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by amyjess 7y ago
I really want one of these. I hate signing my name. I never sign anything the same way twice, and it's always a random scribble. I've actually gotten into fights with my bank over this, and before my landlord switched to electro
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by amyjess 7y ago
Oh, there's a counter-culture out there, it's just that none of them are willing to go to bat for Assange. Assange did this to himself, with posting antisemitic tweets and courting the alt-right. And you have Assange's legal
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by amyjess 7y ago
Violation of TOS is trespassing on private property. You are only allowed to access someone's private property under a particular set of conditions, and Swartz violated those conditions. What really did him in was that he went out of h
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by amyjess 7y ago
> What is unreasonable, and why this is getting attention on HN is because Malamud's actions in publish the annotations has been described as "terrorism". He described his own actions as "terrorism", and the stat
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by amyjess 7y ago
You might be interested in Fossil. Tickets and the wiki are stored as part of the repo and don't depend on a completely separate web interface.
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by amyjess 7y ago
I wholeheartedly agree. In addition, responses like that do more to specifically push people towards commercial software than anything else (not specifically proprietary, just commercial). Why use a piece of software where the developers ha
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by amyjess 7y ago
Everyone could stand to learn the lessons of gcc. Back in the '90s, when gcc really took off, it got a lot of attention for being faster and optimizing code better than anything else out there. It wasn't just free: it was _better_
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by amyjess 7y ago
Calling people "pathetic" is generally a very bad way of convincing people of your argument.
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by amyjess 7y ago
I've always hated middle-click paste. It's a nightmare waiting to happen. I'm terrified that, when I'm scrolling, I'll accidentally push down just a little bit too hard on the scroll wheel, and it'll do somethi
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by amyjess 7y ago
Oh, that would be wonderful. Thank you!
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by amyjess 7y ago
I don't even care about Ctrl+V. I just want the ability to right-click on selected text and bring up a menu with 'Copy', 'Paste', and maybe a few other operations on it. No Windows terminal I've ever seen has t
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by amyjess 7y ago
> How to avoid this scam: Don't answer or return any calls from numbers you don't recognize. Unfortunately, this isn't great for a number of reasons: 1) The last two times I got a series of missed calls every two hours fro
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by amyjess 7y ago
Funny thing is, I got hit by a flood of these calls on Saturday. Funny seeing it here right after it happened. Unfortunately, I called one of them back before I realized it was an international number (Android's dialer, for some reason
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by amyjess 7y ago
They were also just straight-up replaced by buses. The main bus lines in the older parts of a good chunk of cities still follow the old streetcar lines.
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by amyjess 7y ago
A couple of fascinating takeaways from this that don't get brought up very often when the conspiracy is mentioned: - Streetcars were already failing when GM and their cohorts swooped in. They just accelerated the collapse and took adva
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by amyjess 7y ago
Farrakhan recently re-entered the spotlight due to the controversy over the Women's March earlier this year.
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by amyjess 8y ago
So, a few years ago, someone mentioned something very similar, and I asked them to elaborate because I was curious. This was their response: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14540332 It's well worth a read.
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by amyjess 8y ago
Unfortunately, Delta is expensive enough that flying them would mean flying less. A large part of why I was able to start flying again last year was when I discovered Southwest. I loved flying with them, but once the MAX goes into service a
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by amyjess 8y ago
Thanks. I didn't see the other thread. Hey mods, please go ahead and kill mine. Turns out it wasn't needed.
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Two Google employees say management is punishing them for organizing walkout(theverge.com)
58 points by amyjess 8y ago|20 comments
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by amyjess 8y ago
Wait, the forgotten employee from Dilbert [0] is real? Learn something new every day... [0] https://dilbert.com/strip/1992-05-05
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by amyjess 8y ago
Worse, perjury is a criminal offense, not a civil one. You can't sue for perjury; you have to convince a prosecutor to press charges.
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by amyjess 8y ago
On the flip side, it's easier to be an indie artist now than it's ever been.
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by amyjess 8y ago
A few things: * Colloquially, we use the term "professor" to refer to anyone who teaches at a university, but it's probably not her actual job title. For example, at my alma mater, non-tenure-track instructors typically have
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Oh to Have Eaten at the Automat, Just Once(messynessychic.com)
1 points by amyjess 8y ago|1 comments
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by amyjess 8y ago
So, according to the Cities: Skylines wiki [0], cims who move into high-density residential areas are younger and less likely to procreate than cims who move into low-density residential. That's an interesting way to differentiate them
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by amyjess 8y ago
So, one thing that's broken about traffic is the distribution of population in low-density vs. high-density areas. The short version is that low-density areas are denser than they look, and high-density areas aren't dense enough.
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by amyjess 8y ago
From what I can tell looking around on Steam forums, this isn't the range of the service. There are two things going on: People who live close enough to services get an additional happiness bonus for living close to the service on top
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by amyjess 8y ago
> Despite the name, Skylines is really a traffic management game more than anything else. Part of the fun of Skylines is just how cool your city looks. Unfortunately, traffic management is the only part of the game that really holds up a
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by amyjess 8y ago
> NEVER nail a stuffed bunny to a cross and put it up in front of the Battalion Headquarters sign as an “Easter Desecration.” This is made all the more disturbing by the fact that, when I was in college, I witnessed a friend's roomm

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