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by pharrlax 9y ago
Sure, but Mexican restaurants' salsa and chips isn't a separate industry. Offering free chips with dinner isn't an attempt to price people out of buying Tostitos at the grocery store. It's one thing when you offer a subs
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by pharrlax 9y ago
Employee of an AWS customer here hosted primarily on us-east-1. We've had a box get water damage after a big storm. Also, I once met someone who works at the datacenter. He said it's crazy hot inside. They apparently only cool the
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by pharrlax 9y ago
That's about when the LSD started kicking in.
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by pharrlax 9y ago
Small aside: local minimum. Minima is plural (like datum/data).
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by pharrlax 9y ago
On the flip side, even if fixing motorcycles is what you love to do as a hobby, doing it for forty years professionally might be soul-killing and might not pay well.
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by pharrlax 9y ago
You know what would be even better? An electronic billboard, where the private sexual fetishes of 1 random constituent are publicly displayed, next to their name. A new unlucky constituent is randomly chosen and displayed every day. At the
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by pharrlax 9y ago
It's Gawker. Crass is their whole shtick.
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by pharrlax 9y ago
In my experience it requires sacrificing "some level of attractiveness to the other gender due to stable life" by investing an enormous amount of your free time.
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by pharrlax 9y ago
Technically, producing excess heat is the only thing we ever do
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by pharrlax 9y ago
What's stunning to me is seeing Ajit Pai and conservative interest groups citing the FCC's investigation into ISPs subsidizing certain types of data (a.k.a. zero-rating) as an innovation that burdensome regulation was inhibiting.
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by pharrlax 9y ago
Wider adoption of cryptocurrency doesn't seem to be a foregone conclusion the way self-driving cars are.
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by pharrlax 9y ago
>The automation shift is not the same, because it will take over all the unskilled/low-skilled jobs, and there will be nowhere in the economy for the displaced people to move into. It is not really conceivable that all these people
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by pharrlax 9y ago
I'm increasingly convinced everyone is going to continue not to care, and then suddenly a 9/11-scale (or greater) event will occur, and it'll be 2002 all over again -- wild overreaction driven by hysteria.
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by pharrlax 9y ago
>If you run multiple tabs per process to keep memory usage and Xvfb instances limited then you won't be able to have separate browsing sessions, e.g. two concurrent navigations to the same origin could interfere with each other (coo
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by pharrlax 9y ago
Okay, sure, so they aren't effective at "strengthening muscles or reducing injury", as Vibram claimed. Those aren't the benefits at issue here, though.
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by pharrlax 9y ago
>what would happen if airlines sold their seats at a fixed price and let customers resell them? Buying airline tickets involves multiple checks to minimize the possibility of the buyer blowing up the plane, and resale on the secondary ma
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by pharrlax 9y ago
He is literally doing a whistlestop tour around America right now, replete with bizarrely folksy essays laced with nakedly political rhetoric. Not so much a rumor as an impression he appears to be intentionally cultivating
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by pharrlax 9y ago
The problem is that when browsers interpret features as "polite suggestions", what tends to happen is either A) Developers hack their way around to the result they want anyway, or B) Users of that browser lose a chunk of the exper
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by pharrlax 9y ago
Or "Any sufficiently understood tech buzzword becomes distinguishable as an incremental improvement on preexisting tech"
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by pharrlax 9y ago
>This paragraph is awful from a purely grammatical perspective. Poor grammar doesn't necessarily mean poor writing. See: Cormac McCarthy
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by pharrlax 9y ago
>I assure you nobody wants to make you feel unwelcome. In fact we are happy to have you here. Steve Bannon has explicitly said otherwise, and it's safe to assume he and the President share many of the same opinions, so I would not b
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by pharrlax 9y ago
That would make for an interesting A/B test.
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by pharrlax 9y ago
"Want" is a tricky word here because you're conflating the micro and macro wants of people. On a micro level, surveys show most people are extremely anti-free speech. Individuals are broadly onboard with the extreme and and a
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by pharrlax 9y ago
Seems like it would be much easier to convince browsers to make punycode in the browser bar opt-in than to convince every registrar to stop selling certain punycode domains. For starters, who draws the line on which characters are unsafe?
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by pharrlax 9y ago
Overlooked in this article and comments is the influence of one man -- Grover Norquist. He runs an extremely influential organization that administers a sort of purity pledge that, for most Republican candidates for Congress, is necessary t
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by pharrlax 9y ago
That statement contains a ton of passive voice. Here's the active voice version, for contrast: "We needed to contact Chicago Aviation Officers to help because the passenger unfortunately compounded the situation by refusing to dep
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by pharrlax 9y ago
It switched to Electron under the hood a while back.
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by pharrlax 9y ago
Tried all of these and haven't found any as good as http://www.nightmarejs.org/
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by pharrlax 9y ago
Happens too often. And the media is more than happy to boost the hysterics. Case in point: Child commits suicide. Parents seize on admission that he smoked salvia in his diary. Parents become convinced Salvia Killed Their Son, launch crusad
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by pharrlax 9y ago
>IH was apparently very big on financial transparency, yet the principles are being decidedly opaque about financials in this thread. Financial transparency about profit from a bootstrapped startup is a different from financial transpare

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