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by ahallock 13y ago
That's what insurance is for. Catastrophic situations. Or perhaps there's a way to pre-purchase emergency care at a discount. Or you set your emergency provider ahead of time based on price. I don't know. There must be creati
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by ahallock 13y ago
But everyone isn't getting treated fairly. Is it fair to the cab company to have to service areas they normally wouldn't? Perhaps some of the cab drivers don't feel safe traveling to certain areas. I couldn't get cable w
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by ahallock 13y ago
I would say surveillance at this level is almost a form of terrorism. I don't not feel safe using phone and web applications. I'm also fearful to post libertarian-leaning comments or comments that could be deemed "anti-govern
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by ahallock 13y ago
But how do we know that? There is no accountability. They do everything under secrecy. It might be different if we had a third-party, non-governmental agency verifying that they are not violating the 4th amendment. Why have no accountabilit
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by ahallock 13y ago
'New York State Senate Wants To Make It A Felony To 'Annoy' A Police Officer' -- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/06/new-york-annoy-poli... Now it says there must be physical contact,
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by ahallock 13y ago
I just want to know who the developers are behind these systems. How much did they sell their souls for? Are they reading Hacker News? I hope it was worth it, assholes. The NSA, DHS, [INSERT 1984 department here] are just an effect of taxat
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by ahallock 13y ago
Why do we need great political leaders? Where are they leading us and why should we follow those who have an appetite for so much power? People should think for themselves and follow their own convictions and espouse true virtue, not get ca
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by ahallock 13y ago
While his story is interesting, I don't think it should be a model for anyone else or an example of how to be prudent with your education or debt situation. It's almost as if he went to such lonely extremes so he could write about this late
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by ahallock 13y ago
Forgetting about reuse, if you change any of the 6 levels before it, then the inner-most element breaks. This is brittle because of the extreme specificity. Thus, you can't make surgical changes easily for fear of breaking child elements.
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by ahallock 13y ago
So, the kid's flow is weak and he used a metaphor, maybe in poor taste, but that does not constitute a tangible threat. Maybe he actually is trying to be like Eminem who made a controversial reference to Bush that got him a visit from the F
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by ahallock 13y ago
> Its definitional: if you aren't seeking the threat of state enforcement to enforce a set of mutual promises, you don't have a contract, you have a mutual set of promises that lacks the intent necessary to form a contract. That is one
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by ahallock 13y ago
I agree with what you're saying for the most part. I think, though, that people want to get along and social pressure can work for a lot of these situations. Regulations do not always work in your favor, though, and do not always protect pe
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by ahallock 13y ago
That should really depend on the contracts and negotiations between property owners, tenants, etc. Maybe you don't mind living next to that "eyesore" because it's much cheaper and you can afford private schooling for your children. Everythi
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by ahallock 13y ago
So because there is dependence on some monopolistic entity for contract disputes (there really shouldn't be), then that gives justification for that entity to intrude on voluntary actions? Seems like a logical fallacy to me. How about we le
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by ahallock 13y ago
I've had no shortage of people looking for custom websites. Having a fully-customized identity throughout, warranted or not, is still very important to a lot of clients. You still integrate with third-party services, whether it's social med
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by ahallock 13y ago
The author is spreading misinformation. What we have is corporatism, which thrives in a highly-regulated economy, and does not favor small business or entrepreneurship. The rich and elite are attracted to the political oligarchy and heavily
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by ahallock 13y ago
I think you've read it right. Your HTML is more verbose, but you get used to it. I have elements like <h1 class="product__head"></h1> and it seems ugly and redundant (the h1 already indicates that the element is a heading!),
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by ahallock 13y ago
I write all my CSS using BEM (Block-Element-Modifier) now and it's helped quite a bit with making updates (no more specificity wars) and maintaing contextual style rules. I was thrown off at first by the ugly naming convention and "classiti
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by ahallock 13y ago
I had a really hard time parsing your comment. Anyway, writing narrowly-scoped CSS speeds up development a lot. If you're fighting the specificity war, or have coupled your HTML and CSS too much (I don't at all), your front-end code will de
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by ahallock 13y ago
Exactly. And that's the point and design. With a convoluted system in place, seemingly peaceful activities can land you in prison, or bankrupt you with legal fees. I only see the entropy accelerating.
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by ahallock 13y ago
> In the physical world, if you don't agree to the laws of a country, don't live there. It is that simple. No, it's not that simple. Your statement shows no empathy and lacks context. Is it that simple to leave North Korea? If I tried t
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by ahallock 14y ago
Problems sharing information due to existing federal laws and the liability shield, to me, are unrelated. And what is the point of existing laws if they're just going to create another layer of laws to bypass them? Who's going to oversee th
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by ahallock 14y ago
Just read it. Unless I'm mistaken there's a liability shield. If that's true, this bill is bullshit. Liability shields do not protect consumers. They use the force of the State to protect corporations, which is totally against the free mark
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by ahallock 14y ago
I'm not familiar with the bill, but based on your description, why does there need to be a bill to share information about attacks with law enforcement and security providers? Why couldn't this happen already? If Yahoo! were sharing data wi
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by ahallock 14y ago
They have a huge incentive to sell their political power; it's their 'product'. I really don't have much hope for reforming the current system. It's too entrenched and has too much momentum.
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by ahallock 14y ago
Sarcasm? All you've done with your example is trade one set of authoritarian, capricious rules with another. How about we just stop dictating people's lives?
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by ahallock 14y ago
Guy jokes about guy stuff? Sorry, women joke about this stuff too. At an old job, the women dropped sexual innuendo and jokes constantly, more so than the men. Was I offended? Hell no, I'm perfectly fine with sexual content; we're all just
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by ahallock 14y ago
URLs are meant to be explored by the user, hence the recommendation to use RESTful, semantic URLs. Granted, most users don't, but the spirit of URLs is to be manipulated by the end user; they are not opaque.
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by ahallock 14y ago
You're forced to use the roads. There is no practical way around government services since they're so pervasive. Just because someone benefited from a government service does not make it morally justifiable to steal.
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by ahallock 14y ago
If we want to help those kids, we must address the fundamental reasons those kids were shot. Drones detecting gun shots is a technological bandaid with the side effect of empowering the State even more. People don't want to address the fund

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