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by bdhess 9y ago
If I’m understanding your suggestion correctly, it contains an attack vector where Provider B can obtain your password for Provider A by getting you to sign up for a new account and presenting the same “cipher” as Provider A.
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by bdhess 9y ago
Can’t speak for parent, but agree with some of what they said. And no, I don’t think those people’s livelihoods ought to be beneath human. I assume that most people who have those kinds of jobs don’t want those jobs. Rather they need th
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by bdhess 9y ago
In modern skyscrapers, the exterior walls are no longer load-bearing; rather they add to the weight that must be borne by the core of the building. The marginal cost of adding ornamented granite and brick on the exterior of a modern skyscra
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by bdhess 9y ago
I don’t think you understood what parent meant by “single track”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-line_working
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by bdhess 9y ago
Because under our system municipalities, counties, etc only have as much authority as are delegated by the state.
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by bdhess 9y ago
CA got an exemption for CARB written into the federal emissions law at the time it was drafted. That's not the same as being grandfathered in just by virtue of having been the first to regulate.
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by bdhess 9y ago
> leaving aside details where you already may have an Amazon account This ignores the most salient part of the whole scenario.
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by bdhess 9y ago
You shouldn't need a lawyer to pursue them. Assuming you're within the time periods prescribed in the FCRA, you can file your own complaint in your local small claims court. Before that, I'd send them a letter clearly marked
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by bdhess 9y ago
$10/hr sounds high even for on-shore telephone support.
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by bdhess 9y ago
> The scope of the Single Market is broader than that - it includes standardization of weights and measures, standardization of product names, etc Well historically individual states had their own regulations regarding weights/measu
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by bdhess 9y ago
I would also add that the original intent was to remove government-imposed barriers to trade between the members (elimination of duties, regulation, etc). Whereas the unavailability of certain content based on location is almost certainly t
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by bdhess 9y ago
> They thought it was a bug in iOS and treated it as such The majority of end users don't know anything about divs and iframes and don't care whose bug it is. So the question remains-- since they clearly know that this bug exis
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by bdhess 9y ago
> ...and it is also, sadly, no surprise that they also think that this sets precedent. Why is it so hard for them to understand the difference between trial courts and appellate courts and which set precedent? Trial courts also set prece
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by bdhess 9y ago
My understanding is that the wake caused by the A380 requires that additional buffer space be allocated in the landing/takeoff sequence, so this advantage really doesn't exist.
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by bdhess 9y ago
> Why suggest a worse solution (encouraging all drivers to go faster) instead of punishing more people for driving irresponsibly? This is the same logic that failed in the "War on Drugs". First off, there's a false dichoto
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by bdhess 9y ago
I think that question is likely to be the basis of much of the litigation here, and from everything I read it's not exactly a settled matter.
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by bdhess 10y ago
> Given how common it is for members of Congress to become mega millionaires over a few decades on a job that pays ~$200k/yr Can you provide a source for this? Don't know much about the topic but I've always assumed that,
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by bdhess 10y ago
That was (d) flexibility/directness. OP is making a different argument.
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by bdhess 10y ago
It's not clear how you're any more free driving (engaging in a heavily regulated activity) versus taking a bus (availing yourself of a public accommodation).
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by bdhess 10y ago
It shouldn't just be up to the merchants, though. It's a decision that has externalities. Providing space for parking, for example, limits the density of space available for other uses, which makes the whole area less pedestrian
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by bdhess 10y ago
I'm pretty sure I've seen traditional taxi cabs do everything in your enumerated list.
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by bdhess 10y ago
OP's point is that most consumers are much more sensitive to price than they are to X years of updates as a deciding factor when buying a new phone. If a manufacturer planned for a longer update timeline and hence charged more, they&#x
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by bdhess 10y ago
Your answer assumes that the cost of preventing burnout exceeds the cost of turnover.
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by bdhess 10y ago
At the time of purchase you can find these things out by researching the price of the replacement ink cartridge and its page rating. (Page rating is soft/fudgeable but should at least be a reasonable way to ballpark the lifespan of th
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by bdhess 10y ago
Pharmaceuticals, for instance.
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by bdhess 10y ago
Previous HN thread on this topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12519761
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by bdhess 10y ago
This, and I'd see it as probably something that was on the Play team's roadmap that they decided was a project that would be a good fit for a summer intern, and they may have deferred the work by a few months on that basis. Speaki
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by bdhess 10y ago
That's not at all true. In a democracy, "the government" is a reflection of the will of society, however imperfectly expressed. Paying taxes is as social obligation with known consequences for failure to comply (in this case,
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by bdhess 10y ago
Why can't Apple ship both a USB-A and USB-C cable? In the early 2000s, Apple bundled both a USB and a Firewire cable in the packaging with a new iPod, presumably to facilitate exactly the sort of transition they're confronting no
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by bdhess 10y ago
I find utility in staying out of jail, so I pay my mandatory taxes.

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