RNCTX

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by RNCTX 5y ago
I don't see any contractual terms posted. "You own your content" does not qualify. Lots of content companies have predatory contracts that give them perpetual licenses to content buried on page 13-b.
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by RNCTX 5y ago
Utility companies operate at the pleasure of the state. The state implements right of ways that contain the equipment. Right of ways are real, tweets are not.
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by RNCTX 5y ago
Yep. Just keeping dirt and water out goes a long way for parts longevity, too.
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by RNCTX 5y ago
Seems like a roundabout way of saying "there never should have been such a thing as a computer-phone."
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by RNCTX 5y ago
Funny you mention that. I'd say based on personal recollection that in "public service" you'll likely find people in on the scams. Former congressman from NOLA, Bill Jefferson, orchestrated scams involving securing minor
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by RNCTX 5y ago
I wonder why someone who works at google bothers to come here to try to defend the worst practices of the company. I mean, it's never going to go well. Is it some sort of deranged catharsis in trying to convince yourself?
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by RNCTX 5y ago
none of which killed a soul. On the other hand CIA handled instigators killed far in excess of 45,000 people during the 'cold' war.
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by RNCTX 5y ago
My sympathies, I've been there. My daughter was a teenager, though, so not so bad. In a couple of years she was grown and on her own anyway. I know it won't make you feel any better, but when you get into your late 40s (assuming
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by RNCTX 5y ago
There are other ways to be known. https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2021/04/27/allen-man-w...
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by RNCTX 5y ago
> But we’ve constructed a corporate culture where this is not allowed to be said. So we bend over backwards to pretend everyone is equal and capable of the same things in all areas. Then we secretly make sure somehow by magic the truly c
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by RNCTX 5y ago
The two replies below yours at the moment capture what you're trying to say... > This mentality of thinking is exactly the problem, I think. You want a tool that can solve an entire class of problems. We are telling you that no such
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by RNCTX 5y ago
Already seeing it this month. I order my dog's meds offshore, plain post mail from Australia flew by DHL and got here (Texas) in under a week.
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by RNCTX 5y ago
> Twitter doesn't really have a long term strategy. Bingo. Of the two, Facebook has added functionality over the years that does quite well (groups supplant lazy entrenched competitors like forums and reddit, marketplace supplants l
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by RNCTX 5y ago
> finding the exact audio offset would be impractical. And yet you can land an airplane without looking out the windows, by measuring timestamps between source and destination of a signal (GPS). I'd argue not that impractical.
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by RNCTX 5y ago
I'd say it's more likely that the adblock model will persist into other forms (proxies, anonymizers, etc), and you'll see a rehash of the early 2000s Tivo lawsuits in which someone like Vizio claims that it is unlawful to sto
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by RNCTX 5y ago
"nothing will fundamentally change" -- the person currently in charge of the DOJ, when running for office, speaking to donors.
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by RNCTX 5y ago
They're not extraordinary claims, they're well established and part of a pattern. Unless you haven't paid attention to their scandals over the past ~40 years you should be well aware that the FBI's primary means of movi
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by RNCTX 5y ago
I would assume you're wrong. I don't think you appreciate how many government websites run ancient software sold to them by a politician's cousin, who thinks even having a developer on staff is a waste of money.
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by RNCTX 5y ago
If you do catch them and it's too public to go after you for retribution, they'll sell a federal judiciary seat to someone willing to erase it. One of Trump's 2017 judicial appointments in the ND of Texas dismissed the civil
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by RNCTX 5y ago
I worked for one of the online legal databases for several years. They had a Windows desktop app in addition to the website for accessing content. I managed to get the desktop app working in Linux after messing with Wine and permissions (i
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by RNCTX 5y ago
I don't think they're going to allow non-developers to do much because you have to grasp the concepts of software development to use them effectively. With that in mind, for quick/dirty things they're great. I've t
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by RNCTX 5y ago
wrote this ages ago, if you want something to put all your office docs and pdfs in a solr database on FreeBSD (indexable by page number), knock yourself out... https://gist.github.com/awhileback/1fffac899d9321a6a9ec15bc
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by RNCTX 5y ago
You're never going to see Elon Musk assume liability for one of his exploding deathtraps. It will always come with the disclaimer that you're responsible for driving it. Autopiloted cars are just investor marketing.
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by RNCTX 5y ago
No one is going to use crypto for day to day anything, ever.
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by RNCTX 5y ago
Depends on your audience. I can point to a handful of low-effort journos whose whole schtick is asking dumb questions on Twitter so that the would-be know-it-alls can post "well, actually" to them in the replies. By virtue of the
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by RNCTX 5y ago
Let me clarify: I'm not suggesting that precedent and consistency demand one way or the other, I'm saying precedent and consistency only matter until it's a corporation with lots of political donations brought to bear, in whi
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by RNCTX 5y ago
Imagine being so ignorant of history that you think the (tulip hysteria, dotcom boom, condo craze, etc) will continue unabated into the unforeseeable future.
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by RNCTX 5y ago
I suppose this is where we say "CNC would like a word."
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by RNCTX 5y ago
The amendment doesn't say "secure from government" or "secure from law enforcement." It just says "secure." A person cannot sell themselves into slavery. Yet we allow the US government to endorse indentu
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by RNCTX 5y ago
> The thing about open-source software that’s too often forgotten, it’s AS-IS, no exceptions. There is absolutely no SLA. That detail is right there in the license! In business terms, open-source maintainers are unpaid and unsecured vend

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