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by mankyd 6y ago
Right. If I recall correctly, their position is that the Supreme Court can't refuse disputes between states.
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by mankyd 6y ago
Whether they read it or not, they didn't comment on its merits, but rather said plainly that Texas doesn't have standing. That is to say, something may be amiss, but Texas can't be the one to sue over it. It's like if so
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by mankyd 6y ago
re:timeline, I've always heard that liars recall the story they're making up in order; truth tellers tell the most important and interesting bits first. I.E: 0) Sorry I'm late 1) I woke up 2) Got in the car 3) Traffic was
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by mankyd 6y ago
Also, presumably this whole process didn't start this month. Developing a chip takes time. This article makes it sound as though this is well on its way to production.
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by mankyd 6y ago
As someone who helped contribute to Google's pre-HTTP2 apache/mod_spdy push, I am sad :(
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by mankyd 6y ago
The electronics aren't in the radiation zone. Go to town on them. Just watch out for the super powerful transformer that makes the microwave actually work. This project is mostly about simply replacing the keypad, not the controller it
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by mankyd 6y ago
If it's really life saving, break the lock and/or door. You're right - locks are generally meant to keep out less committed thieves, but lock-picking is hard for the average person. It takes a lot of practice, good light, and
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by mankyd 6y ago
Longitude, but yes.
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by mankyd 6y ago
You have to pay money for this. One of the features they advertise is: "Premium support on everything Google". So, no customer support for non-paying customers, but I don't think that applies here.
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by mankyd 6y ago
Google One is essentially paying for more storage on Drive, I think? I am not sure what else it comes with.
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by mankyd 6y ago
At the point that you've given money to facebook when you bought their product, haven't you already done that?
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by mankyd 6y ago
You don't use gloves around spinning motors because it will suck the glove up. Even if the gloves survive tearing, your fingers don't survive mushing.
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by mankyd 6y ago
To rephrase: my spam folder only has stuff that I can't unsubscribe from because it was genuinely unsolicited. I rarely, if ever, get unsolicited marketing because I untick the "send me promo shit" checkboxes. Otherwise, I as
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by mankyd 6y ago
That's too bad, as I've found the unsubscribe links generally work and mean that I stop getting emails. It means my spam folder is usually actual spam/phishing emails instead of stuff that I simply find annoying.
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by mankyd 6y ago
I doubt these are words that a "banned". Probably more like words that trigger extra precaution in certain contexts. Medical terms like "testical" are perfectly reasonable words.
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by mankyd 6y ago
> Hence cookie walls that demand ‘consent’ as the price for getting inside the club are not only an oxymoron but run into a legal brick wall. This seems like a slippery slope situation. What if you require people to login, signup, or pay
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by mankyd 6y ago
They have/had this, but it hasn't proven terribly popular: https://contributor.google.com/ edit: I say "had" because I think it has changed forms over its lifetime. I think originally you could simply lo
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by mankyd 7y ago
Awesome, but it misses: people-per-household multiplier.
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by mankyd 7y ago
> Brand is a proxy for the level of functionality delivered by that brand. 100% agreed. > People didn't switch to GMail because it was a "cool" brand, Less agreed on this. Brand is also a proxy for PR, marketing, and th
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by mankyd 7y ago
> mail became Gmail, usenet became reddit, blog replies became facebook and Medium, pingbacks became twitter, squid became Cloudflare, even gnutella became The Pirate Bay. Centralization exists because there is a need to manage spam, gri
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by mankyd 7y ago
https://sslmate.com/certspotter/
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by mankyd 7y ago
You don't have to buy it. It's free: https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout
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by mankyd 7y ago
I might give a similar response: I see that they might be valuable for some people but I have not tried them. The reasons are numerous: - Negative outcomes. They _might_ be valuable, but they might be incredibly harmful, especially if taken
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by mankyd 7y ago
That's for unlimited data. They offer a prorated, $10/gb plan as well.
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by mankyd 7y ago
This always becomes a tricky debate. Take the `ls` program. MVP would just by `ls`. Or maybe `ls -la` to get all the details. You could theoretically pipe that into other programs to get more information. But I'll be damned if I don&#x
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by mankyd 7y ago
This assumes a simplistic view of how its core search algorithm works, though. It's obvious through even some basic querying that it uses different strategies for recognizing intent based on the nature of the input: single words, addre
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by mankyd 7y ago
I am curious why you take the pessimistic view. Their own testing shows an improvement for at least 10% of their queries: "Google says it can now offer more relevant results for about one in 10 searches in the U.S. in English"
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by mankyd 7y ago
>But it isn't competitive when you cannot even pick your own health insurance company There's plenty of employers that don't offer healthcare, and you are not obligated to take it if your employer does offer it. You can al
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by mankyd 7y ago
Isn't that what American health insurance companies are?
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by mankyd 7y ago
I am curious what you wanted from them? They aren't overflowing in cash.

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