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by roganartu 8y ago
I find this absolutely fascinating when I compare it to my personal experience. It begs the question: how frequently does the average person Google something compared to power users? I consider myself to have above average googling skills,
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by roganartu 8y ago
I had to switch back to Spotify a while ago to give my wife access to the premium I was already paying for via the family plan because Google Play Music doesn't support family plans for gsuite accounts. If they addressed this issue I w
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by roganartu 8y ago
The coin counting machines in the US closed a couple of years ago due to a class action suit for chronic short-changing: https://www.bankrate.com/finance/banking/banks-expel-coin-co...
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by roganartu 8y ago
You appear to be conflating ethics and legality. It is perfectly legal (for now) for social media giants to spy on their US users in increasingly intrusive ways, but many would argue there are lines in there that cross into unethical. Perha
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by roganartu 8y ago
I had a similar experience after a week long camp where I only slept a couple of hours a night, if that. On returning home I went to sleep and distinctly recall waking up about an hour later, only to discover I'd actually been asleep f
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by roganartu 8y ago
This has been posted before, but a good digestible source for the information in this comment is this two-video podcast series: https://www.foundmyfitness.com/episodes/valter-longo The studies you mention results of (l
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by roganartu 8y ago
> Finally, Go doesn't do anything to prevent data races, which are the biggest problem facing concurrent code. It actually makes data races easier than in languages like C++, because it has no concept of const, even as a lint. Race
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by roganartu 8y ago
Counting paper votes is a solved problem, and nations that use entirely paper ballots don't have slow preliminary counts. Australia, for example, has a somewhat complicated preferential voting system and relies entirely on paper ballot
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by roganartu 8y ago
This is complicated by the fact that a struct method can have a pointer or a non-pointer receiver. They can't be mixed, but consider the following: type Foo struct {} type Bar interface { Baz() } You could
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by roganartu 8y ago
By "purely in the room" I imagine they meant within a closed system. By having a hose connecting your units to the outside world your room is no longer a closed system (ignoring things like drafts and imperfect insulation etc that
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by roganartu 8y ago
If we take the Equifax breach as an example here, and every person affected sued for even a very modest amount (say $10) and everyone wins their cases then we come to something like $1.5bn in damages, plus legal costs. Sure, that will proba
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by roganartu 8y ago
The SMS interception via social engineering of telecom support staff, as others have pointed out, seems most likely, but consider another approach: an app on the users phone with message read permissions. Most people are not diligent enough
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by roganartu 8y ago
You'll find that replacements for change of mind in Australia (and perhaps other countries with strong consumer protections) are less friendly. I have definitely noticed there are more stores in the US (especially big box retailers tha
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by roganartu 8y ago
The ACCC and strong consumer protection laws are something I didn't realise I took for granted until I moved to the US recently. I had a pair of pants develop a hole within a few weeks of purchase so I took them back to the store and i
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by roganartu 8y ago
I see what you're saying, but I think it's safe to say they were suggesting it is expensive to the individual if they get sick, not to their entire society. The two are very different problems. Yes, the burden of healthcare costs
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by roganartu 8y ago
> average rents in Brisbane/Sydney/Melbourne are about AUD$2600/month (~USD$1900) Melbourne and Sydney maybe, but Brisbane is drastically cheaper. When I was studying in Brisbane a few years ago my rent was in the ballpark
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by roganartu 8y ago
The reality is this is how you design highly available systems, and it is also imo one of the reasons microservices have gained so much popularity. Driving features with microservices makes it easier to isolate their failure and just fall b
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by roganartu 8y ago
No calories at all, just drink water when we're thirsty. I've found it has worked wonders for resetting my relationship with hunger; I feel I'm far less susceptible to boredom hunger in the few days immediately after the fast
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by roganartu 8y ago
Another approach that some people might prefer is a 24h once a week fast, which I've found much easier than 12-16h daily. I don't eat breakfast per se, just a protein shake but I found it difficult to cut out for a number of reaso
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by roganartu 8y ago
Until you realise that those who care the most often hold extreme views and are the most outspoken even when representing a relative minority. Deeply conservative fundamentalist Christians, anti-vaxxers, and climate change deniers are some
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by roganartu 8y ago
> So, yes, one party has made it a mission to suppress turnout; yes, Election Day is a work day, which makes it harder for working people to vote; etc. -- we can change all that, but first we have to work in the system as it is today. Th
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by roganartu 8y ago
Starting Strength and Stronglifts 5x5 are probably the two most popular. These programs are based on what's called beginner gains. You wills start with what will feel like a very light weight, but you increase it every workout until yo
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by roganartu 8y ago
Anecdotally, the process to get to Facebook for many members of my family is to Google "f" or "facebook". They know how to go directly there but for whatever reason prefer Googling it. I have heard the same from friends
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by roganartu 9y ago
Insurance doesn't mitigate damage, it amortizes it (typically across a group of entities). The expected average annual claims on an insurer's policies need to be lower than the sum of the premiums or the insurer loses money. This
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by roganartu 9y ago
The flakiness is a byproduct of constantly degrading last-mile infrastructure that is prohibitively expensive to maintain. With the exception of FTTP installations that were completed before the NBN[0] became a political football, the major
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by roganartu 9y ago
K prisms You're at a restaurant with your kid, and they're bored because you're having adult conversations with your friends. Call me old fashioned, but my parents just used to make us sit there and be quiet. Bored? That&#x27
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by roganartu 9y ago
There is a detailed explanation of how package names are used by the compiler here: https://golang.org/cmd/go/#hdr-Description_of_package_lists Specifically this bit is relevant here: > Every package in a prog
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by roganartu 9y ago
> (nope, Transferwise doesn't have it) fwiw Transferwise has had this for around 3 months now: https://transferwise.com/borderless
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by roganartu 9y ago
That is the porn-equivalent of suggesting that abstinence is the solution to teen pregnancy. It may be technically correct insofar as abstinence obviously works for those that rigorously follow it, but fails to account for the simple fact t

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