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by noxToken 7y ago
Understood, but: So, when one train operator asked for a photocopy of a passport, he convinced it instead to accept a postmarked envelope addressed to the "victim". A postmarked envelope? This is baffling to me.
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by noxToken 7y ago
Just a heads up, there is a NSFW medical image from a 19th century textbook about lesions caused from arsenic that includes an image of a scrotum and the shaft of a penis.
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by noxToken 7y ago
> The "masses" go consume what they are told to. The (n)th remake of some series is about to come up, the marketing ramps up, adverts, product placement, discussions, reviews, interviews. It all drives demand. > Do you rea
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by noxToken 7y ago
Tell me if I get this correct: Alice visit a site and gets the hash 1234. The analytics data is stored and associated with hash 1234, but soon after, hash 1234 is removed. However the aggregate visitor analytic that was associated with hash
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by noxToken 7y ago
I got into this exact argument a while ago. We have an informal, internal audit of our code base to highlight problem areas, trends, and note if something we're doing is problematic over time. Someone suggested a hard cap of 30 lines p
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by noxToken 7y ago
> Taking a topic, splitting into two teams and fighting it out with words until the victor remains is the exact opposite of what you want to do to reach any useful conclusion on any topic. I agree only if the debate's intention is
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by noxToken 7y ago
I guess I feel this way, because I feel a small bit of responsibility towards my neighbors. Renting out a place is not inherently a violation of a social contract. > Reality doesn't work like that. You drop the "potentially&qu
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by noxToken 7y ago
Or kids want to be kids. They want to do things that they like such as playing games, hanging out (podcast), or reviewing tech/games/fashion/beauty. They want to do them with people they like. They want to share the experienc
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by noxToken 7y ago
>This is one of the reasons I don't stay in airbnbs - the system breaks the social contract. But it doesn't. People are breaking the social contract by not respecting the area. If I invite friends from out of town over for the
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by noxToken 7y ago
I'm starting to notice a trend in PayPal fraud cases: a user has an issue with fraud. User contacts PP. PP's fraud department won't discuss the matter. PP does something oafish to lose a customer. The critical point seems to
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by noxToken 7y ago
I cannot for the life of me remember where I read this, but I heard that marketing is what labeled clover as bad. Clover was supposedly a fine plant to have in your yard. Herbicides couldn't (or was too expensive to) be formulated to k
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by noxToken 7y ago
What is the use case for this? If I download all of my data from Facebook, why would I want to upload it to another product or service elsewhere? If your killer feature is allowing me to browse my data with a user-friendly interface (instea
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by noxToken 7y ago
Sometimes it seems that HN and HN-like users like to argue for the sake of arguing. Everyone knows what unlimited means in the dictionary definition and in the marketing definition. Google was doing users a solid with the quasi-unlimited st
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by noxToken 7y ago
Part of the fallout from fraud isn't being afraid of losing money. Banks and credit unions are generally on your side when it comes to disputing fraudulent charges. The hassle is getting it all sorted out - verifying identity with some
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by noxToken 7y ago
>It is getting increasingly difficult to guage what's native advertisment and what's not. It is not just social media or e-commerce websites but the enthusiast blogs, review sites, and YouTube channels doing sutble paid pieces.
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by noxToken 7y ago
I needed ballistic glasses for the range that have some shatter resistance. I misplaced a spare set, and needed them sooner than later for a friend. I start looking on Amazon. One of the top results at the time for Z87+[0] was a pack of 3 o
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by noxToken 7y ago
>I wonder if burnout isn't the result of your brain associating work with failure Failure is definitely not a requirement. I was very successful in my last career. I was working 60 hours at the bare minimum with non-stressful things
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by noxToken 7y ago
In terms of "correctness", the 2nd /r/ should always be there. There are so many flavors of English in the US with minor differences. Much like England, you can head 30 miles in a different direction, and you might find
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by noxToken 7y ago
US dialects have a big impact on the second "r". I'm not a linguist, and I'm terrible with the terminology. The proper pronunciation is to sound both /r/ in the same manner. Southern dialects probably won'
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by noxToken 7y ago
>Sure, you might catch the themes and be able to have a water cooler conversation, but the best books are the ones that aren't page turners; ones that you spend all night on, and only make it through 20 pages. Going to have to disag
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by noxToken 7y ago
>I participated in similar communities and would kindly disagree with you. >The ones who raise this point 99% of the time _are_ up to no good. In my experience, comments like GPs are working on the idealized assumption that sites&#x2F
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by noxToken 7y ago
> Agreed that they should show an interest before you embark on this. Finding joy in general education is more important than job skills for that age. Thank you for including this in your comment. So many people are trying to force prog
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by noxToken 7y ago
Or low total bandwidth. A personal blog not expecting a lot of traffic may only have puddle of transfer bandwidth per month. Depending on the content of the post, that can max out a cap rather quickly.
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by noxToken 7y ago
Don't forget the unknown unknowns. There's always cost-benefit analysis (no matter how flawed) done by people who decide to enlist. But you can't account for leaders blatantly lying to you about what is and isn't safe: a
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by noxToken 7y ago
In terms of productivity, I'm probably like the average person. I probably do better with dark-on-light. I do know with certainty that light is much more comfortable if it's not fff white. A light grey or a light beige (f6f6ef) is
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by noxToken 7y ago
It would depend on what is included in the data and what other data is available for reference. You can have medical data that tracks all of the symptoms reported by a patient without prompt ("What brings you in?"), symptoms repor
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by noxToken 7y ago
The true test is if the anonymized data can be filtered and cross-referenced in a way to still link back to people[0]. [0]: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-privacy/anonymous-...
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by noxToken 7y ago
Like the sibling comment, I think it all should depend on the roles of the people as well. You need strict access controls in place to ensure that access rights are well defined such as no/read-only access for certain data in certain e
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by noxToken 7y ago
Don't you still need a way to run Xcode to publish Apple applications? So you still need to pay the one-time fee for MacOS.
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by noxToken 7y ago
The headline feels so disingenuous just to garner clicks. First of all, this article is about San Francisco. SF is parodied within many groups for being exactly the way that it is. However, put that aside. Are the problems of SF cause by li

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