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by mdavidn 7y ago
All of your arguments have the side effect of increasing the value of your home, thereby making you more dependent on Prop 13.
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by mdavidn 7y ago
When someone proposes a four plus one housing development around the corner from your house to help address the state's housing shortage, would you oppose it? You can't move if you don't like it, after all, since you'd l
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by mdavidn 7y ago
This is the problem. Prop 13 creates perverse incentives that are not obvious to owners in other states. One doesn't need to live in California long before they see a community leaflet opposing a local housing development. These develo
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by mdavidn 7y ago
Driving over the posted speed limit can appear safe when it definitely is not. My morning commute involves a blind left turn out of a residential street. Cars parked on the curb obstruct my view of oncoming traffic in the right lane. This i
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by mdavidn 7y ago
Amazon does provide a mechanism to define private networks disconnected from the internet. https://aws.amazon.com/vpc/
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by mdavidn 7y ago
That and property tax on high-value housing is basically no longer deductible either. I think Republicans backed this plan hoping it would create pressure to decrease taxes in blue states. Instead, the double taxation has only incensed taxp
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by mdavidn 7y ago
It seems obvious that states with the largest populations would see the most people leave. This graphic would be more interesting if the scale were per 1,000 capita.
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by mdavidn 7y ago
Yes, that's true of automatics as well. If you suspect the brake shoe or cabling could get wet and freeze, you should avoid leaving the handbrake engaged.
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by mdavidn 7y ago
Unless you're working with immutable primary keys (i.e. the values can neither be updated nor deleted), it is actually not possible to reliably enforce a foreign key constraint outside the database.
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by mdavidn 7y ago
Religions make testable claims as well, mostly with respect to events in the past and in the future.
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by mdavidn 7y ago
I have my first and last name at gmail.com, with no middle initial. There are approximately 1,700 people in the United States with the same first and last name. I receive e-mail intended for others daily—personal correspondence, account-rel
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by mdavidn 7y ago
I have this problem too. E-mail addresses are terrible identifiers. So many services fail to implement validation loops, and their customer support teams have no process when I call. The presumption everywhere is that a provided e-mail addr
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by mdavidn 7y ago
When people were concerned about HTTPS overhead? Both in terms of increased latency when establishing a connection and AES overhead for the duration of the connection. Hardware TLS accelerators used to be a thing.
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by mdavidn 7y ago
Caching a 404 can make sense, however. For example, every browser requests /favicon.ico by convention. If you don't have one, you wouldn't want every single request reaching your backend.
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by mdavidn 7y ago
The average number of transactions per block is easy to measure historically. If each block takes 10 minutes, and the miner network indeed draws 73 TWh each year, then that works out to ~1.4 GWh per block.
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by mdavidn 7y ago
I loathe to point out that birds which never existed cannot suffer more than birds that do exist. Perhaps a better measure would be genetic diversity? A more diverse gene pool is more likely to survive the unexpected.
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by mdavidn 7y ago
The law would not be necessary if companies were upfront with how they collect and process information about individual consumers. Now this is a compromise many consumers want.
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by mdavidn 7y ago
Git does have a mechanism to remove data from history. It's ugly, and you end up with new commit hashes, but it works. It was designed for situations in which a developer accidentally adds something sensitive, like a production databas
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by mdavidn 7y ago
That's not the case. The Bill of Rights now does largely apply to the states. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_of_the_Bill_of_R...
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by mdavidn 7y ago
IANAL, but I think a human needs to be involved in the individuals' processing as a prerequisite to "speech." An automated process has no Constitutional rights.
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by mdavidn 7y ago
No. It just means you need to make ads relevant to the content rather than to the individual user.
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by mdavidn 7y ago
If you're looking for a modern derivative of Railroad Tycoon, you may enjoy Transport Fever. You'll find its demand-driven economy familiar, and staying solvent in the early game is tricky. Fever places a bigger emphasis on terrai
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by mdavidn 7y ago
The major HTTP proxy debuggers all support MitM of TLS traffic using a locally-generated CA trusted by the device.
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by mdavidn 7y ago
Just to be clear: There's no need to "get around" CORS in the Zoom case. Browsers simply allow cross-domain GET and POST requests. Period. CORS mediates the ability of JavaScript running in one origin to _read_ responses from
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by mdavidn 7y ago
I use both Mac and Windows at home. Trust me when I say that you'll prefer the Touch Bar, as bad as it is, over Windows.
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by mdavidn 7y ago
You can add your “generic address” to another inbox as an “alias” free of charge. $210 annually seems like a deal if it keeps your family’s most sensitive private messages away from ad targeting.
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by mdavidn 8y ago
They would need to remove GA from all pages on the same origin. JavaScript in any page can perform an AJAX request to read HTML, and those requests will send cookies.
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by mdavidn 8y ago
Yes, but that frequency depends on the caesium-133's frame of reference. In a deep gravity well or at "high" speed, caesium-133 emits at a lower frequency relative to caesium-133 in deep space moving at "low" speed.
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by mdavidn 8y ago
Newlines. Each line written to STDOUT is sent as one frame, and each frame received is read from STDIN followed by a synthetic newline. The FAQ explains how to escape multiline messages (or binary data, presumably). https://githu
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by mdavidn 8y ago
They did pass a CR back in December. Everyone thought the President would sign it. He changed his mind.

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