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by rhizome 5y ago
I feel like there is a body of literature waiting to be written about businesses refusing to take a hint in favor of user-hostile decisions. These things are conscious choices by the senders and they had several meetings about it.
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by rhizome 5y ago
As someone pointed out the other day on a somewhat unrelated topic, luxury cars don't have touchscreens or Tesla TVs. They are bad for driving. Dangerous, even.
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by rhizome 5y ago
Its location is a bit more obscure, but I think there's a much simpler list of privacy practices to follow: whatever Mark Zuckerberg does. Anything he does to protect himself in the data realm is what we should be doing. Yes, I know th
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by rhizome 5y ago
> Frankly HN will be (marginally) better if someone erased every comment of mine in any thread that mentions Trump. Or you could do what I did: something unknown that resulted in years of being limited to about 4 replies a day.
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by rhizome 5y ago
LifeLock only advertises in media channels popular with the ignorant, vulnerable, and/or paranoid. People who don't know that story and definitely don't know better.
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by rhizome 5y ago
I'm gonna guess you've never been arrested, much less seen the inside of a jail cell. So it's not "just you," but you are expressing an existing stereotype of civic ignorance. Pot being illegal causes uncountable
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by rhizome 5y ago
And that's why this line of concern is worthless: SO already exists. GHD can refer to that all day long without having to reinvent the Library of Alexandria (which in hindsight could have used a backup, but still). Unless..."Pro
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by rhizome 5y ago
This is (part of) why I upvote anything even remotely helpful, explaining that some command switch does (or doesn't do) X, or syntax clarification, or even having the best formatted and/or written answer, asking a question I did
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by rhizome 5y ago
Almost certainly in large part due to "Stairway to Heaven" and "American Pie."
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by rhizome 5y ago
Content is personalized, people are tracked.
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by rhizome 5y ago
Hah, that probably explains all the age-disclaimers on dating sites. I had assumed it was just "login with Facebook" people not being allowed to change their birthdate by Facebook , but as it turns out that may have been unjust (
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by rhizome 5y ago
Who would you suggest get the title? Honest question.
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by rhizome 5y ago
> Odd that they aren’t more specific than saying she was arrested on “serious” drug charges Not the purpose of the sentence. When the police make a mistake, they have to save face by finding a justification, even if it's a vaguely
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by rhizome 5y ago
I'm sure fart spray wouldn't keep you from being charged under any number of booby-trap laws.
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by rhizome 5y ago
Record the device being smashed to pieces, then post it on YouTube (from 9000 proxies).
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by rhizome 5y ago
> If they have not presented you with a warrant making clear they installed it, you don't know who installed the device. "Police say a lot of things and they're both trained and encouraged to lie in the execution of their
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by rhizome 5y ago
Can you name some companies that have died from a week's worth of developer shortfalls? Should probably restrict this to companies that had revenue and paid its employees.
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by rhizome 5y ago
I don't know, but I'm not sure that would be a bad thing.
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by rhizome 5y ago
Thousands. Once upon a time, the telecommunications companies who ran/run the internet had more open peering policies and it was possible to have a Mom & Pop ISP that connected to the major exchanges. They could offer web hosting a
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by rhizome 5y ago
Check out this previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23910215
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by rhizome 5y ago
I use (10mbps by now, I think) DSL exactly so I won't have to give the dickheads a penny. I do fine, websites themselves are much slower than my connection.
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by rhizome 5y ago
>* If there is 1 pipe/wire going into your house, and if the owner of that pipe/wire wants to extract as much out of you as they can, then you’re in the same position regardless of how big the owner of that pipe/wire is.*
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by rhizome 5y ago
Maybe the thing to do is what Slack did with IRC and slap a (better, as the case may be) GUI on rt or Trac.
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by rhizome 5y ago
Conway's Law seems relevant here, but I don't think I've seen (or seen the desire for) it to be used aspirationally, like "we need to become the kind of company that operates with these complex tool systems).
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by rhizome 5y ago
They (or whoever is transiting their lines) know the account number of the entity that pays for the line that the robocalls are originating from. If the phone company made it possible for end users to block numbers based on who is funding t
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by rhizome 5y ago
Shrink "at scale" until the company can handle the responsiblity. There's no inherent right to grow endlessly, and limits can be legislated if FAANG and their "best of the best" employees can't (or don't w
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by rhizome 5y ago
As of some years ago, Asterix, but I wouldn't be surprised if there's more specialized software nowadays.
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by rhizome 5y ago
The phone companies know, but they won't tell you without a court order.
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by rhizome 5y ago
Think bigger. There is cultural knowledge going back further than any particular political or economic system. China has seen those come and go within its own borders, too.
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by rhizome 5y ago
Hey, I'll bite: they are a thousands-year old country who has seen nations like the US and protectionist strategies like IP law come and go for centuries. They probably know what the US is going to do before the US knows what they&#x27

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