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by grammarnazzzi 5y ago
> Hospital officials defend these fees as necessary to keep an emergency room open 24 hours a day as a community asset. What nonsense. This argument is effectively charging a rent without the consent or agreement of the renter (the commu
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High medical bill in the ER leaves family reeling(npr.org)
56 points by grammarnazzzi 5y ago|90 comments
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by grammarnazzzi 5y ago
You get what you pay for. Microsoft hotmail is pretty much the same. Reailize that what you call "security" isn't there to protect you. It protects Google's interests. Google wants to minimize the risk of hackers compro
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by grammarnazzzi 5y ago
Learn from it. Otherwise you're going to experience these same regrets when you're about to turn 40, 50, 60, 70, ... Figure out your goals/principles/mission today. Then make that happen now. There's never going t
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by grammarnazzzi 5y ago
> If you love the someone you're with, you don't care about other opportunities. What would be the point? Some special organs that another person doesn't have? To gain the experience necessary to know when your significant
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by grammarnazzzi 5y ago
> We've had a free tier since we launched ten years ago (in 2020). I hate it when time travelers pollute my news feed.
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Digital board game Pandemic has been delisted from Steam without explanation(pcgamer.com)
8 points by grammarnazzzi 5y ago|1 comments
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by grammarnazzzi 5y ago
I don't agree. The hackers are criminals and extortionists. No more. The impact of the crime is embarrassment to businesses, time and money recovering from data loss, and an inconvenience to workers across all industries. NPR played up
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by grammarnazzzi 5y ago
TLDR: For anybody wondering why "hospitals" appears in the subject line, it's purely click-bait. Hospital services were not targeted or particularly affected more than any other industry. The only statistic in the article tha
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by grammarnazzzi 5y ago
He threw away reputation and trust it took years to build for a couple days of negative attention
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by grammarnazzzi 5y ago
> I don’t understand the mindset of open source developers who dedicate significant time energy and life to free software, unless there’s a tangible, quantifiable advantage to doing so. They get: meaning, status, influence, connections,
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by grammarnazzzi 5y ago
this article links to a hacked site
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by grammarnazzzi 5y ago
"Problematic" is a word typically used when someone wants to get attention by fabricating non-existant greivences they aren't even involved with. They cast the world as a worse place that it actually is, and in the process ma
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by grammarnazzzi 5y ago
Imagine the conversation they had 2 years ago when they registered their .net domain. Maybe 2 years ago, they were deciding on their corporate identity: maybe ABC, DEF, or GHI, ... They decided on ABC even though they knew ABC.com wasn&#x27
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by grammarnazzzi 5y ago
> If anything I would have thought they should be the ones changing their name, ... No doubt that they did think of that. Instead they decided on intimidation as an opening strategy. > ... as I was using the name 7+ years before them
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by grammarnazzzi 5y ago
You're literally trying to portray Life360 as the victim. If Life360's mission is to keep children safe, exposing their location data simply cannot be part of that. These two activities cannot coexist without undue risk. No parent
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by grammarnazzzi 5y ago
> but you’re really really stretching here. I certainly hope that's the case > One of which involve paying a bunch of $$ to Life360 and trying to filter the data by age. The fact that the data is being made available to larger au
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by grammarnazzzi 5y ago
So a predator with access to this data, even if anonymized, could use it to discover locations frequented by children. A company that ostentatiously presents its mission as making children safer actually makes money by making children less
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by grammarnazzzi 5y ago
This creates a system that encourages bribery. Historically, such systems are legislated against and are often made illegal. Example: Suppose you are a cashier working in retail. If at the end of your shift your drawer is short for whateve
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by grammarnazzzi 5y ago
Of course. Look at it from Instagram's perspective: If someone tells you one of your tools is suspicious or could be a liablity for whatever reason, the most efficient thing to do is simply discard it.
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by grammarnazzzi 5y ago
It alludes to the hypocrisy in the claim: > "with the added trust of Microsoft" Hijacking a competitor's page demonstrates that Microsoft lacks integrity and cannot be trusted
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by grammarnazzzi 5y ago
Google marketing: "Entrust your livelihood to us because we're the experts" Goodle production: "We're not responsible for your livelihood" Same from Microsoft
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by grammarnazzzi 5y ago
> This kind of stuff ought to be regulated somehow, one can’t lose access to one’s life. You can't create regulation requiring anyone or anything be competent and responsible. If you entrust your livelihood to a company that cannot
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by grammarnazzzi 5y ago
> But you also need to find the file first No. He's describing a distributor's options. You are describing a consumer's problem. Specifically pirate comsumers. He doesn't need to find his own file; he needs to distrib
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by grammarnazzzi 5y ago
> Just goes to show how convoluted things can get at Microsoft scale. It's not so much a problem of "scale" as simply poor architecture, neglected technical debt and outright incompetance
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by grammarnazzzi 5y ago
> It's an interesting thought experiment What is the experiment? Honestly? What's the point? That two people enjoy different advantages and that's unfair and needs to be addressed? Here's a take on that "issue&qu
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by grammarnazzzi 5y ago
Well, what do you think the point of the post was then?
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by grammarnazzzi 5y ago
I understand and agree with your explaination. I agree that article addresses a real problem that should be exposed and dealt with. However, the NYT does not appear to. The title of article is "Americans’ Appetite for Leather in Luxury
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by grammarnazzzi 5y ago
> I'm not entirely sure that gating vs flagging should be defined differently I think that's the point of the article. "feature flags" = "gates" = "circuit breakers" = "knobs"? really? &
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by grammarnazzzi 5y ago
It's the manipulative, click-bait title that I have issue with. NYT chose to misrepresent the purpetrators in it's article. That's not journalism. NYT's conclusion of who is to blame could have gone either way: 1) be man

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