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by bdhess 8y ago
> Privacy-wise, base64 encoding can have benefits since it hides the content you access in larger encrypted bundles. Uh, no.
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by bdhess 8y ago
> When the dust settles I think we'll see Netflix and Amazon as the duopoly of this era of video streaming. I doubt it. Comcast/NBCU, AT&T/Time Warner, and Disney all have good (and in some cases superior) content and
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by bdhess 8y ago
By taxing it and providing resources like counseling for people with addictive behaviors.
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by bdhess 8y ago
> there is nothing explicitly illegal about what people like the WeWork CEO are doing Not sure why you say that. This seems to be textbook self-dealing, which is illegal under Delaware law (where WeWork is incorporated) unless the self-
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by bdhess 8y ago
TV delivered over IP is not the same as TV delivered over the internet. When your ISP is the same entity as your TV carrier, the traffic doesn't have to travel over the internet. Comcast is already doing this with X1 and Verizon is a
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by bdhess 8y ago
Maybe a good number of the people he cares about work at or invest in the company he built?
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by bdhess 8y ago
What are you comparing it to when you say "relatively expensive"? I've read reviews comparing it favorably to a BMW 3 Series, which is in the same price range.
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by bdhess 8y ago
Modular arithmetic ought to be explainable by anyone who’s studied basic number theory. Not just coders.
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by bdhess 8y ago
I suppose you’re excluding alcohol from that pronouncement?
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by bdhess 8y ago
You’re a professional cook, and personal food waste bothers you? That’s surprising to me given my own experience behind the scenes with institutional food service, which involved massive amounts of waste.
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by bdhess 8y ago
Refundable credits are a thing.
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by bdhess 8y ago
$500k was one of the drafts; the final amount is $750k.
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by bdhess 8y ago
There’s definitely a consent factor to exercising your free speech rights. For example, you cannot loiter on my sidewalk at 2 AM expressing your free speech rights with a megaphone, since that would constitute harassment or breach of the pe
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by bdhess 8y ago
> It was established long ago that the phone company isn’t guilty, legally or morally, if two people use telephones to organize a crime. In this case, Facebook is not a neutral communications provider. They are selling and displaying th
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by bdhess 8y ago
Well in fairness, tax bills are based on market values, and ought to respond to events in the market. In competitive markets with lots of supply and demand, you'd expect many transactions, and the effect of any one comparable transacti
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by bdhess 8y ago
It’s not like society is organized this way intentionally. It’s just the reality of Goodhart’s Law [0] in action. We haven’t found a way of measuring success that isn’t gameable. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good
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by bdhess 8y ago
$25k in state and local taxes would be high even for FANG in NYC
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by bdhess 8y ago
> Such access should be restricted (requiring approval) and logged, of course, but it's difficult to eliminate entirely at scale. It’s not clear how you could practically enforce this requirement if devs just have the raw key on the
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by bdhess 8y ago
> Basically, asset seizure enables the state to go after someone without no known source of income flaunting millions of dollars in sports cars, mansions, etc. Even if the state has no idea _what_ the suspect doing, just that they'v
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by bdhess 8y ago
If you’re worried about your kids being exposed to that stuff, set up internet filtering in your home. It’s pretty effective these days, and you’ll actually get way closer to the result you want with that approach than with trying to change
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by bdhess 8y ago
Because there’s already plenty of places on the internet to host a censored photo blog for free. And because some people (myself included) resent the implication that watching porn is deviant behavior. And because there’s actually no conclu
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by bdhess 8y ago
“Jury of [your] peers” is not a phrase that has legal significance in the US. The sixth amendment requires “an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed“.[0] The indicting US Attorney will be have
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by bdhess 8y ago
> BTW, it "feels" unlikely that a judge or jury would convict based on gait analysis. But it does seem plausible that gait analysis could lead to a suspect, who could be convicted (or more likely, plead out) on additional evide
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by bdhess 8y ago
This tutorial has bad advice. Triple DES is nearing obsolescence; birthday attacks are fairly cheap at this point (see https://sweet32.info ). OpenSSL supports modern cipher suites like AES+GCM which are much more appropriate fo
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by bdhess 8y ago
Please stop duplicate submitting (5x for this article from your account in the past week)
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by bdhess 8y ago
Are you suggesting that a censored network is "regular"-- at a library ?
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by bdhess 8y ago
> It's very conceivable that the folks moving within NYC will have a payroll tax increase of less than $6k. But do we think the jobs that the new Amazon hires are vacating will go away? Seems probable that many of them will be back
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by bdhess 8y ago
> rather than throwing a hot shit on their lap Well really, Oracle threw the hot shit in customers’ laps. The author just had the gall to point it out. > making hundreds of people's life a living hell for a week > Making them
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by bdhess 8y ago
Even better to go this way; no Apple tax.
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by bdhess 8y ago
> That's why the current EU open access policies are, as noble as they seem, quite problematic The purpose of government funded research isn't to help university faculty build portfolios for professional advancement. It's

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