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by mthoms 5y ago
You presented yourself as an authority (native speaker) and provided a translation + opinion of her statement. You omitted the part about her crying, etc. Why? And why do you refuse to you update us on your opinion now that the omission has
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by mthoms 5y ago
>They steal cheap ass Honda civics and what not because they’re easy to steal. Thieves steal easy to steal things. You're talking about joy riders. The rest of us are talking about more sophisticated operations. Besides, your logic
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by mthoms 5y ago
>The first several years of evaluation have yielded an array of scientific outputs, including more than 30 peer-reviewed studies describing the program’s impacts. These publications indicate that Insite provides a range of benefits to it
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by mthoms 5y ago
Certainly. But I wasn't speaking about SF, I was speaking about Vancouver. >The first several years of evaluation have yielded an array of scientific outputs, including more than 30 peer-reviewed studies describing the program’s imp
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by mthoms 5y ago
How do you have the exact quotation and why is it phrased as a double negative? That sentence just doesn’t sound authoritative or believable in any way. Are you paraphrasing? If so, that’s fine but please don’t use quotation marks in that c
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by mthoms 5y ago
They didn’t claim it would be. They claimed it was 90% effective in the (time limited) study which they performed. It’s fair that you might have misinterpreted that as meaning it will be 90% effective. Especially if you don’t know how vir
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by mthoms 5y ago
The primary goal is harm reduction: fewer deadly overdoses, less disease (HIV) transmission due to needle sharing and less needles discarded on the street. The site where I live can also provide some help for people who want to get off drug
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by mthoms 5y ago
What would police investigators possibly have to gain from making this up? It’s not even an outlandish claim. Knowing the technology and the region this force covers it sounds perfectly reasonable to me that a least some thieves are experim
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by mthoms 5y ago
We don’t know if the tag was placed there for car theft reasons. The perpetrator could want to know where she lives for something even more nefarious.
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by mthoms 5y ago
Because you’re not guaranteed to find one you’re looking for. If you do a little work up front you get much better odds. I can think of other reasons: You can target more vulnerable people (someone you know isn’t likely to come out and conf
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by mthoms 5y ago
And, the units off Amazon have to be purchased with a credit card + shipped to your house. AirTags can be bought with cash much more anonymously. (Though I’m not sure how/if Apple can identify the associated iPhone if presented with a
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by mthoms 5y ago
Which of those relates to Chinese internal security? In other words - aside from containing Chinese/Communist external influence, when has the US threatened China? Note: I'm not justifying or condemning any of those "exte
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by mthoms 5y ago
I stopped reading at “Libtards”. Which is a shame because it sounds like you might have some meaningful insight. Edit: Flagged for pointing out that childish snark (a clear violation of HN guidelines) ruined an otherwise good comment? Ok,
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by mthoms 5y ago
That’s a pretty bold statement. When has the US ever threatened China’s internal security?
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by mthoms 5y ago
>Well, calling a dissenter argumentative, or griping about tone, is actually ad hominem fallacy, because it ignores the argument entirely and personally attacks the man. Well, I didn't ignore the argument, nor did I attack you perso
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by mthoms 5y ago
This reminds me of grade-school incident. A kid put his tongue on a cast iron fence surrounding our school in the middle of a cold Canadian winter. The fire department was called, and they tried to warm the fence up with warm water. When th
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by mthoms 5y ago
This is sorely needed and a welcome addition. Tangent: What are they referring to when they write "The Platform" (capitalized) as in "The Platform now ships with ....". It sounds a little too Borg-like and creepy.
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by mthoms 5y ago
>It's really ok if someone disagrees with you. It doesn't make them argumentative. No, but tone does. As does uncharitably interpreting comments. And I never said hardware itself mattered, I said the level of software engineeri
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by mthoms 5y ago
>if Swartz killed himself because of this case - that’s just moronic All other arguments aside - calling the actions of someone with severe mental health issues moronic is the epitome of callousness. What's next, the R word? Come
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by mthoms 5y ago
>Unless you're referring to AFS... which wasn't rewritten, but developed. You know what I meant and the distinction is irrelevant in this case, so don't be that guy. The point is, a lot of impressive engineering resour
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by mthoms 5y ago
>Fundamentally there is very little difference between Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah and macOS 12 Monterey. The operating system itself has probably seen very little changes since NeXTSTEP's first release in 1989, it only appears different,
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by mthoms 5y ago
Because Clippy? https://github.com/Eugeny/tabby-clippy :) Seriously though, I've got a potential use-case where I want to cobble together a few related scripts into an an ad-hoc REPL that supports HTML and image o
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by mthoms 5y ago
I did several years back. It took a while but worked as expected.
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by mthoms 5y ago
Please forgive what may be a naive question: Speaking of old and terrible... Are you planning to keep the project in Objective-C long term? Any chance of migrating to Swift? Merry Christmas and thanks for a great project.
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by mthoms 5y ago
The UI looks very polished. What's it built with?
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by mthoms 5y ago
> Going by either the Senkaku Islands or the Diaoyu Islands, depending on which side of the argument you’re taking, they inspired a request from China to members of the Maps team to make them appear larger, even when viewers are zoomed o
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by mthoms 5y ago
I use Backblaze and am quite happy with the service. I wouldn't use it as my sole backup method however.
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by mthoms 5y ago
I suspect JetBrains location in Eastern Europe helped a great deal talent-wise.
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by mthoms 5y ago
Would building a Play Store search index that contains metadata and snippets (just like Google itself) be considered "redistributing" that content? Hasn't Google itself argued that such activities are explicitly not redistrib
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by mthoms 5y ago
I'd argue the worse "toxic business model" is the advertising model you're advocating for. I'm not saying Brave's solution is correct, but I'm glad someone is at least trying something different.

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