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by lftl 8y ago
Does Section 230 apply at all when we're talking about a physically distributed product like this? I get that, even if it doesn't apply, Amazon's defense is probably that they're an intermediary and not the seller, but I
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by lftl 8y ago
I'm really amazed they still let the old mobile interface work for the most part. Just add ".compact" to any URL and browse almost annoyance free (newer features like video don't work, but that's not too surprising)
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by lftl 8y ago
Or fix the CSS
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by lftl 8y ago
So who is a hard border unacceptable to?
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by lftl 8y ago
So what happens to the border in a hard Brexit? A hard border between NI and Ireland? Does DUP prefer that?
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by lftl 8y ago
Why not just accept the deal, and then negotiate better terms down the road? Is there something binding in it that would make it hard to renegotiate once the pressure of the clock has been removed, and you possibly have better leverage?
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by lftl 8y ago
I didn't look into Alias deeply, but does it even have network access at all? I don't see a reason it would have to.
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by lftl 8y ago
Mostly what supermatt said -- this is a lot simpler. Particularly, it's been a long time since I looked, but when I last looked neither Google nor Amazon were offering the voice assistants in nice package where you could bring your own
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by lftl 8y ago
I love this idea. I've wanted to do something similar for a long time, but I was thinking about building a home assistant where the always-on mic was a complete separate board that only listened for wake words and had no internet acces
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by lftl 8y ago
With the weather man, I could keep track of when it rains and doesn't. If it rains significantly more or less than 80% of the time they say there's an 80% chance of rain, I can say that their model is bad. I can't think of a
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by lftl 8y ago
> along with fake ringing that companies including T-Mobile do to make it seem like the call is being connected to these high cost areas, meanwhile the person your calling doesn't ever receive the call Interestingly enough T-Mobile
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by lftl 8y ago
No, but they do vote, and they may just vote for an angry populist.
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by lftl 8y ago
I'd be fine with that, but I'm acutely aware living in the deep south that MANY people would not be happy with that. If we're talking about what's politically feasible within the US, "universal" healthcare is
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by lftl 8y ago
True, and the pricing issue goes even deeper. In my experience in shopping around between doctors while being in an exclusionary waiting period the doctors themselves often have no idea what anything costs. That's why I think banning
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by lftl 8y ago
This is the core problem of health insurance as currently structured in the US -- everyone will make a claim eventually so it's effectively a whole life insurance policy except the payout is sporadic and involves tons of bureaucratic c
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by lftl 8y ago
If you don't mind losing the like counter, you can just switch to a static link for the like button. Here's a WP plugin that does essentially that: https://wordpress.org/plugins/optimized-sharing/ (I hav
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by lftl 8y ago
Google supports the robots meta tag: https://developers.google.com/search/reference/robots_meta_t... They could easily add a noindex meta tag to unlisted YT videos and then have Google Search treat it like any oth
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by lftl 8y ago
> Python mostly replaced Ruby(Rails) as the first choice for beginners learning backend for the web. Is that really the case? I mean I adopted Python and Flask for web work quite awhile ago, but I still see a lot more Ruby web devs aroun
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by lftl 8y ago
"It definitely appears to be the case that..."
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by lftl 9y ago
Three of the issues would allow an attacker to take over your router from inside your LAN (not externally). Only one of the issues is an RCE that would usually be exploitable from outside your LAN, and there's some debate as to how har
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by lftl 9y ago
Right, so speeding up blocks is roughly equivalent to increasing the block size, which is what the whole BCH vs. BTC split was over, correct? So I guess the arguments against it would be the same? And if I understand correctly the core argu
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by lftl 9y ago
Could Bitcoin just halve the difficulty and half the reward for mining a block at the same time? Wouldn't that effectively double the throughput of the system? I'm guessing there's some negative consequences to this I don&#x2
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by lftl 9y ago
The only legitimate criticism I've heard of the FB patent grant is that FB could intentionally infringe your patents and the you couldn't sue them for infringement without losing your React patent grant. It's such a narrow ca
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by lftl 9y ago
I wonder if it's even really about the editing process. It seems possible to me that they intentionally start with a more provocative headline to get more early traction for an article, and then switch to the more neutral title as an a
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by lftl 9y ago
With GKE you don't necessarily update your load balancer rules with a deploy correct? The linked thread points the blame for app engine deploys on waiting for GCLB to update.
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by lftl 9y ago
They still do this with the old mobile interface (which I greatly prefer to the current one). If you just append .compact to a URL you get the old interface.
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by lftl 9y ago
That seemed like magic to me at first too. I think though that is happens during the installation of the package, which is why he had to reinstall after refactoring. I initially just skimmed over his log dump from the install, but I think t
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by lftl 9y ago
The weird part about these is that they're listed as prime and shipped and sold by Amazon. Is there some way to list on demand products that way?
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by lftl 9y ago
IBM owns Compose.io now, so I'd be a little surprised to see them launch anything on DO.
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by lftl 9y ago
It's been a long since I used mutt regularly, but I recall that I had my mailcap setup to pipe the HTML straight to FF when I couldn't read the text version. It worked pretty well as long as images weren't embedded in the ema

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