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by macNchz 3y ago
I mean...I don't disagree about context-free doom, but unless you work from home and had nothing to do today, you were likely affected by this in some way. Basically the entire subway and commuter rail serving millions of people was ba
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by macNchz 3y ago
Even in already-popular places I think there is something about “getting the photo” that gives people this kind of tunnel vision where they’ll behave in ways they might not otherwise. It has been noticeable living near and regularly walkin
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by macNchz 3y ago
I've heard it hypothesized that one of the underlying factors in why Americans romanticize the "college years" so much is that, for most, it's the only time they've ever lived in an environment (the campus) that&#x2
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by macNchz 3y ago
I had the same reaction when I first encountered marathoninvestigation.com, which is a blog that calls out cheating in road running races. Most of these people cheating aren’t even anywhere close to the level where having a slight edge migh
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by macNchz 3y ago
It’s exasperating how many people will fight this. I believe it has been supported by research as well. Anecdotal, but I experienced it firsthand: Several years ago I was living in a lovely, historic, but no-frills apartment in a desirable
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by macNchz 3y ago
SROs used to exist to fill that gap, but were largely banned over the last hundred years. The stupid thing is that now they basically exist again in the form of regular hotels, except city governments are the ones paying full price to house
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by macNchz 3y ago
I see this conversation pretty frequently and I think the root of it lies in the fact that we have mental heuristics for determining whether we need to fact check another human because they are a bullshitter, an idiot, a charlatan etc, but
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by macNchz 3y ago
Perhaps anticipated churn from users who are heavy video users but will not tolerate ads?
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by macNchz 3y ago
Interesting to see reddit on the block list, I have issues with the way they’ve been operating but I do often find myself explicitly adding site:reddit.com to google searches, since it seems like one of few places online where there is stil
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by macNchz 3y ago
Lots of factors can impact the HOA's ability or willingness to maintain things, though, as you note about the potential for insolvency. Presumably a bridge being swept away in floods could be something insurance would weasel out of pay
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by macNchz 3y ago
Deliverability from a cloud host IP is not going to be good.
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by macNchz 3y ago
That is a dramatically healthier meal than very many American kids typically eat. Compare it to, say: a hotdog, a bag of potato chips, and a 20oz bottle of soda.
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by macNchz 3y ago
I’ve had autocorrect disabled on my iPhone for years—for whatever reason it really bothers me when something I just typed magically changes into something I didn’t want to write. I like that what I type is exactly what appears, not the co
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by macNchz 3y ago
After what was probably the most impactful case of news media influencing public opinion in recent memory–the NY Times / Judith Miller reporting on Iraqi weapons in 2001-2003—the NYT did in fact publish self-critical pieces. https:&#
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by macNchz 3y ago
Businesses operate in the public realm, buying/selling/providing services, and their owners have been known to leverage anonymity to conceal bad behavior, like fraudulent activity that keeps popping up under different names, corru
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by macNchz 3y ago
I remember hearing the opposite, 20 years ago when I made one–that PVC was preferable to ABS because you couldn’t readily buy ABS with any sort of pressure rating.
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by macNchz 3y ago
Definitely, sometimes they'll have a case number or agent id you can use to get back to them, but there are cases where you have to assume if it's important to them they'll continue to nag or reach out on another channel. I h
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by macNchz 3y ago
I don't think most people who get scammed this way pause to say "oh, this might be someone stealing my credit card number", then disregard that thought because it's too much of a pain to call back on an official line. In
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by macNchz 3y ago
Beyond having hardware keys, this scenario is why I really try to drive home, in all of my security trainings, the idea that you should instantly short circuit any situation where you receive a phone call (or other message) and someone st
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by macNchz 3y ago
I’ve never understood why they don’t provide the option to disable it, it’s not like Excel is a sleek, minimalist piece of software with strong opinions and limited configuration. I also love how the support article describes a behavior of
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by macNchz 3y ago
Too many encounters with Excel’s “smart” date parsing would make me very concerned about using it this way. https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/office/stop-automaticall...
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by macNchz 3y ago
> In New York it was so utterly baffling how long it took to get from Brooklyn to Manhattan on the subway. Like 3-4x a bike, 1-2x a car. I live in Brooklyn and commuted to Manhattan 5 days a week before 2020, primarily by subway, but occ
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by macNchz 3y ago
> is there a company making worse products every iteration? Very many companies that built a brand around quality before being quietly sold to a private equity firm are doing just that, to maximize profits for as long as they can while
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by macNchz 3y ago
When I read that once they got into the account all the attacker did was post a link to a crypto giveaway scam, I briefly wondered why someone who managed to get into an account like this wouldn’t try to pivot it into something more sophist
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by macNchz 3y ago
I think the purpose of taking BP in a regular doctor's visit is also just screening, not to make a final diagnostic decision. If it's normal they can move on, if not they can do some followups to determine whether it's genuin
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by macNchz 3y ago
I’ve encountered this kind of loop on a number of different sites lately, so it may be more than a single misconfiguration. (US residential IP, using Firefox on Linux / Safari on iOS with Private Access Tokens disabled on principle). I
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by macNchz 3y ago
I get those programming dreams but have always really disliked them, and find I wake up feeling like I didn’t actually sleep, even if I was in fact asleep all night with code flying around in my brain like tetris blocks. I’m not sure I’ve e
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by macNchz 3y ago
Yeah, often companies will make that kind of claim based on the fact they only pass around sha256 hashes of email addresses, which are trivially deanonymized. https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2018/04/09/four-cent
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by macNchz 3y ago
In my opinion it's not unthinkable that an older person, someone without a bank account, or someone who works odd-jobs, might save cash in a drawer (regardless of whether that's advisable) for a long time for a larger purchase, li
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by macNchz 3y ago
Frustrating to see more laws like this that can readily throw a wrench in the day to day lives of regular working people, when money laundering and tax evasion at a scale multiple orders of magnitude larger than this is so shamelessly visib

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