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by javagram 8y ago
The House of Representatives majority, which is held by the GOP and is anti - net neutrality, also represents more than 50% of the US population by this method of counting (which says the state AGs “represent” people who didn’t vote for the
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by javagram 8y ago
The IRS would need to crack down on the individual servers, who are the ones misreporting their tips. As we move from a cash based to a card based transaction economy this seems less relevant. Credit card transactions are recorded and it se
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by javagram 8y ago
The expectation of tipping at a restaurant exists to allow you to punish the employee for bad service over the course of a meal by leaving a 0% tip. It doesn’t make any sense for a counter service restaurant or other such business that cons
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by javagram 8y ago
“Even $35,000 is a lot to spend on a vehicle that was assembled inside of a circus tent in Fremont.” For what it’s worth I believe only specific known configurations are being built on that tent (the AWD model?) so you can avoid it if you w
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by javagram 8y ago
Real crime happens on SMS all the time. Why wouldn’t it happen on Facebook messenger which is one of the most popular SMS replacement apps?
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by javagram 8y ago
Tenant’s rights laws control when and how an apartment owner can enter the residence. Those laws don’t really exist for hotels in the USA as far as I know. Hotels are categorized as temporary dwellings and are regulated much differently.
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by javagram 8y ago
U2F through the yubikey doesn’t work on iOS devices because iOS NFC is only 1-way outside of Apple Pay.
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by javagram 8y ago
Atari and other early consoles had unlicensed, unapproved software distributed for them legally. This did become impossible eventually as security technology improved.
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by javagram 8y ago
“Nope, you're still not understanding. The government can't do that either, because that law would target the content of a communication” It can, because that communication would be considered to create a hostile work environment.
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by javagram 8y ago
I linked to an article by a law professor explaining the issues. Courts cannot always address such issues anyway due to the doctrine of “standing”. For instance, government in the 90s pressured the video game industry to self regulate by es
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by javagram 8y ago
There is something else to keep in mind which is that the government can evade the 1st amendment by pressuring companies to take action against speech it doesn’t like. “Hostile environment” laws around workplace conduct are a good example o
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by javagram 8y ago
Sedans are a bit easier to cool/warm due to less air volume. The trunk also feels more secure for storage of valuables than leaving them exposed in a glass hatchback’s rear. Style and price also play into it I think but even cheap hatc
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by javagram 8y ago
Without moralizing, I think there’s a clear reason Flint was covered so much by the mass media. The problems in Flint could be traced directly to an erroneous decision by the Michigan state government to use the Flint river water without in
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by javagram 8y ago
U2F incorporates the origin, which prevents phishing (unlike TOTP 2FA)
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by javagram 8y ago
In general having a good national ID or at least national single-sign on solution might be the answer. Edit: It could take advantage of the IRS and social security verification paths (I believe they require a SSN and verification of a previ
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by javagram 8y ago
Adding a captcha seems nice but will hardly prevent fake comments. I doubt there is any online comment system that could prevent people’s names from being misused really. It’s not like we have a national ID card with private crypto keys iss
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by javagram 8y ago
True autonomous cars need to work without any real time car to car communication. After all other cars on the road won’t be using communication protocols as they are driven by humans, etc.
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by javagram 8y ago
Lending cartridges and discs works fine (on all modern consoles) and is not piracy. (Edit: Microsoft proposed changing this with the Xbox one by requiring discs to be activated online, but backed down before ever implementing the plan) The
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by javagram 8y ago
Solving traffic problems seems nearly impossible in the US as people will get on the roads and drive until gridlock stops them. But in my experience places like NYC (Manhattan in particular) have done a fairly successful job of allowing peo
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by javagram 9y ago
Honda's documentation for the Civic doesn't indicate it would stop in this case. "Collision Mitigation Braking System™ (CMBS™) Can assist you when there is a possibility of your vehicle colliding with a vehicle or a pedestri
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by javagram 9y ago
> From my admittedly distant viewpoint (I'm not from your country), the GOP has changed substantially in recent years. It used to be a responsible political party that respected democracy. Then it seemed to start believing the ends
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by javagram 10y ago
They switched the water to the Flint River to try to save money (the city had been maintaining infrastructure and a treatment plant to pull water from the Flint river for many years previously but it was unused). My understanding is the lar
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by javagram 10y ago
Federal statues also supersede state law, under the supremacy clause of the constitution. That said, the states are still considered sovereign and residents of the several states live under a dual sovereignty of their state and the US gover
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by javagram 10y ago
Give some sort of limit - 10/20/30 years? - and some sort of max% of income - 10%?. If the loan isn't paid off by the end of the limit at a max % of income, then the loan can then be discharged by bankruptcy. This already e