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by fattire 10y ago
Let me just answer this one: Why can't I buy insurance across state lines like other insurances? Because then pretty much EVERY insurance company will pick up and move to the one most desperate state that writes laws in their favor, d
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by fattire 10y ago
What's the desperate situation you're referring to w/regard to health care? Do you mean the imminent dismantling of the "pernicious and arbitrary" system which brought 20 million people health care who didn't
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by fattire 10y ago
I've always thought that the famous line about "let customers shop across state lines" should be better formulated as "let insurance companies shop for the best state" Meaning, when customers have the ability to buy
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by fattire 10y ago
From the News, he says: "For those of you suggesting I should make an assembly language version of this: I'd love to" and goes on to say how he won't have time... At the very least he might want to look into the TASC co
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by fattire 10y ago
Unless it's waived... http://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/01/12/us-senate-panel-b...
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by fattire 10y ago
schwarrrtz is right on. But also, you have to consider that the new, conforming cars are very likely to be replacing cars that were much more harmful in terms of pollution. You can argue about the balance of increased energy and materials
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by fattire 10y ago
They also have great spy support.. https://thehackernews.com/2015/09/lenovo-laptop-virus.html
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by fattire 10y ago
Well there is Signal for Chrome... fwiw
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by fattire 10y ago
Of course, there is a story: https://psmag.com/why-don-t-we-have-pay-toilets-in-america-2... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_to_End_Pay_Toilets_i...
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by fattire 10y ago
In a way, "practicality" is the place you arrive at only after considering more extreme, principled points of view. So if his role is to present one philosophical approach to technology, and you decide it's too extreme, at l
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by fattire 10y ago
There's also bluejeans, though I have no idea what their security situation is. https://www.bluejeans.com Skype is a horror show, so really like you say anything is better. If video isn't required, Signal is probably
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by fattire 10y ago
Wish this issue hadn't been closed. Signal for Firefox is a big missing feature: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop/issues/415
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by fattire 10y ago
dogma's point about the Play Store apps is right though. ChromeOS was designed to keep everything in the cloud, but Android apps are different-- while currently running on storage-constrained tablets and phones, the Play Store on a la
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by fattire 10y ago
Sleazy things in the past? In the past as in last month, when I got one yet ANOTHER of those endless "I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn" spams? As in last year, when LinkedIn's site was hacked an
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by fattire 10y ago
http://lineageos.org/Yes-this-is-us/ Hopefully it gets done right this time.
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by fattire 10y ago
I always thought "TrueBlueOS" would have been a good name for the open source version...
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by fattire 10y ago
THREE years? I feel like it's been at least ten. The sad thing is I have friends who know the risk of using Flash, but- but there's that ONE (sports-related, in this case) site they need to use... so they won't dump it.
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by fattire 10y ago
And isn't the new touchbar thing on the macbook pros also running on ARM? http://gadgets.ndtv.com/laptops/news/macbook-pro-2016s-touch... And speaking of windows 10 on arm... what's the deal with this Wi
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by fattire 10y ago
> Without the secrecy aspect, I don't think you can say it's spying by the definition people typically use. I mean it in the sense of "I went on a blind date, but my parents sat at the adjacent booth to spy on me". I
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by fattire 10y ago
I understand that the goal is to stop cheaters. That's an admirable goal, and a perfectly legit one. However it's the completely wrong way to do it and sends a very strong message to anyone applying that "our company, for a
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by fattire 10y ago
Don't normalize it. It is not "normal". It's invasive as hell.
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by fattire 10y ago
Depending on which definition of "spying" you want to apply, it is spying. Moreover, it is invasive and unsettling. Perhaps most critically, it is a more subtle test for the prospective employee-- are you the kind of person who wo
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by fattire 10y ago
But skylake, not kaby lake...
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by fattire 10y ago
You provided a link for (2) (here's another-- http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/18/11703884/android-instant-a... ) and regarding (1), Android apps are coming to Chromebooks-- I can't imagine Chrom
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by fattire 10y ago
And don't forget this (ill-conceived, IMO) new feature for Android, which is that you'll be able to run "instant apps" right off the web without installing them first: http://www.theverge.com/2016/5&
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by fattire 10y ago
Hackaday did a breakdown for people jumping ship.. https://hackaday.com/2016/10/28/apple-sucks-now-heres-a-thin...
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by fattire 10y ago
Aside from the "can't we just drone this guy" comment that Clinton doesn't remember saying and if she did it was a joke, etc. the closest I can find: I would also add that to the American people and to our friends and pa
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by fattire 10y ago
Might wanna have a look at this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuQW0US2sJw (not particularly partisan, many calls for his death-- honestly mostly from the right but not exclusively.)
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by fattire 10y ago
The choice is that if you're going to develop software for sale to the public, you can choose to develop software for sale in another market which is not so restrictive and oppressive. Other platforms and marketplaces exist, and money
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by fattire 10y ago
You have other means to distribute your app w/Android, including self-distribution. It's an uphill climb to be sure, but there are apps who do that. Correct me if I'm wrong, but iOS doesn't offer that opportunity as si

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