pwdisswordfish2

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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
Flexibilty would have been my first guess. Are there any other reasons besides flexibility?
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
Many sellers on Amazon have their own stores, be they brick and mortar and/or website. Amazon in these cases is just a middleman processing sales that the third parties are already capable of making themselves. They simply lack the w
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
Your assumption is that Amazon, the middleman, must exist. If Best Buy, a brick and mortar, were anything like Amazon, they would be under investigation as well. Nonsense comparison.
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
Would the same principle apply to a tech company "privacy policy"? "We can't guarantee that policy has never been violated." Perhaps there is a way to make this guarantee: Do not collect the data to begin with.
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
This article is rather vacuous. At least he should link to the testimony. However, check out this one by the same author: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ep4mx4/yale-antitrust-sch...
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
Why is the Debian-derived system non-booting? Many years ago I had disk error problem and could not boot. I tried a popular, Linux-based "system rescue" CD and it could not boot without accessing the disk. I tried my own "l
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
You forgot the key word: modern. %s/software/modern &/g In 2020, you are an "engineer" writing "modern" software. Don't forget the "updates"!
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
The point is not to "escape" complexity, but to manage it. Of course, these type of "I hate the word simple" comments are always besides the point. They could be the whines of frustrated, incompetent programmers who con
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
It’s almost as if making something ‘simple’ and ‘lightweight’ doesn’t let you escape the complexity of the real world in which you have to use it.
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
"If this body is concerned with what we are doing with the laws, it should change those laws based on the best interests of this country and its people;" "however, this body should also note that Amazon will seek to exert con
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
Is this a valid reason for not using Go? I am a holdout. (Not suggesting I am "smarter" than Go users, but I can forsee issues with Go being controlled by Google.)
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
This is a very typical response on HN in response to articles/blog posts about issues raised by the Google business. When these sort of comments rise to the top of HN threads, I am at a loss how to interpret the meaning. 1. Does it mea
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
Seems easy enough. What are your requirements exactly? The bookmark would have to be stored somewhere. Some options in order of complexity: 1. In the URL, eg. “example.com/#line1234” 2. In the user’s browser (cookie, local storage) 3.
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
I mean, they’ve already had “Sandy Bridge”, literally in English. That’s not much better…
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
Indeed, I do not mean to suggest that shared computing is necessarily a net negative. Sharing a remotely accessible computer among trusted friends/family has always been an interesting idea to me because it would allow such easy commu
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
There are a number of companies focused on making masks in the US. Anyone know the current sales figures? Unless I am mistaken, NZ did not ask (=require) the general public to wear masks because the NZ government was primarily following in
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
He is no Adam Curtis and HN readers probably dislike him^1, but Ken Loach's most recent film (2019) is about delivery services and the "gig economy". It is called "Sorry We Missed You". 1. His last film in 2016 won
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
"Why does FB even have employee medical information and personal finanacial records?" You are assuming that they have this information. However their argument is that the search terms "could" retrieve such documents. T
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
Would you store the personal data in "the cloud" (i.e., remotely accessible shared computer)
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
Thanks for posting this! I’ve been enjoing short stories more than I thought after picking up Men Without Women recently. They make for very nice lunchtime reading :D I also appreciate that the list is full of classics. I quite like the fee
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
There is an even easier analysis. If you were designing your own headphones just for your own use, would you have them collect personal data? If your answer is no, then choosing headphones that do not collect data is a logical choice. The
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
Yeah, that’s what I had looked up as well. Pretty interesting. I don’t think I’ve come across an etymology that went from Gothic to Latin to English, but I’m hardly an expert.
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
>Listen, we're not the US Postal Service Just forward the letters, man! How hard can it be? I bet they’re looking into every one of them anyway… It’s kind of funny because in many languages the word for ambassador literally derives
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
As a links user, I think this is feasible without any help from BBC.
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
Attention: We have a hostage situation. Might be a world record.
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
Quick, someone make a political compass meme out of this!
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
How would that work? For example, I can access the bbc.co.uk from the command line, retreiving text-only versions of the articles.
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
The author is obviously not paraphrasing the arguments IA's lawyers will make. See links below for what IA will argue. https://controlleddigitallending.org/ https://controlleddigitallending.org/stateme
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
One of the canned responses we have observed Zuckerberg make to the media in response has been something along the lines of "Facebook gives people who would not otherwise have a voice a chance to be heard" (words are mine, not the
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by pwdisswordfish2 6y ago
We are heading toward a future where work is less "work" and presumably people will have to be compensated on some other basis besides "working hard". That is one premise in the film version of Piketty's Capital in

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