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by cabaalis 8y ago
Not in the US, at least. Reverse-engineering may be prohibited by EULA. Protocols may or may not be copywritten (there have been rulings recently that conflict with each other) But as long as the content is not encrypted, it is a perfectly
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by cabaalis 8y ago
That is one solution to one problem. It has the side effect of overly simplifying American systems of governing and labor, and would cause new side effects or amplify existing ones.
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by cabaalis 8y ago
I've always been better with an "idea man" to work with. I'd be careful though with an inexperienced non-technical cofounder, as they tend to not understand the intricacies of implementation. Setbacks will happen, and I
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by cabaalis 8y ago
If your local government attempts to use data against you, at least there's a legal framework to work within and fellow citizens who might be willing to take up your cause. There's not a lot of recourse against a foreign governmen
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by cabaalis 8y ago
One of the justifications from the article: > feed previews and live bookmarks are both used in around 0.01% of sessions. I'm curious the source of this data, seeing as I've switched to Firefox due to privacy concerns.
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by cabaalis 8y ago
I don't quite follow the math. Why would only 1 person exit the pool in the one case and 2 in the other?
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by cabaalis 8y ago
Put a rule in outlook to delay emails in the outbox for 2 or 3 minutes. Gives you a chance to delete after you vent. This also helps in a compliance-heavy environment to give time to correct if something is accidentally sent.
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by cabaalis 8y ago
> student portal straight out of 1977 I remember when signing up for classes at my uni circa 2002, the easiest way was to call into the scheduling system. The man speaking to you from the automated system was a professor who had died yea
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by cabaalis 8y ago
Thanks, it does seem to show up sometimes but maybe I'm just so used to seeing it in Google that I notice when it's absent.
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by cabaalis 8y ago
I've switched all my devices to ddg and Firefox. Automatically logging me into Chrome was just emotionally too much, even if it did not send a single extra bit to Google. I miss the summary responses at the top of search results becaus
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by cabaalis 8y ago
> We wrote about weed day in and day out, extolling both real and exaggerated virtues of cannabis. The company told us to describe it as a miracle plant that could do all sorts of extraordinary things, including halting migraines, resolv
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by cabaalis 8y ago
I believe and direct my team to use leading commas, with fields on individual lines, to facilitate easier copy/paste and also to make it easier to comment out sections of the query. It does lead to longer queries and poor use of screen
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by cabaalis 8y ago
Generally it isn't the content creators doing this. It's the ad companies, as content creators are busy creating content and not advertising schemes. What is needed is ethical ad monitization choices.
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by cabaalis 8y ago
> The systems failure in April, affecting nearly two million TSB customers, was a breaking point for Mr. Stevenson. He moved his money to Monzo, a British start-up that is among a growing number in Europe offering checking accounts and A
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by cabaalis 8y ago
> most of them already a few times. This is the major point. The market is HUGE, and it's very possible still to build a better mousetrap and capture enough customers for a decent side income. Assume your audience already knows the
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by cabaalis 8y ago
No need to be offended. It's probably just ignorance of the difficulty (in the nicest use of the word), as well as a desire to be feel included as their peers begin families. There is obviously no comparison.
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by cabaalis 8y ago
> Also, I think you should perhaps reconsider whether it's a good idea to have Donald Trumps face on your front page, no? "Our algorithms display the people who are most talked about by the media. It is not the result of an edi
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by cabaalis 8y ago
Is master/slave even a proper term to begin with? If we approach it from a "human slavery" standpoint, the master directs slaves to perform tasks that the master does not itself perform. Master/replica makes sense to m
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by cabaalis 8y ago
(Disclosure: I got divorced in the past year) I don't see why marriage is not treated just the same as other contracts. Clearly defined partnership agreement, defined renewal periods, defined termination clauses and definitions of caus
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by cabaalis 8y ago
I haven't heard anything at all from my peers about the Woodward book. I have heard about the essay. So if it was a plant, it was geared towards the book and not recent trials.
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by cabaalis 8y ago
I can't get the video links in the tweet [1] to open? Unless I fat-fingered all 3 of them. Either the guy doesn't want to be accused of not following proper disclosure procedures, or he was somehow asked to remove them? [1] https
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by cabaalis 8y ago
Also, it directly benefits the senators for the company hired to process the data to fail in doing so. Any issues raised from the dataset can immediately be refuted.
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by cabaalis 8y ago
> The fact is if employers in this country simply paid workers a living wage, taxpayers would save about $150 billion a year on federal assistance programs. I'm not at all convinced that removing people from federal assistance progr
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by cabaalis 8y ago
The only valid question of scale/stability is whether or not it scales/remains stable. I've personally achieved a couple million ARR with unminified, uncompiled javascript on the client. Edit:I will grant you that our busines
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by cabaalis 8y ago
Today I learned that Gandhi destroys the world because of an integer overflow! "In the earlier Civs, leaders are given a set of attributes that dictate their behavior. One such attribute is a number scale associated with aggressiveness
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by cabaalis 8y ago
> DuckDuckGo appears healthy and quite content with making money off of keyword-based ads alone. This makes perfect sense. Show an ad related to what a person is interested in and looking at. When I did adsense stuff a long, long time ag
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by cabaalis 8y ago
There are different horror stories from different systems. Bottom line is that access to health care professionals and equipment is a scarce resource, and any resource management process whether through governmental regulation, or individua
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by cabaalis 8y ago
> This is a legitimate position, even if you might disagree. The downvotes are because in 2018, people believe the only legitimate positions are ones in which they agree. The others must become greytext, since they might convince other p
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by cabaalis 8y ago
Midterm elections are near. The astroturfing is strong. You should believe less than 1/3 of the comments you read are actually genuine.
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by cabaalis 8y ago
Really curious, why treat these automation capabilities as a vulnerability? Several security popups appeared, a cable was attached, an application executed on the computer... as a user I'd much rather have the possibility in the future

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