arkades

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by arkades 7y ago
There’s more truth to this statement than I am comfortable with.
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by arkades 7y ago
You can’t make up in volume what you’re losing in margins.
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by arkades 7y ago
So what’re the recommendations for alternatives? It seems like quite a lot of VPNs play their cards close to the vest - and at the end of the day, all I want is a modicum of privacy and to safely torrent a movie for my PLEX server instead o
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by arkades 7y ago
Yes. He advocates for third party VPNs, but PIA was acquired by a shady company, so not them anymore, because there’s now a reason to distrust them specifically. It seemed pretty clear to me.
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by arkades 7y ago
Reminds me of the Christian Bale batmobile. Paint it black and I’m in.
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by arkades 7y ago
So... it looks like they stuck a solid steel shell on a passenger vehicle. Many of the safety gains that cars have shown in the past few decades come from strategic crumple zones and the like. So how does this stand up in terms of actual sa
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by arkades 7y ago
In fairness, her answer to “ it what if I need it later?” is “then you can just buy it again!” Her shtick has always been “get rid of stuff you don’t need” layered on top of rabid consumerism. This doesn’t seem the slightest bit out of char
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by arkades 7y ago
Excellent. So I have to replace my VPN provider. Suggestions?
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by arkades 7y ago
Because the eastern corridor drives a huge chunk of the wealth and innovation of the entire country... It’s not like we are federally funding a rail between Nowhere and Whocares. It’s the business and academic districts of Boston, NYC, Phil
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by arkades 7y ago
The excellent engineers at Samsung failed to crack this problem. A little while ago people were saying Motorola must just be showing advertising mock-ups, because how could they solve the hinge problem that a Real(tm) cell phone company cou
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by arkades 7y ago
I once got a call while I was lecturing some students. It was repeated three times in three minutes - I assumed it was an emergency and stepped out. I was greeted by someone explaining that my father had caused a car accident, and they were
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by arkades 7y ago
That’s if you believe that Disney properly owns the material it has claimed. If you believe that the default ownership rights to culture already belong to everyone, pirating isn’t theft, it’s a refusal to be deprived of a natural right. Whe
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by arkades 7y ago
What’s better than TripAdvisor for finding sights and experiences? Very much not a rhetorical question.
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by arkades 7y ago
It certainly depends on what you’re comparing to. I’ve lived up and down the USD east coast, and spent time in London and Reykjavik, and traveled through Italy, Spain, and Portugal. I was always left with the impression that everything in E
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by arkades 7y ago
The linked JAMA study does not show the opioid reduction was 75%. In fact, to quote, “ The findings suggest that MBTs are associated with moderate improvements in pain and small reductions in opioid dose and may be associated with therapeut
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by arkades 7y ago
Acquired a few years ago.
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by arkades 7y ago
The game is the game. People are allowed to have different metaphors for the game - the creator doesn’t have special ownership on that.
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by arkades 7y ago
If any of those were actually distinctively associated with a particular brand, I could see an argument being made for it. I think the key to how reasonable it is to trademark it depends on how widely it's enforced, both in terms of in
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by arkades 7y ago
I jumped into this comment thread to say precisely that. It’s absolutely outrageous how many articles about the healthcare industry basically boil down to: journalist just discovered simple, old, and public concept known to everyone even lo
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by arkades 7y ago
Accepting any customer serves the customers interest. According to customer requests that their sensitive information not be placed in a situation where it could be relatively easily accessed by state actors ... serves the customers interes
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by arkades 7y ago
Having bereavement leave does not preclude returning to work. It precludes being forced to return to work when one cannot.
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by arkades 7y ago
In what way is not providing a heads-up that this was being introduced and refusing to add an opt-out a “principled stand” for the benefit of their users?
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by arkades 7y ago
Looks like they can deal with counterfeiters when they actually want to.
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Amazon barring third party sales of Nintendo products(sellercentral.amazon.com)
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by arkades 7y ago
It’s Tylenol. One is exposed by ingesting it.
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by arkades 7y ago
Re-releasing your old content to spike subscriptions with a nostalgia crowd might be the very definition of stale.
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by arkades 7y ago
Does anyone have any sources for good projects for the USZ?
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by arkades 7y ago
They can't "hold you" in the sense of denying you the ability to leave against medical advice. "Harm to self or others" is a whole different category of hold and no one is doing it for a random drunk in the ER. Howe
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by arkades 7y ago
The most common cause of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is obesity/metabolic syndrome. If someone with a BMI > 30 came in asking for a workup for auto-brewery syndrome that would be an unreasonable work-up and a waste of limited
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by arkades 7y ago
Different laws are written, variously, from the perspective of intention (mens rea), and others are known as "strict liability." Strict liability laws ask only whether the law was broken, and make no reference to the intent to bre

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