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by htek 5y ago
>That's a cool observation that I'll keep in mind. However, in my experience, it's not been the primary reason. Rather, it has seemed to me that rural folks live closer to nature than urban folks, and have often had firsth
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by htek 5y ago
This reminds me of an argument I had a few Thanksgivings ago with an aunt who loudly proclaimed that the $0.49 can of black beans from the bargain store is exactly the same as the $3.49 can of black beans from the supermarket.
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by htek 5y ago
2010's GoDaddy, is that you? They used to pull this, then you would stay on the phone seemingly forever until you got a (the?) CSR that would first try the carrot of more services for free if you just re-upped then tried to browbeat yo
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by htek 5y ago
Mr Wozniak is a thoughtful, intelligent guy who can clearly articulate his position on many topics and the reasoning behind it. Jawed Karim says it is stupid to remove dislikes.
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by htek 5y ago
What input do either of them have in the current direction of their former companies?
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by htek 5y ago
Jesus, this story is going to have all the bad takes. People's main takeaway from the article is, "it's just the way cities grow," "it's the zoning board's fault," "people moved near a cancer clu
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by htek 5y ago
Another perspective... https://www.indiatoday.in/opinion/shahana-basu-kanodia/story...
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by htek 5y ago
We're all just trying to be good little capitalists, extracting value from someone/something as cheaply as possible and selling it to someone else for profit. See ya at the bottom! ;)
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by htek 5y ago
"NSO would generally run the anonymising nodes on the Internet and seemingly insist on installing and maintaining the servers hosted at the client site where data eventually ends up. There is a note saying that customers could set this
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by htek 5y ago
I love the freedom of bicycling, but I hate dealing with people driving cars. I sort of understand why the more militant bicyclists call them "cagers." As I remember angrily explaining to a motorist who thought nothing of fishtail
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by htek 5y ago
That's subobtimal as well. The site could come out with a new robots.txt file which is just <code>User-agent: * Disallow: /</code> and everything already indexed by the Internet Archive is now inaccessible to you.
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by htek 5y ago
There are 80,000+ year old aspen trees in Utah.
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by htek 5y ago
I recall a similar experience with a particularly poor-performing $10k+ 3D graphics card for CAD/CAM back in the 90s. It had gone back and forth multiple times for crashing the system, locking up and just plain chugging along relative
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by htek 6y ago
Mmm, achievements don't really seem as special anymore for a variety of reasons. Everything is so regimented in games now. You get an achievement for completing the tutorial mission. You get an achievement for finding the thing you can
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by htek 6y ago
Because everyone (for certain values of everyone) has a niche issue that current software doesn't address or addresses poorly, or they just don't want to pay for something that the government should provide. It's their damn t
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by htek 7y ago
Absolutely. Nothing has destroyed my productivity over the years as effectively as the expected instant response from ICQ, instant messenger, and Slack chat messages.
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by htek 7y ago
I think perhaps you've misunderstood the article. If I understand it correctly, human centered design as it is currently employed is only concerned with enabling transactions, whether it is Amazon's 1-click purchase button, or Ube
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by htek 7y ago
If I order an item from Amazon, Target, Mouser, and Walmart, they're probably going to arrive in four boxes by four different carriers under the Amazon system. If they all used USPS, they might all be delivered on the same day by one c
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by htek 7y ago
That seems... odd? They're fine with the domestic spying, pre-crime profiling based on flimsy evidence, but help with rounding up people for the concentration camps and people suddenly get cold feet.
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by htek 7y ago
What you're saying is that it's okay to treat all black people as if they're criminals because a small subset of them engage in criminal activity. It is well established that black and white people use illegal drugs at about
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by htek 7y ago
So you're cool with a cop that is biased against black people using their dog as a pretense to search them? Oh, and, yes, a police search is invasive and demeaning. I suggest you try it before you discount it.
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by htek 7y ago
The belief that the universe must have a purpose is a trap. It leads you down a particular line of reasoning that ends with you believing in a creator god (or gods), or that the universe itself is divine. You would likely also reason that y
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by htek 7y ago
With their natural predators mostly eradicated, the deer population could do with a good culling in many states. Disclaimer: I've eaten deer in the past. However, now I'm not so sure I'd choose deer as a protein source. I&#x2
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by htek 7y ago
Can you really say that a collection of fan-fiction is in any way historical?
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by htek 7y ago
Oh, I don't know. My heart is racing at the excitement of traveling to the Off-World Colonies, it's practically bursting out of my chest. At least I think that's my heart.
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by htek 7y ago
I would much rather see Israel and Palestine at peace, but what's also forgotten is that Israel created its own monster.[1] Israel's right wing government will do anything it can [2] to undermine Palestine's legitimacy so lo