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by antidoh 14y ago
I don't think they dumb down on purpose, I think more often they just don't bother to talk to anyone knowledgeable.
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by antidoh 14y ago
You can simulate the option of no secret question, by giving an extremely wrong answer. First phone number: Dwight Eisenhower.
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by antidoh 14y ago
This is an example of why link shorteners should be defined within the context of an RFC, with encoding and decoding handled entirely by the browser or other client.
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by antidoh 14y ago
I think they've already given over control to their volunteers. Yes they could wrest it back, but I think their profit depends on not too much paid involvement. So it is what the senior members want it to be.
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by antidoh 14y ago
At this point it can't be done. StackExchange is the way it is by preference of the older controlling users.
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by antidoh 14y ago
"Hacker-news, however, is more free-form and definitely much better for "need advice" type questions with highly subjective answers." Assuming the question doesn't drop past the second page or so before someone who is interested in the ques
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by antidoh 14y ago
Aaannnnd ... I don't use their email except as a backup (a destination backup, not a place to backup my email). I don't use their browser, but that's mainly because I don't like it. The tinfoil fedora does chafe a bit when I do pop Chrome u
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by antidoh 14y ago
Why would FB buy Opera, except for scenarios similar or exactly like you list? If I'm a frog in a pot, and I see you turn on the gas, I'm jumping out, because I know ahead of time that it's going to get hot. By the time the water boils th
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by antidoh 14y ago
"They will." (tm) Why wouldn't they do that? What's in your refrigerator and how long it's been there has been discussed almost as often as flying cars, within an order of magnitude. Once checkout of items is commonly done with NFC or RFID
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by antidoh 14y ago
I am so glad that email didn't depend on advertising to eventually support itself "sometime in the future." Email is useful to me as email, and useful to my providers as a billed service. Yes, they're different things.
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by antidoh 14y ago
"messaging products proliferate because their creators want to create profitable products rather than distributed protocols." That's a bingo.
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by antidoh 14y ago
"email is about communication instead of endless "sharing," broadcasting, forwarding, signalling." I'm in the minority, but Facebook literally depresses me (and by literally, I literally mean literally), and I quit long ago. All these words
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by antidoh 14y ago
"The government can't really do that much to improve human rights, but they can do a lot to curtail them." I agree with this general idea, but there is one very effective thing the govt can do to improve human rights, and that is to not cur
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by antidoh 14y ago
I don't have any specific recommendations. Almost all sources of information are biased. You can use that as a feature, to see the perspective that the source is trying to influence you with, or you can at least be aware of it. Basically, t
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by antidoh 14y ago
My impression, from living here all my life, is that very little is being actively done by our government to improve human rights in the US, and very much time, effort and money is being spent on reducing human rights. Three example areas a
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by antidoh 14y ago
At the moment I go without. It seems like the "best" compromise would be to buy catastrophic/atmospheric insurance, and otherwise mostly go without. Have you looked at HMOs? It seems that would be contracting with the medical providers a
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by antidoh 14y ago
With unbelievably hostile URLs like that, you need to share a URL to your own site/blog/someplace that's easy to verbally share, and then link to your G+ from there. Which is an antipattern, and a smell of some sort.
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by antidoh 14y ago
It's a really big ghost town.
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Alternatives to gmail (and to fastmail)(emaildiscussions.com)
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by antidoh 14y ago
And "The 'Good' War" by Studs Terkel, a comprehensive masterpiece of individual perspective.
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by antidoh 14y ago
What alternative to gmail are we going to recommend, after Facebook buys Opera who own Fastmail? Actually, where should I go now ? I really don't want Facebook to have my email.
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by antidoh 14y ago
You don't change individuals' identity. Instead you add individuals to groups.
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by antidoh 14y ago
At some point, the world will move away from the understanding of Buffet.
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by antidoh 14y ago
Or 210%.
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by antidoh 14y ago
People really need to think about this. How much would we save at the individual level with a real deal like this, and at the societal level when taxpayers no longer have to pay increased costs for all the people who waited until death's do
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by antidoh 14y ago
This doesn't necessarily follow from employer based health insurance, that can happen regardless of how you source your insurance. The problem is that we get our health care through health insurance companies .
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by antidoh 14y ago
Some insurance companies give bonuses to employees to find a reason to cancel a client's policy after a big claim. "You used the wrong middle initial on the application form."
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by antidoh 14y ago
For mobile people, fine, probably. But if you look around any traditional office, you see personalization. People tend to merge with their environments. People tie themselves to their environment. They make their work part of their lives. I
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Why would this take any sort of CS education? They've patented when to show a commercial.
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by antidoh 14y ago
I read an article a few years ago that correlated the desirability to do business in a country with the perceived likelihood of fairness and low corruption in institutions and government. The US was high (possibly first?) in that ranking. I

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