niccaluim

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by niccaluim 10y ago
Unfortunately gastric bands don't stop food addicts.
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by niccaluim 10y ago
It's very very very rarely the same IP.
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D'oh, sorry. Reading comprehension ftw.
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by niccaluim 10y ago
> a joke for all of the people who say "Changing your port is security by obscurity" This always tickled me. I don't do it for security; I do it because (on public-facing servers) it keeps the constant stream of doorknob
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by niccaluim 10y ago
Dunno how common this is but in my home state of Indiana the non-discrimination laws include specific exemptions for properties used as homes by the lessor. I imagine that would provide an out for people like Crissie if it ever came to a ci
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by niccaluim 10y ago
"Sic" stands for "sic erat scriptum" ("thus was it written"). It says nothing about spelling, only that the quote has been transcribed exactly as written.
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by niccaluim 10y ago
> And transgender rights activists are more busy with right gender pronouns then with him/her [sic]. Speak for yourself.
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by niccaluim 10y ago
(I'm white and American.) My understanding is that Black people have taken a word that was used against them and "reclaimed" it. What used to be a white person's word is now a Black person's word. That's very p
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by niccaluim 10y ago
Protecting future assets is the whole point. In community property states, assets acquired prior to the marriage are already separate property.
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by niccaluim 10y ago
Get. A. Prenup. Trust me on this; I should know. You have _no_ idea what the future will bring. You might have comparable assets and income now, but that could change. People have a tendency to dramatically underestimate how different their
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by niccaluim 10y ago
I meditate daily, and I'm part of a community that encourages it, but only after a thorough process of mental housecleaning. If you're full of un-dealt-with bitterness, anxiety, resentment, guilt, restlessness, shame, etc.—to sa
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by niccaluim 10y ago
That was one of the stated goals but in practice it doesn't, according to some folks at Northeastern.* Uber says they're wrong, and Uber is certainly in a position to know, but I personally don't trust PR people farther than
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by niccaluim 10y ago
Someone just registered the domain today as, I suspect, a practical joke: Domain Name: YOUR-CARRIER-IS-HIJACKING-DNS.COM Registrar: GOOGLE INC. Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 895 Whois Server: whois.rrpproxy.net Referral URL
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by niccaluim 10y ago
That's the one. Thanks!
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by niccaluim 10y ago
Wasn't there an article a while back by a guy who stayed at a "smart" hotel and discovered he could turn the lights on and off in other people's rooms? If that's any indication of how this industry is treating secur
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by niccaluim 10y ago
Twelve people. No control group. And as a person who has suffered lifelong depression, and up until 2.5 years ago had serious substance problems: duh, drugs change the way you feel. I'm not saying there's nothing worth exploring h
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by niccaluim 10y ago
That wouldn't be truncated, no. It's not long enough.
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by niccaluim 10y ago
The domain and path are truncated separately. Your example would be displayed as evil.net/this-is-a-very-very-lo…
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by niccaluim 10y ago
Long URLs are truncated and ellipsized, e.g.: this-is-a-long-url-with-a-very-very-very-domain-name.com/and-a-sorta-long-path-component-but-still-long-enough-to-trigger-shortening is displayed as …with-a-very-very-very-domain-name.com&#
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by niccaluim 10y ago
In California it's two-party consent.
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by niccaluim 10y ago
One of my favorite coffee shops in SF has no wifi and is explicit about it. It's fantastic. Doesn't stop anyone from tethering, obviously, but it keeps the laptop warriors out all the same. And no, I won't tell Hacker News wh
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by niccaluim 10y ago
…both use accents on vowels, but only Scots uses grave (left-pointing) accents, like on à in Gàidhlig. Just a quick note of caution here: "Scots" and "Scots Gaelic" are two completely different languages, the former be
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by niccaluim 10y ago
Ugh, more of this low-contrast nonsense. Give me black text or give me death.
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by niccaluim 10y ago
Ah, Finagle has a Java API too.
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by niccaluim 10y ago
Rumors of Scala's dominance at Twitter are slightly exaggerated. While it's true that the non-revenue-related backend is almost all Scala, on the ads eng side, it's almost 100% Java. Which language a new project is written in
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by niccaluim 10y ago
"So" it's a fundamental change to a thousands-of-years-old art form.
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by niccaluim 10y ago
Yeah, I had the same reaction. I've got quite a bit of ink and the permanence is a huge part of what makes it meaningful to me. They aren't just pretty pictures; they tell a story.
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by niccaluim 10y ago
Have media companies ever considered something like the cable TV model? I'm thinking something like ten different sites form a network, and readers pay once (on a subscription basis) for access to the whole network instead of paying ea
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Dunno if this is still the case, but throughout my tenure there (2010-2014), mobile web and desktop were totally separate teams with separate codebases.
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by niccaluim 10y ago
Ah, I think I understand what you're saying now. I think where we're parting ways is that when I say "evidence" I mean unambiguous evidence. There's definitely evidence that people aren't p-zombies, like your

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