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by dictum 13y ago
> I see very little possible misuse of temperature preference (of all things...) and very great possible gains. That's where the problem lies: the greatest gains should come from features/sensors/products not yet introduce
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by dictum 13y ago
I've FUD'd myself regarding lowendbox. Using a Digital Ocean droplet as a VPN is probably the same as driving to Fort Meade monthly and handing them a hard drive with your full upload and download streams for the month, but using
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by dictum 13y ago
Tapping and holding for 2 seconds and then choosing "Open in a new tab" every time you want to open a link in a new tab in iOS gets tiring fast. I wish Apple would introduce a better UI for this.
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by dictum 13y ago
It's a cup half-empty/half-full thing. I'm happy that more people can access the Internet, but I wish they could have uncapped broadband. Until we get there, hacker spaces for the poor will remain a necessity.
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by dictum 13y ago
If they get more comments than upvotes in a window of time (IANpg but last I heard, it was the first 30-45 minutes after submission), they'll suffer the same fate as submissions about sexism in tech.
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by dictum 13y ago
I don't have a strong opinion on (the lack of) women in tech. I don't feel strongly either way, so I'd be more moved to change the status quo if I could be presented with a good case that women are being held back. Sorry for
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by dictum 13y ago
That's one positive side effect of 3G: more people can get Internet access. Data caps for pre-paid plans are low here (200MB-300MB), but at roughly $5/month, they're the only affordable option for poor families and people who
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by dictum 13y ago
This has gotten worse for me with Safari on OS X Mavericks. Sometimes I click on the up arrow and OS X decides to scroll some 15px down, leaving me to wonder if I actually hit up or down.
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by dictum 13y ago
Some countries have found a third option: instead of a $300 fine, you pay a $100 bribe. Except if you run the bribing scheme, but in the greater scheme of things, there are more people not running the scheme than people running the scheme.
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by dictum 13y ago
A list of guidelines and short advice to build a Minimum Viable Product could certainly fit in 1kb of plaintext, but like all JS microlibraries, most of the hard work would be left to the user.
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by dictum 13y ago
> However, since their servers are no longer hosted in the US or the EU, they're no longer protected by US or EU laws! So congratulations, Clipperz! You've accomplished the double whammy of not improving your legal situation at
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by dictum 13y ago
USDA Prime beef won't complain when it's rewarded for the 60-hour work weeks with a firing.
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by dictum 13y ago
Corporations would just use robots to circumvent these restrictions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive Speaking of banks, Goldman Sachs has around 32k employees.
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by dictum 13y ago
This reminds me of threads on MacRumors and Apple Discussions. Someone asks how to do X with [gadget]. Someone replies that you can't do X with [gadget]. Then someone asks why you would want to X with [gadget], you're obviously us
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by dictum 13y ago
Quoting at the top doesn't feel right to me. Scrolling usually happens from top to bottom. While email clients could simply send the scrollbar to the bottom of the page by default, displaying the message from the bottom, letting the us
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by dictum 13y ago
There are too many third party requests/tracking scripts (Google Adsense, Analytics, webfonts; icon font from bootstrapcdn.com; Twitter avatars) in this blog. The blog itself is hosted in Wordpress.com. I don't if this is good or
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by dictum 13y ago
Just because other countries do something deplorable, doesn't mean the United States should do it too.
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by dictum 13y ago
http://cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/20/bush.speech/index.html
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by dictum 13y ago
"Would you ask that of him?" fits the normal usage of ask as a verb, though. In "the client had an ask which we fulfilled" (where ask means "request", I presume) "ask" was nounified .
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by dictum 13y ago
> I don't mind a general region being disclosed, but the house-level accuracy of the location data definitely creeps me out. This is exactly what I want most of the time. My ISP's servers are usually in neighboring cities, so g
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by dictum 13y ago
Correct me if I'm talking directly from my rear end: For that scenario, Google could ignore the arguments and just request the file. However, I'm not sure I get Google's implementation of the proxy, but if the images are grab
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by dictum 13y ago
Maybe instead of following web-native properties and cable news with 24/7 coverage, newspaper editors wish we all could go back to a daily digest (and a weekly recap with more soft news) of yesterday's events. I know I do, sometim
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by dictum 13y ago
Of course revenge porn is disgusting, but I think more people should stand up and make it clear that what makes it disgusting is not so much the nudity, but the lack of consent and the aggression/humiliation. I could be mistaken, but e
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by dictum 13y ago
> It might all be fine when you are rich, cis-straight and white, but a single non friendly idea and you are a threat to the state. There's certainly a large amount of people prejudiced and powerful enough to harm those who don&#x27
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by dictum 13y ago
I'm afraid it would go the opposite way—everyone chooses the cheaper, less private plans, then the company raises the prices and the ad-ridden plans eventually start costing the same as the old neutral plans, while the neutral plans (s
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by dictum 13y ago
Thanks! I was setting up a proxy for devices that can't use Disconnect or Adblock. I thought of adapting the Disconnect list to the proxy's block list, but a cursory reading of the source only showed the URL of the encrypted list.
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by dictum 13y ago
Why is the Disconnect trackers list ( https://services.disconnect.me/disconnect.json , referenced in https://github.com/disconnectme/disconnect/blob/master/firef... ) an encrypted blob? Tha
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by dictum 13y ago
> JavaScript polyfills to support new baseline HTML/CSS features are a necessity for sustainable future-and-past-proof development in the modern Web ecosystem I'd wager that most people who disable Javascript are using a modern
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by dictum 13y ago
When Apple was in the business of Internet filtering: KidSafe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGMQLfi0kGc&t=39m32s
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by dictum 13y ago
I block most tracking services. I wish I didn't have to do that. I'd love if sites could get accurate analytics, as long as the data stays with the website owners (so, nothing from external companies and no pinging Google etc.), i

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