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by jdblair 9y ago
Or regulate Uber the same as any other taxi service in their community. Look, I'm a fan of Lyft and Uber. They shook up an ossified taxi industry. But let's not sugarcoat what Uber did - they broke laws and constructed systems to
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by jdblair 9y ago
> Uber used Greyball to avoid giving rides to undercover law enforcement personnel looking looking to destroy their business. Uber used Greyball to evade municipal laws.
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by jdblair 9y ago
I agree that prosecutorial discretion allows racism and other prejudice to be reflected in enforcement. However, every practical system will have prosecutorial discretion because resources are always limited.
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by jdblair 9y ago
> Sessions will instead let federal prosecutors where pot is legal decide how aggressively to enforce federal marijuana law, the people said. He's pushing the choice to whether "to defend every law" down to regional federa
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by jdblair 9y ago
I've had multiple Trinitron monitors over my career. Until LCDs got good I would insist on having one. They had the least distortion and the best color. 2 monitors stand out in my memory: In 1998 I bought myself a 19" name-brand S
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by jdblair 9y ago
I'm disappointed by the half measure in this proposal. Shulz and Aspe suggest possession for personal use should be decriminalized while drugs should remain illegal in large quantities. This leaves prohibition intact and supply remain
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by jdblair 9y ago
While true, I don't see how your point is important in the context of this article.
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by jdblair 9y ago
The factoid about San Francisco in the article confirmed my perception that American cars are just not very popular is actually a distortion of the Bay Area bubble I live inside of. Edit: from the narrow view of my kitchen window in West Oa
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by jdblair 9y ago
FYI, 2014.
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by jdblair 9y ago
People who run industrial processes tend to make careful, conservative choices. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" is the golden rule, since any downtime can cost serious money. This means staying on old, proven systems i
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by jdblair 9y ago
Actually, this is how life works: some people never succeed at what they try to do. It does take an infinite number of attempts to assure 100% success. Relevant in the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/24/
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by jdblair 9y ago
The row and column limit is more of a guideline, not a hard and fast rule.
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China adopting American-style military tactics and organization(thediplomat.com)
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by jdblair 9y ago
I like an 80 column limit for C and python, but it starts to be a problem in C++. This says something about C++ and I don't think it's positive. I actually also like a fairly small limit on the number of rows (around 40). If my fu
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by jdblair 9y ago
The Netflix policy here is a good compromise: limit the number of concurrent streams for each account and then turn a blind eye to password sharing. That way sharing passwords is allowed in practice, but also has a clear consequence - you m
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by jdblair 9y ago
I've had the idea since the early 00's to build "Dial M for MP3." This would have a rotary dial interface to a jukebox-style playlist on a printed card.
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by jdblair 9y ago
I spent much of the summer after my senior year of high school working temp jobs, earning minimum wage. This was the early 90s in Northeast Ohio. There was a lot of light manufacturing and I mostly worked in factories in Twinsburg. One job
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by jdblair 9y ago
I remember hearing this paper presented at USENIX 1998, in New Orleans. IIRC, the most interesting part of the presentation was a slide titled "Is UNIX portable?" Miller said, of course it is, I ported it! But then he showed a cha
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Altair BASIC 3.2 (4K) – Annotated Disassembly(web.archive.org)
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by jdblair 9y ago
I'm a past blogger, but I haven't kept up with it for a while. Here's what my dad wrote when I asked him: The work often involved transmission line impedance calculations. These and other power calculations required a great
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by jdblair 9y ago
I prefer a notebook to a laptop in business meetings, but then I have to spend time afterward transcribing the notes so I can share them (something expected at my workplace). I'm experimenting with using Evernote on a tablet computer a
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by jdblair 9y ago
I'll ask the next time I talk to him. I know he worked on high voltage transmission.
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by jdblair 9y ago
My dad had this calculator in the 70s. He was an engineer for the local power utility and told me that before getting the HP-35 he would submit calculations at the computer center and get his results back about a week later. With the calcul
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Alleged hacker held in Prague at center of 'intense' US-Russia tug of war(theguardian.com)
1 points by jdblair 9y ago|0 comments
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by jdblair 9y ago
Reply All, an entertaining podcast from Gimlet Media, tackled this topic a few weeks ago [0]. They explained the myth, explained how Facebook's advertising an be explained without surreptitious listening. In the last part they called b
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by jdblair 9y ago
I used to blame monopolistic tactics by Microsoft. There's no doubt that shrewd business moves a big reason for the success of Windows. However, the high quality of Windows developer tools as well as the fragmentation of the Linux desk
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by jdblair 9y ago
No argument here. I've been using Linux as a developer system since about 1996.
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by jdblair 9y ago
> Since its release 26 years ago, Linux has not only persisted–it has come to dominate every market it enters. Except the mainstream desktop. Linux has not dominated the desktop, nor do I expect it ever will, at least not the desktop in
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by jdblair 9y ago
If you enjoy these bit twiddling hacks, I recommend "Hacker's Delight," by Henry Warren. Author's website: http://www.hackersdelight.org 2nd edition on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Hackers-D
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by jdblair 9y ago
I was disappointed but not surprised when this submission was flagged. But now I'm impressed that it was unflagged and is generating at least a little discussion. Can anyone tell me the rationale for the original flagging? Does anyone

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