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by ctrl-j 9y ago
> I would definitely pay for such a news service. I think the question then becomes, how much are you willing to pay vs how much does such a service cost. Does the economy of scale factor in here? Right now most of those services ask for
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by ctrl-j 9y ago
> It feels way behind Google Home and Amazon. Between Apple, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft - Apple is the only one I would invite into my home to listen to my activities. Perhaps it's just marketing, but the other three have not don
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by ctrl-j 9y ago
> I'd feel pretty uncomfortable with a random stranger and his friends showing up to my kid's daycare. I hope the apps have gotten better location filtering in place since 2015. Wouldn't this be the onus of the daycare? To
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by ctrl-j 9y ago
Use a decent code editor? Jetbrains editors have it built in (change some settings and then ctrl+alt+l does it for you.) Sublime, VSCode, Atom, etc.. all have prettify plugins. Aligned code is easy to read code. Aligning code is a pain in t
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by ctrl-j 9y ago
> ... already having an HR department to deal with employees and labor laws Isn't the HR department a thing because of the employee labor laws? Maybe they need a "Legal team" to manage their compliance with state regulat
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by ctrl-j 9y ago
Donald Trump was a deluded self-aggrandizer long before his entry into the political landscape. Just like we can refer to Ronnie in terms of westerns, and Arnold in terms of action hero movies (or muscle beach) - so too can we refer to Dona
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by ctrl-j 9y ago
> ... it's not the NSA's fault that software has faults. But every time they ask for there to be legally mandated backdoors - they need to be reminded of these incidents. The NSA actively wants there to be "faults"
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by ctrl-j 9y ago
From the link: > huge 3 GB file (3M 1K lines) So, somewhat long lines, but not unreasonably huge. For me, working on a nasty legacy codebase with 10-15k LOC classes - VS Code is slow enough with syntax highlighting that I pretty much n
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by ctrl-j 9y ago
Which Chromebook do you have!? 9 hours of browser usage + wifi isn't anything to sneeze at for most laptops, not even considering Atom usage!
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by ctrl-j 9y ago
Atom is slower than VS Code, sure. However, if you end up in a file of any significant size in VS Code, you're pretty much toast. https://github.com/jhallen/joes-sandbox/tree/master/editor-p...
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by ctrl-j 9y ago
Net neutrality has little to nothing to do with privacy. Better tech and competition can definitely help with keeping data locked down. What alternatives to government regulation do you see in regards to data selling and paid preferential Q
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by ctrl-j 9y ago
> Taking time to raise level of certainty will, with high probability, give the other guy time to shoot you. In war , soliders are required to have an extremely high degree of certainty before opening fire. I think it's pretty safe
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by ctrl-j 9y ago
Maybe because by and large, hotels have a hard time getting around being inspected. So there is no need for the average consumer to spend the time to do the research so they can say "yep, government regulators are doing a good job!&quo
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by ctrl-j 10y ago
Sure, but I told windows to uninstall it. Windows reinstalled it. I told it to again, windows did it again. It bothers me. It doesn't bother you. That's fine. Microsoft lost points with me, doesn't mean it has to affect you
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by ctrl-j 10y ago
> It's annoying, but not that annoying. I dunno, I've done all kinds of stuff to my windows 10 machine to keep Candy Crush Soda from reinstalling itself. Yet every few weeks/months that King garbage ends up on my start men
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by ctrl-j 10y ago
I read in a comment on Reddit (lost the link at the moment), that it doesn't appear to be nefarious. Basically, they're trying to do feature detection based on UA instead of.. actual feature detection.
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by ctrl-j 10y ago
> FTFY. Ehh, I don't have kids or have a need to control my own schedule. I still work remote as much as possible. If my job said "no more working remote", I'd be hunting for another place of employment. From my own
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by ctrl-j 10y ago
> Hopefully we will soon live in a world where manufacturers are obligated to get good reviews five and ten years after their appliance is sold. I don't know of a product I have recently bought that is the same model that was sold 5
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by ctrl-j 10y ago
> Good-spirited pranks don't warrant jail time. Who determines what is "good-spirited"? I've been a part of many prank wars. You know when they stopped being fun and ended up getting people in trouble? When one side s
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by ctrl-j 10y ago
> This has essentially become a (somewhat one-sided) prank war. Isn't there another term for a one-sided prank war? I think it's called harassment or something? Combined with theft and vandalism... I can see why they prefer to
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by ctrl-j 10y ago
You need a citation to know that GNU proponents are heavily evangelical? The bastards are worse than Mormons.
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by ctrl-j 10y ago
It sounds like you're saying it's humorous that we don't like rich people dropping loads of cash on things that should be fairly available to everyone? I don't see the funny.
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by ctrl-j 10y ago
But that's not the situation at hand. It's three people offering me $1000 for something, I give it to you because you're the first person. Then, you turn around and say "hey, I'm selling this for $2000 because I nev
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by ctrl-j 10y ago
> Why should the fan who is willing to pay more money have to miss out, in favour of a fan who is paying less money? They shouldn't necessarily have to. They should have to do the same amount of waiting in line, or struggling with w
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by ctrl-j 10y ago
> but of the 23 acts of terrorism in 2016 killing a hundred or more people, 100% of them were done by Muslims. From your link, 100% of those killing 100+ are done by the islamic state militants who are fighting what they consider to be
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by ctrl-j 10y ago
> Italians, Germans, Swedes, Jews, and Japanese didn't immigrate to other countries and slaughter its citizens. Neither do Muslims? I mean, show me the statistics that show that they have a higher terrorism rate than other groups. T
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by ctrl-j 10y ago
> ... that politician needs to be held accountable for his actions. You do realize in this case the politician's action is saying "if you're going to make money off of somebody's labor, you need to pay them enough to
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by ctrl-j 10y ago
It's silly to think this is due to a $15 an hour minimum wage. This was coming as soon as the cost of installing the thing was cheap enough to make back the difference. Automation is coming for all jobs that do not require critical and
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by ctrl-j 10y ago
> Maybe it was none of their responsibilities. Pretty sure border security does fall under the executive branch. Obama, for all his good social policies, had a much harder stance on foreign policy than I think was needed. I don't
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by ctrl-j 10y ago
> Most of the fake news articles made during the election were poorly written hoaxes with the goal of collecting ad revenue. Without any of them, Trump still would've won. Poorly written hoaxes? Yes. Did they contribute votes to tru

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