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by davvolun 7y ago
That's an entirely different class of thing though, possibly civil vs. criminal, I believe. If I'm signing a contract with you, and you tell me "no one is going to ever offer you a deal like this," even though you fully
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by davvolun 7y ago
Republicans say Democrats just want to get all the poor people/illegals registered to up their vote, Democrats say Republicans want to suppress votes to keep control. I think most Americans have a problem with the government keeping li
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by davvolun 7y ago
Words vs action have nothing to do with what I was saying, and I don't see where you've made a convincing case that they should be separated. As for Barr and Gillis, both ABC and NBC acted immediately to get rid of them when it lo
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by davvolun 7y ago
I recall responding to the statement "English is just as gendered as...", but clearly that's not what you wrote. That's my fault.
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by davvolun 7y ago
What are you talking about? English is verifiably not as gendered as Spanish, at the very least. All nouns in Spanish require a gender article (el/la or los/las). In English, you do not have to figure out whether "día"
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by davvolun 7y ago
You had me until "cancel culture" Exactly how many irreverent comedians who achieved significant success and are not really accountable to anyone, telling it like it is, have been cancelled by the cancel culture? Cosby, TJ Miller,
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by davvolun 7y ago
IANAL, but I think you're misunderstanding "without a legitimate business reason to do so" "Be Restaurant" blocking Deliveroo because they can't continue operating with the loss of revenue due to high fees is a
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by davvolun 7y ago
> 4. Anyone not browsing on Chrome gets an upsell to install Chrome (MS got roasted for this with Windows Media & best used on IE) Every time you install a new copy of Windows and switch the browser to Firefox/Chrome/whatev
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by davvolun 7y ago
I wasn't making an appeal to authority, I was noting that, like I said in my first sentence, Buzzfeed and Buzzfeed News aren't the same thing. I then go on to say, for whatever it's worth, at least one study in journalism con
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by davvolun 7y ago
Given the dire situation of security, this can't be a "let the market figure out the solution" situation. When it comes to whether Google's IoT devices work with Amazon's, I would personally love for them all to w
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by davvolun 7y ago
"More than half the population is happy with" is not the same as "good." I fully believe in (representative) democracy, and with an extremely complicated issue like Brexit it needs dedicated politicians researching the i
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by davvolun 7y ago
Excuse me for asking you to show your work, but how does this limit anyone's freedoms? Further, are you not aware of the difference between San Francisco and say, Cupertino, Mountain View, Palo Alto... do I need to go on? (Nevermind th
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by davvolun 7y ago
Of course at 1%, or really, any sufficiently small and centralized number, it becomes easier and easier to game the system... I'm thinking specifically of attempts to artificially inflate crypto coin valuations for members, then quickl
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by davvolun 7y ago
> Sometimes there aren't any solutions that more than half a constituency are happy with Which is part of the reason why most democracies in history are representative democracies; they represent the interests of their constituents,
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by davvolun 7y ago
That is effectively fixed by amending the statement > Nations with ardent and sincere allies And, clearly though certainly teetering toward "no true scotsman," an ally who is only superficially allied (Germany and the USSR du
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by davvolun 7y ago
I'm not going to defend whether this particular instance is good journalism, but Buzzfeed is not Buzzfeed News. A 2017 study in Journalism found Buzzfeed News was comparable to NYT, for what that's worth.
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by davvolun 7y ago
> calling server-side autocomplete on a field you explicitly are typing in strikes me as about as sensible and forthright as calling an Amazon text field that takes my credit card number a card skimmer Exactly, and waters down the impact
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by davvolun 7y ago
So you're saying you wouldn't want to hire someone who put in the absolute minimum effort to meet the desired functional requirements without wasting time/money? I think the functional requirements in this case are to impress
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by davvolun 7y ago
If it accomplishes the minimum functional requirements without additional time/money, isn't that the point?
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by davvolun 7y ago
re: issues with the Ken Burns documentary: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-we-need-new-civil...
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by davvolun 7y ago
> And there is a very large internal migration from states like New York to states like Virginia I don't feel particularly qualified in this area, it's an interesting question though; but, this really needs a citation. I thin
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by davvolun 7y ago
Having just finished re-watching Ken Burns' Civil War for the first time in 20 years or so, like a freshman psychology student who now understands the motivations of the entire world, there is a line in the documentary, stated I believ
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by davvolun 7y ago
If prostitution was legal, or decriminalized (I believe sex workers and advocates prefer decriminalization over legalization), everywhere, it wouldn't be much of a tourist attraction.
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by davvolun 7y ago
While I agree that this factor is stupid -- either it wasn't well-thought or it was intended to be a way to avoid fairly compensating victims, whatever. That said, they are paying a total of about $700M, in fees and compensation and so
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by davvolun 7y ago
I mean, it's a nice side effect of diversity, I really don't think Flaming Cheetohs, or finding Takis in every supermarket near me, are why diversity is so important.
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by davvolun 7y ago
There's a response to the parent comment that has real data on increasing the minimum wage. It's only two papers on one location, but until we see at least the same kind of thing on UBT, it's all wild speculation. I don&#x2
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by davvolun 7y ago
Exactly, well stated. In the end, the only reason a business cares about security at all is because if they don't, it will come back and bite them, hard; e.g., Equifax.
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by davvolun 7y ago
Of course that's the real question with the actual story in the actual article -- could they have implemented their security on the temporary infrastructure, or "good-enough" security, if the CIO knew about it? In that story,
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by davvolun 7y ago
> The CIO admitted that he had been approached and explained that he had informed the VP that IT already had a project with SAP to deliver what the VP needed. “Yes, but that won’t be ready for me to use for three years, and I need someth
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by davvolun 7y ago
In practice, if not in theory, I think Android works the same way. Yes, there are other app stores, and yes you can install untrusted, but in practice, most people just use the Play Store (requiring a Google account) and if they allow untru

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