jfrunyon

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by jfrunyon 5y ago
They are claiming the electoral college is undemocratic. Which it is, by the very definition. If you've missed the voter suppression thus far, you and I both know that you won't listen to any evidence or argument otherwise. There
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Fixing the laws is significantly more likely to happen than defunding the FBI. (Or if you disagree with that, is just as likely.)
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> Politifact was replying to a specific chain email "Various chain emails" != "a specific chain email"
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Ah, right, trying to prevent the destruction of the only planet we live on is "no good reason"
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
The fact that police can use subjective, undocumentable, unprovable (and undisprovable!) allegations as evidence is pretty damn bonkers. Especially given that the burden of proof is meant to be on the accuser.
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You don't have to prove the crime, you have to show probable cause. Our society would function perfectly fine without government-sanctioned theft ^W^W^W civil asset forfeiture.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
It doesn't matter if something is good when it's in blatant violation of the law of the land (the 4th amendment, particularly).
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Nothing should be seized until a proper court has adjudicated such action. "The right of the people to be secure in their ... effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
The FBI's story doesn't even sense. They justified it by saying it was too much cash, and a dog smelled drugs on the cash - both of which they couldn't have possibly known before raiding the safe deposit box. I don't thi
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
"The FBI only counts those with a misdemeanor if a state agency asks the bureau to keep it on file." In other words, it's significantly higher than the numbers the FBI claims.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
The only way in which IPv4 is better than IPv6 is that many people understand one and not the other.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Every time any thread comes up on HN about finances, it's full of people who haven't been poor a day in their life saying "I did it so you can too". It's actually pretty depressing.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
You're right, saving a high percentage of your income is pretty simple. For those with disposable income to save.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
I dunno about you, but when I was in "dire economic situations" I too saved my pennies. The difference is that I had to use those pennies to buy food, or gas to go to doctor appointments, or gas to go to work. It's unfortunat
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> The DNS operator can ask his own ISP about it. Who would then have to determine where it's coming into their network from, and go ask that ISP, who would have to do the same, ad nauseum. And all parties would have to be paying eno
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Except that in practice, deprecations don't work, no matter how much warning you give.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
I'm not sure, to be quite honest. I know I've worked with a few systems in the last ~3.5 years that were missing completions that are present in Ubuntu 18.04, but I can't find any of them now. (It looks like the person I re
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> You can even download the header, open the zip file, choose which files to extract, and only download those. That bit isn't true, unfortunately; the file list is stored at the end of the file. You either have to (sequentially, fil
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> Honestly, you could probably make a business out of a store that sells only high quality gear. Those businesses (they used to just be called "stores" or "retailers") are being driven either to transform or out of bu
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
The Amazon brands are some of the worst offenders. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/consumer-groups-iss... https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/29/20837359/amazon-basics-fa... h
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Yes. "Permanently banned". Because the brands certainly won't change their name and go right back up. Until Amazon starts actually vetting the products and sellers that they offer a platform to, they will continue to be full
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
This is an advantage of open-source (as in source that you can read and modify, not necessarily FOSS), not web, IMO. Webapps are just necessarily open-source (at least the client-side portion).
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
I believe a zip file could be streamed - most of the file metadata is duplicated between both the 'central directory record' trailer and a header in front of each file. In other words, the first thing in the zip file is a header
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Honestly I don't understand why some distros still don't ship with completions for this sort of thing. Debian and Ubuntu have had this for the entire time they've been using systemd, as far as I recall. (And they've supp
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
I disagree that that makes it clear. Both of those sound like something that runs on Linux.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> Apple iPhone vs iPhone for Apple. The equivalent of "Apple iPhone" is, in this case, "Windows Audio Subsystem". Not "Windows Subsystem for Audio".
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
registry (noun): a place or office where registers or records are kept; an official list or register. In this case, a registry would be a mapping, however a mapping is not a registry. A registry is the single, centralized place from which y
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
But "mov" is not shown as an example. The particular requestor in this issue wanted to use mov, however no example was shown in the error message. Moreover even in the requestor's case the user has to already be savvy e
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Huh? First off, who are you to tell me what I'm arguing for or against? Second, "children" covers an EXTREMELY wide range of maturities. Some children are absolutely responsible enough to take responsibility for their actions
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That is quite literally their job.

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