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by Steeeve 10y ago
I was in a museum the other day when a guy asked his girlfriend how she would feel about a non-diamond engagement ring. Her reaction was hysterical, and a good laugh was had by about 20 other people. Not likely they are going to be a thin
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by Steeeve 10y ago
The other answers here seem to cover most of everything, but one more possibility to add to the mix - prefetching. Just because you don't click on a link doesn't mean that you aren't already going there. Chrome (and other b
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by Steeeve 10y ago
The article doesn't have a full list, it has a set of examples. The technet pages linked in the article don't have a full set of information either. I have the distinct impression that regardless of settings, some data gets sent.
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by Steeeve 10y ago
This is interesting. I had the same experience in Mountain View - paid for 100mbps+ service, and only got 30 - and even that was haphazard. I went through a series of support requests. I eventually complained to the FCC and cancelled serv
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by Steeeve 10y ago
I have no idea. Once they made their first attempt on me, I stayed away for good.
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by Steeeve 10y ago
Except on Android, where it requires you to use a poor custom keyboard. Which means that you have to either build your own keyboard switching functionality or go through a ridiculous dance every time you want to use it.
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by Steeeve 10y ago
I've been trying out lastpass for a few weeks. I downloaded the extension that their website directed me to. Because of this discussion, I did a version check and lo and behold, it defaults to NOT auto-update. Luckily I've been
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by Steeeve 10y ago
SFs malware installers should have served as a warning to all developers. Unfortunately, there seems to be the same thing happening with GitHub - at least from a layperson's perspective. (same thing meaning that github has extraordina
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by Steeeve 10y ago
That never occurred to me until just now. It seemed like at least half the listings I reviewed when looking for a room in SF specified no kitchen access. (this was early 2015) I didn't particularly care as it was a temporary situatio
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by Steeeve 10y ago
Anthony Levandowski isn't just a schlub caught up in a big lawsuit. He's the guy who's self-funded startup got bought for $680M. He's facing a lawsuit from Google. Did anyone have any sort of impression that he was goi
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by Steeeve 10y ago
Those that rely on logic as a weapon in a debate limit their arsenal significantly. Logic and critical thinking are fantastic problem solving tools. Their utility in an argument are minimal.
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by Steeeve 10y ago
I worked there at the time. That line didn't go away, it lasted for days. It was reminiscent of empire strikes back. 4MB SIMMS at that time were more expensive than 4GB sticks today. People had 16MB of RAM, but that was mostly rese
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by Steeeve 10y ago
For those providing the excuse of culture - culture is something strongly valued in the Bay Area, and it's one of the biggest weaknesses. Diversity brings so much more to the table than people who can drink a beer together. Diversity
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by Steeeve 10y ago
Interesting as this article is trending, so is the fact that they will be collecting sales tax nationwide starting 4/1. I wonder if this is going to start a bit of a resurgence of specialty sites.
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by Steeeve 10y ago
All this discussion about what the future is in the messaging space... The future is disarray, just like the present and just like the past. IM isn't a particularly difficult problem to solve, even at scale. (and certainly not at star
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by Steeeve 10y ago
It goes to show that regardless of what protection encryption theoretically provides, security is only as good as the weakest link in the chain. Torture in some fashion is _always_ an option to force decryption. The same goes for constitut
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by Steeeve 10y ago
Let's not forget about sales tax. $4.2B amounted to $630M in taxes. Plus the import tax, which would be another $630M dollars. And then take into account that they have stores and employees and have to pay taxes accordingly. And the
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by Steeeve 10y ago
In no scenario is it better to allow arbitrary hidden process creation than to spend 10 minutes writing a function that validates parameters provided to launch a process.
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by Steeeve 10y ago
I, for one, am astounded at the responses in this thread of discussion. > why shouldn't my financial system be as open as bash? Oh my lord...
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by Steeeve 10y ago
Forgive me... I made a flippant comment following this thread of conversation: > Is this really that different from police asking for security camera footage from a convenience store after a robbery? > I think legally, Google is no di
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by Steeeve 10y ago
System() creates child processes, specified by parameters. If you don't sanitize your parameters, any child process could be created. If you run this software as root, that means root will run the command. If you run this as user, i
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by Steeeve 10y ago
EHR is not difficult. There's a lot to the required data model, but building a working system doesn't require mental gymnastics, just time and effort. Selling isn't particularly challenging either. There is a tried and true
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by Steeeve 10y ago
https://definitions.uslegal.com/d/de-facto-monopoly/ Jiminy christmas. I made a comment on hackernews and you're trying to parse it like we're in a court of law. The fact is that Google is different tha
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by Steeeve 10y ago
This is exactly the kind of subpoena that people have been concerned about. Everyone who searched for "Douglas". Please. There's nothing reasonable about that.
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by Steeeve 10y ago
duck duck go isn't brick and mortar, but... 1. Google is an ISP, is DuckDuckGo an ISP? 2. Google is a telecommunications services provider, is DuckDuckGo a telecommunications services provider? Those are two major categories that req
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by Steeeve 10y ago
> The American Library Association guidelines provide disclosure of records in response to a valid court order You are overstating there by a long shot. The guidelines are more along the lines of "if you have completely failed at m
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by Steeeve 10y ago
Why not get a warrant for all people who have searched for the term "railway" in 2016 because they might be terrorists? And then just add those people to a list of people who should be watched closely at transportation centers. An
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by Steeeve 10y ago
Legally Google is different. They are required to keep records that brick and mortar businesses do not. They have a de-facto monopoly as the largest search provider for the general populace. They are a public resource that is a requirement
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by Steeeve 10y ago
It's the nature of surveys. People know that a sub-100% rating in most surveys is bad - troubleshooting sub-perfect ratings shows up all over the place from restaurants to call centers. So happy people give perfect ratings - 5 stars
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by Steeeve 10y ago
I recently read several discussions from uber drivers about passenger ratings. Many drivers will rate passengers 4 or below if they don't tip. And many drivers skip passengers 4.5 or below, some start skipping passengers at 4.6. I po

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