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by me-vs-cat 1y ago
What is "it"? If you mean comments on Zillow, that's exactly what I was talking about. If you mean a registry tied to a home inspector license, then it sounds like you don't know how those licenses work -- or they aren
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by me-vs-cat 1y ago
I believe it depends on the lender, though it's going to be effectively required by all.
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by me-vs-cat 1y ago
I wonder if any private entity can provide this with a net benefit. Architects, engineers, and doctors, among many others, have ethical obligations tied to their professional affiliation. I would approach this problem from the same angle wi
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by me-vs-cat 1y ago
I'm glad you can't. Unverified comments would be such a nightmare that potential buyers should ignore them while not really being able to (not to mention sellers), while I distrust both the competency and alignment of Zillow or s
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Cape (Privacy-First Phone Service)(cape.co)
2 points by me-vs-cat 1y ago|0 comments
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by me-vs-cat 1y ago
The year-old iPhone example is misleading at best, if you take this guy at his word on having "driven into the ground" multiple cars. If you don't believe him on that front, I see no reason you'd believe anything else i
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by me-vs-cat 1y ago
In other words: "the purpose of a system is what it does". Duck-typed ethics?
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by me-vs-cat 1y ago
His trade-in car was a long way from "year-old perfectly-working". Looking at $13k (which excludes his $2k trade-in), I'm left wondering if my own conditions are favorable for switching to EV.
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by me-vs-cat 1y ago
> It hurts to have poured so much love into a piece of software to see it turned against you and threaten your livelihood. I'm confused: how is this their livelihood? I don't see any way to pay them directly nor where they mon
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by me-vs-cat 1y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/business/china-chongqing-... (free access expires in 30 days)
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by me-vs-cat 1y ago
This is both true and absurd. True because that's how the system actually works today. Absurd because monopolies on ideas -- specifically patents and software licenses as mentioned here -- have absurd durations.
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There Is No Trolley Problem(the-reframe.com)
3 points by me-vs-cat 1y ago|0 comments
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by me-vs-cat 1y ago
That's fair, and I also especially enjoy exploring "solved" problems when I don't have a backlog demanding priority. Still, your experience with those holding "senior" job titles involves greater median experti
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by me-vs-cat 1y ago
> I spent 4 hours re-writing all the parsing code to handle namespaces correctly. Wouldn't it have been less effort and simpler to replace the custom code with an existing XML parser? It appears that in your case the simplest thing
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by me-vs-cat 1y ago
The first wiki by Ward Cunningham included a RecentChanges page from the beginning or very nearly so. > It was too simple That happens when you ignore requirements, either because they were outright discarded or because they were never r
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by me-vs-cat 1y ago
> read criminals' writes while they spill the beans Could be criminals are spilling the beans by writing down confessions. (I don't know the original intent.)
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by me-vs-cat 1y ago
> it takes months of lawyers, just to understand if one idea we have is an infringement or not. Even after that work, you don't know if your idea is infringing. All you have is a prediction on whether it will be found infringing if
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by me-vs-cat 1y ago
So a tool that uses ".example" would first check ".toolsconfig/.example"? Why not ".toolsconfig/example" (with one less dot)? If you change ".toolsconfig" to ".config", then it wo
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by me-vs-cat 1y ago
Search for ECOLOR at https://callumgare.github.io/macos-device-icons/
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by me-vs-cat 1y ago
I use Bitwarden in Firefox and passkeys "just work" on Linux, Android, Mac, and Windows. Previously, I used the extension in Chrome (Linux, Android, Windows). The only relevant Bitwarden setting appears to be "Ask to save an
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by me-vs-cat 1y ago
Natural intelligence appears supernatural from our current understanding, so it's not surprising that AGI also appears so.
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by me-vs-cat 1y ago
> ...the fact that the [AGI] can/will work on the issue 24/7... Are you sure? I previously accepted that as true, but, without being able to put my finger on exactly why, I am no longer confident in that. What are you suppose
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by me-vs-cat 1y ago
You're right, but how much heavy lifting is within this phrase? > if it has a perfect model
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by me-vs-cat 1y ago
> ...with something from 1981 but no license or copyright doesn't mean the source is open for taking. Are you sure? That's before the US joined the Berne Convention, and also not long after the Computer Software Copyright Act
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by me-vs-cat 1y ago
The article's point reads to me as less "we need to hear these guys out" and more "be a skeptic without being a cynic". That sounds familiar: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#comment
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by me-vs-cat 1y ago
From the outside, feels like the tariff situation is way too volatile for that "great opportunity" to amount to more than gambling with dice.
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by me-vs-cat 1y ago
If you mean how does that lawsuit work, the only way the employee wins is if there's some type of agreement that says they should get paid. That agreement could be employer's written policy, an individual or union contract, an em
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by me-vs-cat 1y ago
In the US, there is no general entitlement to severance beyond a specific employer's policies, a worker's or union's contract (if any) with that employer, or any one-time offer (usually called a voluntary layoff or voluntary
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by me-vs-cat 1y ago
Ideas don't die. https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/introductory-antimemetics
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by me-vs-cat 1y ago
By malicious entities, do you mean the phone manufacturers, third-parties, or both?

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