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by partialrecall 7y ago
Amazon employees have complained to Bezos about the state of Amazon's search. Bezos' response every time I've heard it is along the lines of "meh, I think our search is pretty good, quit your complaining." Maybe
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by partialrecall 7y ago
Sure, but will a lawsuit unpoison your kid? Unless Amazon is currently testing products for lead before recommending them, which somehow I doubt, then the potential of a lawsuit against Amazon isn't actually protecting your child.
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by partialrecall 7y ago
Presumably it was humans who signed off on the premise of Amazon's Choice in the first place. If Amazon is so careless with their brand in that case, as a consumer I'd feel like a sucker if I trusted there brand to mean much whe
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by partialrecall 7y ago
It reflects poorly on the brand in general. If I can't trust Amazon's Choice, how can I trust anything Amazon decides to put their name on?
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by partialrecall 7y ago
I'm not sure about Amazon Basics, but with Amazon's Choice products they're plainly not evaluating products before selecting them. LockpickingLawyer on youtube has done reviews on several Amazon's Choice locks and safe
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by partialrecall 7y ago
Exceptionally rare events. You may as well fear that somebody could put razor blades in apples and give them to kids. Opportunities to hurt other people are abundant but psychos who'd want to are not.
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by partialrecall 7y ago
You've never missed a call sent to your mobile phone?
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by partialrecall 7y ago
> "McD, KFC and Pizza Hut" Each of these have thousands of stores in China.
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by partialrecall 7y ago
My point is why would anybody other than a Captain Planet villain go through the effort of pumping several tons of mercury out of a historic site into a river just for shits and giggles? The environmental terrorism angle to this story is ju
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by partialrecall 7y ago
For each their own I suppose, but I think string->number looks nicer than either. Writing str instead of string is like writing ppl instead of people. Some people seem to prefer it ( https://hn.algolia.com/?q
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by partialrecall 7y ago
If you can say it in five words, why say it in five letters? That's the problem with a lot of old Unix/C stuff in particular. Consider atoi . If you're not already steeped in the arcane language of unix beards, how are
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by partialrecall 7y ago
Obviously a poorly designed API is inexcusable, but I don't think the verbosity of function or variable names is the cause of that.
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by partialrecall 7y ago
Meant as an edit: I don't think the problem with 17th century prose is density either. Rather, it's archaic vocabulary, idioms, and grammar. I've recently been reading through an anthology of English renaissance drama and
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by partialrecall 7y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by dense. If two symbols mean the same thing (both reference the same procedure) but one is longer than the other, then surely the longer one is less dense, no? In physics, density is a measure of mass &#
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by partialrecall 7y ago
This is the sort of license that effectively says "If you don't really give a damn about licenses, then you're allowed to use this. If you get pedantic about licenses, then you're not." Similar in principle to AG
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by partialrecall 7y ago
Then maybe for their next act of senseless mustache twirling villainry , they could put razor blades in Halloween candy.
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by partialrecall 7y ago
Personally I don't see the problem with code that's verbose in this manner. If the right names for things are chosen then the code written with those names will read like prose, which makes it pleasant for a programmer and app
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by partialrecall 7y ago
> " Is everyone supposed to imagine the same scenario he does?" I think it's fair to expect everybody to consider the possibility (and subsequently discount it for lack of credibility.)
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by partialrecall 7y ago
Maybe it depends on the country. I know Canada isn't in Europe, but as an American citizen I have casually wandered onto Canadian military bases before without any hassle. Sometimes they have guards at the gate that ask to see your
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by partialrecall 7y ago
> "It's not funny" Humor is subjective; a lot of people are laughing.
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by partialrecall 7y ago
Is there any reason to think that would go down any worse than the many traffic jams caused by that solar eclipse a few years ago? People encounter traffic and either turn around, or wait it out. I wager no more than a few thousand turn
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by partialrecall 7y ago
Fyre Festival also involved a significant amount of fraud. I don't think anybody is fraudulently claiming that Area 51 will offer luxury accommodations to visitors.
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by partialrecall 7y ago
[Response to a deleted (but fairly reasonable) comment asserting the NYTs is no longer the newspaper of record.] Was there ever one then? And if not, then what did the term ever mean? Before you answer, please consider the case of Walter
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by partialrecall 7y ago
If the NYTs is no longer America's newspaper of record (in fact it was the first newspaper that term was ever applied to, anywhere), I struggle to think of what is. The other newspaper commonly cited as a newspaper of record in Ameri
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by partialrecall 7y ago
> "The complexity of history in a country of such size and diversity means that everything we do now has roots in many, many things that came before us. You could say the same thing about the English common law, for example, or the
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by partialrecall 7y ago
Stallman has never limited his "well technically..." outbursts to topics of sex/rape. He seems to do it with any topic without discretion. A couple of days ago I attended a talk he gave at the Seattle Public Library and h
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by partialrecall 7y ago
Leaves and pollen too (if you ever park your car under an oak tree.) https://0x0.st/zyS9.jpg
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by partialrecall 7y ago
Their claim of low rolling resistance is surprising to me, since all the non-pneumatic designs similar to that I've seen before had abysmal rolling resistance. It seems their prototype is still in development, so maybe that claim rep
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by partialrecall 7y ago
Perhaps also worth mentioning, some of the Russian Separatist forces in Donbass have adopted a flag that looks strikingly similar to CSA flag. It could be that they did this because they see themselves as rebels and therefore a famous rebe
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by partialrecall 7y ago
No, I don't. I think the difference between a terrorist, rebel and revolutionary tends to be a matter of perspective. I was trying to keep my personal thoughts out of it, hence I generalized my comment to "rebel/revolutio

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