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by blfr 8y ago
I thought it was a great idea at first but in reality I only use it for the calendar and get annoyed by requests on every other site.
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by blfr 8y ago
Smells of "real communism hasn't been tried." I quite like the Swiss model of democracy. Taleb argues that the focus on small matters and diffused democracy avoids centralization of power and provides a lot of their famous st
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by blfr 8y ago
While employment is a good argument for company's locus, it's definitely not irrelevant for a company selling physical products where those are manufactured. In fact, it matters so much that most western countries require the coun
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by blfr 8y ago
I haven't read the book but from what I gather the author would expect better guesses at what is going to be important from theorists so that experimental physicists can apply better filters.
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by blfr 8y ago
Maybe but I think it's mostly because there's more variability among men so it's easier to pass as a man because we're used to men coming in all shapes and sizes.
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by blfr 8y ago
the company had hired a right-wing opposition research group, Definers Public Affairs, to dig up dirt on George Soros, after Soros gave a blistering speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos decrying the power of social media, especially
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by blfr 8y ago
I'm not all that concerned with monopolists' and near monopolists' freedoms to be honest. VISA isn't some family-run corner store.
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by blfr 8y ago
While I applaud the preservation of spirit and tradition, I don't think you can really be a knight in the modern world. “In the past, the defence of the faith was riding horses, fighting enemies,” Fra Critien said. “Now we can defend
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by blfr 8y ago
LastPass also pushes you to install some binary component for their extension.
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by blfr 8y ago
Like Google's Wave (RIP)?
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by blfr 8y ago
It has been getting faster lately, and I mean last couple of years. Or maybe my tolerance grew from using LTE but I'm pretty sure it has been getting faster.
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by blfr 8y ago
Perhaps it's a proxy attack but he criticized Amazon's tax practices for putting smaller shops out of business and the supposed preferential treatment by the USPS. Anyway, my point was that it doesn't matter. His administrati
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by blfr 8y ago
Which is crazy as well, right?
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by blfr 8y ago
It wouldn't be hypocritical for Trump since IIRC he bashed Amazon during the campaign. Probably a little more difficult for the Chamber of Commerce republicans.
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by blfr 8y ago
Not being American, this is the one thing I wish Trump/GOP/conservatives did in the US: bust the tech trusts. They're taking the courts, they can surely find state or federal attorneys to bring the cases, and the executive wo
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by blfr 8y ago
Yes, pretty much. Except vacuum cleaner manufacturers don't actually have that monopoly. You can easily buy substitute bags from another manufacturer for most popular vacuum cleaners.
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by blfr 8y ago
I'm pretty tired of "you're the product" mantra, even when you dressed it much more eloquently. The brutal truth is that there is very little human support any company can offer for a $5/mo product (like G Suite). F
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by blfr 8y ago
I carefully chose a phone supporting NFC as well. But then installed LineageOS and, as it turns out, it now does not pass Google's SafetyNet test and Google Pay refuses to work. Does the phone need to pass SafetyNet to use a Yubikey ov
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by blfr 8y ago
Sure but you're diluting the second factor. The more tokens you have, the easier it is to get one and without you noticing.
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by blfr 8y ago
No, education will not obviously correct it because education's effects are not only delayed but relatively weak as many abilities are largely determined before the candidate's birth. We know IQ and conscientiousness, probably mos
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by blfr 8y ago
Six seems like a lot. Why do you need so many?
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by blfr 8y ago
You can use a Yubikey with GPG and even SSH but the Google account is for many people by far the most important online asset, especially for Android users, so is it an overkill to spend a hundred bucks?
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by blfr 8y ago
How much does journalism cost? Americans would prefer Europeans didn't ask.
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by blfr 8y ago
Turning drug addicts into serfs like in Interstate 60[1]. Perhaps it would be an improvement but doesn't seem like a desirable end goal. [1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165832/
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How to irregular cyber warfare(blog.erratasec.com)
3 points by blfr 8y ago|0 comments
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by blfr 8y ago
Their forums are ghost towns. What.cd still doesn't have a successor, and one of three strong pretenders didn't even manage to stay online. It may be caused more by competition from Spotifies and Netflixes than their closedness (a
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by blfr 8y ago
this is how private warez torrent sites work It's true and they're now mostly dead. Either gone completely or in a zombiefied state. This is the fate of virtually all closed communities. Yes, you avoid many problems, it's t
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Chabuduo! Close enough…(aeon.co)
1 points by blfr 8y ago|0 comments
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by blfr 8y ago
No, I don't feel the same way about chess, golf, or model trains for the same reason I don't feel the same way about "classic" weed and pong: they haven't been honed on an industrial scale to make them extremely app
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by blfr 8y ago
Unrelated to OP but I ditched computer games and do think that there is no healthy level. It's a lot like marijuana today. We're way past pong and some ditch weed. These are very potent products engineered to flood your senses and

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