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by jzebedee 4y ago
The installer also doesn't even let you view the Terms and Conditions. It's styled as a link but it literally can't be opened: https://imgur.com/CUzLdRQ This is ironic considering how aggressive the language
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by jzebedee 4y ago
No, I haven't. What's the connection?
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by jzebedee 4y ago
Particularly with the last anecdote, it seems that the evergreen problem with open-source licenses is not the choice of license or the particulars of the terms, but enforcing the terms at all. Bad actors have free reign to threaten and inti
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by jzebedee 5y ago
Erik died in 2009. Erik Naggum in memoriam https://perpelle.net/artikler-og-leserinnlegg/erik-naggum-in...
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by jzebedee 5y ago
A marginal increase in utility makes it easier to rationalize paying a premium for style.
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by jzebedee 5y ago
There's the old adage of "if you aren't paying for it, you are the product"... Mint invests so much effort in reliable data connections because harvesting that transaction data from consumers is the entire product. UI an
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by jzebedee 5y ago
https://archive.fo/tvNb9
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by jzebedee 5y ago
Ignoring the ghoulish suggestion entirely, this misses the point of the debt ceiling crisis. The debt ceiling has zero effect on spending, it's servicing the debt for spending that already happened. You don't fix what you spend on
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by jzebedee 5y ago
Have you written about this anywhere? I'm curious what common disease could be cured in the manner you described. It seems like the low-hanging fruit is already picked clean in the pharma industry.
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by jzebedee 5y ago
This is like a technical invocation of Poe's law.
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by jzebedee 5y ago
No admission of guilt > According to spokesmen, two branches of the Sackler family noted that the settlement included no finding of liability or wrongdoing. And no more lawsuits > If Judge Robert Drain, who is presiding over the bankr
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by jzebedee 5y ago
Only if you leave out the paragraph directly afterwards, where they tested it experimentally: > The researchers grew two types of famine weed, one invasive and the other non-invasive, and exposed them to the atmospheric levels of carbon
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by jzebedee 6y ago
"Ask for forgiveness, not permission"
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by jzebedee 6y ago
This hurts your point more than it helps. Why should anyone care about propping up a journal composed of glorified copyeditors and graphic designers, quibbling over Word formatting to fit their preferred in-house look and feel? So this is t
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by jzebedee 6y ago
Yes, they are both spyware. Call a spade a spade.
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by jzebedee 6y ago
Mexico (e.g., Guadalajara), the Caribbean (particularly adjacent to Puerto Rico), and northern Colombia and Venezuela seem to have pockets of CDMA as well.
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by jzebedee 6y ago
A long-form piece about farming in the UK, from the perspective of a farmer, and their observations of the ecological collapse
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by jzebedee 6y ago
He was hired as a Distinguished Engineer.
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ProctorU data breach exposes names, addresses, and unencrypted passwords(smh.com.au)
1 points by jzebedee 6y ago|0 comments
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by jzebedee 6y ago
You might find Mark Handley's visualization illuminating: https://youtu.be/m05abdGSOxY
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by jzebedee 6y ago
What's wrong with GitHub?
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by jzebedee 6y ago
WGU only admits people already living in the United States. I'm not sure if it has a citizenship or residency requirement.
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by jzebedee 6y ago
Humor me for applying some heuristics here. You're bringing up 43 year old studies and two decade out CIA reports as justification for the health risks of _extremely-widely used_ technology. Should I assume that this is the best we hav
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by jzebedee 6y ago
It looks like your link is broken. Is this the preprint you're referring to? "Human Exposure to RF Fields in 5G Downlink" Imtiaz Nasim, Seungmo Kim https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.03683
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by jzebedee 6y ago
Did someone forget? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html I'm really not sure where your vitriol for Azure is coming from. If you want to respond to the point, you should -- if you can avoid going off becaus
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by jzebedee 7y ago
I had the same issue, but the Wayback link works: https://web.archive.org/web/20191013203137/http://www.cs.col...
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by jzebedee 7y ago
I was surprised to find a Spectrum notice tacked onto an unrelated HTTP site this morning. It looks like Spectrum are editing customer traffic to inject a DMCA notice page that loads their own unsecured scripts. Other ISPs like Comcast have
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Spectrum injects JavaScript into unsecured webpages to show copyright notices(gist.github.com)
4 points by jzebedee 7y ago|1 comments
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by jzebedee 7y ago
Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus https://web.archive.org/web/20190808163312/https://www2.hawa...
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by jzebedee 8y ago
Only the first couple pages are visible, the rest is hidden behind the "Extra Crunch" paywall.

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