jfrunyon

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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Do the Ubers?
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> I mean both will significantly kill people in an accident. Or, you know, when you literally said that it's no different: > I assume you drove home after your exhausting day, which according to you is endangering others' li
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Charities are a form of business. I didn't say they were for-profit.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
I don't know why you think I've ever said or implied that Tether's insolvency is a good thing?
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
No, I'm not equating liquidity with solvency. Running out of liquidity is one way of becoming insolvent. Having more liabilities than assets is the other way. If you think otherwise, go Google the definition of insolvent. Thanks. >
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> There is no such thing as repossession sure there isn't. Guess there's no financing, either, then, huh?
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Okay, please go ahead and show me where the article claims that they "lock[ed] out emergency functions on the phones", thanks.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
While that's true, I would argue that makes it more good than certs on an HSM, not less good as the person I replied to posited.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Oh, great. Except uhh... they are. Shell variables are inextricably tied to environment variables and frankly, making them uninheritable would make them less useful, not more.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
I've been considering getting a TV tuner card so I can use Plex's DVR/live TV features. I haven't found a reason to actually do it yet though; after all, if I even want to watch the local news I can just go to their webs
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Change their layout so the scraper stops working? Block the useragent? Block other identifiable parameters of Roku's networking stack or HTTP stack? Sue them?
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
I'm not sure where the irony is, since Google doesn't have a captive app store, unlike say Apple.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Yeah, they're actually a pretty crap offering. Between the app buttons on the remote (which serve only a single purpose: interrupting whatever we're watching when my toddler decides to grab the remote and press one of the app butt
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Huh? Roku is "hardware you purchased". Sure, you could go out and purchase something else to replace it. I'm not sure why you think that means it doesn't impact the hardware you already have.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
As noted elsewhere in the thread, it's actually true in general, and has been for years. Taxis adjusted their business to compete with ride-sharing, and ride-sharing adjusted their business to stop hemorrhaging money a LONG time ago.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
None of the "ride sharing" services were ever meant as anything other than a taxi service. Ride sharing was solely an excuse to evade the law and if you can't see that then you aren't looking.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> Uber/Lyft take away all the friction of finding a cab, telling it where to go and paying. The reputation system does a decent (but obviously not perfect) job of curbing the worst actors (drivers and riders). Except for all the dri
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> They're the same as personal pickups. Which can't just park in front of the terminal and wait, either.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
So... are you trying to claim that Uber isn't a crapshoot whether the driver will actually show up?
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> NUL bytes aren’t that uncommon, think of e.g. find -print0, xargs -0, etc. That all works grand, right up to the point you try to assign it to a variable. Well, duh. Environment variables are NUL-terminated. I don't understand arg
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> my logic that insolvency should lead to immediate destruction But it doesn't. And it shouldn't. Businesses can and do survive insolvency (sometimes without the public ever knowing!). Insolvency just means that either liabilit
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
I did show the evidence. Again, read MY point. Goodbye, troll. (BTW, actually, you made the claim: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28924975 )
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
But you don't, not if you secured the bank loan using the phone. Which you did if you financed it through a carrier. Just like if I go to a bank, get a loan for a car, buy that car, and stop making payments... THE BANK OWNS THE CAR.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
The medallions are owned (and leased), not the taxis. Furthermore, medallions only exist in a few cities. And I'm very curious about your "50%" number. 50% of the medallions in NYC? 50% of the medallions in the country? Dub
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
... and your point is? The Software Freedom Conservancy is a business which can do business in many states and be subject to the jurisdiction of courts in all of them, unlike an individual, who can be resident in only one state. (And even
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> Would you randomly disable somebody's car's engine because they didn't pay? No. Perhaps you meant to reply to the person I was replying to, rather than me, with your "how rental cars do it doesn't seem to have
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
If only the IRS used them instead of contracting out to a for-profit third-party... who will make you go through 30 minutes of verification only to tell you they can't verify you, and then take 3 months to reply to your email.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> just seem less good than client certificatest and certificates in HSMs That's effectively what FIDO/U2F are .
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
"Eleven percent of all motor vehicle crash deaths in 2019 occurred in large truck crashes." "Twelve percent of all passenger vehicle occupant deaths and 22 percent of passenger vehicle occupant deaths in multiple-vehicle cras
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
I highly doubt you know what "approximately" means.

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