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by minerva23 4y ago
One of the major objections is the lack of space in cities. Some people want physical space (>2000 sq-ft). Some want personal space (the ability to have a quiet private alone space). Both are difficult/costly to get in cities and it
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by minerva23 4y ago
In the strictest sense, it's tolerated because it's an acceptable price to get the product. If you're asking, "why doesn't someone do something about it" there are people actively encouraging the foundation to
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by minerva23 4y ago
Worked for a web hosting company. Created a regional routing and fail over mechanism that leveraged the CDN's own cache to store routing information so sites could be dynamical and individually re-routed by the CDN.
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by minerva23 4y ago
What’s your source for how much work was done?
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by minerva23 4y ago
I can’t believe I have to say this, but please consider not trivializing slavery by referring to twiddling transistors as such.
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by minerva23 4y ago
I’ve worked for people like him before. I’d probably have to have a salary of $2m/yr to put up with it again. Any less and it wouldn’t be worth it (for me personally).
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by minerva23 4y ago
Is Google’s AMP-cache a candidate for distributing the file?
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by minerva23 4y ago
I’m not as passionate about it as you, but I agree they broke their principal of being for the user by making it opt out. Among other issues, making it opt out makes it seem like large sites (like Twitter) endorse BAT. Maybe they do, but I
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by minerva23 4y ago
I love and use Brave. The page modification feature that adds BAT donate buttons is opt out, not opt in. That said, they still let you opt out and they are one of the few browsers that still have a culture of making the web better for the e
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by minerva23 4y ago
Hard agree. One of my biggest pet peeves is how the iPhone will correctly guess a swiped word and then change the prior word to an incorrect guess when the next word is swiped. Now you have to look at both the word that was just guessed and
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by minerva23 4y ago
Yes, car charging happens mostly during off-peak hours (when there is plenty of capacity and the power lines are cooler).
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by minerva23 4y ago
Yes, CA has a budget surplus. It also has constitutional spending limits that prevent the use of the surplus and this prop partially circumvents those spending limits. No, CA has a regressive tax system (considering sales tax and low proper
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by minerva23 4y ago
I agree setting tax and spending policy through the preposition process is a bad idea, but saying “no way to change it” isn’t entirely correct, right? The legislature can change it via a super majority and another prop could change it. It’s
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by minerva23 4y ago
People make mistakes. I might have done something like that until reading the article. This caught my eye, > the flow of electric power in the direction reverse to that of the typical flow of power circumvents safety features of the home
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by minerva23 4y ago
Yup. My naive impression of it is “we don’t trust our code to not back door your device, so we let you turn the highest risk portions of it off now. Mostly, gifs, because we’re don’t know how to safely parse a 35 year old standard.”
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by minerva23 4y ago
You can receive incoming calls from accounts you have called. Presumably, the bootstrap looks like two people try to call each other, one is rejected, one goes through. Then either can call the other in the future.
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by minerva23 4y ago
California’s DMVs are better than many private companies. They have walk-in times posted on the web. Friendly customer service. Security. Ample seating. A lot of self-service options. I honestly like the California DMV.
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by minerva23 4y ago
That’s not free. They’re amortizing the cost of the phone into the service fees. Even budget carriers do this. Google Fi charges $450 for the 6a or $240 if you agree to two years. Their cheapest lines are $15/mo, which is $360 over two
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Ask HN: Privacy analysis comparing Google vs. Workspace?
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by minerva23 4y ago
Are you aware that MS is again making it difficult to switch away from their own browser and tries to force people to switch back to it even after having switched away? Would you not call that an increase in anticompetitiveness? Do you see
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by minerva23 4y ago
You shouldn’t be getting downvoted for that. It’s a fair question for those educated in Google’s history of cancelling products and uneducated in Chrome OS. A lot of people are unaware that Google is deeply committed in the OS space. Apart
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by minerva23 4y ago
Clickbait hyperbolic title > robbery > n. 1) the direct taking of property from a person through force, threat or intimidation. Robbery is a felony. [1] “Screwed” is likely the word you wanted as it is a concept of justice and not cr
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by minerva23 4y ago
Why sum the force curve and ignore the activation point? In an extreme example, if it activates at 0.1 and the force required increases 10 fold at 0.2, the the force from 0.2…4.0 obviously doesn’t matter (because the user would feel the for
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by minerva23 4y ago
They market ethics, and like most things they market, the claims are often misleading or exaggerated. That said, of the companies who market their ethics, Apple seems to actually _do_ more than most.
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by minerva23 5y ago
It’s a web hosting business. New customers want effortless free TLS asap. We get customers who routinely create new sites who come to expect fast provisioning.
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by minerva23 5y ago
As a Let’s Encrypt user and fan, I can answer this. LE is great, but their SLO is significantly below our customers’ expectations. For us, Google wouldn’t replace LE, it would supplement LE for higher reliability. Seeing more providers conf
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by minerva23 5y ago
The license change was implied by the boobytrap. Are you saying they didn’t have the right to change the license?
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by minerva23 5y ago
> Something doesn't become more ethical just because it's described as an act of protest. Agreed, but fighting back is often seen as ethical when unwarranted aggression is not. In the case of this “protestware”, they’re both fi
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by minerva23 5y ago
Humans won’t guarantee better results. It’s easy to get a human at Verizon, but due to mismanagement, you’ll get transferred from dept to dept. I spent about 20 hours with Verizon humans to get a bug costing me money sorted out (and I still
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by minerva23 5y ago
Unpopular opinion: telling people they need to keep their protests non-disruptive is akin to telling them they can’t protest. “Protest in a way where I can ignore you.” Do I think “protestware” is a bad idea? Sure. Am I going to tell them t

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