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by bo1024 5y ago
If you have no business relationship with the sender, this is fixed by not sending email to unconfirmed addresses, as we discussed above.
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by bo1024 5y ago
Well, I think letting people get silently charged monthly without sending them any message about it is a bad idea, even if they say they want it. Similar with not telling them about an outage to their service.
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by bo1024 5y ago
I think you're trying to use two wrongs to make a right. If we're talking about things Gulf Power of Florida should do differently, then rather than add unsubscribe buttons to bills which is a bad idea, they should confirm people&
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by bo1024 5y ago
That's a different problem. They should have first sent a confirmation email, then paused all communications until it was confirmed. But once the email is confirmed, I think it's totally fair for a company like rsync to say '
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by bo1024 5y ago
Do you know what the lawyers said beyond "I'm a lawyer and would like you to edit the blacklist" ? Are these companies doing something illegal by blacklisting you unfairly, or do you have grounds for some sort of civil suit (
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by bo1024 5y ago
Pretty sure the government won't view it that way. It'll be called a loophole and crushed if it gets mainstream. This is the country where sending an HTML GET and receiving response 200 can be prosecuted under the CFAA. We need a
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by bo1024 5y ago
I don't think you took this part into account. > There might be a rich marketplace of both free and paid experiences that I could download and install into my browser. If 0.1% of people can build and customize things, the other 99.
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by bo1024 5y ago
I don’t think it’s quite that simple. A math paper generally says 3 kinds of things: X is true, this is the high level idea of how we can prove X is true, and this is the detailed proof that X is true. As the post mentions, usually when the
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by bo1024 5y ago
Possibly right but in an ideal world for maximum welfare, prices should signal costs or externalities.
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by bo1024 5y ago
> If you've put one button on top of the other, you've just created a hierachy. You are telling the user that button is more important than the lower button. > Have you ever hidden elements until it can be revealed by cli
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by bo1024 5y ago
Really? If your software is only used by a very specific kind of person in very specific circumstances, that logic might work. Otherwise, you'll always find two different people, or one person at two different times, with mutually cont
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by bo1024 5y ago
> Design is manipulating people into doing what you want I completely disagree. What I want is irrelevant. What matters is what I think the user wants. I present them with information and choices, they tell me what to do. There is never
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by bo1024 5y ago
It's simple. Most software today is not created to serve the user. It is created to accomplish certain goals (e.g. obtaining money, attention, data, or prestige from the user) and only serves the user as incidental to accomplish those
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by bo1024 5y ago
From the post: > More seriously, it’s reasonably well-known among mathematicians that published math papers are full of errors.[1] I think the author's point is that actually the distinction is less clear: many math papers can'
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by bo1024 5y ago
I look forward to the new name for the system. 'Totally Self Driving now can drive over 14% of the time, a 4% improvement from Full Self Driving. Look out soon for the next release, Completely Self Driving.'
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by bo1024 5y ago
Not a huge regulations-by-default person but I agree strongly with this. The other issue is accountability laundering. If a human kills someone they're criminally responsible. If a company's software does it then they'll shif
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by bo1024 5y ago
Didn't it also say that retail was a small fraction of the market buying and selling shares? I thought I'd seen that.
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by bo1024 5y ago
Speaking as a city runner, you are 100000% wrong, and I have had numerous close calls demonstrating this. If you roll through at 5.6mph while I am jogging into the intersection from your side, I will often be hidden by your A pillar the ent
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by bo1024 5y ago
Does that make it a stupid sign, though?
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by bo1024 5y ago
It sounded to me like the problem part was where Amazon sold competing products, then used the agreement to price-fix between their own products and the third party's. Example: Amazon sells a dongle for $20, the competitors sell them f
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by bo1024 5y ago
In other words, Google's policy is that the search result isn't showing the page title, it's showing Google's short description of the page. If Google thinks your page title is an adequate description it might use that,
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by bo1024 5y ago
That was my reaction, it’s scary right. Like need an article on safely installing a light switch? Call the content industry. Managing stored PII and passwords? Content industry. Medical information? Content industry.
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by bo1024 5y ago
Originally posted: <date> Most recent update: <date> Edit: it’s only a matter of time till an article stops getting updated. Of course I doubt people in the “content industry” (tell me that’s not a real thing) care what happens
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by bo1024 5y ago
I implemented this for my email. Each email can have any number of tags. Each tag can have a directory hierarchy. So for instance an email can be tagged fun/ski, social/facebook/marketplace, money/receipts. If you open t
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by bo1024 5y ago
No, there are economies of scale. For $5/month I can get. dedicated IP address in the cloud. For me to get one myself I’d probably have to buy real estate somewhere just for starters.
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by bo1024 5y ago
I’m very happy with purism’s librem 14 but the display is not as nice as frameworks.
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by bo1024 5y ago
You nailed it, battery is the only downside I’ve had, not awful but probably say 3 hours of video playback, or 5-6 hours of web use. Haven’t used it unplugged all that much so very rough guesses. Bigger problem with my fedora install at lea
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by bo1024 5y ago
There is a different issue with the "fact checking" approach: it allows Facebook (and Twitter, etc.) to deflect blame from their algorithm. FB's narrative is that the problem is the people who post untrue stuff, and fact chec
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by bo1024 5y ago
(a) I think the article isn't asking them to provide more funding, but to consider re-allocating what they already do. (b) I think even without actual funding, PinePhone can set the tone of priorities for the community. If they speak a
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by bo1024 5y ago
I think there's a confusion happening here between photo ID (an identification the government issues to citizens) and being required to submit photos of oneself and other documents to access government services.

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