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   by pandemi 8y ago

   Using = for equality checking in SQL doesn't help with the occasional mistakes...
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   by pandemi 9y ago

   Many controversial Wikipedia articles are already protected in some ways. This is nothing new.
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   by pandemi 9y ago

   How do you hire programmers like that?
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   by pandemi 9y ago

   Zoning would help primarily in the highest-cost areas. The blog post doesn't specify it, but the problem is mainly in a few major metropolitan areas, not country-wide.
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   by pandemi 9y ago

   Voting has the possibility of changing zoning laws. For some reason it's just not happening. If these few areas in California and North-East had similar density to cities in other countries it would help a lot.
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   by pandemi 9y ago

   In the Nordic countries we have 2 factor authentication with your bank used as means of authentication. See for example BankId in Sweden. Tools like this reduce the use of SSN to a username instead of a password like it should be.
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   by pandemi 9y ago

   The main use case for rebase for me is to add automatic rebases on pull to the git config. Normally if you pull from the remote and have local commits not in the remote, you'll have an "extra" merge. Automatic rebase on pull
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   by pandemi 9y ago

   µtorrent 1.7, the newer releases became bloated with bullshit and have been too lazy to set up a new torrent client.
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   by pandemi 9y ago

   Practically nothing. Things that feel wrong will happen no matter what you do in all countries. The best option is just to live with the fact.