Thriptic

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by Thriptic 6y ago
So to be clear, the existing Firefox on Android which has broad extension support is going to be replaced with a version with less extension support? Why? One of the biggest value adds of Firefox on Android is broad extension support.
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by Thriptic 6y ago
We already have the ability to measure COVID status because diagnostic labs are required to report the presence of certain things to CDC in real time upon positive test result. COVID-19 is almost certainly one. Further, countries like Brita
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by Thriptic 6y ago
According to anecdata from a friend of mine at 3M, they are running manufacturing 24 hours / day and are expanding. Apparently one of the problems was that when China was infected, 3M depleted a lot of their existing mask stock selling
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by Thriptic 6y ago
I think it depends on what you are doing. If you are doing something intense enough, it works. Check out on the roofs, the guys who break into sky scraper construction sites and scale the buildings. Go Pros work perfectly for their use case
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by Thriptic 6y ago
I believe it is one of the premium features, yes.
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by Thriptic 6y ago
I agree, I think some people in this thread need to slow down and think very carefully about what they are suggesting. Let's remember that America at least was founded not only liberty, but also on life and the pursuit of happiness. I
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by Thriptic 6y ago
Executives get that kind of salary because their tenure is short, they are under pressure, and they are (at least in theory) held accountable for performance by multiple stakeholders (employees, shareholders, the board, customers, etc). Mem
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by Thriptic 6y ago
I don't believe that. I'm simply saying that if the stated logic for this bill is that we need to regulate encryption because there is an unacceptable risk of misuse, then my response is that I actually accept the current level of
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by Thriptic 6y ago
I think its better to just admit that freedoms / tech will always be misused by criminal actors, and that's just a price we agree to pay for privacy, security, and liberty. I don't think think that's a controversial stat
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by Thriptic 7y ago
Passed != Implemented
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by Thriptic 7y ago
It is somewhat amazing to me that politicians don't seem to understand this. The solution is so simple: give people money directly, give money directly to businesses with the promise that they will not fire anyone, and do it yesterday.
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by Thriptic 7y ago
They have been issuing logically inconsistent statements for weeks saying masks don't work for the general public but do work for healthcare providers. It's difficult to then turn around and say masks work for everyone without los
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by Thriptic 7y ago
I know what their stated purpose is, but it is true that wearing a mask protects the wearer as well to a degree. Stating that it doesn't (as many in the media / CDC / politicians have said) is factually incorrect. If they wan
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by Thriptic 7y ago
It's very irritating because people don't understand the concept of defense in depth. Are surgical masks going to give you total protection? Of course not, but as you say they provide SOME benefit. Saying "masks don't wo
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by Thriptic 7y ago
If someone wants to exercise their freedoms and accept responsibility for harm they cause to themselves, I don't have a problem with that. I do however have a problem with someone's exercise of their freedoms causing physical harm
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by Thriptic 7y ago
I elected people to govern. If I have to govern for them, what exactly are they being paid to do again? Besides, what we need during a crisis is expedient, logical decision making, not incredibly slow and decentralized power.
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by Thriptic 7y ago
Yeah but that's the point. The use of this term makes people think that this is simply about socializing when it is not. The fact that it's hard to stay 6 feet away from someone else in a city while outside is why people should st
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by Thriptic 7y ago
Ironically, the problem is not that we have done too much damage in the short term but that we haven't done enough. What we need to do is stop people from going outside unless absolutely necessary. It's pretty much that simple, bu
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by Thriptic 7y ago
People are getting caught in a liquidity crisis, which is one thing that happened during 2008 too (albeit in a slightly different way). They don't have enough cash for basic use and are being forced to sell whatever they have to meet o
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by Thriptic 7y ago
It's worth it. It is occasionally annoying to not be able to easily interact with some people or find a person or two to talk to, but other than that there isn't much downside. I got back time each day that I was wasting on FB, I
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by Thriptic 7y ago
Putting the emergency fund in equities really undermines the premise of having an emergency fund. A primary purpose of having an emergency fund is so you won't get caught in a liquidity crisis and be forced to sell assets when prices a
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by Thriptic 7y ago
Also it had an enormous impact on early online gaming. IRC was the default way many clans assembled, communicated, recruited, and coordinated match play and scrimmages between each other. Channels like findscrim allowed CS teams to match wi
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by Thriptic 7y ago
I'm not entirely sure what you are asking. If you're asking "what's the difference between a shotgun optimized for sport and a shotgun optimized for military / police / self-defense use?" then the answer i
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by Thriptic 7y ago
I happen to have access to a biomedical research lab and medication / chemicals that could kill me with a very high success rate if I decided to go that route, so it's not a relevant concern.
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by Thriptic 7y ago
I don't think they are really. Guns are tools made to inflict kinetic damage. They can inflict damage on humans, damage on animals, or damage on targets. That may seem like pedantry, but a huge number of guns aren't design to be u
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by Thriptic 7y ago
If it's true that there is a three week latency period while you can still be infectious then we are screwed. There's basically nothing you can do because quarantine becomes impossible short of forcibly quarantining everyone. If e
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by Thriptic 7y ago
Considering that a majority of the Lets Encryot userbase would probably be running http rather than https if it weren't for free certs, it's still probably preferable to have only one or a handful of malicious entities able to ob
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by Thriptic 7y ago
I think it's both. I was at PAX East over the weekend with a 100,000 strong cohort of people who aren't exactly well known for personal hygiene and I wasn't scared, but it probably wasn't the ideal place to go. As long a
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by Thriptic 7y ago
So VPN in to a subnet where only a bastion host is exposed effectively?
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by Thriptic 7y ago
We have technology right now to solve the problem. Carbon capture, planting trees, alternative energies, etc. We have just decided not to properly invest in deploying them or advancing them to make them more efficient. Green new deal might

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