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by cabaalis 7y ago
> It's illegal to come into my house and take my stuff even if I forget to lock my back door. For some reason, on HN when I've made this argument before, the resulting comments have been that the internet is somehow different,
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Also, a lot of Americans are on the opposite side of the spectrum and do not want to police the world. I think the common uniting factor is that the conflicts are "over there." Out of sight, out of mind.
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> These city governments needed revenue in order to operate. In fact, they needed to run a profit; that is, they needed their revenues to be at or above their expenses, and that needed to continue indefinitely. What exactly is being argu
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Hacking the operation of an insulin pump for your child seems so insanely dangerous I could not even conceive of attempting it. The other things she talks about, such as helping autistic people recognize emotions, could be enormously benefi
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I don't know about other countries, but it's probably an extension of the overall American feeling of government in general: "Okay, I put you in office and will allow you to run certain parts of my life. But remember that I p
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Reduce the price of the prevailing high-cost options by increasing the capabilities of other options. Cause them to compete to drive prices down, thereby reducing your supplier costs.
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> I trust that other people will keep the uproar to keep airline in check. I agree with you, and expect that engineers/regulators to do their jobs. But I think this is a form of the bystander effect. [1] I'm not sure what we ca
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by cabaalis 7y ago
I've never had to do this before from a patient standpoint, but perhaps you could try to find out what codes were billed for the visit. [1] Compare this to what was actually performed. It is possible they upcoded your visit, either ina
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Game Source Code Collection on Archive.org(archive.org)
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I remember a few years ago Coca-Cola was creating a plant-based bottle. [1] Does anyone know why this tech isn't taking off more than it has? [1] https://www.coca-colacompany.com/press-center/press-releases...
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by cabaalis 7y ago
> Also, what is the ROI for Twitter when it comes to policing this? I think most of the things regarding regulating speech coming out of twitter are about avoiding being put in the spotlight next year in the next U.S. election. If what h
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I am very certain that tweets criticizing these types of things (which are generally tweets against the beliefs of Christians, however misguided) will remain.
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I wouldn't think it's the only statistic that needs to be looked at. If it does any "speaking for itself" then it's raising its own question: "Why is that number declining over the past few decades?" That
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I'm not an expert, but doesn't this mean that they actually captured wanted people? Even with an abysmal rate, it's a more-targeted snatching of people walking by, resulting in arrests of known criminals?
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by cabaalis 7y ago
You're probably right. But.. so? Mythbusters has a huge budget and paid a bunch of people to run something safely, vs. dude with a microwave--this does not change one iota what was recorded and broadcast.
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by cabaalis 7y ago
I had completely forgotten about the mouse-wiggling trick! It's just one of those things I used to do without thinking about it. It makes sense that an event loop was waiting for an event to fire.
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by cabaalis 7y ago
I dated a girl in college ca. 2003 because we connected when she showed me she could "speedrun" freecell on my PDA. Not like these videos, but not far off either. Just thought I'd share that.
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> This is a funny little story about what happens when your game gets discovered by speedrunners. The game was built with a timer which counts up. It's intended to be speedrun...
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by cabaalis 7y ago
Stock google maps. It appears from the comment above they can be disabled. My problem with it is that google maps is not open, I did not ask google maps to send me to home depot. It just detects that I'm there and asks for a review.
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by cabaalis 7y ago
Primarily the custom launchers. But to be honest, the novelty of that is quickly waning with all these "Hey, how'd you like Home Depot?" notifications that I can't turn off without crippling the android experience. NOYB,
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by cabaalis 7y ago
I agree with you. But I also see the possibility of a little bit of wink, wink, nod, nod. Someone makes a phone call and says "can you change that where clause a little bit?" Should be serious repercussions whenever data like this
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by cabaalis 7y ago
Ouch, that one hurts. I don't know slack API but the contract expectation in the call should absolutely be "500 means the message failed to send" Tells me there's some subsystem throwing the error, not the actual messagi
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I'd like to know HN opinion on using the first form to pull in and display a pre-selected identification image or statement. Basically to show the user something associated with their account that a phishing site would not have access
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> If you're putting any of that into your recycling, you're doing it wrong. Hence the main problem with recycling. No reasonable person can know all the rules about plastics, what kinds of papers, etc. Why can't sorters so
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Self worth is so fragile. I remember vividly being called a loser just one time in middle school. It has occurred to me at various times in life, even though I know the person who said it doesn't remember it, and they were also WRONG.
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The FTC regulates advertisements. [1] At what point is a statement like "[x] just saved $[y]!" on your own site being shown to a visitor constitute an advertisement for your service? Or is it just advertisements involving a paid t
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by cabaalis 7y ago
Which is more interesting, philosophically? The internet had a problem due to a single issue, or that the internet's problem was fixed due to a single person calling various people on a cell phone? (device interactions versus human int
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by cabaalis 7y ago
Knowing we have a future of ai generated content coming, I think about staring at the lights that make humans docile so their brains can be stolen in the movie "Skyline."
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Don't we still enjoy the results of those "bad outcomes", though? Huge cities built, railways across the country, massive industries and technology advancements from the period?
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> The vista had dissolved into an undulating sea of hummocks - waist-high depressions and ponds known as thermokarst. Vegetation, once sparse, had begun to flourish in the shelter provided from the constant wind. I understand the threat.

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