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by eurleif 13y ago
For what it's worth, my mother -- who is not at all good with computers -- was upset about the new Gmail compose UI too.
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by eurleif 13y ago
Couldn't the subpixel hinting change too?
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by eurleif 13y ago
https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/#highlights > Amazon Glacier is designed to provide average annual durability of 99.999999999% for an archive. The service redundantly stores data in multiple facilities and on multipl
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by eurleif 13y ago
Yes, that is the same with or without parentheses. You're creating a tuple on the right-hand side of the equal sign, and using tuple unpacking on the left-hand side to assign the members of that tuple to variables. To make it a bit mor
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by eurleif 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COPPA
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by eurleif 13y ago
I tend to agree, but the comment I was responding to was claiming that drugs only cause harm because they're illegal.
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by eurleif 13y ago
>people used the cocoa leaf to make a tea they drank all the time, the way we drink coffee or caffeinated soda. Coca leaf tea is one thing. What about crack? Don't say it would never have been invented without criminalization; every
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by eurleif 13y ago
Wouldn't http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicatio... protect them regardless?
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by eurleif 13y ago
Huh? How is saying the state shouldn't restrict the non-violent acts of business owners the same thing as saying that there should be no police to stop people from using violence against business owners?
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by eurleif 13y ago
In private correspondence, or in public? Where?
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by eurleif 13y ago
Great artists steal?
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by eurleif 13y ago
Elected officials respond to political pressure, but 100,000 books to officials from across the country do not represent significant political pressure by themselves. They could become political pressure if they turn into a news story, and
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by eurleif 13y ago
The goal here is presumably to create a news story, and raise awareness. So why not send books to journalists instead? If I'm a journalist, which do you think will have a larger effect on me: seeing some anonymous people online say the
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by eurleif 13y ago
>In order to me to write this comment, I'm relying on the free wifi at Starbucks to not log my actions. No, you aren't. Hacker News is HTTPS-exclusive.
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by eurleif 13y ago
>it was cheaper than other options What if the only reason it was cheaper for legal uses is that they were being subsidized by the illegal uses? What if the pricing LD offered would not have been a workable business model if they hadn't
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by eurleif 13y ago
>The very short time limits IANAL, and I may not be reading the bill correctly, but it looks to me like the limit is always 10 days, which doesn't seem that bad to me. The relevant language is: "10 whole days if the warrant is issued un
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by eurleif 13y ago
Search warrants already exist. What does this bill change? Does it just make the time limit lower? And is it really very much like CISPA? I thought CISPA was about removing liability for certain kinds of voluntary data sharing, not about ma
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by eurleif 13y ago
>48% (35% federal + 8% state + 5% city) You can deduct state and local income tax from your federal income tax, so the combined rate should be less than that.
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by eurleif 13y ago
Geocities worked quite differently from Tumblr. How would you transition from one format to the other, without pissing off current users?
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by eurleif 13y ago
Look at the screenshot. The permissions dialog shows exactly what information is being submitted, and is labelled 'submit payment details'. No one should be misled.
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by eurleif 13y ago
Amazon could probably sue users of the API if they wanted to, rather than suing Google.
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by eurleif 13y ago
I think the screenshot in the article is of Chrome's permissions dialog. It shows very clearly what information is being requested.
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by eurleif 13y ago
Well, this API has been submitted to WHATWG: http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/RequestAutocomplete
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by eurleif 13y ago
>It's as if Google is bringing Amazon's "one-click" checkout to all Chrome users. Shutupshutupshutup, don't ruin this. ;) ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-click_patent )
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by eurleif 13y ago
>You are right, however, that it is economically somewhat senseless to shut down the nuke plants basically shortly after the subsidies/initial costs paid off, but, well. How is it more senseless than shutting them down any other time be
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by eurleif 13y ago
Huh? "Criminal" and "illogical lawyer" are racial groups?
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by eurleif 13y ago
Wouldn't you still have to explain who was paying you BitCoin, and why?
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by eurleif 13y ago
You're using an extreme example, and I think a lot of people will agree in that case because it's extreme, but might have reservations about applying the same logic elsewhere. For example, should it be ok to single out people who advocate m
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by eurleif 13y ago
It's the IRS's job to collect tax revenue. It's not the IRS's job to protect its own existence. That's politics, and the IRS should not be involved in politics.
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by eurleif 13y ago
He said they have the same business model. Business models are abstract.

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