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by bosswipe 6y ago
One painful lesson I learned after having an expensive bike with an expensive lock stolen is that as you harden the lock at some point the weakest link shifts from being the lock to the thing the lock is attached to.
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by bosswipe 6y ago
Back of the napkin estimation: a million years is 40,000 Homo generations, you might get a valuable mental mutation maybe every 500 generations, that's only 80 mental mutations between us and the Homo species that made this axe. So the
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by bosswipe 6y ago
The constitution doesn't say you have to wear pants either but it's still required. In any case the workplace link you cited is not in the constitution it's the disability law.
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by bosswipe 6y ago
.docx files don't have macros, only .docm files do. Though I still viewed it using Google Drive's preview.
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by bosswipe 6y ago
> This is largely through their own actions. Or it could be the result of a decades long effort to attack credible authoritative institutions by forces that take a dim view of transparency and accountability.
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by bosswipe 6y ago
So they're probably going to use the same scammy techniques as other ISPs where they require you to rent a $100 standard router for $200 per year.
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by bosswipe 6y ago
I guess technically you can call him a CEO, but from the looks of it he was just doing small time AWS contract work.
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by bosswipe 6y ago
The nation is pretty evenly divided so I wouldn't say that they go against the popular narrative, instead they go along with one of the two popular narratives.
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by bosswipe 6y ago
That's also a bad point, there's more beautiful art being created today than ever. But many other artists have different motivations. If Scruton is saying that only beautiful art should be produced than "dour gatekeeping&quot
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by bosswipe 6y ago
Copyright infringement is not stealing.
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by bosswipe 6y ago
You don't know that about "most people". Most people will deliberately pirate content given the chance.
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by bosswipe 6y ago
In a just world the destruction of the Wayback machine should be a much bigger crime than some copyright violation. Sadly our world is not just, content conglomerates have bought themselves the most draconian laws possible to protect their
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by bosswipe 6y ago
It is blog spam that rips the content from the decent stackexchange discussion here https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/4104...
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by bosswipe 6y ago
Java has become more nimble in recent years and they have been busy copying many features from Kotlin and C#.
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by bosswipe 6y ago
HN may be social media, and it can be addictive. But the real crack are infinite scrolling algorithmic feeds optimized for engagement. HN doesn't have one of those.
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by bosswipe 6y ago
During Occupy I remember cops targeted a protester that had driven in on a company vehicle and told the company to get him fired.
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by bosswipe 6y ago
Is the Mobile Application ID the same as the Advertising ID found on Android and iPhone?
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by bosswipe 6y ago
Weird that a network or OS level concern is being moved to the application layer. But considering that trust in all the other layers has been lost, from the ISP to the OS (specifically Windows), maybe this makes sense.
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by bosswipe 6y ago
There's a disconnect that keeps running through a lot of the arguments from the conservative side which I don't understand. The examples given in this piece are a) the right of street protesters to be heard without being attacked
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by bosswipe 6y ago
Boston just banned facial recognition, as have San Francisco, Oakland and a bunch of other cities. You can join this movement by urging your local government officials to follow suit.
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by bosswipe 6y ago
Or acquiring a company that has little debt and then piling debt on it to pay your acquisition costs back to the point where it goes bankrupt.
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by bosswipe 6y ago
The reason employers love LinkedIn is that it makes it a lot harder to lie about your work history since it links all your companies and coworkers. In a way it serves a similar function to credit reporting bureaus in providing an accurate b
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by bosswipe 6y ago
LinkedIn has become basically a requirement for applying for many jobs making it one of the hardest public profiles for the privacy conscious to hide from Google. I have a pretty common name, which is normally a good anonymity cloak, but if
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by bosswipe 6y ago
It doesn't matter if .1% of users turn off their telemetry, their use case wasn't going to be optimized for either way. In fact the Google employees themselves are part of that .1%, they don't need the data to tell them what&
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by bosswipe 6y ago
I don't understand. What is the danger that this poses? Is it that the American government is funding science that only benefits China somehow? How?
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by bosswipe 6y ago
Whatabout... the US.
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by bosswipe 6y ago
Losing the Wayback Machine alone as a free resource would be a tragedy of bigger magnitude than the destruction of the Library of Alexandria. It must be saved!
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by bosswipe 6y ago
Obviously anecdotal but I tested a pic of me wearing a medical mask on Facebook and Google Photos and they weren't able to tag me.
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by bosswipe 6y ago
The article is written by a woman. Though I'm not sure if women can be considered bros under the common derogatory use of the term.
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by bosswipe 6y ago
There's a lot of truth in what you're saying but Google did create some interesting products in its second decade, here's the list I came up with: - Google Assistant is advanced magic. Much better than Apple's Siri or Am

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