MichaelCollins

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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
Maybe they want SMS updates to their shipping, does that mean you should ask for confirmed phone numbers on signup? Of course not. Let them enter their email or phone number for shipping updates when they're confirming their purchas
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
Absolutely. In the case of Facebook, it's easy to imagine them logging into websites as you to slurp up your contact list on that site. Don't worry, you agreed to it somewhere in the thousand pages of small print! Or as the cas
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
> this is not really a big deal. If it's not a big deal, then why do they offer this service "for free"? It's all part of their commercial panopticon. You're missing the forest for the trees.
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
If the site doesn't need email for anything besides that, then it doesn't need email for that either. Let the user set an email for account recovery if they want, but don't require it. If users who choose not to give an ema
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
If reducing friction is the priority, then maybe skip email completely. Let people sign up with any username and don't require an email at all, like HN allows. Most sites that require an email don't need an email, and only as
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
No coincidence that so many journalists are twitter addicts.
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
I feel like you're understating it a bit; 20k years ago Manhattan was covered in over a thousand feet of ice. The Wisconsin Ice Sheet was huge and covered a substantial portion of the modern day United States: https://en.w
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
> What can we do to remove the incentive that led to people having this kind of a discussion on a slack channel while one dude is at a doctors appointment? Delete the internet, then return to newspapers published once a day. Short of
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
> Who say things like “American missiles fired by Ukraine?” Russia-aligned internet commenters seem to say things like that a lot. I think it's part of their cope; Russia couldn't be struggling against Ukrainians... no... th
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
> a relatively cheap $1500 dollar system Spending that much on tools doesn't seem like his style. He makes his own tools using scrap wood and salvaged washing machine motors.
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
> 2. Nuclear is not dispatchable. This is not an intrinsic limitation. Naval nuclear reactors can power up to meet demand very rapidly. Civilian nuclear reactors aren't built like this for various reasons, including gas turbine
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
The birds probably help a lot too, particularly eating/spreading the salmon scraps the bears leave behind.
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
I love his videos about making his own bandsaws, belt sanders, etc. I've heard/read of people doing this sort of thing, but his videos documenting the process are really fascinating. Also his website is well worth a peruse: http
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
The US government isn't going to stop this shit anytime soon, since it was their idea in the first place . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_LifeLog > LifeLog was a project of the Information Processing Tec
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
Imagine if you had a human butler who was this particular with the way you asked things. Fired on the spot.
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
I don't use one of these. But I have heard that they're very convenient ways to set timers when you're working in the kitchen with both hands dirty, and because they support more concurrent timers than a microwave.
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
IMHO, Risk is one of the few board games worth playing specifically because it's so engaging. Most of my friends who are "into boardgames" tell me that Risk is a terrible game because it starts fights. But the games they w
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
They could easily push custom firmware to "persons of interest" (ever criticize your government?) and nobody would ever know.
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
I think in the future, products like Alexa will be simple products purchased once for a profit (not loss leaders) that do all the processing locally, not service subscriptions. I mean, do you really need an internet connection and &quot
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
> For me, the quality improvement from 480i/p to 1080p is huge and I wouldn't personally sacrifice that. Heh, for me the quality of VHS (not bootleg) was good enough. The main reason I eventually switched to DVD is because D
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
Right, they say iMessage is end-to-end encrypted, but this is only true if you and the people you talk to don't use iCloud backups. If you do, then iMessage's E2E encryption silently degrades to key escrow.
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
That's a choice they make, not some sort of immutable "reality".
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
When anybody hallucinates an insult where there was none, that is their own problem. You can't hold people accountable for offenses they never committed, for insults they never uttered, just because some crazy person hallucinates an
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
F-15 isn't sleek, but it looks mean and hard. F-16 looks sleek.
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
> > Very few people who have gone to orbit (actual space) were anywhere near 'rich'. > Blue Horizon[sic] ... Bezos Blue Origin has never been to orbit. It's a glorified carnival ride and nobody who knows anyth
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
The per-unit cost of the F-22 was substantially more than the F-35, yet the F-35 is everybody's favorite whipping boy while the F-22 gets nothing but praise from the same crowd. And I think there is a general awareness of F-22 product
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
Most humans are basically good. A significant minority aren't, maybe about 10%. Enough that you should never ignore the possibility the other person is a psycho, but few enough that you should never assume everybody else is a psycho.
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
Sure there's an element of that, but for some people it seems much worse than others. Some people can still speak clearly with a mask on, but many people can't.
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
> a neurodivergent person just looks at all that as window dressing that isn't required. This seems like a hypothesis that we could test. For instance, by rationally explaining the practical utility of eye contact, to detect earn
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by MichaelCollins 4y ago
> I am starting to think there might actually be a strong correlation between how people look and act. I think the way people act influences the way their appearance is perceived in very subtle ways. A sketchy liar could have exactly

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