LaGrange

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by LaGrange 9y ago
If I'm sitting at home, avoiding skin cancer and excessive wear & tear, while you're running around ruining your joints and breathing car exhaust... ...why should I subsidise _your_ insurance? (really, America is so weird. Eve
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by LaGrange 9y ago
> How do you identify superstars? Fun to be around if you're their boss, has a confident yet subtly incorrect opinion on every single aspect of programming, climate science, dietology and immigrants that are not them, personally sta
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by LaGrange 9y ago
That's very different. In Slack, I, as the poster, can decide whether to show a preview (it might be pointless and take up space), and add metadata to it. It's also searchable by _anyone_ in the chat history. The uniformity of the
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by LaGrange 9y ago
No, it can't. No multiline messages, no threading (a lot of people want it, though personally I think it's a terrible idea), no embedding images. IRC is Not Good.
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by LaGrange 12y ago
> tone-neighborhood watch Nice name for a tone-lynch-mob, but are you sure that's any better than tone-police? > as a challenge to the father Seriously? The OP starts with "There seems to be a movement to accept any and all
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by LaGrange 12y ago
Actually, (as another person on the spectrum), I believe you've just been tone-policed by a privileged person. Note that the confrontational tone, random anecdotes and judgement of people involved in the community were all present in y
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by LaGrange 12y ago
That's because the only way they're not jumping to conclusions is in word - assumption that it's the guy's kid (sure, possible) is one, but I really don't believe there's no ill will in the entire "despera
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by LaGrange 12y ago
Then I'm pretty damn sure AT&T won't have the data either.
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by LaGrange 12y ago
Yes, I'm the SJW. And I think that flame bait was a dude going off with "hey, maybe the abuse was totally justified". Pretending that there isn't enough information where the dude straight out admitted he abused his pri
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by LaGrange 12y ago
I think that abusing privilege from his job instead of going to the police is evidence enough.
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by LaGrange 12y ago
> The father being the kind of person to overreach his authority at work in order to locate and kidnap children sounds like good enough reason to leave FTFY. Seriously, there are legal mechanisms for such situations, if you seriously thi
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by LaGrange 12y ago
It definitely sounds like the father wanted to kidnap them, so sue AT&T, I guess?
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by LaGrange 12y ago
Actually, the father being the kind of person to use his job to stalk his ex sounds like good enough reason to leave, and save any other sentients from him in the process.
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by LaGrange 12y ago
That's terrible , but the likelihood of me being in contact with my peers remains higher. Relative social and/or personal usefulness of Angry Birds versus reading news is another matter.
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by LaGrange 12y ago
And, on the phone I'm likely to be conversing with friends and acquaintances. Beats staring at newspapers. Oh, and my phone has OKCupid and Meetup.com. But the original post goes into creepypasta territory with the human warmth thing.
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by LaGrange 12y ago
Hah, I buy this argument far more than any claims that people need accurate time measurement at notice short enough that taking a phone from a pocket/bag is unacceptable. Though I do think watches are hopelessly retro :-)
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by LaGrange 12y ago
> What casual runner goes running without their phone? Judging by the answers you got, ones who have oversized phones and think that shaving a little weight is worth not being able to call emergencies (who cares, they can use a strangers
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by LaGrange 12y ago
Actually, your link states that the orbiter wasn't destructible.
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by LaGrange 12y ago
Just a few comments above yours: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8029979 "Belgium also no refrigeration..." Insert joke about Belgian unity here.
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by LaGrange 12y ago
Just a note: cheese shops store hard unsliced cheese outside the refrigerator. Sliced and soft cheese is refrigerated pretty much everywhere. (and I prefer to think about the chicken thing more as respect for other sentients, not "natu
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by LaGrange 12y ago
The customer doesn't really care if it's going into a bank, CC processing (my case), a hotel registration system (also my case), or a soulless SAP installation somewhere in the guts of your company (yes, this is also my case). The
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by LaGrange 12y ago
I loved that after moving in! The culture I'm from is actually more compatible with most entry systems than the Dutch one (no vans or anything), but my full name is long , and doesn't fit e.g. on credit cards. In Netherlands, nob
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by LaGrange 12y ago
> Treat personal names as indivisible, immutable items; don't try to separate them in parts. Unfortunately, that's (often) not an option; as soon as you have to interact with external entities such as banks (but not exclusively
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by LaGrange 12y ago
And, in fact, rape is often one of those, exactly because there's a lot of pressure on victims to not press charges. We don't know the details, we don't know the actual texts, but "she did not want to press charges again
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by LaGrange 12y ago
Increased risk of losing your job.
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by LaGrange 13y ago
You're missing one more part of the issue with advertising: brainwashing. In some ways, I'd rather have a silly, mismatched and ugly ad than an ad that's actually effective at altering my behavior. Pretty much the only situat
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by LaGrange 13y ago
What you actually do if the verification is important enough (not often) is ask for a phone number, and have a human being call them. Some e-commerce sites do that, presumably ones exposed to frequent fraud, for example http://ww
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by LaGrange 13y ago
"I'm totally fine with anybody pursuing whatever kind of political agenda they want, but at the moment you start to derail real progress," Exactly why Eich had to go. "Well, you declared war." Yes, the right wingers
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by LaGrange 13y ago
> I think everyone should write their own GC, write a filesystem, and handle their own memory layer, at least once. Of course. But not in production . Which is a detail missed by the snarky one-liner, maybe because one-liners suck. Stil
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by LaGrange 13y ago
Metro is a very specific case, and that line in specific - you have a limited variety of vehicles and fully enclosed platforms. Oh, and as far as I can remember, the specific metro line is fully automated. In practice the incidents are rare

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