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by __jal 8y ago
> Isn't it the judicial system working as intended? If you're a large firm who makes money by gossiping about people, you might be very concerned about it working as intended. They've successfully lobbied for an exception
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by __jal 8y ago
You could have stopped at > You don't need a "blockchain"
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by __jal 8y ago
> combing the aisles to pitch customers That's really obnoxious. What an awesome way to drive me to other retailers.
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by __jal 8y ago
I really wanted to ask the people who worked there about their employment contracts. Surely the CEO was contingent, right? Their coders were all at-whim employees, living in the New Style, pushing code for $$ when they wanted to. Right?
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by __jal 8y ago
I don't understand why people feel the need to go Kremlinologist on his tone. He swears a lot. Who the fuck cares? His audience isn't HN or The Register or anyone else not doing kernel development. The apparent desire for bland, w
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by __jal 8y ago
It is hardly anti-capitalist. It is anti-exploitation. Granted, given the some of capitalists we currently have to put up with, it is easy to miss the distinction, but it is there. I would, however, encourage you to continue to avoid softwa
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by __jal 8y ago
(1) He wasn't trying to hide it. (2) It was a domestic flight; he says he was going to declare it when boarding the international flight. This was all in the article. At this rate the various LEAs are going to make muggers, bankers and
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by __jal 8y ago
This is somewhat confused. As far as I know, we don't have ravening hordes of scooter-poopers (regardless of housing status). Some folks pooped on them as a statement, pics went around. Yes, especially in SOMA, where both the homeless
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by __jal 8y ago
> which is just silly. The majority of the point is signaling, yes. To determine whether or not it is silly, you need to consider the goals. A majority of the point of college for a lot of people is also signaling. Is that silly? Again,
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by __jal 8y ago
Depends on how many mussels they're eating... More seriously, unless you're looking for an indirect measure of consumption, does it matter? Human action either way, and it is there either way.
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by __jal 8y ago
> than an opportunity to offer users better privacy I have a site that I did this with. I also wish the US would pass a law like this. And I beg to differ. No, I don't believe this is self-contradictory. The issue is risk. I'm
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by __jal 8y ago
I'm sorry, but that's simply not reflective of reality. There's a reason Yahoo wrote yslow. 20 bytes times billions of requests is absolutely an optimization target; in fact, this is a really easy and low-hanging one at that.
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by __jal 8y ago
Why would anyone in their right mind try (or even want to try, except as a lark) this? "...The input of Hastlayer can be a program written in dozens of programming languages (including several of the most popular ones as C#, C++, Pytho
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by __jal 8y ago
I recall Webvan well. Still have a few of their crates holding stuff in my attic[1]. No idea what it looked like elsewhere, but their spending blitz in the Bay Area was incredible. Everywhere you looked, there was their name. For a little w
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by __jal 8y ago
Depends on where you measure it. A client on a decent connection will never notice. If you're serving billions of hits, 20 bytes in a header is something you will definitely notice on your bandwidth bill.
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by __jal 8y ago
I don't hate icons, per se. I just find them hard to use. For whatever reason, I have to think about icons a lot more than words, even after I'm very familiar with them. Watching others, most folks don't seem to have this pro
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by __jal 8y ago
Would you also say that the original phone system model (basically, ATT owns everything, including your handset) was equally immune to such criticism? After all, consumers benefitted enormously from the phone system coming into existence. I
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by __jal 8y ago
I guess it turned out the desire to win Internet Points is strongly tied to specific communities.
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by __jal 8y ago
Not to mention the seemingly endless series of subsidies at the city level, in return for bupkis. Some examples having to do with one connectivity slumlord: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131012/02124724852&#x
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by __jal 8y ago
But what about support? What if I deploy the phrase but experience unexpected results? I think we'll need the one named after your favorite expensive metal.
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by __jal 8y ago
And what, US law just magically happens to be properly balanced, unlike the legal systems elsewhere? Following your logic, every single company in the US is either ethically aligned with US law or horrible, awful hypocrites. Apparently ther
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by __jal 8y ago
At this point, using the phrase 'fake news' causes me to immediately heavily discount the reliability of the speaker and the validity of whatever it is they apparently want me to believe.
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by __jal 8y ago
We schedule log reviews just like we schedule backup tests. (Similar stuff gets caught during normal troubleshooting, but reviews are more comprehensive.) It only takes one debug statement leaking to prod - it has to be a process, not an ev
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by __jal 8y ago
> stuffed crust from dominos I realize people play fast and loose with reality when it comes to *coins, but calling Dominos 'pizza' is fraud.
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by __jal 8y ago
Combined with repeated prosecution crises with forensic labs in the US, it looks like it is well past time to take a serious look at evidence handling. The ones in the US have caused thousands of convictions to be called into question; this
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by __jal 8y ago
No, it is not always wrong to cause someone harm. But more directly relevant, does the thief have no agency?
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by __jal 8y ago
Sure. Because mass censorship tools designed to identify categories of undesirables has to many positive applications. > Good engineers will want to work on this problem So? A lot of "good engineers" are horrible people from
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by __jal 8y ago
I actually liked it less than others. Snow Crash, despite being a train-wreck in terms of narrative cohesion, plotting, and basically every other measure of fiction as a craft, is just about perfect mind-candy. I reread it about two years a
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by __jal 9y ago
No. The correct answer is to close your account and move to a bank that actually has an interest in providing customer service. (Credit unions are great.) I have zero interest in some company's CRM, how they apportion money to employee
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by __jal 9y ago
It is ZFS, and is on by default. ZFS also offers gzip compression, and you can "turn up" the LZ4 from the default if you wish. I've almost always left it at the default; on my home file server (slightly long-in-the-tooth 6 co

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