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by pasbesoin 8y ago
This is akin to what I was thinking, in response to the grandparent's "This means what?" In California and like places, does it get you into the car pool / hybrid/ electric / bus lane? Is that part of why they
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
Does anyone at Apple pay attention to how these things are used, in practice? If you have kids -- for many, even if not -- they will end up being sat upon, even if they do not undergo being thrown around and other rough handling. Speaking
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
Among other things, this makes me suspect that there is no formal internal audit record/trail with regard to accessing these records. We are left trusting individual Amazon employees to do the right thing. Most will, anyway. But hand
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
I'm afraid to start mine up without re-capping it. But, I don't know much about that. Any relevant tips? With regard to OP, workaround for the "hug of death": https://web.archive.org/web/2018121917
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
While we continued to fight any and all terrorists in Afghanistan, the Chinese were moving in with mining and infrastructure proposals including new schools et al. (I don't know how real and undistorted the "schools" part has
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
Exactly. Corporate structures, governance, and regulation have been formulated to treat corporations as "persons". Well, that "person" lied. Regardless of the specific agency it employed in doing so. (And, this type of
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
Differential pricing, for one. Figure out when you can less/least delay, and bump pricing during that window. I didn't face individual analysis, but I just recently paid $50 more for something than I would have a week before, or
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
I remember when and after a friend twisted my arm to join, my reluctance in part due to having read how the young(er) Zuckerberg treated his nascent online property and his classmates. Well, I considered, perhaps people can improve. And, i
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
I was burgled some years ago. The officers who responded, when I got home and found this, were attentive. The detective subsequently assigned the case? Not much. Even though, in warning my neighbors, I discovered that there was then a r
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
This is Tim's personal blog, that he's been writing for well over a decade (that I recall). And since long before he joined Amazon. If it makes you feel better, he built his own blogging system, way back when. And sometimes, if
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
And this is where the rules/regulations become important for how many degrees of separation -- how many "hops"; see also the 'Kevin Bacon rule' -- they are permitted to pursue based upon the original source data. If
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
I look for alternatives, preferably open-source. I often find them. ("Often" being qualified by the number of apps I install, that isn't many compared to most people.) P.S. If you use such an app, and there's a route
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
I've been eyeing 7 cubic feet (IIRC) chest freezers, a number of which are around the $250 mark. I have a friend who's big-time into growing and harvesting locally, including as a part-time job. The trouble is to keep up with the
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
For those wondering "what", it's finally named in paragraphs 8 and 9, or 9 and 10, depending on how you count: Such is the story of the “three-napkins protocol,” more formally known as Border Gateway Protocol, or BGP. At its
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
I would be happy to see some Verizon executives land in the pokey, among other things. Unfortunately, one of them is on course to be the next Attorney General. Enough to give pause for a moment of thought.
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
U.S. perspective, writing this. I find this is an area where a "moral decision" is rather clear-cut. And it highlights the... "amorality", at best, of much of our relationship (whether speaking at the personal level or t
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
As I recall, not quite. + was an exact match. I believe it also precluded stemming; thus the ~ operator, when you wanted stemming (stemming: Not just "wonder", but also "wondering", "wondered", "wonderfu
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
Let me cough up this chestnut from the '90's: "Race to the bottom." Fortunately, that bottom is rising, on average. But "first world" systems have taken a lot of abuse, along the way. In my opinion, abuse that
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
You know what really kills a relationship? Distrust. Something our intelligence community has been fostering for... Well, what timeframe do I specify? But the past 15 - 20 years have brought something of a nadir. And the corporate world i
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
I lowered my desks so that I am sitting with my thighs horizontal (feet flat on the floor) and my forearms horizontal. I refuse to use keyboards that have palmrests that reach far enough to negatively impact my wrists. I also greatly prefe
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
I'm not finding the pages I remember -- a bit ironic, and I checked DuckDuckGo to see whether that might change any... bias. But, here are a couple of starting points: -- "6 common misconceptions when doing advanced Google Search
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
http://darthcrimson.org/digital-japanese-literature-aozora-b... https://github.com/aozorabunko/aozorabunko ~1.7 GB, as served as a zip file by Github.
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
I don't have the time and attention to reproduce the details now, but I want to say that the parent is not a glib answer. There are significant differences, where double quotes do not reproduce the plus operator's behavior and fa
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
Berners-Lee lost me when he supported EME. Basically, I view that as a coordinated infrastructure (the political component) that allows for a "universal" technological lockdown (the engineering component -- weaponized by the poli
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
I first had an Okidata. (Someone else's selection. I later picked up a used MX-80 -- or FX-80; I forget at the moment and don't feel like going to the basement cupboard to check.) It, too, could backspace. Mushing together char
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
A lot of that "cryptic charade" comes straight out of the UNIX environment. To those familiar with this, it was/is hardly "cryptic".
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
When someone follows you around constantly, lurking and observing your actions, that's called stalking. And it's illegal. We are to the point where commercial entities and governments are full-on stalkers. And that should be ill
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
Take the time to get one or more really, really good references to true, professional investment management services. (Not showy and "expensive", but good -- not "cheap", either, but real value for the real money you
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
I'm not advocating for them, either. But, you make a good point. Here, I'm saying I'm off the Google IM merry-go-round. I'm not turning to the Facebook family for a replacement. I've been backing away from them, a
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by pasbesoin 8y ago
You do realize, Google, that most of us are simply not listening to you any more, on this topic? Personally, you've burned me too many times, in this domain. I won't be looking at your products, going forward. (My last phone came

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