pharrlax

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by pharrlax 10y ago
>If the content you write has inherent value, why not host it yourself? Well for one thing, "inherent value" is never what attracts readers/buyers/whoever, marketing is. So putting your content on a platform that make
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by pharrlax 10y ago
>criminally associated with unlawful behaviour This is a crime? If a prostitute brings a john back to a hotel room, the police can arrest the hotel owner?
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by pharrlax 10y ago
>All of the links have abbreviated names to fit more on the bar. I started deleting the names entirely and it was life-changing. Text wastes so much space on the bar and you can memorize the favicons very quickly.
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by pharrlax 10y ago
I'm guessing you're not a high school principal.
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by pharrlax 10y ago
>Or do you think there's something special about this particular product that makes it different than every other good or service in the economy? The difference is that we have drawn a line beyond which that company cannot operate b
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by pharrlax 10y ago
Yeah, but >To use your credit, simply purchase an eligible product from one of the following digital categories: Appstore, Kindle books, Digital Video, Digital Music, Digital Software, and Digital Video Games No physical goods.
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by pharrlax 10y ago
>It's fine with me if these people live like kings and the rest of us have enough resources and all the free time in the world to do whatever we want and not be encumbered by trivial work. One problem with this that springs to mind
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by pharrlax 10y ago
True, technically it's not "audiobook piracy", but I used that as shorthand for recording and distributing an audio version of a written book, which courts will surely find to be a form of piracy.
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by pharrlax 10y ago
Then couple the lowering of the retirement age with a lowering of the amount paid out in the early years of retirement, gradually plateauing down to a base UBI level for 40-somethings and increasing to plateau out to a social-security level
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by pharrlax 10y ago
The best evidence available currently (See: https://examine.com/supplements/fish-oil/ ) points to an optimal 1:1 ratio between omega-3 and omega-6 consumption. Since eggs and many other meats are richer in omega
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by pharrlax 10y ago
Audio book piracy is gonna skyrocket when you can generate a pleasant track from text.
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Propecia and Rogaine don't work if you're already bald. Just like cures for death.
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by pharrlax 10y ago
>Why is the situation so asymmetric? Why is job hunting such a "seller's market? Well the company can only accept 1 person for the position, whereas you are most likely willing to accept a position at a number of different comp
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by pharrlax 10y ago
>A better solution would be to just let more companies build roads in your town. That sounds great, except the roads have all been built. It's prohibitively expensive and risky to try to build out your own parallel set of infrastruc
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by pharrlax 10y ago
I wonder how you came to that conclusion. (I am not implying you did not come to that conclusion.)
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by pharrlax 10y ago
The best argument I've found for convincing conservatives is to stress that the internet is a platform for commerce, and healthy commerce requires equality of opportunity -- specifically, the opportunity for consumers to access your bu
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by pharrlax 10y ago
>It should be a market decision, not a national government decision. That's all well and good where competitive markets exist, but in many places, they simply don't. Only 23% of American census blocks, for example, have more th
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by pharrlax 10y ago
I'd rather live in the world we do now than gamble that the financial system would not have collapsed.
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by pharrlax 10y ago
>The progressive left especially has incredibly tight control of freedom of speech. Everything they don't like is called hate speech, all discussions are shut down, and PC terminology means that it doesn't matter what you say a
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by pharrlax 10y ago
>I've talked to a few U.S. citizens that worked abroad who said healthcare in European countries is universally available but the demand outstrips the supply causing longer wait times to get treated than in the U.S. and that they pr
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by pharrlax 10y ago
>Paypal prides itself on being the safest payment solution online Sure, and bottom-shelf plastic-bottle vodka says "PREMIUM QUALITY" on the label
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by pharrlax 10y ago
I don't see anything PayPal offers that Stripe can't do better. Why put yourself at risk of arbitrary catastrophe at the hands of a company like PayPal that wants to act like a bank while weaseling around the legal protections aga
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by pharrlax 10y ago
Depends how much you value code readability vs. minimizing markup
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by pharrlax 10y ago
If you're going to build a loading indicator, you may as well go for a skeleton UI rather than a spinner. It's better UX practice because it lowers perceived load times and is much less jarring to swap in and out. See: https:&#x2
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by pharrlax 10y ago
>This reads like a summary of what most are already doing. I can't shake the feeling some of these wisdoms could trendy things that are just part of the herd mentality that plagues UI design. This basically describes all of Babich&#
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by pharrlax 10y ago
Google found a way to crack an algorithm designed to ensure the uniqueness of documents, allowing them to be forged. Although it's expensive to do this, the price will fall, and it's a good idea to retreat to a different algorithm
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(3) is inviting abuse of due process
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They're looked down upon becayse they're associated with questionable "review" sites that are essentially grey-hat SEO-gaming schemes. I don't think this site qualifies though. There's nothing wrong with affili
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by pharrlax 10y ago
That's true. But in every case, someone else in the media points that out very quickly, and usually within hours the problem self-corrects. A great example is the Oval Office MLK bust. A reporter tweeted that it seemed to be missing an
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by pharrlax 10y ago
For some reason overflow-y: hidden is inlined onto the body element. Looks a botched attempt at a paywall. Easily disabled in devtools, though.

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