Tharkun

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by Tharkun 9y ago
Why isn't anyone protesting those TOS? Them having the apparently unqualified right to cancel the card you paid for is unacceptable.
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by Tharkun 9y ago
Bosses tend to create (or encourage) this kind of behaviour. This is either an infrastructure or a management issue. If there aren't enough toilets, your infra sucks. If you need to discuss work while taking a dump, management sucks.
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by Tharkun 9y ago
Why would anyone put up with that sort of madness? If my employer can't even let me shit in peace, I don't want to work for them. It's not like programming jobs are scarce...
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by Tharkun 9y ago
I mount my pass dir with encfs. Mount when I need access to passwords, and no need to remember to close it before I shut down (or if the machine randomly crashes). I can store the encfs encrypted tree on cloud storage (spideroak in my case)
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by Tharkun 9y ago
Focal dystonia is pretty weird. Different body parts are mapped to different areas of the brain, but "overtraining" certain movements (like this guitarist) can cause that area to spill over into adjacent areas. Resulting in involu
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by Tharkun 9y ago
That's not my experience in the UK. In my experience there are very, very few cyclists in the UK. To the point that anything they do wrong is pretty much irrelevant. Disclaimer: I've spent most of my life living in areas where bic
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by Tharkun 9y ago
The scope matters. You can get a machine to run reasonably well without relying on closed source graphics drivers. If your GPU firmware is evil in some way, it's on your GPU and you can be pretty confident it won't compromise the
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by Tharkun 9y ago
I had the same reaction reading their cyclist rant. Even the video made no sense. It show a couple of cyclists committing minor trafic infractions, but apparently those are "criminally irresponsible" acts. It's their blog, so
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by Tharkun 9y ago
And then there's the part where people lose or damage fingers or retinas. Accidents happen. Your crypto may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you suffer injury, but it's a real problem in any population large enough.
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by Tharkun 9y ago
Funny how things don't seem to work that way. What with police officers arresting people who film them. Somehow privacy has become a privege.
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by Tharkun 9y ago
I suppose we can all opt out of the surveillance state by not staying alive?
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by Tharkun 9y ago
Systemd is a steaming turd. However, it's one we have to live with, and there doesn't seem to be anything better on the horizon. A good book on the subject might make things slightly better. However, it doesn't seem like anyo
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by Tharkun 9y ago
Blame all those cheeky buggers who built machines powered by steam engines or water turbines. They basically built their machines to run on whatever was available. Got a waterwheel doing 1000RPM and you need a big saw attached to it? Your s
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by Tharkun 9y ago
You might not want to make assumptions about taxes without taking location into account.
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by Tharkun 9y ago
HOAs can issue fines? That's madness. I'll get fined for putting trash on my curb on the wrong day of the week, or the wrong kind of trash, but it'll be by my local government's very efficient income generators/poli
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by Tharkun 9y ago
Not likely in my area. I'll get a steep fine for illegal waste disposal before any scrapper notices it.
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by Tharkun 9y ago
I pay roughly a 50% income tax, and in spite of that municipal garbage collection is, well, garbage. Regular waste is easy enough: weekly collection is OK. Larger items which can be incinerated are OK-ish: need to make an appointment two we
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by Tharkun 9y ago
I've tried intermittent fasting as a weight control strategy. Unfortunately I discovered that fasting increased the frequency of my migraines. Fasting probably isn't for everyone.
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by Tharkun 9y ago
I suppose it's possible for vegans/vegetarians to eat better/more balanced than many omnivores, purely because they're much more likely to be taking an active interest in nutrition. The folks who eat frozen pizza every n
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by Tharkun 9y ago
> If the women isn't interested, you stop. I feel like this is much easier said than done. Emotions can be complex and fickle. Many books have been written about how to woo a potential mate. There have been tales of love potions for
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by Tharkun 9y ago
I mostly agree with what you're saying. Not sure whether vineyards are such a good example though. Isn't wine one of those things where even "experts" can't taste the good from the bad? That being said, some vegetab
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by Tharkun 9y ago
I've never seen so many downvoted top level comments. Is the term "chiropractor" what's causing the problem in this discussion? Can anyone call themselves a chiropractor where the author of this article is based? It seem
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by Tharkun 9y ago
How much heat are we talking about? I'm guessing it wouldn't be enough to use for district heating, the way some industrial waste heat is converted to hot water for homes?
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by Tharkun 9y ago
Depends on how badly I behave. It's perfectly well within my rights to call anyone in the bar a cunt. Some might be offended. There might be an argument. I might be asked to leave. There might even be fisticuffs. But at no point during
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by Tharkun 9y ago
If I can go to a bar and talk to people without revealing my full (or real) identity, then why can't I do the same online? "Real name policies" don't make any sense to me. The meatspace analogies are all flawed. The pret
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by Tharkun 9y ago
You can't leave facebook. They will never delete your data, even if you ask them nicely.
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by Tharkun 9y ago
And they'll steal your phone number from your friends' phones and add it your account without your knowledge. Every once in a while I log in to FB and it will ask me if I want to share my phone number with them, with my number con
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by Tharkun 9y ago
> While I'm not 100% sure about the legal situation in the US, I'm pretty sure regular householder's rights apply. Not sure about that. Some places (like malls or train stations, possibly others) are considered public plac
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by Tharkun 9y ago
No one on HN has ever run a social network? I think you're talking to the wrong demographic here. I used to run an online community in the late 90s early 2000s which would now be called a social network. Some people used real names, so
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by Tharkun 9y ago
That just sounds like passive aggressively leaving angry postits on the fridge. If you're being obnoxiously loud and keeping me from working, I will assertively tell you to keep it down (or aggressively, if you're the annoying sal

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