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by noarchy 10y ago
If you're willing to set the NAP aside for junk food, your bar for setting aside the NAP is likely pretty low. But my own perspective is that of a person who scrutinizes what I put in my body. I've never felt that I needed someone
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Regarding DigitalOcean VPNs, I think enough people have been doing this that it is starting to show in unpleasant ways. While using my DO VPN I've encountered captchas while using YouTube, of all sites, likely because of abuse they&#x2
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BlackBerry to turn BBM secure-messaging system into subscription service(theglobeandmail.com)
66 points by noarchy 10y ago|51 comments
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by noarchy 10y ago
>Basic income is the only future, truck drivers will be all out of work by 2020 for example This has become the refrain in the comment section for every article dealing with automation I've seen, of late. Some of the articles, I sus
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by noarchy 10y ago
The Parable of the broken window: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
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by noarchy 10y ago
The linked text mentions that even Coinbase dropped Fetlife, because they (Coinbase) still processes credit card transactions. So it looks like any use of a cryptocurrency has to be completely decoupled from the credit card world.
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Every Upcoming Chromebook Will Run Android Apps(laptopmag.com)
3 points by noarchy 10y ago|0 comments
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>Over one whole month, so that's more like 61 hours per week. How many of us know people in North America who are putting in those kinds of hours? You know, gotta "go the extra mile" for the startup, and all.
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by noarchy 10y ago
Apologies, I had meant to include my area in my original post. I'm in the Ottawa-Gatineau area. I've seen this done around Montreal, too.
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Where I live (in Canada) they tend to use balls of dough in the middle of the pizza to get the same effect, instead of the piece of plastic I've seen elsewhere.
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Twitter Developed Its Own Messenger Product, but Killed It(buzzfeed.com)
6 points by noarchy 10y ago|0 comments
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Do you equate law with your society's ethics? Sometimes the two are well-aligned, I think, but not always. In a democratic society, they should be aligned, but the truth is, it isn't the rank-and-file of society making the laws.
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by noarchy 10y ago
This has essentially been my attitude. If you're interviewing me based on my experience in my profession, why should I have to study for anything? We're talking about things I do 8+ hours per day. Study? That would only be neede
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by noarchy 10y ago
I wasn't aware that Google or Facebook were required services. You can easily make the choice to use a different email or search provider, and can opt-out of social media. On the other hand, I am not aware of a way in which I can simil
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by noarchy 10y ago
Governments don't seem to want competition for their postal monopolies. There is the interesting case of the American Letter Mail Company, which tried to do this in the mid-1800s, but was shut down. https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by noarchy 10y ago
Many will say that "free speech" is a negative right, and as such it only means anything in the context of governments: in other words, it is something the government cannot take from you. Government can use force (the very real t
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by noarchy 10y ago
I don't know how many people really understand the algorithm that ranks posts, or perhaps more importantly, how much human intervention is a factor.
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15-Inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar Has Non-Removable SSD(macrumors.com)
20 points by noarchy 10y ago|3 comments
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>So Freedom wanes because governments are doing what internet monopolies(facebook and google) have been doing for years? I don't have to use Google for search, and I don't. And Facebook is far from being compulsory. Can you tel
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by noarchy 10y ago
>Our neighbors to the north. Canada. Recreational use isn't legal here (though enforcement varies, depending on where you are). Medical use has been for a while. The current government is likely to table legislation sometime next ye
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by noarchy 10y ago
Absolutely. VIRB Edit can handle your Garmin data files, and gives you many options for how you'd like to display the data. And as I mentioned, I import my GoPro videos, as VIRB Edit doesn't seem to care. The software, for those w
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by noarchy 10y ago
>Note : I have an action camera, but it's from Garmin Fwiw, I own a GoPro, but use Garmin's video editing software. Not only do I find it easier to whip up quick edits, but I can also overlay my Garmin Edge cycling data.
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>People are comfortable buying a used GoPro because they know it's rugged and well built. My GoPro 2 is still going quite strong, despite having hit the asphalt on at last two occasions at high speed (well, high for a bicycle) due t
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by noarchy 10y ago
VeraCrypt has not been usable for me, since upgrading (if I can call it that) to macOS Sierra. There seems to be an issue with FUSE for macOS, preventing me from mounting anything.
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by noarchy 10y ago
>HiDPI does not seem to work as well on other platforms. HiDPI was broken for me on my external display once I "upgraded" to Sierra. In order to fix the problem, I had to install the most recent beta of the OS - not a move I li
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by noarchy 10y ago
Further to the point, here are their GitHub repos: https://github.com/wireapp
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Carl Lewis is open about at least one doping positive, but he claims it had nothing to do with performance enhancement. Almost everyone in that 100m final in Seoul was eventually connected to doping. https://www.youtube.com/
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by noarchy 10y ago
Getting by as a tech worker in Canada is possible. The way I made it work was to take remote roles. Don't live in the Vancouver or Toronto areas, if possible - that's just not going to work, given the out-of-control cost of living
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>Governments will always wage war on law abiding citizens, taking away freedoms in exchange for securities until the citizens are secure but no longer free. And even then, such a notion of "security" might seem dubious to those
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>Then the government should either directly employ people or else provide them with an income, or some combination of these. It is interesting to see that, in the early 21st century, communism is becoming palatable again. Could this be d

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