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721.
by blfr 7y ago
I loathe every login screen except for Google's. Why is it that only one company in the world (and sshd but there's no login screen when set up properly) can get it right? Is it really a piece of software that requires hundreds of
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by blfr 7y ago
The major downside of caffeine is tolerance.
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by blfr 7y ago
Most books should be blog posts. Most blog posts should be tweets.
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by blfr 7y ago
A password manager and a handful of YubiKeys are pretty perfect. And they make for a good, simple advice to give to people if they're worried about security.
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by blfr 7y ago
But hey, fame, right? Just famous people things. It's not just fame, HN is PG's site. It would be almost rude if his posts didn't show up high here.
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by blfr 7y ago
Expiring licenses, arbitrary limits, crippled functionality, troubles with moving software between computers, publishers going under... this, much more than money, is why I stick to free software as much as possible.
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by blfr 7y ago
They are doing pretty well imho. They offer the world a massively popular open source mobile operating system, a massively popular open source browser, they seriously pushed user security with influence over practices, software, and Project
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by blfr 7y ago
This money is donated by employees who opt in Why do they opt in? If they wanted to donate to a politician, they always can. Why this setup?
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by blfr 7y ago
Google's "don't be evil" clearly meant "don't become Microsoft." It was never a call for general moral betterment.
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by blfr 7y ago
How come? Google Drive has fairly granular access control access control.
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by blfr 7y ago
Your genes are at work 24/7/365. How much willpower do you have?
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by blfr 7y ago
People said the same thing when Google Apps (now G Suite) dropped the free trier. I didn't notice anything happening.
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by blfr 7y ago
Most servers will refuse the request making it only very rarely helpful.
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by blfr 7y ago
According to the first reply this is an investigation into Trump, not by Trump. https://twitter.com/greekemmy/status/1201766690918408193
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by blfr 7y ago
Yandex has an excellent email hosting. Almost G Suite level. At least there would be some real Russian connection. https://connect.yandex.com/
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by blfr 7y ago
No, the article explains that Warren and Sanders are popular among exactly the professional class and that this is their natural electorate. Which it is. Sanders’s left-wing challenge to Clinton found significant support among educated, re
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by blfr 7y ago
A 150ft yacht is exactly the upgraded version of a fishing boat from a 1950s driveway in a newly minted middle class neighbourhood.
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by blfr 7y ago
Folks like myself support him even though we're some sort of "upper middle class" or some form of middle-merchant class. Why do you say "even though"? Sanders and Warren target upper middle class and people aspiri
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Teacher Effects on Student Achievement and Height: A Cautionary Tale(nber.org)
237 points by blfr 7y ago|169 comments
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by blfr 7y ago
I'm pretty sure PG entertains quite a few interesting heresies that he's simply not willing to share publicly because of the backlash. Instead, he nudges people to find them on their own.
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by blfr 7y ago
Porn isn't about storytelling. It's about sex. Otherwise it's just a story with gratuitous nudity and sex. And yet it lacks actual sex and intimacy. Making it a poor, distant ersatz. Same with marshmallows. They're food,
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by blfr 7y ago
Books and movies retain their core purpose: storytelling. While pornography and professional sports don't. It's like asking someone how can they approve of steak and disapprove of marshmallows. As if they were the same thing becau
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by blfr 7y ago
I bring in technology because neither pornography nor professional sports as we know them today would exist without it. Colosseum was a rare thing, and it hosted live events with the communal aspect of it. If you go your school league game,
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by blfr 7y ago
While responding to an OP about porn stars and concluding that "porn stars and sex workers should be celebrated instead of being ostracized."
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by blfr 7y ago
Professional sports strike me as the same kind kind of aberration. People engaging in no physical activity while watching paid professionals playing sports via a long chain of technological and market devices. It even lacks the communal exp
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by blfr 7y ago
There is nothing natural about porn. Watching other people paid to have sex with strangers via a long chain of technological and market devices is about as far away from nature as you can get.
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by blfr 7y ago
I'm pretty sure this is not true. They probably just haven't captured the way younger people speak about politics because it's largely in culture wars terms, not mentions of national politicians, institutions or groups, as w
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by blfr 7y ago
Idiosyncratic musings and one liners. Some people are truly masters of this new art. https://twitter.com/nickmullen/status/1198243634971365379
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by blfr 7y ago
Journalism is over. It doesn't matter what journalists do now. It was a by-product of mass media massive ad business which is being quickly taken over by tech companies.
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by blfr 7y ago
Basic cost of living (housing, education, healthcare) has already sky rocketed.

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