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by amalcon 6y ago
I don't think the question is why it's useful to consumers, but rather how does it lead to revenue for YouTube? Do private videos drive substantial direct ad revenue, increase engagement, or similar? Personally I'd bet on dr
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by amalcon 6y ago
I would cite the exact law that made religion a protected class in the american workplace: the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 56 years ago, this was happening often enough that Congress felt the need to act. This isn't a citation, but if
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by amalcon 6y ago
That's not new , though. It's just adopted a different school of thought than it used to (and not even universally). It wasn't that long ago that you could be fired for mentioning that you are not christian at the office c
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by amalcon 6y ago
Well, my memory is decades out of date and from a low-population state. Still, I remember spending a lot of time on how smart this was and how well it's worked . "Greatest civic invention since democracy itself" was a bi
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by amalcon 6y ago
The way these things are taught in history class is pretty weird, and goes a long way toward explaining this. The Connecticut Compromise is a great example. You're taught that the large states wanted representation in proportion to p
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by amalcon 6y ago
> But what is the market for affluent and influential tech workers in the West? Probably like 95% MacBook Pro. Not in the late 1990s, when Windows XP was being developed.
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by amalcon 6y ago
I haven't seen a single American kid who could get ready for school (eat breakfast, get dressed, etc) in 20 minutes. I believe you that it's different in the UK, but in the US you need to budget at least an hour for this. Then, w
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by amalcon 6y ago
I once had a wall wart style power adapter whose output side was a standard coaxial cable (like for TV). The reason was that the signal amplifier it came with was built into the housing of a 2-way coaxial cable splitter, presumably because
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by amalcon 6y ago
Worth noting that performance is an externally visible feature. You shouldn't be testing for little performance variations, but you probably should check for pathological cases (e.g. takes a full minute to sort this particular list
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by amalcon 6y ago
This is the one space where I actually like Perl: for shell scripts that grew up a bit, but still amount to mostly manipulating text files and streams.
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by amalcon 6y ago
It wouldn't usually help to use 8.8.8.8, but they probably could use their own authoritative servers instead of the root servers. Look up <random chars>.dnstest.google.com or <random chars>.dev or something. The problem wi
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by amalcon 6y ago
So sorry to hear about your wife. This is an incredibly scary disease for a lot of reasons. Adding the frustration of a chronic condition to that is not what anyone needs. The basic problem is: What do you do about a chronic condition fo
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by amalcon 6y ago
You must not have been paying attention at the time. I was literally told "Vote for X or you are a traitor", which is the same fallacy, in 2003 .
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by amalcon 6y ago
> The voter fills in the identifier on a Scantron-style paper ballot. The voter will mess this up a disturbing fraction of the time. It will be rejected. The voter will try again, possibly have it rejected again, give up, and go on T
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by amalcon 6y ago
A woman was killed by a pepper bullet in Boston in '04, when it missed its intended target and struck her in the eye. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Victoria_Snelgrove
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by amalcon 6y ago
Just conversations, but a quick googling points to twitch.amazon.com. That appears to offer Amazon Prime members "free channel subscription ($4.99 value) every month".
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by amalcon 6y ago
I'm not really into that whole scene, but my third-hand understanding is that the Amazon Prime integration is a form of this. Basically, while Microsoft offered millions to people like Ninja, Amazon offers somewhere around three dolla
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by amalcon 6y ago
Honestly, it would be fine to just block re-shares of posts from politicians and the sorts of account that literally only talk politics.
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by amalcon 6y ago
This happened to someone a few years back at my current employer. There are pretty much always tax implications that the company will be required to deal with, and there are sometimes other legal issues.
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by amalcon 6y ago
You need to look at the threat model. The threat model around eSNI public key substitution is a minor privacy invasion: Eve can see the hostnames you're connecting to. This isn't so bad because your DNS provider can already see
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by amalcon 6y ago
Don't the electronic:optical and optical:electronic transitions introduce quite a bit of latency? I've seen estimates of around 500 microseconds per conversion. That's not enough to matter for networking, but RAM chips have
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by amalcon 6y ago
To clarify, "unstable" in rust-speak means "You can use this, but it might completely change or go away, and therefore break your code." You need to deliberately opt in to unstable features, so you are unlikely to use so
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by amalcon 6y ago
I think the focus on qualified immunity is a little bit misplaced. If something is explicitly illegal, qualified immunity doesn't apply. There are several reasons that police get away with breaking laws, but I think the core of it is
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by amalcon 6y ago
I'm glad the Wikipedia summary ends with this line: Today, sortition is commonly used to select prospective jurors in common law-based legal systems and is sometimes used in forming citizen groups with political advisory power (citize
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by amalcon 6y ago
Ignoring the mechanical-legal aspects of what Section 230 already does, the discourse on this has been a shining example of logically inconsistent philosophy. The Citizens United v. FEC decision indicates that corporations have free speec
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by amalcon 6y ago
Once upon a time, "high level" unambiguously meant higher than assembly language. A smallish fraction of the population still uses it that way.
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by amalcon 6y ago
I get that we've lost that particular terminology battle, but I'm still a little sad about a decades-old term being stolen to refer to a fad.
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by amalcon 7y ago
They might think they're wearing them for that reason, and I'll certainly take it. That said, it's not terribly effective for that purpose..
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by amalcon 7y ago
That strong suggestion is so that a person with the virus will be wearing the mask, and therefore less likely to infect other people. That type of mask is more or less useless for protecting its wearer; its purpose is to protect everyone e
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by amalcon 7y ago
There's a separate "tipped employee" minimum wage, which must be paid by the employer regardless of tip income. Last I'd checked, though, it was only about $2/hr.

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