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by patmcc 5y ago
If you're writing code that controls radiation therapy machines or trains or autoclaves or something, yah, maybe there should be some regulation and potential jail time for negligence. But 95% of all software written ( especially if i
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by patmcc 5y ago
I was thinking more of the 'typical' (western) HN audience and gp (ISL) specifically - but absolutely agreed, this advice does not work nearly as well in all places.
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by patmcc 5y ago
One worker quitting has zero effect. Many workers quitting can change an industry.
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by patmcc 5y ago
What law would this possibly break? You think a Netflix employee can't sign up for Disney Plus on their personal account?
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by patmcc 5y ago
Is it actually confusing anyone? If I search for Pepsi and some of the ads are for Coke or Dr Pepper, that seems fine to me. If it's counterfeit Pepsi or something that's clearly a different case, but if someone searches "eba
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by patmcc 5y ago
I enjoy Factorio, I think it's a lovely game, and I'd be happy to support the creators for that alone. But what really sets them apart is these regular Friday blog posts - being willing to include the community in what's happ
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by patmcc 5y ago
For plants it's exactly the opposite, actually. An annual completes its life cycle fully in a year - germination to death. Perennials come back year after year.
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by patmcc 5y ago
It could easily mean "we will bill you monthly 12 times, for one year, and then stop billing you". It's not immediately clear that it means "we will bill you monthly forever, if you cancel within a year you owe us big mo
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by patmcc 5y ago
It's easy to be the ten-thousandth, it's hard to be the first.
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by patmcc 5y ago
Even with perfect space bombardment, USA/Russia/China/UK all have SLBMs waiting on submarines all around the world. No first strike could be sufficient.
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by patmcc 5y ago
I've met exactly one dentist not actively at a dentistry office. She's a burlesque performer and it's her secret life, none of the other dentists (or patients) must ever find out. So this tracks.
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by patmcc 5y ago
The way he describes it implies a speed-of-light violation! He's setting up a scenario where he can transfer information (by ON/OFF of a light) at 1/c. That's the controversy. It's great that he found a fun way to e
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by patmcc 5y ago
I think there's a scale issue here - if they email an entity that the CCPA actually applies to (for profit, >$25mil revenue, etc.) then it's likely going to a customer service rep who has a policy to follow and doesn't hav
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by patmcc 5y ago
I think you're reading more into my comment then is there. I didn't say anything about forcing progressive exercise or GET, CBT may not be widely effective but there are other forms of talk therapy not mentioned in your links, and
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by patmcc 5y ago
So sorry to hear about your dad and your symptoms, that sounds very tough. I'm very glad to hear you're feeling closer to your "normal" self, I hope that continues. Anxiety/stress/panic attacks are no joke. I t
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by patmcc 5y ago
I would say that "dismissing" something as psychosomatic is the type of "oh it's all in your head" bullshit that, yes, has happened far too much in the history of ailments like CFS (and still happens today, I'm
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by patmcc 5y ago
People are incredibly reluctant to believe that ailments might actually be partly or mainly psychological. Chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, chronic lyme disease, back pain, are all things that sincere people truly are suffering from...that ma
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by patmcc 5y ago
Bacteria, fungi
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by patmcc 5y ago
It's a massive benefit. There's a couple parts to it, but a huge thing is you need to remember is there's effectively zero marginal cost to the ISP/cell carrier for the next customer - it's nearly all fixed costs. I
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Lowtax, Creator of Something Awful, Has Passed Away(old.reddit.com)
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by patmcc 5y ago
Guards/security in Walgreens and Target carry firearms? Really? That boggles my mind (Canadian).
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by patmcc 5y ago
A common service offered (I think required to be offered, actually) by telephone service providers is "number porting" - where you switch providers but keep the same number, because people don't like changing phone numbers mo
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by patmcc 5y ago
>>>Do you really think that businesses are going to jeopardize the workflows of their $250k/year assets over a very core piece of software for $250/year? Hahahahaha, yes, absolutely. Because if the wrong VP gets this in h
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by patmcc 5y ago
I'm in Canada (BC) and have always had a dynamic IP, across ~4 different ISPs in the last several years. I think that's typical, we have a pretty good number of allocated IP addresses per person.
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by patmcc 5y ago
It's both, of course - the app stores empower developers, OnlyFans empowers sex workers, both take advantage of a small subset of consumers. Just like there are whales playing Genshin Impact, with a whole lot of people paying nothing&#
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by patmcc 5y ago
This is actually a great idea, and I don't think I've ever seen it before. Especially email, I think that's super reasonable. Thanks!
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One way to catch child molesters would be to have everyone wear a body cam at all times. Would that be dystopian enough for you?
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by patmcc 5y ago
>>>If a company is found to allow criminals to store CSAM on their servers I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that AWS, GCP, Azure, et al. have terabytes of CSAM stored within their data centers - because users have uploaded encrypt
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by patmcc 5y ago
>>>In a legal context where detecting CSAM is a strong requirement, what’s preferable to this approach? It's not a strong requirement though? Only if the company sees it (unencrypted) do they need to report it, detecting it on
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by patmcc 5y ago
>>I just have to wonder who green-lit this idea to begin with. I suspect, with no inside knowledge, that there's someone high up in Apple who feels very, very passionately about child abuse/these sorts of images due to som

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