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by cnst 6y ago
Random preference, huh? Who wants to tell them?
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by cnst 6y ago
That actually serves as a good example for the difference between Small Claims Court and Superior Court. It might also have been a good idea to wait out until it was no longer possible to appeal the decision, before going public with the ou
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by cnst 6y ago
The idea is that a Small Claims judge in Cali does not expect a lawyer, so, there is no need or expectation to any legal lingo, which by itself can be confusing to normal people, plus the rules of evidence are not nearly as strict as in Sup
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by cnst 6y ago
To level the playing field. The idea of Small Claims Court is to have a cheap way to resolve monetary disputes, without having to rely on complex procedures and expensive lawyers. So, since you as an individual wouldn't have a lawyer
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by cnst 6y ago
Correct. In order to get injunctive relief of having account access restored, you'd have to sue Google in a Superior Court. The difference between Small Claims and Superior is that in the former you're generally not allowed to br
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by cnst 6y ago
In California, you're not allowed to bring an attorney to a SCC -- only to Superior Court -- so, obviously, there's no attorney fees when attorneys are not allowed. Some other states do allow attorneys in SCC, however.
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by cnst 6y ago
> Did you decide to go for Round 2 in small claims court and get the account un-disabled? Sadly, you cannot do it in Small Claims Court. SCC cannot provide injunctive relief -- you can only sue for monetary relief. To get an injunction
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by cnst 6y ago
TBH, this is the way it should be. Getting your account unbanned shouldn't require having an insider. --- There should be a clear reason for why an account is banned. When you're accused of a crime in a society, we don't jus
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by cnst 6y ago
> 15 years in sf apartment leases are unusual except for people who cannot afford to move out. I'm a little confused here. If your rent is 1.2k for a 2bd in SF (because resident since 2000s), whereas market rate for a 2bd now is 3.
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by cnst 6y ago
Air quality is getting to be a national issue. I think even Wyoming had some issues this season? The problem is environmentalists don't want to do planned/controlled burning anymore, hence, the things burn by themselves on their
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by cnst 6y ago
You're ignoring the fact that SF has rent control; it resets only once a vacancy hits. If market rate was 3k a few months back, but is only 2k now, if you take a 15-year view, it's still cheaper to let your rent-controlled unit si
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by cnst 6y ago
966 pages of random circumstantial evidence, none of it connected to the state, none of it proving actual interference, none of it establishing a motive, none of it establishing an intent? Surely, if you say something often enough, or drow
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by cnst 6y ago
I have to ask the same question: why do we tolerate this Russophobia, where "Russia" is used as a boogeyman to solve the internal political problems, and redirect the outrage away from the real issues facing our societies? This wh
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by cnst 6y ago
It's so funny how you're very quick to point out that the evidence would be denied, at the same time, we're still not even provided any evidence at all. The link is literally empty; there's nothing more at the link than
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by cnst 6y ago
Or, maybe someone messed up, and in order to divert attention from themselves, they had to find and put the blame on the boogeyman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW10zLDI3Eg
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by cnst 6y ago
Why is no such intelligence or convincing evidence ever shared? I really find it hard to believe that it's always Russia that's responsible for every ill in the whole flat world. We've already had the evidence declassified th
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by cnst 6y ago
Anyone who believes in science can't possibly take these allegations seriously. It's beyond trivial to use proxies and malware to make it appear like your "call is coming from inside the house". It's beyond trivial
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by cnst 6y ago
It's funny how we're only getting this Vitamin D info just now. Do you know when FearDept first mentioned it on their Twitter account? 2020-04-09. https://threader.app/thread/1248430652409569287 https:/
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by cnst 6y ago
tl;dr: * linked abstract recommends 8000 UI for young adults and thereafter; * my Centrum Multivitamin/Multimineral Adults has Vitamin D3 25mcg (1000 UI), listing it as 125% DV. I guess I gotta find something extra to get an extra 7000
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by cnst 6y ago
Look into the Superfund sites in the US of A. Most of the things done in the 80s are now being cleaned up by the federal government at taxpayer's expense. (It's not uncommon to re-clean the sites that have already been cleaned b
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by cnst 6y ago
The biggest problem is Apple. They've removed USB-A from their laptops close to 5 years ago, because USB-C is the future. They've also removed the headphone jack from iPhone; however, the USB-C is still nowhere to be found. Why?
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by cnst 6y ago
Wait, are you seriously complaining that they don't define an arbitrary max-width, or, even worse, an outright width, in their CSS?!
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by cnst 6y ago
The main difference is the reason that a senior engineer or VP gets hired. It is not to write code by themselves. It is to help other people do it. For this, being a walking encyclopedia certainly helps. Of course, there's probably a
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by cnst 6y ago
Yes, you gotta automate a whole bunch of things if you need HTTPS, you have to update the protocols every few years, certificates as often as every few months, OpenSSL versions on a moment's notice. Or, you could decide to just go HTTP
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by cnst 6y ago
Absolutely false. On the scale of a personal blog, the cost of HTTPS is enormous, but the benefit is approximately 0.
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by cnst 6y ago
HTTPS is not free. It has a very significant management/maintenance and compatibility overhead, which is unavoidable by the very nature of HTTPS.
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by cnst 6y ago
I'm not sure what's your point here is; but the idea is that with big B&M stores, it's still the manufacturer that is ultimately liable for the product; so, if the product doesn't sell, it's probably up to the m
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by cnst 6y ago
Just because a fee is due annually doesn't mean you don't "own" whatever it is that you "lease". In the real world, you still have to pay taxes and HOA fees on real estate property that you own; plus, have to p
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by cnst 6y ago
The biggest problem is that a lot of these companies no longer have support for the average users, so, you simply have no way to escalate the issue, other than Hacker News or the like. It's this support-through-Hacker-News phenomenon t
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by cnst 6y ago
It's just a figure of speech. What's so gravely offensive about it?

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