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by koboll 7y ago
USDS & 18F seem to have been huge steps in the right direction. A future administration that cares about getting this right should look to them as a model.
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by koboll 7y ago
>Facebook is OPTIMIZED for petty flamewars, because that equals engagement and ad views, Political disengagement is the modal average political affiliation. Incentives that make partisans angrier and shoutier on your platform are likely
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by koboll 7y ago
It bakes in things that make the experience better. SPA routing and high lighthouse scores are nice, but if they take a lot of work to accomplish, they might not be worth it for a small media site. If they're as easy as WordPress, howe
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by koboll 7y ago
>For one thing, Waze is using the actual speed of drivers instead of the legal speed limit to determine the travel time of a route. So what should Waze do? Lie about how long a route will actually take, and pretend like the person is goi
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by koboll 7y ago
I fail to understand how merely directing people toward a certain street amounts to encouraging reckless driving.
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by koboll 7y ago
>This has created fascinating potential legal issues that may one day be litigated in lawsuits or class actions. These thousands of homeowners and renters have arguably been injured by Waze’s and Google’s successful privatization of form
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by koboll 7y ago
>That takes huge amounts of money and politicians don’t gaf because liberal cities are going to vote for Democrats anyway. Politicians gaf about primaries. California did away with theirs, so politicians are forced to gaf about the gener
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by koboll 7y ago
In theory, we should already disallow this. The foundational law of the United States prohibits "unreasonable" searches of "persons, houses, papers, and effects". In practice, this has been eroded to the point of pract
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by koboll 7y ago
It's a safe bet that any organization with a name like "Free and Fair Markets Initiative" is corporate astroturfing.
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by koboll 7y ago
>If everyone who cared about homelessness donated $100 to the problem, homelessness would be solved. Nobody does this, because they know that nobody else is going to do it, and their $100 is just going to feel like a tiny drop in the oce
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by koboll 7y ago
The information required is only a single input where you type the name of your credit monitoring service, and affirm you will continue to use it for at least 6 months. Not a high bar to clear. Mint.com offers credit monitoring for free, as
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by koboll 7y ago
To what? The Trump-controlled FTC? The castrated CFPB that now spends its time promoting a partnership with the most medieval red states called the "Financial Innovation Network" ( https://www.consumerfinance.gov/ab
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by koboll 7y ago
http://impossibility.org/ is a good one for multi-word names.
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by koboll 7y ago
The lesson here is expect failure and don't do something stupid like introduce a nonnative mosquito species, even if you're sure they won't be able to breed. Because who knows, you could be wrong.
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by koboll 7y ago
Pretty much any genre you can imagine was emulated with WC3 custom maps. Proto-MOBAs and tower defense games were basically singlehandedly popularized by WC3, of course. Some of the WC3 TDs, like Wintermaul Wars, were way more complex than
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by koboll 7y ago
If you banned everything that causes people more pain than good, half the economy would evaporate overnight.
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by koboll 7y ago
You can't reserve tickets until 5 days before an event, so I think it's similar to other last-minute deal services -- filling unsold capacity.
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by koboll 7y ago
I'm getting 404s for next.js chunks, 503s for a twitter scraper app hosted on Heroku, and also CORS errors because the Heroku app is on a .herokuapp.com domain. :/
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by koboll 7y ago
Commerce Clause. Although it certainly might be overturned by an unfriendly Supreme Court, it's sort of a gray area. A parallel might be drawn to the concealed carry reciprocity act ( https://www.congress.gov/bill/1
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by koboll 7y ago
I'm not sure it's feasible for police to enforce no-fly zones in 3D space. No way is someone from the ground going to be able to tell the difference between 275 feet and 325 feet.
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by koboll 7y ago
Here's a solution: Congress should pass a law that says state and local jurisdictions must register their anti-drone laws with the FAA in a formal way by January 1, 20XX otherwise they are legally unenforceable. Then there's a gua
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by koboll 7y ago
Who would ever believe that a president would announce a first strike over Twitter before launching? Who ever believes any of the random sewage that pours forth from that overgrown child's Twitter account, anyway?
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by koboll 7y ago
Been using it for a decade and I had no idea it was sold sold in oral form. It's only solid topically over the counter. I'd imagine that's to avoid this problem, where hair grows everywhere, rather than the specific place you
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by koboll 7y ago
The really scary part is that phytoplankton produce 50-85% of the oxygen on Earth. Unfortunately, steadily declining populations of oceanic microorganisms don't pack the same kind of viral social media star power Brazilian forest fires
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by koboll 7y ago
Once enough states join the National Popular Vote compact to clear 270 electors, the electoral college will be nullified in practice. It may take a couple more decades, but it'll happen eventually.
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by koboll 7y ago
>How do you avoid encouraging the rest of the world to also threaten to burn their resources? I mean, this type of extortion for foreign aid is already common among pariah states. See: North Korea.
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>Consider this: the purpose behind the bicameral legislature is that in order for the federal government to act, it requires the consent of both the majority of the population and the majority of the states subject to it. The idea that t
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by koboll 7y ago
Music is like writing: the tools to create and distribute it have such low barriers to entry now that any sufficiently talented person can compete with the best in the industry. Film isn't there yet. A solo director can't produce
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The only people who say that are those who want rural people's values to have an outsized influence in our elections. That is, conservatives.
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by koboll 7y ago
"could win a suit" on those grounds is a more precise way of phrasing what I meant.

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