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by imgabe 4y ago
Would it not be possible to have multiple audio mixes available and play the one that is appropriate for your setup?
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by imgabe 4y ago
To use a bot you need to register an API key for it. Twitter or such could simply revoke the API access. The user is still free to post manually and their free speech is not impinged.
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by imgabe 4y ago
If they were powerful enough to prevent the government of the UK from taking it back, they certainly could.
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by imgabe 4y ago
> Would Britain really say “it’s ridiculous. Things change. Move on” for forcefully castrating Turing simply because he was gay? Oh wait. No. They didn’t actually do that. And what did that do for Turing? He's still castrated. He&#x
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by imgabe 4y ago
Civilizations clash. Some win, some lose. Should Gaul go back to the Romans? You would have the Earth remain completely static, and wherever your ancestors happened to evolve into humans that’s where you and your descendants live forever un
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by imgabe 4y ago
It has the same look as the HN guidelines. Reader mode seems to work on the HN guidelines page, but not on this page, although the markup appears to be the same. Not sure what's up with that.
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by imgabe 4y ago
This is fabulous. >If you have the temerity to submit a video or pdf, I should be grateful if you would mark it as such, so as not to cause the undoing of my fragile sensibilities. The temerity , the absolute temerity of assaulting my
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by imgabe 4y ago
I wonder if you could get good survey data by disguising it as a Buzzfeed quiz on Facebook. Just make the title something like "Which Kardashian are you?", then ask whatever questions you want and randomly select a Kardashian at t
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by imgabe 4y ago
Hopefully, it also costs them in plummeting enrollment as students realize that getting an education from an institution that willfully ignores facts might not be a great idea. One can dream, anyway.
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by imgabe 4y ago
According to the thread, they've already returned from their travels and visited several different local bank branches. Not sure how long the CFPB or OCC takes to respond, but they do take complaints seriously and they can cause seriou
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by imgabe 4y ago
The harm is ongoing if he's still unable to access his money. Banks will often move quickly once regulators start getting involved.
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by imgabe 4y ago
I think you’re looking at this from the wrong perspective. If your other option is to be a FAANG software engineer, sure, do that instead. For the vast swathes of the country where the available jobs are some mix of retail/warehouse lo
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by imgabe 4y ago
Right, there’s no reason you’d need to know in Python. How quickly could you pick it up if you had to? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointer_(computer_programmin...
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by imgabe 4y ago
A working dev should be well beyond the understanding of a third-year CS student. This is not "advanced" from the perspective of someone in practice, it is the requirement to get in to the practice. (I know people get programming
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Fix the lifestyle you want. Then work backwards from there(calnewport.com)
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by imgabe 4y ago
Fair use is a defense. You can still be sued for fair use, you have to go to court and prove to a judge or jury that your work constitutes fair use.
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by imgabe 4y ago
What it comes down to is, if you want to have a society where there’s not people living in tents on every corner or shitting outdoors, you have to make and enforce a rule that people aren’t allowed to do that. Then when you find someone bre
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by imgabe 4y ago
Because it's a service the business is performing for the public and they should be compensated for it. It also makes it easier to opt out and reduces the regulatory burden, which benefits small business. McDonald's and Starbucks
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by imgabe 4y ago
Train stations / bus terminals in major cities absolutely do have bathrooms. Union Station in DC, Grand Central / Penn Station in New York, similar stations in other cities, all have bathrooms. They’re usually open 24/7 too.
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by imgabe 4y ago
Train/Bus stations, shopping malls, libraries, homeless shelters, fast food restaurants, gas stations, hotel lobbies, churches The destitute do also patronize businesses as well from time to time. You do nobody any favors by infantiliz
951.
by imgabe 4y ago
It is in no way impossible for anyone to avoid shitting in the street if they care to put in the slightest bit of effort to avoid doing so.
952.
by imgabe 4y ago
When the government provides those facilities, they get destroyed or monopolized by drug users. People can't destroy the provided facilities and then complain that they aren't available. Society does require a modicum of cooperati
953.
by imgabe 4y ago
What law? There is no law requiring anyone to use these restrooms. This is a private company making restrooms available under specific conditions.
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by imgabe 4y ago
I don't know why cities don't offer a tax break to businesses to make their bathrooms publicly available. Make it enough that they can hire an extra employee to make sure there's someone to check the bathroom periodically and
955.
by imgabe 4y ago
The actual alternative to Photoshop for most people who just need to do simple edits ends up being photopea or another web app (there’s at least one other popular one I forget the name of). Most people don’t have the patience to install GIM
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by imgabe 4y ago
It will be like phone numbers where your area code for the rest of your life is wherever you lived when you first got a phone.
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by imgabe 4y ago
This is not a problem. It is vitally important that people are allowed to believe batshit things. Yes, most of them will be nonsense, but countless times throughout history, things that were formerly considered batshit became obvious truths
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by imgabe 4y ago
You might be interested in John Carmack's recent interview on Lex Fridman's podcast. He'd probably be one of the leading candidates for "best programmer". One thing that's common to people who are unreasonably
959.
by imgabe 4y ago
I have email on my own domain, hosted with Zoho that I use for anything important. Gmail has become like hotmail used to be- the throwaway email you use to sign up for websites that are probably going to spam you. If you’re doing anything p
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by imgabe 4y ago
There's no legitimate reason to hate on any other mode of transportation. Unless you're on an interstate or other highway that specifically forbids certain vehicles or has a minimum speed, everyone else has the same right to use t

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