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by ponker 6y ago
No. Did they? No.
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by ponker 6y ago
It’s not even just books that don’t exist online... it’s books that you never hear of because you don’t bump into them in a bookstore. The books you learn about online are selected by mechanisms very different to those that you learn about
573.
by ponker 6y ago
All the great American agencies like FDA, FAA, USPS have been tarnished by politicization.
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by ponker 6y ago
Compared to the entire set of countries, the US government is extraordinarily high-functioning, and this was all created by mostly 60+ tech-illiterate men.
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by ponker 6y ago
If "No outside payment inside of apps" is illegal is it legal for Apple to heavily promote those apps that do pay in-app?
576.
by ponker 6y ago
Apple had this in a beta iOS and then removed it.
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by ponker 6y ago
Maybe those are so well known that errors would get easily noticed so they’d have to do a much more thorough job?
578.
by ponker 6y ago
That cost is by design. It’s important that I can reverse my Zappos order very easily if the shoes don’t fit, while it’s very hard for my employer to take back money they claim they overpaid me.
579.
by ponker 6y ago
A person can create their own Eureka myth. cf. eBay.
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by ponker 6y ago
There are more kinds of weird issues than a poorly spec’d CPU. Scratched traces, shorts caused by something touching something it’s not supposed to, etc.
581.
by ponker 6y ago
I didn’t know that the prebuilt market had gotten so competitive. Only a $400 premium to build, water cool, and warranty the damn thing? It’s a bargain.
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by ponker 6y ago
This has always been the dumbest Eureka myth because... Isaac Newton only noticed that shit falls downwards when an apple fell on his head?! If it was something that gave him some insight into the mechanism... like two differe tobjects fall
583.
by ponker 6y ago
Pretty presumptuous to assume that we are “uneducated” about blockchain to be dismissive of it, rather than being educated but simply believing that the conditions required for blockchain solutions to be better (for a given utility function
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by ponker 6y ago
On the contrary, for low-probability payouts like lotteries, doubling the reward more than doubles the number of people who play. Almost nobody would play a lottery that gives you a 1 in 50 chance of winning $5, but plenty of people play lo
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by ponker 6y ago
I’d bet 1:2 odds that this activist wasn’t the target and they’re just trying to get some low effort dope busts.
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by ponker 6y ago
I’m not even concerned with the substance of the analogy. I thought law at this level wouldn’t need such intellectual crutches.
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by ponker 6y ago
Bob slaps Steve in the face repeatedly. Steve stands with his hands by his side. Finally right as he starts to defend himself Jason sees him raising his arms and gasps “Steve! For shame! Do you want to be more like Bob?! Put your arms down
588.
by ponker 6y ago
I don’t think anyone will quit their job for it but it will influence the decision of “play flight simulator or hack on targets”
589.
by ponker 6y ago
Very surprised to see that trillion dollar lawyers addressing judges still use lazy analogies like “it’s just like shoplifting.”
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by ponker 6y ago
But if the bounties are 20x as high then surely it will draw more whitehats to the market. A security engineer who is working at Netflix or Visa making over $200k or whatever will not work late nights for a $10k bounty but he might for a $5
591.
by ponker 6y ago
I don't think it's wise to push for expansion of criminal liability of software bugs. Civil courts provide enough remedy here.
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by ponker 6y ago
By "due process" I don't mean "no process." It's unlikely that someone can "easily disprove" a 19-page federal criminal complaint, but an employer should certainly give an employee the opportunity to
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by ponker 6y ago
It has charm. Emoji reactions, animated GIFs, pleasant notification sounds, etc. Makes a big difference.
594.
by ponker 6y ago
An iPhone is just a phone. The Beatles are just a band. Michael Jordan is just a basketball player. I don’t get the excitement.
595.
by ponker 6y ago
This is an advantage of Microsoft Teams... the product is so utterly without charm that I doubt anyone is recreationally loitering in it.
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by ponker 6y ago
I do know that if I write a bigger-than-monthly-payment check to my bank they reduce the principal by that amount -- mortgage lenders are required by law to offer this prepayment option. I don't know if I called them up and said that I
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by ponker 6y ago
Cloudflare should apply due process in this case as in all other HR matters, but let's just be clear that the amount of process "due" for terminating an employee is vastly less than the process due for imprisoning an individu
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by ponker 6y ago
People can appear different to different people the same way that a person with multiple Reddit accounts can be entirely different personas on them. When we see accounts of someone that strongly conflict with our accounts of that person, ou
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by ponker 6y ago
All of this is stupid. For kids too young to distance learn, group them in fours or sixes and send them to one of the family’s houses to spend all day doing whatever the fuck they want. You’re not going to teach them math over Zoom.
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by ponker 6y ago
I don’t think distance learning should exist for kids under 12 or so. Pandemic has shut schools? Have them group into pods of 6 and go to a different family’s house every day and just play.

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