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by nix0n 3y ago
> Worst case put the versions next to each other. For some files (anything encrypted, for example) this may actually be the best you could do. Dropbox had this behavior ten years ago, so it's kind of inexcusable for Google today to
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by nix0n 3y ago
> If they accept that as an ID, and then are defrauded for money why can than them make that my problem? They will have lots of help making it your problem, from collections agents and courts and eventually the police. > SSN should n
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by nix0n 3y ago
No, analytics are not good. They're bad, actually. They don't solve the problems they claim to solve, and they create new problems.
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by nix0n 3y ago
> cybercriminals have stolen information, including social security numbers Very few companies have any way to differentiate between "person who has a SSN" vs "someone else who knows that SSN". > some kind of socia
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by nix0n 3y ago
> software engineers feeling entitled to have an unfunded opinion on scientific disciplines outside of their own field of expertise There's an XKCD about this behavior[0]. The title is actually "Physicists", but I also ha
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by nix0n 3y ago
The kayak can be rented on the other end of your train journey.
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by nix0n 3y ago
Governments in the USA spend a ton of money on roads. If they could be convinced to spend some of it on buses, I think those bus companies could make a profit. They'd have to use some sort of marketing trickery to obfuscate the fact t
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by nix0n 3y ago
Thanks! That answers my question. For anyone who doesn't feel like clicking on a PDF, the section title is "Rarest First".
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by nix0n 3y ago
If multiple users download in sequential order, wouldn't that actually make it pretty likely that the previous downloader would have the chunk that the next downloader is looking for? Or is there a specific advantage to random order?
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by nix0n 3y ago
Full support for Unicode has a lot of benefit to people who don't speak English. But, when you're trying to show off your Unicode support to Californians, emojis get more reaction than umlauts.
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by nix0n 3y ago
Regular GPS claims ~1m accuracy, but in urban areas it's really more like ~10m, and it gets confused about which side of the street a pedestrian is on. If you have a dozen people trying to navigate the same neighborhood of Boston* on f
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by nix0n 3y ago
> I do recall one question [...] along the lines of “So, what do you think about the idea that people can’t find things on Google Search,” to which I recall joking something like, “Yes, clearly no one finds things any more.” I really, ac
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by nix0n 3y ago
This could be the first ten minutes of a Black Mirror episode.
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by nix0n 3y ago
US-based HN readers will know the experience of going to Best buy or Microcenter and having them offer you a warranty plan on your new controller. The official Xbox controller is the one thing I've ever bought that it's worth gett
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by nix0n 3y ago
Neat! Does this improve Git's support for large binaries generally, or is it necessary to have introspection into any filetype you want to support? Is there good interoperability with existing Git repos?
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by nix0n 3y ago
> I'm sure the editorial staff at The Register are brainstorming a headline at this very moment. They're "disc"-ussing it.
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by nix0n 3y ago
> you could give the latter just by bundling Vim with an init file and some plugins > One in a million things exactly like it > there are much easier ways to achieve a better result Is there a particular vim/nvim starting poin
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by nix0n 3y ago
You could make the same argument about landlords, but we still tax the value of a building.
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by nix0n 3y ago
It has a --display=inline option now.
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by nix0n 3y ago
> Even if you created that corporation yourself? Yes. > who should we hand over the power to? The shares are sold to whoever's buying, so the billionaire can pay the wealth tax, to the government. This would essentially be the sa
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by nix0n 3y ago
> once your equity becomes to large you have to start selling shares? Yes. If you own over $1B of corporations, you have too much power.
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by nix0n 3y ago
Why did you censor "P_treon"? Or are "a" and "_" close on your keyboard?
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by nix0n 3y ago
> why people just don't use sites/services that show them ads The point I'm trying to make is that everything shows ads. Most content is only available on services that show ads. How do you consume media?
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by nix0n 3y ago
> don't use sites/services that show them ads Cable TV shows ads. Spotify Premium shows ads. Paramount Plus shows ads. Roads have ads (billboards), but so do the subways. Even paperback books often have an ad in the back for
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by nix0n 3y ago
I found the article [0], which has the title "What does a guy have to do to get a jaywalking ticket in this town?" [0] https://www3.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/2017/05/24/what-does-...
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by nix0n 3y ago
The article's full headline is "'They know us better than we know ourselves': how Amazon tracked my last two years of reading"
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by nix0n 3y ago
By the time this takes effect, all large cars will be classified as farm equipment and all small cars will be classified as game consoles.
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by nix0n 3y ago
It doesn't even work for calls. I get robocalls from spoofed numbers about once a week.
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by nix0n 3y ago
> The listening test linked in the article leads nowhere, I would have liked to see their methodology. Here you go: https://web.archive.org/web/20080322114622/https://www.stere...
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by nix0n 3y ago
> what about all the people who challenged what was "considered normal socially" and actually were proven wrong? There are not many of those, because of herd mentality. (Edit: I mean Normalcy Bias, thanks "notabee")

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