callalex

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by callalex 3y ago
What would you have them do instead?
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by callalex 3y ago
Money is a social construct, and it seems you are starting from the base assumption that wealth can be transferred infinitely and unrestricted between generations. Not everyone holds that view of money.
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by callalex 3y ago
For the “encrypted at rest” statement I guess it depends on your definition of “at rest”. Email passes through many hands, and random mom-and-pop shops definitely aren’t using PGP. So any emailed credit card information is being stored on
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by callalex 3y ago
You have your facts wrong. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/myste...
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by callalex 3y ago
The side effects you discuss are much more rare than the harms caused by the disease itself.
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by callalex 3y ago
See also: polygraphs.
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by callalex 3y ago
Then where do you draw the line? I, and almost the entire developed world, draws the line at price = number of currency units required to leave the store with the item for sale. Every car could otherwise claim a deduction because it’s more
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by callalex 3y ago
Except that pretty much every single number is an outright lie until you find the right grey thing to click on.
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by callalex 3y ago
How would you feel if a Prius was advertised thousands of dollars under the actual number of dollars you pay for the car because of “fuel savings compared to a Camero over 5 years”? Or is it only OK when Tesla does it?
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In the USA, 20% of computers still run on coal! https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/electricity-...
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by callalex 3y ago
Time to check your rings! You are behind by 300 thrusts for this time of day compared to your average this week.
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by callalex 3y ago
It has. I went through this exact same PIP process with subjective improvement goals at Twilio. It was extremely stressful and I met all the goals but got fired anyway. In hindsight it was just a layoff.
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by callalex 3y ago
If you are not ok with casually saying racist or sexist things, you probably also shouldn’t say ageist things either.
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by callalex 3y ago
That sounds like something a three-letter agency would get all stuffy about.
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by callalex 3y ago
That’s not a fair statement at all. A writer isn’t a computer expert, and shouldn’t have to be. Google Docs specifically positions itself as a product that takes care of all the data handling for you, and they market that fact quite heavily
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by callalex 3y ago
If you sing or play a brass instrument, the loud booming that comes from inside your head and reflects against plugs (or your fingers), called occlusion, makes traditional plugs unusable or actively harmful. The only solutions are to use cu
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Voyager is meant to be a direct ripoff, delivered as a PWA. In my usage, it delivers a very similar look and feel, although it is definitely not as feature-filled yet which is understandable for the price. https://vger.app/
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by callalex 3y ago
It’s just a website. Doing all this plotting and scheming takes a lot of effort. Not going to a website because it sucks takes no effort.
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That suffers from the same vulnerabilities.
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The first 10% is 100x harder than the rest. Rephrased, it only gets easier once you start, so don’t worry too much when starting sucks and feels awful.
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What technology are you referring to?
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by callalex 3y ago
For me there’s a big red banner at the top of the page stating that I can even save 84%!
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It’s somewhere in-between. They have a landline. Only really old people have landlines, so those are specifically targeted.
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by callalex 3y ago
An unattended beverage cannot cause harm to users that placed their trust in you.
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by callalex 3y ago
And what did you do with that Monero after you received it?
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by callalex 3y ago
Should probably throw away the computer and stick to subsistence farming, just to be sure. Avoid talking to other people as well, as they may not have your best interests at heart.
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by callalex 3y ago
@dang this person is clearly using sock puppet accounts on HN.
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It’s a good combination of not too far into the invention of non-renewable fuel sources but recent enough to have extensive and accurate weather observations.
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On days with perfect weather, with heavy reliance on extremely detailed pre-computed maps, with constant internet access, on paved roads, in scenarios it has encountered before. Getting from where we are to what is promised is not trivial a
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The blatant lying, mostly. https://motherfrunker.ca/fsd/

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