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by ashark 10y ago
Any politician who supports weakening surveillance or anti-terrorism measures will be out on their ass as soon as there's another attack (maybe sooner). And there's always another attack. Unless that's the only issue they c
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by ashark 10y ago
I seriously wish it'd survived and been enhanced. Much AJAX in practice is used to replicate the effect of <frame>s, but slower, buggier, and with more battery drain.
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by ashark 10y ago
Mix those thoughts with a healthy does of "human values don't necessarily have any relation to alien values, which may be just as incomprehensible to humanity as the true nature of the universe" and you've basically got
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by ashark 10y ago
I do this, and yeah, the results are pretty great, even with ordinary and easy-to-find Orville Redenbacher corn (off and store brands, not so much). Have you found any varieties that taste like the parent poster describes? I.E. with heavy
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by ashark 10y ago
I feel the same on groceries. ~12 years ago a $120 bill at the store meant an overflowing cart and an armful that wouldn't fit, without even coupon-clipping or anything. Now it seems like it means a 1/2 full cart at best . And I
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by ashark 10y ago
To be fair, I also use screens for at least part of four of those things (not counting buying books on Amazon, then it'd be all 5) and plenty of people also use a screen for books (even if you don't count e-ink, which isn't
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by ashark 10y ago
> 3. Put down screens like phone, laptop, and TV after about 8pm. The artificial, bright light throws off off your body's natural instinct to get sleepy when it gets dark. Spend some time preparing for the next day so you aren'
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by ashark 10y ago
Of course it's nonsense, and of course Trump's going to try to help (and avoid harming) his own fortune, and maybe this is even a case of that, it just happens that "discriminating against the same countries been bombing&
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by ashark 10y ago
It's also not very relevant since there's bound to be a strong relation between being relatively stable and prosperous (to say nothing of free, mind) and having trump hotels. I'm no fan of him, but I also don't like &quo
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by ashark 10y ago
Not a lot of people listen to Democracy Now, or read The Nation, or whatever. Unlike the right, the left critiques of (even their own people in) power don't often make it to mainstream news commentary, or interview targets of the mains
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by ashark 10y ago
My cell phone's the same way now. Maybe one in ten calls, at best, isn't phone-spam. And that's with being on the Do Not Call list. I've been trying to figure out a way to do without an actual phone (except maybe a bur
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by ashark 10y ago
I think the broader message of the typical-90s-developer-kid journey is "make sure it's a requirement to do something they think is fun—and ideally not an artificial one". I don't know how you do that in the age of jus
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by ashark 10y ago
It probably helps if you're in k-12 school at the time (loads of free time), Netflix hasn't been invented yet, it's still kind of possible to run out of crap to look at on the Web, and even though it's the mid-late ninet
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by ashark 10y ago
Fool-proof steps to produce a software developer: 1) Force them to learn how to navigate filesystems, the basics of file-based config, how to find and download files, and basic networking to make their video games work. 2) Give them little
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by ashark 10y ago
Being generally scummy and not getting caught (or not getting caught by anyone who matters) gives you a big advantage in business. Those who rise to the top through many rounds of competition are therefore either generally scummy or are jus
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by ashark 10y ago
One of the most terrifying descriptions of the effects of certain hard drugs (I believe the one under discussion then was heroin) that I've read (I think on HN a while back?) was something like: "You're currently in a lot of
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by ashark 10y ago
Spot on with our ability to preserve the past being the cause of this. Someone born in 1940 didn't grow up watching their favorite children's movies over and over and over on VHS, you know? You missed something then, it was often
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by ashark 10y ago
I do miss loving Firefox, which hasn't been the case since the 1.x days. Then again, I think these days what I dislike is the Web itself. You can't have a lean, responsive browser like that and support enough of the "advanc
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by ashark 10y ago
> Violently attacking someone and/or throwing them in prison for their refusal to hand you a share of the currency they received in private trade is a grotesque violation of human rights. This argument will be a lot more interesting
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by ashark 10y ago
The Kansas City area's gone from... 8? 9? fairly large malls to one, that I'm aware of. We have gained an outdoor version that has the bonus creepiness of trying to look like a nice, organic downtown of a quaint small european c
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by ashark 10y ago
A combination of having been fairly lucky and terrible autobiographical memory (I have trouble assembling stories from memories—basically, nothing sticks in my brain as a story and very little from my personal life ever strikes me as sto
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by ashark 10y ago
I was so ignorant of the movie I didn't even know there were Nazis in it until reading this article. I've already thought of several major pieces of media that were probably influenced by it, just based on the article's descr
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by ashark 10y ago
I once had to provide an FTP-like interface to user directories for the website's users. Couldn't find an easy way to do it with SFTP without creating Linux users. Found an FTPS daemon that would let me call an external script for
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by ashark 10y ago
Y'know, that's a good point. Flow of traffic on several highways around here is 15mph above the speed limit. People are going to hate self driving cars on those unless the speed limit goes up. Maneuvers to avoid or pass them may
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by ashark 10y ago
I think it's telling that both posts disputing my characterization have put forward Minnesota and other Lakes areas as the evidence against me. I can say those South and West of you don't typically mean that area when they say Mid
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by ashark 10y ago
Strongly agree about the ninjas. What a generic non-threat for a character like this. "Oh, look, another roomfull of ninjas. Bet this will be some riveting action. eyeroll " And their half-assed effort to have that one Special ni
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by ashark 10y ago
I've never had a problem with mixed Android/iOS group messages and media with iMessage. I've made no special effort to get it to work. It's seamless. Am I doing something wrong? Or right, rather? Now, back when I used An
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by ashark 10y ago
> (As regards Daredevil season 2, it was unfocused, full of ninjas and superfluous side characters. They completely lost the plot.) It perhaps speaks to how mediocre-bordering-on-bad season 1 was that I agree with all of that and still
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by ashark 10y ago
If you're used to mountains, oceans, et c you might find the landscapes and outdoor activities (aside from boating at the ubiquitous man-made lakes) in the Midwest lacking, to put it mildly. Most of it's also pretty far from any
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by ashark 10y ago
> Mind you, I don't think there's been any strong "we are going to reduce anti-terrorism measures" parties, or if they were they weren't popular. There almost can't be. All it takes is one attack of any ki

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