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by lfam 12y ago
You're correct, there are basically no worker protections in America. The euphemistic term is "right-to-work", which means that you can be fired for any reason whatsoever.
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by lfam 12y ago
This is a pet peeve of mine that I developed while doing video production in the live event industry. Unfortunately almost nobody cares about protecting their hearing. Pretty much everyone in food service in the US exposes themselves to dan
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by lfam 12y ago
Could you link to the story about the discovery of its instruction set? That sounds really interesting but I can't find it.
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by lfam 12y ago
I use a set of plain text files in a directory that is synced between all of my machines. This is flexible and basic enough that it can be adapted to any use case or productivity system as necessary. When I need a more specific workflow, I
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by lfam 12y ago
There are many places in the US that allow gambling off of Indian reservations. There is even a casino near downtown here in Philadelphia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_casinos_in_the_United_S...
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by lfam 12y ago
Yikes. That link crashes Iceweasel (Debian Jessie) for me.
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by lfam 12y ago
All the places I have lived built before 1940 had thick enough walls that I never ever heard my neighbors through them. The materials make all the difference.
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by lfam 12y ago
That link failed on my mobile device. Try this link instead: http://mobile.businessweek.com/articles/2014-07-03/dominos-l...
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by lfam 12y ago
How does this site break the "back" button in my browser?
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by lfam 12y ago
Apparently, if you have good cookies you get an easier captcha find accessibility: https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/index.html
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by lfam 12y ago
Yes, I'd really like to hear their perspective on this. I listened to a screen reader once and found it very difficult to understand as well.
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by lfam 12y ago
Yes, the goals of the reCAPTCHA project are to filter out bots and to digitize the text of the world (not necessarily in that order). The mission statement of the reCAPTCHA project is "Protect your website from spam and abuse while let
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by lfam 12y ago
Psychotic and almost impossible to solve. I tried an audio captcha recently on a whim and I was bewildered. I think any site that uses reCAPTCHA must not have any regular vision impaired users. https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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by lfam 12y ago
FreeBSD offers an embedded version called nanobsd that seems to use the same update "philosophy". It's actually nanobsd.sh, a shell script by Poul-Henning Kamp. So, that IS open source, although I doubt it's GPL ;) http