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by nulbyte 2y ago
> Yes, there are people who randomly click on one end of the scale or the other, but the assumption is that on average the portion of these people is stable. That assumption is predicated first on the idea that people can and will tell y
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by nulbyte 2y ago
I would go a step further: NPS is a garbage metric. First, you start by assuming your customers can even reasonably ascertain their likelihood to recommend. They can't; there are people who answer 10 but will never recommend, and there
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by nulbyte 2y ago
> many daily interactions happen with colleagues who are in a different location and/or timezone I don't work for JPMorgan, but I experience this every day. My boss is in another state. Fellow team members are in other states.
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by nulbyte 2y ago
Taking the most sensible meaning of renounce, the court in Micro Star v. Formgen opined exactly the opposite of what you claim: "It is well settled that rights gained under the Copyright Act may be abandoned." https://c
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by nulbyte 2y ago
Mozilla's privacy-leading track record includes making Google the default search engine, running opt-in-by-default privacy-violating experiments, such as the Mr Robot fiasco[1], and opt-in-by-default collaboration with advertisers[2].
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by nulbyte 2y ago
> I'm with a modern European bank though, I wouldn't be surprised if the mainframe-lowing US banks that do everything via overnight batch jobs are incapable of this. I wouldn't be surprised if your European bank still reli
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by nulbyte 2y ago
NAT didn't make remote attacks harder, the default inbound deny rule did. NAT is not the firewall itself, it's just one of the things the firewall can do. Telephone companies are also ISPs, and they are and continue to be quite in
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by nulbyte 2y ago
Arbitration clauses have been upheld regularly in the United States.
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by nulbyte 2y ago
> It’s expensive (for what it is)... I host my instance on an always free VM, don't put much work toward maintenence, and haven't had a problem with federation. Post migration is not really a thing from a shared instance, I don
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by nulbyte 2y ago
Not Excel, but LibreOffice Calc, here. It's just a biweekly budget, helps with making sure Ive acheduled my bills for the month and tracks savings. Toward the end of every year, I go through the ritual of preparing to move back to ledg
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by nulbyte 2y ago
Yes, the experience is the point. But the memory afterward can be just powerful. Visual and tactical stimuli can enhance the memory of the experience, long after it occurred.
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by nulbyte 2y ago
Time is very different from space. https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/time-yes-dimension-n...
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by nulbyte 2y ago
The Foundation has lots to do with Firefox; it literally owns the corporation that develops it. That said, agreed, I'm not sure what's left for the foundation to do without advocacy staff.
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by nulbyte 2y ago
> How do you think that the video content is going to be stored and served if not through paid infrastructure? Secondary doesn't mean nonexistent, it comes after the primary thing, content creation. When the Internet was younger, pe
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by nulbyte 2y ago
> One remark about this though: you always have recourse in court. We often hear the USA is incredibly litigious, but it's not like we'd not (threaten to) bring action against a merchant not acting honestly It is, however, like
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by nulbyte 2y ago
As an adult with a congenital heart defect and white coat hypertension, I can relate. Once, a nurse took my blood pressure and immediately freaked out as I was sitting calmly on the exam table. She took it again in the same arm, then hurrie
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by nulbyte 2y ago
You're right, of course, those shouldn't be our options. But that's just how it is. If you aren't willing to stop playing, the game will never end.
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by nulbyte 2y ago
I love Firefox's picture-in-picture mode for this exact reason. I think there is an extension for Chrome also.
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by nulbyte 2y ago
> Crowdfunding, fundraising, and other donation-soliciting activities Can anyone clarify what this actually means? Stripe offers a discount to nonprofits specifically for taking donations: https://support.stripe.com/quest
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by nulbyte 2y ago
If you think two different words having different meanings is difficult, wait 'til you hear about contranyms! English is full of words like these, where context is needed to understand the meaning. If something is fast, it moves quickl
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by nulbyte 2y ago
It's not even that much of a problem for me on mobile after zooming out just a tad. The green on black is really what makes this page for me.
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by nulbyte 2y ago
Ripping a page out of a book you own or slathering it in white out is not illegal, so I don't see why cutting a scene or overlaying a black bar or, for that matter, any other forms of editing would be illegal. The copy is yours. You ow
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by nulbyte 2y ago
There are separate flags for communications (like email) and storage (like files). https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4880#section-5.2.3....
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by nulbyte 2y ago
Not for email specifically, but there is a flag for encrypted communications and another for signing. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4880#section-5.2.3.... I believe separate keys for encryption and sign
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by nulbyte 2y ago
I stopped after claim 9 on the first patent linked. It had, up until that point, described: peer-to-peer routing, downloading data and programs, running downloaded programs using downloaded data, redirection, and variable length strings. Th
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by nulbyte 2y ago
> Given that, why would it make sense for a service to assume that publishing a key signals that they should use it by default for a given communication channel? Why else would one publish a key and make it discoverable, if not that it
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by nulbyte 2y ago
This is such a bizarre take to me. If you don't want people using your key to encrypt email to you, why are you uploading your key to a service designed to help people find it to encrypt email to you?
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by nulbyte 3y ago
I never thought of making a blog post a man page. That's pretty awesome, actually. I'd be interested to see the code for the underlying conversion, but maybe I'll just try my hand at it myself this weekend. Btw, in Bash, you
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by nulbyte 3y ago
> Instead of discussing how car theft is fundamentally an unethical behavior, the discussion is about preventing some thing from being sold or existing, whether that be insecure vehicles or Flipper Zeroes. There are already laws against
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by nulbyte 3y ago
It's exactly how risk works. The primary definition if risk is "possibility of suffering harm or loss; danger," according to The American Heritage Dictionary of English Language.

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