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by ineptech 1y ago
Would it not be reasonable and safe and private to implement age verification through login.gov? An Oauth implementation that knows your identity and age can produce a verifiable token that attests your age but not identity. The only way
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by ineptech 1y ago
What's the seductive-but-wrong part of EA? As far as I can tell, the vast majority of the opposition to it boils down to "Maybe you shouldn't donate money to pet shelters when people are dying of preventable diseases" v
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by ineptech 1y ago
The article presumably omits mention of Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" because it also does a raft of other controversial[0] and broadly unpopular[1] things that are much more impactful than, and completely unrelated to, the su
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by ineptech 1y ago
Agreed, just saw the remaster in a theater and it holds up surprisingly well. What seemed like glaring inaccuracies in 1995 now seem like whimsical visualizations and over the top silliness. Except of course "It's got a 28.8 bps
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by ineptech 1y ago
Hah, thanks! Haven't touched it in a long time, almost forgot about the username.
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by ineptech 1y ago
Relatedly, there was a major controversy at work recently over the propriety of adding something like this to a lengthy email discussion: > Since this is a long thread and we're including a wider audience, I thought I'd add Cop
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by ineptech 2y ago
It's funny that Business Insider seems to have gotten on board just in time for D&D's enshittification. For those who don't follow it, D&D was purchased a few years ago by Hasbro and is being aggressively transformed
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by ineptech 2y ago
> Messages are expected to be written across several coherent English sentences, neatly organized into paragraphs, finally with some sort of signature. In the programming world we refer to this as boilerplate. "This HTTP call has no
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by ineptech 2y ago
Landlords are easy to hate in the way that people complain about Microsoft or their power utility or whatever, but the specific meme you're talking about (that they take no risk and live extravagantly without contributing anything) see
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by ineptech 2y ago
Aside from maintaining the building, what landlords are doing is renting access to capital, same as a bank loan.
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by ineptech 2y ago
Ask yourself: what's the difference between the SEC saying, "We declare that Facebook broke a securities law and shall now be fined $1M" and Trump saying, "I decree that the SEC declare that Facebook broke a securities l
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by ineptech 2y ago
When Congress passes a law saying, "create an agency that sets rules about air pollution, whose director is appointed by the president", the constitution demands that the executive branch do exactly that. Interpreting that to mea
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by ineptech 2y ago
> DEHP is a compound added to plastics (like vinyl tape) to make them more flexible. It’s used in hundreds of household products, which means lots of people who bathe in Dr. Bronner’s Useless Fluid think it will kill them. I get the joke
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by ineptech 2y ago
> AI will seep into all areas of the economy and society; we will expect everything to be smart. I fear this is correct, but with "smart" in the sense of smart TVs. In economic terms, TVs are amazing compared to just a few yea
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by ineptech 2y ago
What was the impressive and profitable part? The article makes him sound like a script kiddie who dicked around with some DDoS networks and formed a couple LLCs but didn't end up accomplishing much (either entrepreneurially or illegal
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by ineptech 2y ago
What's more worrying is whether the access can realistically be revoked. As a general rule, when a security even rises to the level of root access to internal systems, you don't even try to remove them - you just rebuild the affe
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by ineptech 2y ago
> No to both, because nobody at SBA or USPS could permissibly do those things. I don't see why. A specific person at the SBA is empowered to approve or deny the loan, and that person works for someone who works for someone who work
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by ineptech 2y ago
Thanks for responding at length, though your derisive tone isn't winning you any converts. Is it your position then that the president can legally wield any power described in any legislation? If not, what can't he do? Can he,
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by ineptech 2y ago
> once so established, the president has the power to decide how they’re operated. This is the third time I've seen someone pushing this line of thinking on HN in as many days and I'd like to know more about where it's com
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by ineptech 2y ago
In most cases the law that created the agency spells out exactly what control the president has, and AFAIK presidents still have to follow the law like everyone else. Is there any real justification for this, beyond the general notion that
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by ineptech 2y ago
I understand you're arguing this, I'm asking where this meme came from. Independent agencies have been around for more than a century and AFAICT the idea that there's something constitutionally unsavory about them is very ne
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by ineptech 2y ago
That doesn't mean it's subject to the whims of the president. When Congress creates independent agencies, they lay out exactly how the president has oversight (usually by hiring and firing the director and/or board). I remem
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by ineptech 2y ago
They're created by Congress but administratively part of the executive branch, as described in the first two paragraphs of the linked wiki article, and they're independent so they can be insulated from politics and regulate effect
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by ineptech 2y ago
You make this sound trivial, but I did this (not with a blog per se, but with a silly one-shot parody website I made for fun) and the first time it got posted on HN it exceeded my hosts bandwidth limits in the first hour despite only having
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by ineptech 2y ago
I think the truth is in the middle: people took what they wanted from the study in the 40s, and people are taking what they want from the updated study as well. Worse, the topic seems to be popular enough that it's being used as seo
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by ineptech 2y ago
Well put, but the countermeme ("Hey did you hear that the alpha wolf thing was bullshit?") seems to be as popular or moreso than what it's displacing. I did some light googling yesterday to see if I could find any references
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by ineptech 2y ago
This sounds like Scott Alexander's "Fashion explained with cellular automata" article, which was neat but probably not what OP was referring to and certainly not related to TFA in any way I can see. Still a good read tho. h
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by ineptech 2y ago
Have the details been published anywhere? I looked briefly and only see stuff describing it in general and saying it is yet to be released.
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by ineptech 2y ago
Not sure how familiar you are with the rules of D&D, but "lesser wizard" in this context means suboptimal stat bonuses, not limitations on magic.
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by ineptech 2y ago
The problem is that some racial bonuses are things that can be plausibly explained away by background (stat bonuses, mental abilities, humans getting a feat) but a lot aren't (aarakocra flight, dragonborn breath weapons, halflings bein

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