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by dexen 8y ago
>players with most trackers just refuse to show the cookie warnings at all The results of the legislation -in regard to cookies- are inconsistent, annoying, unevenly enforced, create a moral hazard and two-tier system, and I presume ha
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by dexen 8y ago
The next best thing is uBlock filter list. What if I told you... [1][2] [1] http://prebake.eu/ [2] https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/
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by dexen 8y ago
>A significant fraction of people, if asked, will tell you that they believe the work they do has no value. In optimal conditions, a basic job performed to average standard should be saving life of at least one person. Ideally, of a fa
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by dexen 8y ago
>people don't always believe evidence even if it's there. I frankly admit some of the "facts" [0] known to me are wrong [1]. I know that for certain, as some of the "facts" are conflicting with each other,
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by dexen 8y ago
>The problem is lack of forgiveness even after repentance If anything, repentance leads to more and longer lasting stigma. The repentant person will most likely get excluded from the polite society - which usually means from any high
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by dexen 8y ago
Thank you, apocalypstyx - your comment is insightful and useful in analyzing certain present-day trends. Bit of a tangent, I remember reading a comment regarding old art's propensity towards showing past as nearly the same as present
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by dexen 8y ago
Speaking form european perspective - and expanding on carapace 's excellent post, this is a small concern. Speeding tickets are a particularly good example. My country's and neighboring country's driver and car registration
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by dexen 8y ago
I think the proper framework for considering morality of those choices should take into account the history of childbirth and child rearing. Right now we are mostly insulated from concerns of childhood mortality; there is an extensive netwo
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by dexen 8y ago
>The down side is that it made games super hardware-dependent Slightly off-topic, but: it was the most important upside - the game could conceivably be optimized for the characteristics of the controller(s), and in some cases, display
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by dexen 8y ago
>no, no, no, edgelords and /pol/tards Please consider providing a positive narrative - "this started a trend, this expanded it, that was the result, here's where we are at presently, that's the expected future&
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by dexen 8y ago
>Currently (...) Way to start with a false premise. The meme died out by now[1]. > The phrase “Learn to Code” was initially posted on Twitter after the layoffs at BuzzFeed and the Huffington Post. Way to continue with a false prem
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by dexen 8y ago
Every concern you mention is true for both sides of the market - seller and buyer. The buyer has spent a ton of capital on infrastructure and marketing, has loans and other bills to pay, and also has to provide service to their customers at
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by dexen 8y ago
I am sorry, this doesn't make any sense to me. If "people refuse to pay more for this", it means there's either over-supply of service at the current price-point, or there are easily accessible, low-cost alternative serv
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by dexen 8y ago
>There has been a driver shortage for 10+ years How does that square with the low net compensation of the drivers? Is there perhaps a secondary mechanism, other than the (asserted) labor supply shortage, that depresses the wages?
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by dexen 8y ago
> We would live better without [cash] While I love the ease of use of electronic payments of all stripes, your assertion runs counter to my general knowledge and judgement. Can you support the assertion somehow? In my understanding the
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by dexen 8y ago
Legally speaking, cash is, and will remain, valid tender for settling debts, and creditors in general may not refuse it for an outstanding debt. However a seller is generally allowed to refrain from selling (bar certain specific protections
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by dexen 8y ago
>I gave Firefox an honest go, but some web apps just don't work 100% in it. Chrome does not have this issue. Used to be the same problem with Firefox vs IE6. And that was exactly when people got serious about the need to defeat
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by dexen 8y ago
>Google is probably one of the most careful companies when dealing with private data >private data Ah, the fabled "metadata is not data" defense. Sadly, given the scale and pervasiveness of Google, observing meta-data an
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by dexen 8y ago
>Could you be clearer about what kind of time frame and locality you're talking about here? I'm thinking of the "A century ago" period, in concert with what the article starts off with. My perspective is primarily e
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by dexen 8y ago
>A century ago, captains of industry and their allies in government >launched a social experiment in urban America: >the abandonment of mass transit in favor of a new personal technology, the private automobile. Way to start with
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by dexen 8y ago
I would assume your email address is mistakenly flagged by anti-spam system, and proceed accordingly.
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by dexen 8y ago
>I noticed that several product owners / team leaders >are significantly below targets >and still do not work on weekends to catch up. The CEO addresses it specifically to the middle management (POs/TLs) and not line empl
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by dexen 8y ago
So you are saying Emacs needs twice the space? Or perhaps twice the marketing push?
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by dexen 8y ago
I've had good results sending messages to mailbox named "hn" in the "ycombinator" domain, in "com" TLD.
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by dexen 8y ago
>they are only opposing to article 13 because Putin asked them to do so The technical term for what happened here is "jumping the shark" [1]. Accusations of this or that worldview or tendencies is one thing, but injecting con
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by dexen 8y ago
>Good teachers are scarce too You have named the very reason the teachers are angrily protesting any and all attempts at evaluation of teachers' productivity. Or introduction of private (i.e., market-based) schools competing with
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by dexen 8y ago
>The letter of the law is given great weight, no matter the intention of the law. You are assigning the responsibility the wrong way around. The letter, and the intent, of the law have two points of interfacing: the point of execution
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by dexen 8y ago
>Which is why the argument makes no sense. Either digital systems add something new and unique to the mix, or they don't. I'm sorry but this runs counter the observed historical reality. For reference, consider data transmiss
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>In a world with ICBMs Quite the opposite. ICBMs have somewhat symmetrical threat and defense model. You use similar technologies for both, and you have actionable amount of time - some 20 minutes - for observation, decision taking, and
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by dexen 8y ago
It takes a good while to detect preparations for an attack with this kind of weapon & take the decision ("Mr President, the station has slightly shifted around, should we nuke it now?"), and it takes long time for any physical

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