mayneack

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by mayneack 9y ago
gathering data about users?
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by mayneack 9y ago
symlinks for ~/Downloads and ~/Documents into ~/Dropbox is my only interesting upgrade. Across the varying different devices I have different things selectively synced. Large media files are the only things that don't li
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by mayneack 9y ago
can the driver see your tip before rating? that would be quite the design flaw
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by mayneack 9y ago
> If you don't know, John Mackey, the CEO / founder, is a major believer in conscious capitalism and of empowering his employees. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/16/whole-foods-ceo-oba... &
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by mayneack 9y ago
In what definition is this peacetime?
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by mayneack 9y ago
Biking is viable in southern california. Most of LA is flat and it doesn't rain enough to even need to worry about a plan B.
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by mayneack 9y ago
It works well on mobile.
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by mayneack 9y ago
Can't you schedule in advance? Does that not come with a price at the time of scheduling?
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by mayneack 9y ago
Surely running old Windows that you have to pirate and block from updating is less user friendly than a simple Ubuntu setup. I get that many people don't even think it's an option, but if I were looking for a market for more deskt
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by mayneack 9y ago
Many have already posted about how the phone is less important than email/browser which we're ok with being 3rd party. I didn't really think there could be a difference between phone apps until I got project fi from Google. T
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by mayneack 9y ago
counter point: i prefer southwest because there's little incentive to fight for position. They give you a complete ordering, so you can wait until the last minute to line up. (also as others mentioned, it's faster which is great t
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Is It Time to Break Up Google?(nytimes.com)
8 points by mayneack 9y ago|1 comments
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by mayneack 10y ago
Some airline shenanigans still demonstrate contradictory incentives. On each of the ~20 jetblue flights I've been on in the last few years. They ask for volunteers to gate check carry on bags to the final destination for free because t
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by mayneack 10y ago
Which a patriots game will be.
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by mayneack 10y ago
I don't quite agree with "typically". The numbers of filibusters (and cloture votes) has radically increased in recent history, but I'm not sure if you can really call it the default behavior yet. https://en.w
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by mayneack 10y ago
https://twitter.com/whispersystems/status/836651250842124288
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by mayneack 10y ago
If border patrol can ask for your password, can they just sign in on a different device?
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The Intercept started as an outlet that primarily reported on Snowden documents during the Obama administration.
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by mayneack 10y ago
Is that actually defrauding or just not what the ad companies had in mind? Do the ToS of websites ban such a thing? If I don't care about ad networks wasting money (I don't), why should I care?
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by mayneack 10y ago
If you subscribe to a github repo you get issue emails by default. So issues could still be "backed up" by email on github.
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by mayneack 10y ago
Through need based financial aid, these schools are very affordable for many of those students.
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by mayneack 10y ago
How does urbit, the technology, further a reprehensible political ideology? I assume you mean Moldbug's ideology, which I agree is reprehensible, but how does urbit further it?
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by mayneack 10y ago
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast has an episode on how drugs and alcohol affected some major historical events: http://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-20-blitz-h...
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by mayneack 10y ago
> does that mean eventually government can only spy on those citizens not savvy enough to use secured tech to communicate? One of Signal's goals is to be proliferated in main stream applications (like Whatsapp) so hopefully those no
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by mayneack 10y ago
Hard to believe we've so far from the HBGary/Palantir plot to undermine Wikileaks and Glenn Greenwald to today's Wikileaks. http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2011/02/11/palanti
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by mayneack 10y ago
Recommendations: Non Fiction: White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America https://smile.amazon.com/White-Trash-400-Year-History-Americ... It sometimes reads like "A People's History of the United
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by mayneack 10y ago
I think most of the criticism of uber are valid... but the status quo they're working against (taxis and drunk driving) have enough downsides that I don't think the ethical calculus around their business practices is simple.
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by mayneack 10y ago
Can't you do basically this with Sling tv?
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by mayneack 10y ago
Yeah, but it was a dud?
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by mayneack 10y ago
"by MIT"

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