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by csnover 5y ago
Their return window is 90 days versus Amazon’s 30 and they actually let you schedule the return pick-up date. Also, their Prime-competitor Walmart+ service[0] ($98/year) has no order minimums. [0] https://www.walmart.com&#x2
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by csnover 5y ago
Last year, Minnesota passed the Alec Smith Insulin Affordability Act, which requires the major insulin manufacturers to provide 30-day emergency supplies of insulin for no more than $35, and 90-day supplies for no more than $50, for anyone
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by csnover 5y ago
Cigarettes are legal and cause exactly the same kinds of problems. Every apartment complex I’ve lived in has had some smoke-free policy. If yours doesn’t, consider bringing it up with the landlord. I can’t imagine they like having their uni
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by csnover 5y ago
I’m baffled by the companies which are fully remote but still consider it an essential job function[0] for their employees to travel to their annual company-wide social retreats. I understand that the boss thinks it’s super important for em
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by csnover 5y ago
> I'd like it if someone could convince me that these are not legitimate concerns. Remember that you always have the option to not follow a treatment plan if you don’t feel like it’s the right thing for you. A recommendation from a
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by csnover 5y ago
I’m surprised people are only noticing this on Big Sur, since I’ve been seeing this as early as Mojave using a 1kHz ‘gaming’ mouse. (It may have happened in even earlier versions of the OS and is just getting progressively worse on every ne
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US Font Map: The United Fonts of America(statesider.us)
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Codecov ditches Bash Uploader for a Node.js executable(bleepingcomputer.com)
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by csnover 5y ago
It’s also possible that your keyboard is slowing you down somewhat. I started using a super crappy keyboard a while ago with wobbly keycaps, poor actuation pressure, and excess key travel, and my typing speed & accuracy both dropped by
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by csnover 5y ago
> The real problem here is that mental illness still carries too much stigma. Some people are so resistant to accepting a mental health diagnosis and treatment that they will go to great lengths to reframe their problems in physical term
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by csnover 6y ago
The timing of this paper is remarkable to me, given Baltimore’s recent decision to permanently stop prosecuting some non-violent crimes. They made this change after apparently finding that violent crime dropped 20% once they implemented the
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by csnover 6y ago
There was a discussion a while ago about IETF RFC 8959 which proposes a secret-token URI that might be of interest: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25978185
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by csnover 6y ago
A quick online search for “soy vs dairy milk environment” will give you plenty of comparative environmental research to digest. Growing food far away from where it is consumed is an environmental disaster regardless of what that food is. Th
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by csnover 6y ago
OK, except I’m not a Backblaze user and I never have been (except for the 14-day free trial). I haven’t had any private correspondence with them since reporting the vulnerability I discovered in 2019. This exchange on HN was the first time
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by csnover 6y ago
> You’re deriving this from an incorrect mental model where nobody “wants to steal” and they do it out of desperation. Wow, I’m not thinking that way at all . If that’s how it came across, I did a really bad job at explaining myself! I
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by csnover 6y ago
> Don't they have any sort of vulnerability assessment or security code review? I haven’t seen any evidence that they do. The last time I brought up their history of bad security practices on HN, one of their co-founders decided tha
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by csnover 6y ago
Look, I understand the appeal of an argument that paints criminals as simply having poor morals, but it is a completely false and reductive argument that does not capture the complexity behind why people commit crimes. It’s easy to ‘be ethi
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by csnover 6y ago
> It's supposed to be a severe punishment, usually reserved for serious or repeat offenders. First, prison in general, and long sentences in particular, are generally not used that way. Second, why are you trying to punish people
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by csnover 6y ago
> vaccines being promised "soon" with "soon" slowly moving further and further away. In March 2020, the US government said it would take 12–18 months to get a vaccine approved, and many people even doubted that was po
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by csnover 6y ago
Instead of looking for protests, perhaps a better (though still imperfect) signal to gauge sentiment about living under pandemic restrictions is to look at how much vaccine demand there is, and how aggressively some governments have acted t
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by csnover 6y ago
I’m not optimistic about it, but I do wonder if the experience of living through a pandemic will give folks a fresh perspective on just how rough imprisonment is, and a willingness to consider alternatives. If it’s torture to be stuck in yo
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Rustfmt 2.0 “may not happen ever”(github.com)
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by csnover 6y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22957573
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by csnover 6y ago
Does it really matter if the money is wasted, so long as it’s not wasted on something that generates more air pollution? The main purpose of a carbon tax is to stop polluters from externalising the cost of their pollution, so that they poll
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by csnover 6y ago
I was wondering the same thing! For the dust problem, I’d like to imagine that the machines could be modified with an air pump to blow away anything ahead of the pickup. One probably wouldn’t want that extra noise in a listening room, but f
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by csnover 6y ago
Similar project discussed four days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26012652
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by csnover 6y ago
Hey, if anyone at Microsoft is lurking here, the custom cursor on this theme doesn’t[0] scale properly according to the user’s EoA setting in Windows 10. I tried to reach out a few times last year to get someone to fix the affected API[1],
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by csnover 6y ago
That does actually make more sense, given the OP’s comment about master keys leaking. I remembered the CharlieCard thing because it was a pretty big deal at the time, and I couldn’t find anything relevant about MTA when I searched, so assum
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by csnover 6y ago
> You think that one errant command line entry should subject an individual to personal liability that could run into the billions of dollars? Setting aside the hyperbolic dollar amount you’ve suggested (in North America, stories I’ve fo
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by csnover 6y ago
They are probably thinking of the MBTA CharlieCard[0][1], which was cracked by MIT students. The MBTA sued them to try to keep them from presenting their research at DEFCON. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CharlieCard

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