Tyrannosaur

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by Tyrannosaur 9y ago
I would imagine this problem would be really easy to solve with bike sharing- to use it you have to register and pay a deposit. If a bike checked out with your name is never returned or is abandoned, they keep your deposit... Edit- I suppos
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by Tyrannosaur 9y ago
3rd party knowing about your social network is one thing; do you not also worry about Facebook knowing about all these 3rd party things too?
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by Tyrannosaur 9y ago
Because one of them is almost literally a paper trail and the other is ephemeral?
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by Tyrannosaur 9y ago
Really? I like to consider myself much more privacy-minded than most, but I would expect an email assigned to an employee to be used for official business purposes should definitely have a paper trail that higher-ups can audit if necessary.
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by Tyrannosaur 9y ago
You keep saying this as if it isn't beside the point. Creating illegal content by extracting specific digits of pi or rearranging specific pixels of normal images is completely different than taking already-illegal content and uploadin
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by Tyrannosaur 9y ago
Cool blog post, but light gray text on white is literally unreadable. How are people still doing this?
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by Tyrannosaur 9y ago
None of those things are free to me. It's something in the range of %1-%3 of all I spend. Despite the fact that a lot of the time those charges are hidden in the price of the items I purchase, I pay them even if I use cash.
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by Tyrannosaur 9y ago
There being "many cultures" that do this, I'd like to hear some examples. The only ones I can come up with are fictional
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by Tyrannosaur 9y ago
I recently started mapping, and scaled the learning curve that surprised me how high it is. I downloaded streetcomplete and Vespucci for my phone, but when I came to a road (on my bike) that didn't exist on the map it wasn't obvio
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by Tyrannosaur 9y ago
I always wondered about that too- I recently came across a discussion somewhere that the password limit should be the max allowed for the POST to that website. Or maybe a bit less, to help prevent DOS attacks. I always thought the password
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by Tyrannosaur 9y ago
Might it also be because of the cost of overcoming their conscience? I understand that there are multiple groups in the NSA that do things other than illegal surveillance and hacking, but I would have an even higher price than other compani
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by Tyrannosaur 9y ago
"There was a shooting. Please send police and ambulance" and then hang up? Won't the police show up expecting an active armed gunman? Is there anything you can say to show that there is no new danger of violence without impli
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by Tyrannosaur 9y ago
Signatures can be scanned and compared, but are they? I imagine this would only happen during a full audit, which doesn't sound like it happens a lot. It is kind of like saying a door can be locked.
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by Tyrannosaur 9y ago
...on my hard drive? If I am running a node, that is.
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by Tyrannosaur 9y ago
So... I totally agree that the transaction fees are much too high. But it doesn't bother me as much as it bothers many people because every time I start getting upset, I remember that VISA's fees are 1.5%, PayPal's fees are 3
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by Tyrannosaur 9y ago
https://protonmail.com/pricing They have several tiers, including a free tier. The free tier is pretty limited; I wonder what percentage of their userbase stays there.
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by Tyrannosaur 9y ago
While reading about the evolution of the camera and pushing away from the wall (or not) it strongly reminded me of the game Tremulous. The initial alien class is a very short spider that moves very quickly and can walk on walls. When runnin
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by Tyrannosaur 9y ago
Ghostery- I basically block all tracking cookies and ads and social media widgets Adguard- for ads not caught by ghostery Youtube Magic Actions- Makes the youtube experience way better. Although the recent changes to youtube seems to have t
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by Tyrannosaur 9y ago
Oh come now. You can't expect writers and editors for a company like The New York Times to know and use proper spelling and grammar, can you? Seriously though. So annoying.
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by Tyrannosaur 9y ago
What I don't understand is why Amazon and Apple are getting the punishment. They were abiding by the laws of the country they were in, and now getting punishment. Surely if any party were to be punished it would be the governments of I
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by Tyrannosaur 9y ago
As well as "the border" including any international airports, it is difficult to find a heavily populated area that is not in this zone
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by Tyrannosaur 9y ago
You seem to be under the impression that for one person to receive wealth, another has to lose it. That's not actually how any of this works and is an incredibly dangerous way of thinking.
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by Tyrannosaur 9y ago
Wait- handwriting is actually used for something? IIRC, handwriting analysis is not allowed in US courts of law because of its supposed inaccuracies. Why are we using it for any other legal uses? I mean, using a signature as a legal, "
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by Tyrannosaur 9y ago
I was told that if that was once the case, it is the case no longer- really the signature is only to verify that someone was there to have made the purchase, to decrease the store's liability if it is a fraudulent charge. This is why t
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by Tyrannosaur 9y ago
For those wondering, there is a specific term for this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect
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by Tyrannosaur 9y ago
I often take a pessimistic view to such good-looking things too. But taking a look at your first link, it appears to already not be in force anymore? For the same reasons that the new recommendation is being drafted- government surveillance
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by Tyrannosaur 9y ago
Glad the courts are doing something. Civil forfeiture is one of the most horrifying abuses of police power and very directly contrary to the Constitution; one of the reasons the American Revolution happened in the first place!
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by Tyrannosaur 9y ago
Besides hacker news- slashdot.
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by Tyrannosaur 9y ago
Very true, but despite the distrust of the government, Americans tend to have even more distrust of Comcast
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by Tyrannosaur 9y ago
How do doctors, parents, anybody think this is a good idea? Hiding things from kids that are guaranteed to become a problem later in life is rather a guarantee that the person will be traumatized when they do find out, and have major trust

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