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811.
by eric_h 10y ago
> You can certainly coerce someone into that by threatening their life or their family, but that's not entrapment. umm, is that not the very legal definition of entrapment? If an LEO threatens your life or your family to get you to
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by eric_h 10y ago
Wow. Descent? I haven't even thought about that game in a decade and a half. I feel like the hardware required to play that game doesn't really require lugging, these days.
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by eric_h 10y ago
> checking the weather over the next few hours by spinning the dial is very convenient Holy shit I have no idea why I never thought to do that, that's a great feature. I agree that the watch is not a life changing tech upgrade like
814.
by eric_h 10y ago
This comment[1] suggests that the product does not work with an actual bank card, only prepaid cards, which boggles the mind. 1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11865494
815.
by eric_h 10y ago
Haha, indeed. I think I'd heard of it many years ago, but I didn't really understand how fucking absurd it is until a story about it appeared here on HN. A year (~ish/maybe, my memory of timelines is fucking terrible) later
816.
by eric_h 10y ago
Not to mention that Uber already has a VIP concept in their product that's quite interesting. Pairs frequent customers with the highest rated drivers. Amusingly, in less Uber dense neighborhoods in NYC (i.e. anything that's not Ma
817.
by eric_h 10y ago
> Throughout all ancient and historical human cultures, women have consistently been to certain degrees less privileged and more subservient to men I suspect that this is largely due to men's greater capacity for violence than women
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The Long-Discredited Challenge to the Impartiality of Minority Judges(concurringopinions.com)
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819.
by eric_h 10y ago
Ah yes, Facebook video is still in the pre-Content ID honeymoon period that youtube enjoyed before Viacom (IIRC) threatened to destroy it's business altogether.
820.
by eric_h 10y ago
Blind chess sounds like an extremely difficult game. I really want to play it. Seems as though it's most easily played as a computer game.
821.
by eric_h 10y ago
Amusingly, each of those fits in a tweet ;)
822.
by eric_h 10y ago
I wasn't joking, the site actually loads much better, faster and more readably in lynx than it did in my regular browser (safari with ABP)
823.
by eric_h 10y ago
Or, indeed, if the latter affects the former.
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by eric_h 10y ago
I could not get this site to fully load even after (or maybe because) my adblocker blocked 68 requests. However, loads great in lynx!
825.
by eric_h 10y ago
I'm not suggesting to turn the odds to zero, though. Simply lowering the odds until the clog is cleared would not appreciably improve an attackers chances of getting through. You could still get streaks at the lower odds, thus making t
826.
by eric_h 10y ago
> Real randomness gives you streaks True, but you could just tweak the odds down a bit once a streak hits a certain number if you've demonstrably slowed the line down (and turn them back up once the clog has been cleared).
827.
by eric_h 10y ago
Ha. Yes, fair enough. But, presuming they didn't, would it not be in facebook's best interest to allow their app to still work, perhaps with a visible warning?
828.
by eric_h 10y ago
Indeed. I'm as certain as one can be that the flat earth movement is half stupid and half troll (at least on Internet message boards). I sincerely hope that my unscientific estimate is not erring in favor of the right hand side there.
829.
by eric_h 10y ago
After my first job after college, my personal social network is how I've gotten all my jobs, and I wouldn't have it any other way. When I get a new job, the company hiring me knows what I can do, because someone they trust told th
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by eric_h 10y ago
Is this a common thing for apps to do, yet? I was under the impression that there are some corporate networks which treat MitMing ssl connections as a business necessity. Would Facebook et. al. allow their apps to stop functioning on networ
831.
by eric_h 10y ago
My favorite coffee shop in NYC is The Roasting Plant, their coffee is roasted, brewed and poured by a pneumatic (well the process of sending the beans to their destination is a set of pneumatic tubes) coffee robot[0] (and handed to you by a
832.
by eric_h 10y ago
Would a jailbreak really be necessary for this? Couldn't you just install a certificate on the phone and MitM the https traffic?
833.
by eric_h 10y ago
So transpose the eat and sleep, it rhymes better anyway ;)
834.
by eric_h 10y ago
> Apparently google has an Ethicist. Well, had . From his bio snippet at the bottom: "Ex-Design Ethicist & Product Philosopher @ Google"
835.
by eric_h 10y ago
Well - my "hobby" project is running the league website for a pool hall that was written in PHP ~12 years ago. There are 4 different leagues, each on their own database, all running very similar (but not the same) versions of the
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by eric_h 10y ago
> I definitely wouldn't assume that someone who spent more time debugging was a "worse" programmer I believe that more time spent debugging, the worse the code you're debugging is. Now if you're spending most of
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by eric_h 10y ago
I work on a very small team (4 engineers), so we have all commits for all branches posted to our engineering chatroom. Everyone knows what everyone else is working on (and we all work in the same room), so when someone is on a task that we
838.
by eric_h 10y ago
True, but I think that with rails and a few dozen gems one can bolt together a terribly architected app that on the surface seems to work but is in fact a bunch of spaghetti and lasagna code bolted together with duct tape, teetering on the
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by eric_h 10y ago
Amusing, for sure, but I'm fairly certain the cops driving yellow cabs don't actually take any fares. I've also seen uniformed cops driving those cabs before.
840.
by eric_h 10y ago
> like undercover NYPD taxi cabs. Amusingly, these are the easiest unmarked NYPD vehicles to spot. They're the only yellow cabs in the city with radio antennas.

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