jtheory

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by jtheory 13y ago
Car rental age limits are not legal restrictions, but just the rental companies' response to very clear accident statistics. Some rental companies allow younger drivers to rent, but they charge them a lot more.
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by jtheory 13y ago
It's worth thinking through the actual impact on behavior that a lower voting age would bring. I tend to think it's a bad idea because of how it would change behavior of some adults who interact with children. As adults, if we w
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by jtheory 13y ago
Are you arguing that because voting was involved, the majority of Americans thus must approve of the things the government claims it doesn't do and/or would never voluntarily reveal? The press is a hugely important part of democra
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by jtheory 13y ago
Democracy may be better than most other systems, but that doesn't mean it works well . How much money does it take to win a US presidential election? The people providing that money are getter far more leverage than the voters. Snow
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by jtheory 13y ago
:) It's not 0 hours investment, just 0 hours investment this year . All of that work last year was investment that's now paying off, bit by bit. Your hourly rate from last year will look slightly better now if you add in this y
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by jtheory 13y ago
It does say something that he doesn't realize his ideas could also apply to relationships where the tech/non-tech roles are reversed; the possibility just didn't occur to him. Imagine an article about teaching other people ho
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by jtheory 13y ago
Did you teach your boyfriend how to quicksort your knife collection? Way to go, brothe- uh, friend.
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by jtheory 13y ago
Don't forget the SSL config analysis -- you're not bad, but not up to the DuckDuckGo standard yet! https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=onions.io Generally agreed with other comments -- it's im
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by jtheory 13y ago
Also: it's still in beta and not yet open to the public, for the very reason that the creator is still sorting out these questions.
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by jtheory 13y ago
[Self-replying because I can't seem to write more than a few lines in the mobile interface...] I personally did get a lot out of HS sport; I was a shy kid who could run fast, so I became a mini hero/authority in my small fish pond
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by jtheory 13y ago
Yes - I ran cross country and track in HS, and it was very much not a jogging club for people to get in better shape and have fun. We were training for races against other schools. Our coach was pretty laid back, but still, everyone kne
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by jtheory 13y ago
> Instead of allowing his daughter to watch episodes of Portlandia on her computer all afternoon That's a bit unfair -- that was Friday afternoon only. I don't have any kids in school yet, and I'm not in the US anymore any
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by jtheory 13y ago
Why would you make a point of doubling the advised limit? I can't imagine your stopping ability is actually twice as good as average. In other words, for no reason other than hubris/machismo, you're choosing to significant
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by jtheory 13y ago
Your mass is far lower, though.
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by jtheory 13y ago
This doesn't make sense -- why should the random person suffer at all? Your personal utility would be equally well-served by a browser plugin that made your password fields visible. It's not technically difficult, so if it doesn&
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by jtheory 13y ago
I suppose I type fast enough (and use a password manager widely enough) that I haven't ever worried about keyboard passwords, but I do worry about bank card PINs... I've gotten a habit of obscuring my pin by pressing with several
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by jtheory 13y ago
Oh, please no one do this! Two main points -- masked passwords are a very standardized UI convention, so everyone has a strong assumption that passwords will be masked, even in situations that the author hasn't considered (when yes, in
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by jtheory 13y ago
Evolution is such an important concept for people in general to understand. Bacteria evolve based on environmental factors (like varying levels of antibiotics), and that's eventually a very bad thing. Viruses evolve as well, and the n
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You Create What You Consume(medium.com)
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by jtheory 13y ago
For people downloading & running untrustworthy applications, Java has nothing to do with their security problems. The security holes are only an issue in the context of Java applets -- Java applications don't run in the sandbox a
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by jtheory 13y ago
With an old version of FF, you mean? AFAIK FF still supports XP (though probably not per-service-packs XP), though I haven't checked recently. For IE, you're probably right.
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by jtheory 13y ago
Yes, and they have no running Java at all unless they've either jumped through some serious hoops to get it working again after Apple disabled it, or they don't install security updates.
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by jtheory 13y ago
Who exactly is exposed to these flaws? Anyone who has attempted to run an applet on any modern browser in the past 6 months will know it now involves a lot of work -- clicking through several dialogs and warnings even if you do have the l
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by jtheory 13y ago
They're certainly not immutable, and do not exist outside of the context of a society. If you're alone, you have no rights whatsoever; they're something we "recognize" (or not) in other people. The language we use
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by jtheory 13y ago
I'd suggest instead talking to the people who actually make buying decisions, and find out what other purchases they have approved recently (and how many other people needed to give approval -- e.g., the IT department), and why. Unfor
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by jtheory 13y ago
It's a different type of error that's possible, though. Manual entry errors happen at predictable rates, and with good processes you can get them down quite low. Software error rates are not so predictable (unless you have full co
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by jtheory 13y ago
I have a mixed position on this. I do get annoyed by squatters who have no intention of building. I also have domains that I want to build on eventually, but I can't do it yet; so to other people it looks like I'm squatting. I
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by jtheory 13y ago
I disagree; I have a handful of domains without active sites on them as well, for projects that I still want to do but haven't gotten to yet. I've had experiences in the past of letting a domain expire and then being "ready
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by jtheory 13y ago
AKA waterbears, moss piglets, or elephant worms. Pretty cool wee beasties; lots of photos and videos just a google away. My daughter likes looking at these as well, though we haven't ever looked at real ones -- that's a project wo
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by jtheory 13y ago
I had the same response. It's not about agreeing or not -- there's no point to reading an opinion piece that covers my opinion plus my rationale -- rather, it's about assessing the quality of the arguments as you go. I start

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