jfrunyon

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by jfrunyon 5y ago
The problem is that it's impossible to know if the lawyer coming after you is one of the ethical ones or not.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> It only becomes meaningful if and when ... your own lawyer believes they have a case That is true, but most people don't have their "own lawyer" to ask.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Because why not allow users to run completely unsandboxed code on your own servers with no limitations? What could go wrong? https://github.com/raxod502/python-in-a-box/blob/master/serv...
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
You don't know the exact rate with Uber or Lyft, either. It depends on how long the trip ends up taking, how far the trip ends up taking, etc.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Exactly. As you said, that is credit. And it is not available to consumers in most other countries .
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
They don't represent any more of a security concern than an extension, or even a browser. The real reason they'll stop working (if they do stop working) is that it would be extra work for browser vendors to maintain and "pfft
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Rip FTP https://chromestatus.com/feature/6246151319715840
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
You need to own it in order to use it, and you need to use it in order to publish an extension for Safari. No confusion.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
That depends entirely on what you're developing (internal vs external etc.) and how frequently the resource will be needed.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
First, offline only works when an institution chooses to extend credit to the user. That's not nearly as widespread in other countries as it is in the US. Second, QR codes don't need a battery either. Third, having someone send
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
There are plenty of teams at Amazon which could be significantly larger than that. How many employees do you think they have in every warehouse, and how many managers? ;)
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
A citizen must live in the US for long enough, and be old enough, before they are allowed to sponsor their family for residence. There's also no guarantee that their family would actually get their permit even if they pay the thousands
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Honestly, these days drives are so large compared to even FLAC that it's not worth worrying about if an MP3 would be just as good, IMHO.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
They would handle it the exact same way they handle any obstacle in front of them. Which is a lot easier than figuring out the speed limit, and the lane demarcations, and which lanes go where, and oh the stripes are covered by snow, and oh
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> I think this is false because varying abilities of people will use the autopilot, not just the worst. That depends entirely on how effective it is and what incentives/disincentives there are (i.e. subsidies, taxes, insurance), whi
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
https://venturebeat.com/2020/10/30/waymos-driverless-cars-we...
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> If a self driving car can't handle this sort of thing (or an accident and coming on a flagger) autonomously, it has no business being allowed on the road. > And if it can - then there's no need to have a centralized databa
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> me: And in fact all of the fiat currencies I know of originated as representative money. > you: Before the 1900s the vast majority of currencies were valued based on their precious metal content (gold or silver), not government fiat
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Fiat money is only legal tender in the country which issues it. You can find plenty of businesses outside the US willing to transact in USD. Legal tender also only applies to paying public debts (i.e. taxes)... not paying a business.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
The difference is that taxi services usually had one single rate no matter the time or day (at least where I'm at).
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> I’m having trouble conceptualizing how they are making any actual profit after expenses They're not. They aren't profitable. They have never been profitable. They admit that they would not have been profitable even without CO
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
But they were cheaper! ... while illegally operating at a loss without a permit to drive the competition out of the space.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> It's a consumer being able to unilaterally say "give me my money back" and the merchant basically being stuck with the tab. That's not even remotely true. The merchant absolutely has the ability to dispute chargebac
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> after she was overcharged by a driver How's that? Drivers don't set the fare, Uber does.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> A good MMO typically isn't just a large number of players walking around and not interacting with one another. It is , though! In most games you're only actually interacting with one or a few people at a time - even if many
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> I sell it for dollars to people in person; some of the dollars I have to change into Argentine pesos before I can spend them. Isn't that how everybody does it? No, most people just spend their currency directly on the things they
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Fiat money has value because it is widely, almost universally, accepted in exchange for things of intrinsic value (food, shelter, toys, tools). I'm not aware of any non-government-backed fiat currency which has gained widespread use in
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
"People had to invent entirely new ways to explain it because our existing models didn't work" isn't a very good argument for it being real.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> I've been using Bitcoin to get paid for a couple of years at this point How do you turn your Bitcoin into food, housing, utilities, and other necessities? > And, yeah, 13 years after the internet's invention was 01982 The
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
I am fairly sure that you actually can dispute partial amounts with your issuer.

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