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by ballenf 6y ago
Seems like a great use case for a slack bot. Monitor for naked hellos and show a link to this page. That way it’s not personal.
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by ballenf 6y ago
Or just ask the question and when your internal timer goes off, follow up with some polite version of “nvm”.
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by ballenf 6y ago
I had forgotten that we all did hate ABBA in the eighties. I mean that no one I knew could stand to listen to a single song all the way through. But now I kind of like them and had kind of fake memories of always liking them until the artic
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by ballenf 6y ago
These type of organisms -- those that seemingly require a rather narrow window of living conditions -- make me wonder how they have survived through ice ages and such. I assume this has been something extensively studied and is well-underst
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by ballenf 6y ago
I think the risk is more reputational for orgs wanting to use the Asahi project while not souring relations with Apple.
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by ballenf 6y ago
The point is that we're one of (large number) of ant colonies and there's nothing particularly interesting about us vs. any other ant colony. Even if ETs study ants generally, there's nothing unique about us to give us a gre
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by ballenf 6y ago
Were you ever mobbed by cats while using? I could see that effect really freaking someone out who wasn't ready for it. Like a scene from Hitchcock's The Birds but cats.
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by ballenf 6y ago
Here's the last reply before the thread was locked: > I don't see the point of pressing the wrong series of key combinations nine or more times in a row constitutes a "Login Window ScreenShot Problem" any more than dr
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by ballenf 6y ago
My only issue with those prices is how hard it is to figure out what your total outlay will be upfront. If you just hear good things about the iOS app and think '$75 seems high, but ok', you'll be very frustrated later when y
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by ballenf 6y ago
FB marketplace is literally the only thing I fb for anymore. It's pretty much the only decent place to buy and sell furniture, lawn equipment, etc. I valiantly tried to stick with craigslist, but it's just become a wasteland of sc
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by ballenf 6y ago
The metadata of our conversations is really more important than the content most of the time. Especially if FB is tracking the conversation participants before and after the chat. If we chat and then shortly there after you search for some
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by ballenf 6y ago
Has there been even a single move away from ever more draconian copyright? Just the last budget bill had provisions for more criminal enforcement of copyright and with bipartisan support. If this is a slippery slope it's a steady and w
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Airlines Internal “No-Fly” List Grows to over 2,700 Flyers(flyertalk.com)
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by ballenf 6y ago
The video is from CGP Grey and is called Lockdown Productivity: Spaceship You . It's about separating physically spaces at home to help your brain. It's incredible. For anyone who hates clicking on YT links without knowing where
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by ballenf 6y ago
The warning is probably directed more at politicians or civilians making complaints than the lawbreakers. It gives the agency something to point to when they get inquiries or complaints.
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by ballenf 6y ago
It's also worth noting that advertising is nearly a necessity in an industrialized society. Production of goods has high capital upfront costs and marginal costs that become negligible at scale. You can't get that scale without ad
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by ballenf 6y ago
And you just made me picture a store bought "ready-to-eat" meal as a terrifying and hungry creature waiting for me to wake it up.
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by ballenf 6y ago
> at least there is a very objective measure ($$$ closed) at the end of the period. That is far from an objective measure standing alone, unless every salesperson generates all their own leads and the distribution of potential leads is r
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by ballenf 6y ago
I think an actor successful enough to make that list is likewise far from typical. Maybe some get lucky, but most actors detail years of discipline breaking into the field.
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by ballenf 6y ago
How much of that is just because it’s not spinning/ no gravity? That plus better shielding should help right?
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by ballenf 6y ago
The key to D&B is understanding that they have two very separate businesses. Think of it like the TurboTax free filing division and the paid division. D&B make buckets of money off of paid services which are like credit counseling a
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by ballenf 6y ago
Look at the file types gmail blocks from being directly attached to emails for a comprehensive list.
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by ballenf 6y ago
Curious why this is downvoted? Seems like the first step any counsel would take in this scenario.
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by ballenf 6y ago
I don’t think it would be as lopsided as you envision. You might even be able claim strict liability standard since it’s an allegation of professional fraud. Meaning the standard for proving defamation might be substantially lower than norm
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by ballenf 6y ago
It seems like the FTC should be running this for US based customers and browsers should default to a local resource and/or let users override the default source of truth.
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by ballenf 6y ago
Maybe it’s my bubble but I’ve seen a slight retraction from typescript in the past year.
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by ballenf 6y ago
I think the switches are driven by recruiting just as much as the old thing being “dead” in itself. There’s a sweet spot in the middle of a tech’s popularity where people are cheaper. Very late or early expertise is more expensive. You also
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by ballenf 6y ago
An "easy" implementation would be to allow the user specify which contacts db is shared. User could then have multiple contact lists -- a fake one, a work one, a personal, etc.
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by ballenf 6y ago
They are the only company I know that continuously pulls features from existing tiers while raising prices on all tiers. They act like a monopoly seemingly oblivious to the many viable alternatives out there today.
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by ballenf 6y ago
It's amazing to me how long deliveries take if you're not prime. Of course the actual delivery is just as fast, they just wait a few days to fill the order. And the dark patterns on placing an order without re-upping Prime feels l

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