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by gspencley 1y ago
At a previous employer of mine, it was common to share dev accounts for certain things. These were not security sensitive things. They were there purely for dev purposes and these were things like anayltics tools and stuff that the software
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by gspencley 1y ago
There is also a misconception that digital vfx are necessarily easier, faster and don't take as much skill etc. My wife and I moonlight as performing magicians. We both love horror movies and when I was a child in the 80s / early
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by gspencley 1y ago
> children screeching and yelling, provided that it isn't going on for hours at a time But it does often go on for hours at a time. And I'm not talking about a school zone or a park. As another person pointed out, if you move n
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by gspencley 1y ago
> and the laughter of children This I will take a nuanced position on. If your kids are playing in the backyard, and it doesn't impact me at all ... perfect please enjoy life. But I can often hear people outside, especially children
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by gspencley 1y ago
Maybe one day crypto will get there, but in 2022 we couldn't pay bills, taxes or payroll with crypto. At the end of the day it still needs to be converted into legal tender in order to be useful, and you need a bank account for that to
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by gspencley 1y ago
It's in Article 210 of the Icelandic penal code and, from what I gather, this follows a pattern typically referred to as "The Nordic Model" where it is not illegal to consume pornography, but it is illegal to produce and&#x2F
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by gspencley 1y ago
I'm not so sure you can point the finger at the USA for this. I ran an online porn website for almost 20 years. For 15 years it was my primary source of income. I'm in Canada which, compared to the USA is extremely progressive.
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Possibly but I would expect her to use computers a lot less if that were the case. She is an Apple user - probably for the best since she doesn't want configurability and values consistency and predictability and everything being inter
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That's an interesting thought experiment. Counter-anecdote: My grandmother has been using computers in some capacity or another since the 1980s. And she is still, by most definitions, completely and utterly "computer illiterate.&q
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> , but I was more referring to things like chicken breasts, etc, which often aren't great at the minimal internal temperature, but I've seen YouTube "chefs" recommend cooking them to a slightly lower temperature, ban
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> Btw, "What temperature should a food be cooked to" is a classic example of something where lots of people and lots of sources repeat incorrect information, which is often ignored by people who actually cook. Famously, the tem
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Philosophy and religion are not mutually inclusive, though one can certainly describe a religious belief as being a philosophical belief. Even a scientifically inclined atheist has philosophical ideas grounding their world view. The idea th
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by gspencley 1y ago
I'm your typical HN, tecchie, paranoid, privacy-obssessed "don't track me" nerd. But I have absolutely no problem with haute cuisine restaurants doing this. There's a few reasons that make this special, and in a com
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by gspencley 1y ago
Yes, these are often referred to as "Magic Links." When it comes to the security implications, consider that email has long been a "single point of failure" for a lot of services in the form of the "forgot password&
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by gspencley 1y ago
Not only that, but these business owners are actively complaining about an influx of business. I get it if your goal is not necessarily to make as much money as possible and just wanted to create some small, local, "underground" t
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by gspencley 1y ago
One way to get some insight into this is to look at the demographic break down of Iran pre and post 1979 revolution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Iran#Religious... Pre-1979, per the 1976 census, Iran h
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by gspencley 1y ago
> And what about that ally's actions towards Iran? I'm going to share a personal world view. Some may find this controversial or strongly disagree with this world view and that's fine. This is my opinion, not yours. What g
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by gspencley 1y ago
That's a very fair point. I think the difference is that Iran has been actively trying to follow through with its threats and this has been demonstrated through its actions towards an American ally over the past year. This gives reason
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by gspencley 1y ago
> Why are we toppling all these foreign governments I don't want to speak to the other foreign governments, and I think there is a LOT of room for healthy criticism of how the USA handles its foreign policy, past & present. But
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> Maybe you meant 'everyone' rather than 'anyone'? Maybe. IMO the sentence works to convey the meaning I had intended either way. It is not a strawman to suggest that there are people, a lot of them, who believe that
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by gspencley 1y ago
> But in this context, the purportedly irrational belief is that some phrases are offensive. If you accept that there are people who would, rationally or not, be offended by some phrases, then I don't understand why you would even m
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by gspencley 1y ago
> Surely you are aware that there are actually people with religious beliefs? Yes. What's your point? It doesn't make those beliefs rational. Faith is belief in something despite the absence of evidence. I am using the term &qu
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by gspencley 1y ago
> So "dicks 01" or "fuck me 01" instead of a bland "check 01" or whatever. For some reason, that seems much more unprofessional than a comment like "this code is shitty but works, need to clean up.&quot
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> No more absurd than the notion that a mere sequence of sounds could convey any other meaning of elicit any other response. I completely disagree. It is a lot more absurd. Language is not a priori. It must be learned. It requires both a
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by gspencley 1y ago
I don't personally care about language choices in code, but I'll play devil's advocate and speculate as to why a business might be concerned. 1. Reputational harm in the event that code needs to be shared. Say, the code gets
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by gspencley 1y ago
> You don’t have freedom for Self dealing, price fixing, collusion, bribery, false marketing, antitrust violations, selling baby powder with lead and many other things. It's funny how often people will not read what you wrote, and i
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> So then, your actual opinion is Yes a "content neutral hosting platform." does exist? No. Common carrier and "hosting platform" are not the same thing. If someone wanted to apply common carrier status to broadband i
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Not only is it subjective but V8 does so much to optimize JavaScript code that I wouldn't be surprised if the benefits for most applications were negligible anyway. Although JavaScript is still an interpreted language, it basically get
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> We’re talking about content neutral hosting platforms. There is no such thing as a "content neutral hosting platform." I know that people like to talk about social media services in the same umbrella as the concept of "c
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> Interesting position - when somebody posts illegal content on YouTube, they are not liable, it’s not their speech. > But when I want to post something they don’t like, suddenly it’s their freedom of speech to remove it. There is no

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