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by dcosson 10y ago
I've been thinking recently about government regulations like this and about where it should end. Why are we so sure that we can't trust people to make an educated decision about an experimental drug or any of the many other thing
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> A culture that requires permissions and signoffs before work can begin is a culture that leaves products stagnant for years. I've also seen the exact opposite being the case. A culture where everyone does whatever they're in
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by dcosson 10y ago
I'm pretty sure my phone is affected, but according to that page: To prepare your iPhone 6s for the battery replacement process, please follow the steps below: Back up your data to iTunes or iCloud. Turn off Find my iPho
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by dcosson 10y ago
Consider the alternative - two programmers make a quick decision over slack, then they both just get to work heads down building for 2 weeks. Say they run into a big issue and realize they have to throw that work away and start again. They
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by dcosson 10y ago
> Unless I'm misunderstanding, that's absolutely terrible advice, from both a security and proper layering standpoint. Not trying to start a flamewar but... that's Rails in a nutshell. The default patterns are just straigh
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Who cares if it's been warmer before or if it would warm (albeit much more slowly) anyway due to natural causes. The fact is, we know the warming is driven by greenhouse gases and while there are some of these occurring naturally we ar
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by dcosson 10y ago
By that logic there's also no such thing as too many senators for a given number of square miles if you cram enough states into it, so California could split into 100 states and that would be just as fair.
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Am I the only one who thinks this is actually a very small amount of additional data to give up, and don't mind doing it? I'm willing to accept there's a small chance it might make the service a little better for me. They alr
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by dcosson 10y ago
I think there's a lot of variance between people, and it's largely a matter of preference. Some people are happy to walk a block or two in order to make the most efficient trip depending on where the driver is approaching from and
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> ... and can provision Docker in a few clicks One cool thing about docker is I can write a build file for generating reproducible-ish builds that I can run or rebuild anywhere. My Dockerfile can be version-controlled, copied, edited as
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by dcosson 10y ago
NY (along with a few other northeast cities) is somewhat unique in that of people who have kids and then move to the suburbs nearby, which I assume is a pretty significant demographic, a lot of them end up in other states like NJ and CT. Bu
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by dcosson 10y ago
I've written into several companies in the past saying "your password policy are bad for __ reason", and they always of course write back saying basically "our security team doesn't care, shut up". There'v
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by dcosson 10y ago
We can debate all day about whether voting 3rd party under simple majority voting is taking a stand or being irresponsible (by causing a split vote and letting the worst candidate win). I think there are legitimate arguments on both sides.
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He is certainly shrewd. Regardless of some of his views I disagree with, I guess I do now hope that he becomes an advisor to Trump because at least some of his friends are people I respect. And there's a good chance someone else that T
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by dcosson 10y ago
> Not only is Tesla a shinning example of American manufacturing (a main Trump tenant) Except that they use a ton of automation. I'm very curious how this will play out under Trump. Because even if he does all the things he's b
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by dcosson 10y ago
I agree that AirBnB removing housing stock can be a problem, but I don't think only shared units is the one right answer. For one thing, this seems hard to enforce. Instead of renting out a one-bedroom unit on AirBnB, you could instead
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by dcosson 10y ago
Another path forward that seems reasonable is to let capitalism mostly flourish as it may (after all by many accounts, the US is doing pretty well, creating lots of jobs, output is up but in automated factories, wages finally starting to ri
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by dcosson 10y ago
The people who voted on the single issue of losing jobs overseas are in for a rude awakening when they realize that almost all of these jobs will be automated even if they do come back to the US.
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by dcosson 10y ago
Unlike most of the imperial system, farenheit, etc, Am/pm seems to actually make some sense with analog clocks/watches. In places where you primarily use 24 hour time I guess you're always just translating from the clock in y
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by dcosson 10y ago
These sites in particular are not fully paywalled - search for the title and click through from google for wsj, and nytimes gives you 10 articles free per month (which resets if you use an incognito window). Whether this is the "right&
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by dcosson 10y ago
> BART gets you into Oakland and Berkeley which are cheaper than SF proper, but it is certainly not as extensive or reliable as NYC's. Having lived in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and now SF, it really feels like it's not even a compar
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by dcosson 10y ago
Not sure why I got a few downvotes, I didn't realize this was inappropriate. I'm genuinely curious about the economics of streaming tv vs bundled cable, I don't know too much about it.
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How do you get to the $25-$35 number? The article mentioned $7/month
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I think that's Sunday Ticket, and it's only sunday day games? So if your team is playing Monday night, you'll still need an ESPN subscription, Sunday night you need cable or an antenna that gets NBC, Thursday night you need t
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At the risk of contributing to the madness... It just baffles my mind how the right continues to insist that accepting people is a political issue, and that it is perfectly legitimate to take the for or against side on it. And all in the na
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by dcosson 10y ago
One thing about NFL rights that I haven't really seen discussed is they're so regional, and that doesn't seem to make much sense anymore, at least in big cities. Having lived in NY and SF everyone I know who's into footb
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I wonder if they'll consider giving the next iphone a usb-c port too. If they're really going to be consolidating to a single port I could get on board. Changing yet another standard connector but still requiring everyone to keep
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by dcosson 10y ago
The study shows that this diet may be sufficient for a better outcome for altheimers, but I'm skeptical that this in its entirety is necessary. Research on metabolic diseases is more and more pointing towards fats not being much of a f
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This really comes down to the weakest link though. You can use letsencrypt if you want, but someone else can still spoof your domain with a fake Comodo cert and any of your users' browsers will happily trust it. Public key pinning seem
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by dcosson 10y ago
I find the same thing. It's almost like writing an essay, I need to sketch out an outline first, which is often getting just far enough to convince myself that the approach is reasonable and there aren't any surprises ahead. Once

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