mayneack

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by mayneack 7y ago
I guess that makes sense. I have been doing it just because I figure it's an easy way to limit my potential data breach exposure. Didn't know about this medical credit score thing.
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by mayneack 7y ago
I usually don't give medical providers my social security number. It's on all their forms, but I just skip that section and no one has ever come back to clarify that it's required. I have no idea if they can require it or not
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by mayneack 7y ago
Dedicated lanes and car restrictions make buses acceptable public transit pretty cheaply. They can at least serve as a bridge in cities that are borderline ready for restrictions to get the ball moving faster.
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by mayneack 7y ago
Faster degradation of cars on the road might be an upside for Detroit.
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by mayneack 7y ago
Blocking significantly reduces the numbers, but they come back over time: https://blocktogether.org/show-blocks/njFjyOn40oKxRW8XJLmN70...
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by mayneack 7y ago
They come back, but it's significantly lower volume than without the block. I recently made a new account and was surprised by the volume. Mine is 100% (I think) from blocking ads, if you want a second source: https://blockt
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by mayneack 7y ago
Hmm, that's weird. I use it for hours at a time on most Sundays. I'm sort of surprised how well it works.
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by mayneack 7y ago
There's an android/roku app that makes this fairly seamless in all the instances I've tried. It even does a good job of finding videos in a web page if you don't have a direct link. https://play.google.com&#x2
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by mayneack 7y ago
Can you re-sell it for cash at a slight loss?
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by mayneack 7y ago
McKinsey has been generally in the news of late as Pete Buttigieg has gotten more traction in the polls because that's that he credits for much of his experience. Its probably not HN specific.
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by mayneack 7y ago
I was 9, so didn't really think much of it.
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by mayneack 7y ago
Not that it makes it more or less effective, but my public school in Birmingham Alabama required clear backpacks back in 1996
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by mayneack 7y ago
dawn is also a lot colder than dusk
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by mayneack 7y ago
I'm more concerned with the cold. Morning dark is a lot colder than evening dark
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by mayneack 7y ago
As a bike commuter, I'm pretty happy to be back on standard time. Light is much more valuable to me on my morning commute as it also makes things warmer.
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by mayneack 7y ago
"The Coming Plague" is a book from 1994 that gave him plenty of credit. I read it a long time ago, but definitely remember it talking about him. It focuses on "virus hunters" from the CDC/WHO that tracked down a lot
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by mayneack 7y ago
> Bank-Level Security (using AES Encryption) I know what they're trying to do, but "bank level" doesn't inspire confidence. Financial institutions have regularly clunky rules like max password sizes, and I've got
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by mayneack 7y ago
Most trips are very short. West LA where I live, biking is my fastest commute option (4 miles) because I don't get stuck in traffic. Pushing people out of cars would probably speed up the cars that are used by reducing the traffic arou
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by mayneack 7y ago
Facebook pitches itself as free speech https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/10/mark-zuckerberg-stands-...
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by mayneack 7y ago
> The engineers, designers, and PMs shouldn't have an outsized voice in society because they have a specialized useful skillset and ended up on a successful product. The size of every group's voice in society isn't a magic
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by mayneack 7y ago
How do you use it on linux? Just a browser extension? I've been on lastpass because the last time I tried, 1password didn't seem that convenient on linux.
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by mayneack 7y ago
Removing cars and adding bus lanes seems obviously designed to improve transportation and livability? Why do you think it's not?
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by mayneack 7y ago
I forget where I saw it, but I think the 14th street closure allows local deliveries. Trucks find it easier to deliver because they no longer have to double park.
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by mayneack 7y ago
Counter anecdote: I've lived in a rent controlled apartment in Santa Monica for 5 years. My rent increases by the maximum allowed every year, but that's drastically lower than the non-rent controlled apartments in Santa Monica and
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by mayneack 7y ago
They may be right, but likely not for the right reasons. People also consistently think crime is getting worse even when it's getting better. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/16/voters-p
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by mayneack 7y ago
Yeah, that's one reason I use brave. The parent was suggesting that they wanted to do something like this without Brave, but I don't know of a real competitor.
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by mayneack 7y ago
Is there a different way to automatically pay based on how long I actually spend on a site?
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by mayneack 7y ago
I don't see why it would matter what form you're paying the creator in. I suppose in the absence of an apple pay direct link, you'd have to just use apple pay to pay for BAT. I think there's some sort of "re-fill $X
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by mayneack 7y ago
If most people need it at roughly the same time to get to a small number of places, then it's an obvious use for public transport.
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by mayneack 7y ago
Well, the complete set of modern crashes is relatively small, and the set of crashes with unknown causes is very small, so the number of crashes tied to hacks is probably even smaller.

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