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by pzxc 11y ago
In theory, I love it. In practice, what's to stop the officer from confiscating and/or damaging/destroying your phone, before it has stopped recording and thus before it has sent anything at all to the ACLU? Worse, their faq
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by pzxc 11y ago
Every one of the 200,000 public employees working for the State of California gets paid once a month, on the 1st.
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by pzxc 11y ago
It's awesome but it has stagnated and slowly started to go downhill since Intuit (the Quicken/Turbotax company) bought it. First there were no updates for a long time, and recently they FINALLY started changing things a little bi
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by pzxc 11y ago
I grew up only having to be home by dark, too, but putting a label on what used to be normal but is being lost is actually a GOOD thing! It's not sad. It lets you track the concept's popularity, and makes for catchy slogans like &
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Adobe sues Forever 21 for pirating Photoshop(theverge.com)
11 points by pzxc 11y ago|4 comments
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by pzxc 12y ago
Aaron Swartz didn't have criminal intent. Look how that turned out. Even if he hadn't committed suicide, look at how that would have turned out. Intent speaks to motivation, which speaks to the internal workings of one's mi
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by pzxc 12y ago
The only way to transfer registrars is to pay the new registrar for an extra year, so that is a distinction without a difference.
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by pzxc 12y ago
Not to nitpick but the distinction is important: "at-will employment" is what means your employer can fire you at any time for any reason (or no reason), "right to work" refers to the idea that in some states unions can
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by pzxc 12y ago
On the other hand, the argument can be made that if we all rely on the supercomputers in our pockets to give us the historical facts we never bothered to memorize, then all the critical thinking in the world might not save us from being doo
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by pzxc 12y ago
> Don't give up. I hate to say it, but they guy was in the middle of negotiations, and could have probably worked out something significantly better than the 6-month deal he was offered (which really could have been far worse, in pr
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by pzxc 12y ago
Without getting too much into the politics of the Second Amendment, let me say that he seems like quite a character, he made me laugh, and I like him. A little sad to see Stripe being a stumblingblock for innovation in this case. But undoub
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by pzxc 12y ago
The author of the article certainly left that out. However, you yourself left out the fact that in a few states, including California, this is not true: employers are required to pay at least minimum wage, upfront, to all employees, includ
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by pzxc 12y ago
Why do programmers confuse Halloween and Christmas? Because 25 DEC == 31 OCT
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by pzxc 12y ago
Why do you say that? I think it's perfect for that situation, because Ting allows you to set alerts or even hard limits for going over certain usages. (hard limit can be anything, even zero) Ting will let you set your account so it is
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by pzxc 12y ago
You don't need an app. Just add a contact called "SPAM", and set it to go straight to voicemail. Then any spam numbers who call you, just add their number to your SPAM contact.
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by pzxc 12y ago
I was happily paying $120/mo for two phones to the "uncarrier" (T-Mobile) for the last 4 years or so, because I didn't even know what an MVNO is. I thought the Big 4 were my only options. I just switched to Ting last mo
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by pzxc 12y ago
(a) minimum karma for posting a Show HN, otherwise the keywords are automatically removed from your title (similar to downvoting priveleges) (b) keep track of the accounts who get their Show HNs removed for inappropriate use, and if it happ
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by pzxc 12y ago
Typo: FarmLogs is only tree years old A very punny one, though :)
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by pzxc 12y ago
No recompense necessary except to pay it forward -- sometime in the future, when you can help someone easily, do so and tell them to pay it forward also :)
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How Houston Gets Along Without Zoning Laws(businessweek.com)
44 points by pzxc 12y ago|46 comments
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by pzxc 12y ago
Your company (or competition) never tried this before. -> Your company (or competition) has never tried this before. We are the first in market. -> We are the first to market. But people spend less time on e-mail and more on Facebook
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by pzxc 12y ago
Your tone is sarcastic, but I'll try to explain again. I'm not suggesting only one child in the world is unvaccinated, that would be absurd. I'm suggesting that if the unvaccinated child never contracts the disease, then ther
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by pzxc 12y ago
Thanks for trying to explain, but I don't think you're right. I think the downvotes are a reflexive action for a lot of people. (I'm guilty of this, too. - Maybe we all should take a few more seconds before downvoting somethi
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by pzxc 12y ago
But how do you quantify it? How much harm is caused to herd immunity by 1 more child not getting vaccinated? What is the expected value of that -- the probability that the disease for which the vaccine is available actually occurs in such
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by pzxc 12y ago
Some people view their right to not vaccinate, not circumcise, have a home birth of their son and then home-school him, to be an essential religious freedom protected by the first amendment, no different than their right to be a conscientio
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by pzxc 12y ago
Actually, Geordi endows Professor Moriarty with super-intelligence, by mistakenly asking the holodeck/computer to create an adversary "capable of defeating Data" instead of "capable of defeating Holmes" as he intend
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by pzxc 12y ago
I'm getting a 404 Not Found Here's the google cache version for anyone else: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:SfJuFH...
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by pzxc 12y ago
I use both every day: Firefox for regular sites I visit and stuff I keep open a long time (because of Tree-Style Tabs) Chrome for my temporary / exploratory browsing (because when a website crashes it only takes out one tab instead of
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by pzxc 12y ago
If you're in a situation where you test the effects of patches before applying them, then if Microsoft releases the security patch early, YOU have the option to wait and apply it on the regular patch day along with any other patches in
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by pzxc 12y ago
Wow. I have a feeling this could be a game changer. I'm more than impressed... I'm stunned.

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