cellphone is basically a small computer, and it has a processor and memory and storage, and executes code, etc. And it's
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by Kadin 13y ago
Or it was just random chance, and absent Oswald's delay, Ruby never would have killed him, and we wouldn't know anything about Jack Ruby today. (He'd just have been some dude who thought about offing Oswald but never quite g
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by Kadin 13y ago
It could be something specific to Brazilian employment or finance law that affects remote workers based there. Perhaps the company is afraid of somehow having a tax nexus there, e.g. (perhaps, and this is just a theory) because they'r
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by Kadin 13y ago
Free soda! yay But only Sprite! boo
610.
by Kadin 14y ago
You buy more expensive insurance, just like you'd have to do for an investment property.
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by Kadin 14y ago
Good luck selling that to the rest of the residents; property taxes are pretty unpopular even compared to income taxes. And really, the better way to look at it is that the property tax paid by some multi-billionaire who only drops into tow
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by Kadin 14y ago
Agreed. They sound (and feel) like a leaf blower, though.
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by Kadin 14y ago
The Xlerator works far better than the Dyson, too, it just doesn't look as strange and doesn't seem to have attracted as much press attention. Every time I've attempted to use a Dyson dryer, it's turned off as I've been drying my fingers, l
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by Kadin 14y ago
Boston, Philadelphia, and DC all have substantial car-free populations. They are small in proportion to the overall populations of the respective cities' urban areas, but that's almost entirely because public transportation has lagged the c
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by Kadin 14y ago
The city-level restrictions seem fair. Without some sort of "escape valve" to let places that are predominately opposed opt out, I suspect you'd get a lot of backlash and you might see a reversal. Better to let some cities lead and others
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by Kadin 14y ago
> As to whether they prosecute growers and dispensaries, that is currently left up to each local DA. This isn't correct to my knowledge; as an issue of Federal law, that would be the purview of the US Attorney assigned to the region, no
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by Kadin 14y ago
> Is marijuana bad and the government needs to bribed to let it? "The government", no; but many voters, yes. There are a lot of people who don't use cannabis and don't have any interest in whether or not it's legal, but are swayed by t
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by Kadin 14y ago
If the commonly-available applications for an OS are ugly, that OS is going to be perceived as ugly. And vice versa. If Skype and iTunes -- which together are probably installed (one or the other) on a huge percentage of home systems, and
619.
by Kadin 14y ago
Well, it was out of warranty. It's unfortunate that 1-year warranties have become the norm, but that seems to be the key difference between your anecdote and the parent's. They'll do a fair bit to help you while a device is in-warranty, b
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by Kadin 14y ago
You'll have to define what a "tiny number" means in this context, but I've certainly returned a bunch of stuff to Amazon over the years that I've been a customer, and they haven't cut me -- or anyone I know personally -- off yet. Their retu
621.
by Kadin 14y ago
My expectation has always been that if I loaded a book back onto the device after stripping the DRM, it would appear as a different book to the Kindle than the original. I doubt that highlighting and page synchronization will work. So, yes
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by Kadin 14y ago
While Allende's formal affiliation was with the Socialist party, he was also endorsed by the Communist party at the time of his election. (WP says it was as an alternate, their primary choice being Pablo Neruda, but he then turned around a
623.
by Kadin 14y ago
Such places exist. I know of one ( http://eragem.com/ ) but I'm sure there are others. The euphemism "Estate jewelry" instead of "secondhand" or "used" seems to be preferred.
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by Kadin 14y ago
Or "super-premium" vodka. That's an entire product that didn't even exist until someone decided to create it, largely as a way for people to demonstrate to others that they're well-off enough to purchase super-premium vodka. If you can get
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by Kadin 14y ago
In order so that they could do ... what, exactly? It doesn't sound like there's any mitigation that they could perform. At the very least, the guts of every lock has to be replaced. Given that, the rational, profit-maximizing thing for t
626.
by Kadin 14y ago
I think that's sort of overstating the problem a little bit, although I agree that Amazon shot its brand in the foot with the way it has implemented the "Marketplace". The whole "Marketplace" concept might have seemed cool back when everybo
627.
by Kadin 14y ago
Amazon charges you for return shipping (or obliges you to use your own shipping, e.g. USPS) depending on the reason you are returning an item. If you are returning it just because you decided you didn't want it, they don't pay to take it b
628.
by Kadin 14y ago
I think the distribution center was owned indirectly, through some sort of holding company; that was the linchpin of their whole argument. Woot was probably just one of the things they were threatening to close down and move out of state if
629.
by Kadin 14y ago
I think Lechmere (regional electronics and homewares store in New England) was similar, at least for some products. You could play with a display model, but to buy one you'd take a ticket to the counter and pay, then go to a pickup counter
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by Kadin 14y ago
Makes a certain amount of sense; boots are heavy and thus expensive to ship. Since they offer free shipping both outbound and return, that would eat directly into their bottom line. Particularly if the average customer buys and returns mu

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