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by bonyt 9y ago
This is because an at-large system isn't the same as a proportional representation system. In an at-large system, 51 percent of voters can still control 100 percent of the seats. This is because each voter gets one vote per seat . Fo
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by bonyt 9y ago
You can already use a U2F key with a Google account, such as a Yubikey 4 or other generic key. https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6103523
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by bonyt 9y ago
I fired up Windows 2.03 in DOSBox, with its clock app, available on archive.org[1], and it took up 60.1 MB. This is fun! I think the OS would run fine (at least, enough for the clock) with as little as 512K of ram[2]. Screenshot: https:&
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by bonyt 9y ago
> X has had its share of $5,000 toilet seats -- like Sun's Open Look clock tool, which gobbles up 1.4 megabytes of real memory! If you sacrificed all the RAM from 22 Commodore 64s to clock tool, it still wouldn't have enough t
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by bonyt 9y ago
The MTA has a similar 2D version of this on their website, divided into the "Neighborhood Maps," which are also posted in some stations[1, 2]. Apple maps has had this for the New York City Subway for a while[3], and Google is add
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by bonyt 9y ago
This reminds me of befunge[1], which is also a two dimensional programming language, and has been around for quite a while. This language looks a bit simpler and easier to understand, though. Neat. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by bonyt 9y ago
I meant the audio from when they deliver the opinion (they don't read the whole thing, but often discuss it a little).
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by bonyt 9y ago
The audio of the oral arguments is posted online on the website, but the decisions are not (I think). The text of the decisions is freely available on many websites, though. As for the arguments, there are also several websites which inclu
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by bonyt 9y ago
A lot of the time they're also provided in other formats, including plain text. It's still got pages and line numbers (they're essential for citing to), and it uses an ASCII form feed for new page, but it's better to wo
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by bonyt 9y ago
I've seen some manufacturers start to advertise which WiFi chipset a laptop has. For example, Qualcomm Atheros cards are now marketed as "Killer," and Intel Wifi cards are often referenced by model number in laptop specs.
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by bonyt 9y ago
It's Firefox-esr in the repo, which is the extended support release, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/ I think 52 is in the security repo now, though
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by bonyt 10y ago
Ideally, that may be true (though whether people realize the value of their online data is unclear) - however the market for internet service is far from perfect. Over half of Americans only have one choice in broadband providers (at 25Mpb
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by bonyt 10y ago
Yes, it's called arbitration. You can contractually agree to settle disputes arising out of a contract in arbitration - where an arbitrator decides instead of a judge, the rules are abbreviated, and certain remedies (usually class act
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Happy Half-Tau Day(halftauday.com)
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by bonyt 10y ago
Yeah, that's exactly right. Theft of trade secrets only applies in a narrow set of circumstances, but a broad reading of the CFAA could be applied to any condition in a TOS, which is why it is way more troubling.
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by bonyt 10y ago
Actually, breaking an NDA might be theft of trade secrets, which in certain cases may be prosecuted as a crime. See, e.g. , 18 U.S.C. § 1832[1]. (But, agreed that a ToS violation shouldn't ever be a crime by itself - that reading of t
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by bonyt 10y ago
That's really strange! I wonder if he may have followed the wrong order, or or if the vacancies reform act gives him some leeway here... https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2017/0...
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by bonyt 10y ago
For the curious, the line of succession for AG after deputy goes: 1. U.S. Atty for E. D. Virgina (Now the current acting AG) 2. U.S. Atty for D. Minnesota 3. U.S. Atty for D. Arizona Interestingly, this is set by executive order so it may b
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by bonyt 10y ago
"I'm all in favor of news sites using HTTPS, but I assume they're also going to pad all their articles to a uniform length?" Source: https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/53504312624809574.
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by bonyt 10y ago
This is cool. NYC already releases this information for taxis. It might even include Uber rides since they all have TLC plates, though I'm not sure. http://www.nyc.gov/html/tlc/html/about/trip_record
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by bonyt 10y ago
I don't have one of the new macbooks, but wouldn't making a wrapper around the macOS authorization services thing do this as well? Something like: osascript -e "do shell script \"$*\" with administrator privileges&q
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by bonyt 10y ago
Blender has a surprisingly good general-purpose video editor built in.
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by bonyt 10y ago
In 2009, there was an interesting case where a federal district court ordered a plaintiff to disable its robots.txt to allow the Wayback Machine to disclose an old version of the plaintiff's website.[1] Someone at the Internet Archive
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by bonyt 10y ago
I'm a third year law student (well, my last day was this week!), and I've been using Sublime to take notes and outline things for class. I use a custom syntax highlighting (modified version of the markdown syntax) to make it easy
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by bonyt 10y ago
Upgraded it to 256 Gb - it just has an M.2 slot inside it.
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by bonyt 10y ago
Well, if you use the gtk3 hidpi settings, yes. However, if you disable the HiDPI, scale it to 1x, and then set the font "Scaling Factor" in gnome-tweak-tool to something else, say, 1.25, (a non-integer!) it works great!
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by bonyt 10y ago
I feel the same way - though, it's all about DPI. A 1080p display at 22" is not very good, but a 1080p at 13" is very very nice. I have a 13" retina Macbook Pro with god knows how many pixels, and I'm left with a c
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by bonyt 10y ago
> There used to be a saying among corporate technology workers—or, as you might call them, I.T. guys—which held that “you’ll never get fired for using Microsoft.” Before that, it was "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM." :)
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by bonyt 11y ago
This cat and mouse game has gotten to the point where there are ad-blocker-blocker-blockers. That is, lists for your adblocker that disable adblock detection on websites. For example, https://github.com/reek/anti-adblo
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by bonyt 11y ago
"Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities." http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/poetics.mb.txt

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