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by nybble41 4y ago
> you're looking at 75% of the country voting for Democrats A constitutional amendment ought to have support from more than one party, not just Democrats. You might be able to get that if you took a more oblique approach, for exampl
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by nybble41 4y ago
It has automatic reconnect: "-o reconnect". You'll need to use key-based authentication with an SSH agent, since it won't be able to prompt you for the password while running in the background.
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by nybble41 4y ago
> Employees can get another job, investors can diversify and manage their portfolio better... Employees can get another job after the fact. Their skills and experience are mostly transferable. I'm not saying it isn't disruptive
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by nybble41 4y ago
Don't forget how much higher screen resolutions are these days. Color depth also. Those 8 MiB systems were driving single-buffered displays with perhaps 800x600 resolution at eight bits per pixel, with a color palette and dithering, wh
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by nybble41 4y ago
> Investors who do not get more returns in the companies compared to a debt instrument will take their investments to companies which can offer better returns…. Of course, but to do that you first have to find another investor willing to
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by nybble41 4y ago
> Imprisoning people should be expensive so that it is used judiciously as a punishment. It shouldn't be used as a punishment at all. It makes sense only in cases where a convicted criminal represents a serious threat to other membe
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by nybble41 4y ago
> Note that the dot-com bubble lost about $1.7T … … in 2000. That would be $2.85T today, going by the official CPI inflation calculator.[0] [0] https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=1.7&year1=2000...
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by nybble41 4y ago
When the final record should have either Yes or No, but the there is an intermediate state where the answer could be missing, you want something like a Maybe<Bool> which you can map to a simple Bool as part of validation. Ideally you&
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by nybble41 4y ago
> Wayland uses the MacOS approach. It allows the program to provide increased resolution buffers at integral scales. This forces fractional scales into framebuffer scaling. There is work underway[0] to implement a protocol (wp-fractional
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by nybble41 4y ago
Those so-called "representatives" created the problem in the first place by restricting the supply with drug patents, FDA regulations, import restrictions, and limitations on the number of new doctors and medical facilities, and n
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by nybble41 4y ago
That's assuming that the issuer, mediator, and destination are all distinct entities who don't communicate with each other except as described in the protocol. If they are the same entity, or they collaborate, all those nice priva
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by nybble41 4y ago
> I doubt anyone is saying that this is bad if you're using a web app for financial transactions like buying tickets. I for one am certainly saying that this is bad if it means that you need approval from one of Apple, Google, or Mi
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by nybble41 4y ago
> Prefix translation has the potential to be stateless which is nice for resource management on the translation element, though. It really messes with protocols where you need to tell another host how to contact you, though, since you do
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by nybble41 4y ago
Where do you think it's gone? Complain about the wealthy all you want–their personal consumption of goods and services isn't that much higher than the average.
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by nybble41 4y ago
> In the real world a company making losses cuts down on employees, wages, increases working hours for same pay… All of that only affects future earnings. The employees' wealth (savings) is not tied up in the success of the company—
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by nybble41 4y ago
> There's a definable "margin" there, too, but I wouldn't know where to look to find out what. Not enough of one to make becoming a landlord a guaranteed way to earn an easy profit, or everyone would do it. Lack of st
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by nybble41 4y ago
> … just because something is open source does not necessarily mean that it will stay alive in the way you describe it - especially redesign or new features. True, being open source doesn't guarantee that the app will be maintaine
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by nybble41 4y ago
> In quite a lot of cultural traditions, the point of marriage is supposed to be that it is significantly different and you won't break up due to poor fit. Which is not to say that you can't end up with a poor fit anyway. You&#
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by nybble41 4y ago
I'm not sure incompetence on the part of the ISP really translates into a need for NAT. It's a useful workaround, to be sure, but what you need here is an ISP that handles IPv6 prefixes properly. There is no reason for the pre
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by nybble41 4y ago
Elsewhere they mentioned that there are exceptions for "popular" SSO systems, but I have a hard time imagining any exception that would allow a shared login for Facebook comments while blocking Facebook tracking across sites. Thes
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by nybble41 4y ago
> Total Cookie Protection is going to put cookies that only Facebook can see in a different jar for each separate site you visit, making it so that Facebook can’t read it’s own cookies across different sites. Won't this break some b
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by nybble41 4y ago
It makes a difference who is doing the coercing, though. Is it the person offering a solution (employment), or the universe in general for imposing scarcity? You may be "coerced" into working by the general human condition of ne
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by nybble41 4y ago
> That said, open source have this edge that if it's just too obsolete for the dependencies, you can hope someone would patch it if it's popular enough. It would be harder to patch a proprietary app. IMHO this understates the d
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by nybble41 4y ago
The "clickbait" headline is merely stating the law. Article R4228-19: "Il est interdit de laisser les travailleurs prendre leur repas dans les locaux affectés au travail."[0] Google translates this as "It is forbidd
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by nybble41 4y ago
It's not clickbait. You may be able to skip lunch altogether but you can't eat it at your desk: > Until now, any company allowing employees to eat lunch at their desks was subject to a fine if discovered by the inspectors who e
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by nybble41 4y ago
Unfortunately apps can refuse to run if you don't grant them the permissions they requested. A better system than simply allowing or denying the request would be to sandbox the app so that it appears to receive the permission but doe
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by nybble41 4y ago
That sort of thing should be called out in (1-star) reviews. The Samsung Gear app is like that, for example. You need it if you want to tweak the settings for their Galaxy Buds headset (the ambient sound level, for example), but on first st
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by nybble41 4y ago
Fully agreed. What's worse, even if you painstakingly go through all your apps and disable this anti-feature—since there no global setting—it just gets turned back on the next time the app is updated. Putting aside the abysmal UX, auto
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by nybble41 4y ago
> The app needs the geolocation permission to access the bluetooth radio and scan for devices. Sure, but why does the app need to be able to scan for any and all Bluetooth devices? There should be an entry in the manifest describing th
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by nybble41 4y ago
The US Constitution gave Congress the power—but not the obligation–to enact copyright laws in pursuit of certain social goals. A mistake, IMHO, but it was certainly mentioned as something Congress could do at its discretion. And then the Fi

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