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by lotyrin 8y ago
I was on hold with my insurance to file a claim, the IVR loop said for the third time "Did you know? You can file your claim online!" so I gave in, hung up, went online and all the form asks for is my contact information (phone +
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by lotyrin 8y ago
If they didn't keep logs and aren't lying, they could still be asked or warranted to allow LEO to monitor their system live during a suspect's usage in order to identify them.
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by lotyrin 8y ago
Without basic income guarantee it is never labor's market -- labor undersold = labor starves, labor underbought = capital experiences temporary inconvenience.
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by lotyrin 8y ago
I think a properly decentralized system (basically everything Github was except stored inside or alongside the repo) solves the self-hosting headaches also -- If everyone has the issue queue, kanban board, yadda, CI results, etc. on their l
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by lotyrin 8y ago
I understand this point and it's true that there would be some elegance if both statements were equivalent but I see greater utility without that equivalence: Rather than a redundancy and sugar on + and = ("I do not want to type t
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by lotyrin 8y ago
If scheduled infrequent conversations about that can adjust those expectations, wouldn't consistent frequent conversation adjust them sooner/easier? In perfect world I'd have a mind-reading powered live dashboard I could chec
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by lotyrin 8y ago
You don't get free Intel GPUs on your ARM laptop chips...
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by lotyrin 8y ago
I wonder about his distaste for "refactoring" the term and the concept, since this seems to be pretty in-line with what I understand it to be. Obviously plenty of architecture astronauts and cargo cults "refactor" their
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by lotyrin 8y ago
Places crypto has been used isn't evidence that it was the only thing possible to have been used, which is the question -- what does PoW-consensus blockchain ledger make possible that isn't possible without it? It's not a mat
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by lotyrin 8y ago
Do you have counter examples? Anything using the currencies as stores of wealth or mediums of exchange seem to be better suited by traditional finance which are less volatile and capable of higher volume. Anything using the ledger as a dist
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by lotyrin 8y ago
Amazon really needs to clean house when it comes to these third party sellers and third party listings, it's a mess. I'm glad this one in this case was supposedly dismissed (though I doubt they haven't reapplied with a new na
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by lotyrin 8y ago
They are mortgaging the credibility of the primary brand they built with years of direct retail of verified goods to prop up a marketplace for third parties who disrespect it and take their money and run.
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by lotyrin 8y ago
Not sure what is left to explain. In the ways that a system of teleporters/portals is different from a system of train stations, the former are entirely superior to the latter; if the former can't solve a problem neither can the l
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by lotyrin 8y ago
Oof. What a minefield USB-C and Thunderbolt 3 seem to be, still. My coworkers had a situation where a certain combination of chargers and hubs plus bad luck (intermittent issue) fried some devices. That really shouldn't be possible. I&
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by lotyrin 9y ago
How do people install their AAA games and Photoshop today? I'd think the majority downloaded them, right? There are plenty of downsides to having ubiquitous WASM-compiled cross-platform "browser-native" apps, and having basic
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by lotyrin 9y ago
If I specify a logical size, and that's larger than the physical backing size, then what happens if someone attempts to write unique high-entropy data to fill their logical space?
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by lotyrin 9y ago
A capitalist who invests indiscriminately (e.g. broadly) today, has a positive expected outcome of this, and that's not a given out of the fundamental theory. The work a capitalist does, their contribution, isn't just writing chec
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by lotyrin 9y ago
It's entirely power imbalance, and that can be addressed by policy. Fundamentally, Capital needs Labor as much as Labor needs Capital. There's no economic reason a capitalist contributing nothing should not expect to starve, but a
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by lotyrin 9y ago
When reading, we consume whole words at a time, even in syllabic / phonetic alphabet languages. English is a poor comparison, because it - having consumed vocabulary from many other latin alphabet languages and preserved their spelling
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by lotyrin 9y ago
It wasn't before blockchain. Not everything distributed and fault tolerant is blockchain. You can't sprinkle blockchain fairy dust on problems unless your problems are insufficient hype.
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by lotyrin 9y ago
While I'd love the option not to be spied on, If I don't have that option, I'd rather the spies be fewer and more competent. The doomsday scenario is if we have tons of little pop-up 3rd party data collectors that fail at inf
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by lotyrin 9y ago
No, this is probably serious; this is The New PHP. Seems we finally broke the fever of infectious imperative spaghetti and are coming around to OOP and patterns by following the trail left by JVM ecosystem and eating its droppings and cloth
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by lotyrin 9y ago
I'm also surprised the front bays don't seem to be nvme.
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by lotyrin 9y ago
Humans don't suddenly become perfect actors just because incentives align. The stress of that risk and efforts taken to mitigate it seems like it would actually make the software worse. It's up to the product (the collective of in
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by lotyrin 9y ago
Chromecast should have no problems rendering text as text
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by lotyrin 9y ago
Yeah, but imagine someone who regularly visits the country, or is from there originally that wants nostalgic candy and certainly does not want to associate themselves with weeb/otaku culture. Or someone who is a weeb but feels guilt, h
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by lotyrin 9y ago
His competitors are already doing this very aggressively (based on a number of channels I've unsubscribed from because I don't want to watch them eat candy), so it seems like it works.
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by lotyrin 9y ago
So far really liking everything you're doing. Is there a mailing list for when you guys expand into other metro areas or add remote opportunities? I am a little surprised I can't set my work location preferences in my profile such
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by lotyrin 9y ago
I want a GUI for polyglot local development for cloud-native apps with a variety of backing services that's as braindead and easy as *AMP apps were in the bad old days when you'd be slinging PHP, (plaintext) FTPing up to a shared
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by lotyrin 9y ago
More than this, in many jurisdictions, it'll be available publicly from a records office even if your home hasn't ever been listed for sale.

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