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by infamia 5y ago
The sort of logic imputed by the GPDR would put an end to mailing parcels too. You could drive across town to deliver the package, you didn't need it delivered via the post. After all, every package shipped in the mail involves a thi
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by infamia 5y ago
Thank you for your thoughtful comment and the links. Very helpful! Three thoughts in response: - The appearance of unfairness is arguably at least as important as actual fairness from a community perspective. If you're being fair, but
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by infamia 5y ago
When you have a fixed mindset, have chosen a side in a debate, and actively participate in a story where you have a vested self-interest, you cease to become what this community loves about you -- the impartial gardener of HN. At this point
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by infamia 5y ago
Gotcha, not discounting your experiences either. Every desktop engineer I've met (10's or 100's of thousands of workstations) were well aware of this long-standing, dark pattern (esp. after a med-large upgrades), and gnashed
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by infamia 5y ago
I don't know why you would doubt this. Windows updates have been doing this for decades, first with Internet Explorer when they were battling Netscape/Firefox and now (apparently) with Edge. edit: clarity
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"Legal immigrant" just means you're in the country legally, which in addition to naturalized immigrants (i.e. new citizens) includes permanent residents (i.e. green card), student/work visas, spouse/fiancé visas, et
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by infamia 5y ago
What if someone else did all of that privacy research and monitoring for you, only it was a set of volunteers, and they did it for free? This is what F-droid does except they verify that apps on their store are clean at the source code leve
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by infamia 5y ago
An often ignored fact is that many of these restrictions and the fear many governments have stoked (e.g. fear of going to the doctor, fear of going out, interruptions in work) have caused many deaths. We won't know what the net cost is
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by infamia 5y ago
> That's far from accurate, and I don't think it's very helpful to say "for most in the US". Surely only a small minority in the US have even heard of YC. I read the parent's statement as (brackets are mine)
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by infamia 5y ago
He was granted a visa to enter Australia, and then they suddenly canceled his visa. This stinks of politics. https://abcnews.go.com/International/djokovic-courts-controv...
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That makes sense, thanks for the info. Where I work there are lots Mac users, so the Venn diagram of iPhone users who use a PC isn't as noticeable. :D
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I was mostly thinking about Macs at the time I made the joke, because very often an iOS user is also a Mac user. Where I work, Mac users always have to carry around dongles.
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" Android users are carrying around data transfer cables? Hey guys, get a load of this!" ...says the guy with a huge dongle in his pocket.
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by infamia 5y ago
> Not the "running out soon" that you claim. At the time, the mantra was that most of the oil would become so expensive that it wouldn't be economically feasible to extract it. There would be oil in the ground, but in ever
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by infamia 5y ago
I see it's time to bring out this old chestnut again. Here's the slight of hand: > known natural gas reserves, we have about 52.8 years worth of natural gas reserves left. The key is "known ... reserves". The article
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It would also make future moral hazards increasingly likely (i.e. encouraging others to take wild risks in the future since they might get bailed out).
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Other people want different features than you. Consider businesses who want to distribute PWAs to their employees instead of going through the laborious and time-consuming process of waiting for Apple reviews, resubmitting if you get a &quo
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Upvoted! This is an amazing site. Thank you for sharing!
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Into the early 1800's, privately-owned warships were not at all rare. During the Revolutionary War the vast majority of the Navy consisted of privateers (aka private citizens warships). http://www.usmm.org/revolution.ht
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by infamia 5y ago
Basecamp and Hey.com for starters.
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by infamia 5y ago
Try creating a Django project using the Cookie Cutter Django: https://github.com/cookiecutter/cookiecutter-django/ Select yes when asked if you want "custom_bootstrap_compilation" That will configure a g
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by infamia 5y ago
I really don't think so. The point I was trying to make was, it is the court who will tell the government what is a reasonable time period to produce the data and how much is a reasonable amount of money to spend. For the purposes of t
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by infamia 5y ago
> Should Congress do that? That's a separate issue, which is not the court’s job to address. It is most definitely the court's job to determine if the time it takes to produce documents is reasonable or not. Courts order all br
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by infamia 5y ago
> After all, you’re saying you oppose “cancel culture”, surely that opposition has to take some form somewhere, right? Presumably, those groups mainly would try to increase awareness and support free speech (get in the news, post article
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by infamia 5y ago
For me, the reason it's vague, is because everyone's opposition will come in different forms. Some will engage on forums like this, others will donate time and/or money to organizations that promote free speech, etc. For the
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by infamia 5y ago
> ironically. You cannot square the need to stop "cancel culture" and free speech; they are incompatible. Absolutely not, opposing and trying to overcome cancel culture does not violate anyone's free speech. No one is bei
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by infamia 5y ago
> In China, parties don't run for elections, people do. People from other parties (China has 8) are elected. At present, there are 152000+ members from other parties that hold positions in People's Congresses (China's repr
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by infamia 5y ago
> Despite not having elections for higher representatives (China does have elections for lower-level representatives) and independent judiciary If there is no accountability at the top (and there clearly isn't), then there is no mea
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by infamia 5y ago
The system you're describing treats Sasha and Malia Obama as disadvantaged, while handicapping Hmong people because they're Asian. How can we assert that race is anything but a proxy when the system you're defending screws t
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by infamia 5y ago
> The Nazis and Imperial Japanese lost the war the minute they made strategic blunders like... pissing off USA + Soviets __simultaneously__. This is an important point and why I believe Wolf warrior diplomacy runs contrary to China'

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