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by rtsil 5y ago
The email she uses is the main email address from her ISP, so she can also reset it by requesting a reset code by text (or, at worst if she also loses her phone, by going to a store and showing her ID). After thinking about it, the only rea
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by rtsil 5y ago
I have a friend who can't actually tell you her passwords, because she doesn't know them. She just resets them every time she needs to log in to some site.
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by rtsil 5y ago
This is great! As someone learning jazz, this type of collaborative tool can serve for sharing transcriptions with a remote teacher, and maybe even for teaching harmonic analysis (I'm not familiar with ABC notation, but I see it allows
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by rtsil 5y ago
The dropdown has a shadow for me with Chrome (and also a sound effect).
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by rtsil 5y ago
Why would China want to hold back SpaceX when it's more rewarding to put people inside the company to steal their secrets?
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by rtsil 5y ago
It was still possible as of six months or so ago, who knows what factors Google takes into account to decide whether to require a phone number or a simple email.
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by rtsil 5y ago
For some of us, that is recent.
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by rtsil 5y ago
1. I reboot it and my users will need to wait. 99.99% uptime is achieved with 53 minutes of downtime every year, largely enough for the occasional kernel update here and there. If needed, I can choose to apply the update in the middle of th
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by rtsil 5y ago
> Begs the question of what we would ever need from another civ, and furthermore what a similar civilization would ever want from a bunch of squatting troglodytes such as ourselves. The need to fight loneliness and to find a kindred spir
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by rtsil 5y ago
This assumes that QM (and/or our current understanding of it) is the ultimate explanation of how the Universe works.
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by rtsil 5y ago
I had the first gen Chromebook and the first thing I did with it was install Crouton and access Ubuntu.
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by rtsil 5y ago
If I were to self-host this (for instance to validate order emails and catch typos on a moderately visited e-commerce website, in the order of hundreds per day), what are the odds that I'll be banned by the major email providers (gmail
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by rtsil 5y ago
>If you're right about Kenny G being able to play at a Coltrane-esque level Well, it appears my assumption was false! I finally read The Pat Metheny article you posted, and he's pretty clear that Kenny G is not on the level of
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by rtsil 5y ago
> I don’t think it’s particularly fair to compare him to people like Coltrane or Cannonball as they’re almost completely different genres. To me (I’m not qualified), it’s like comparing baseball players to cricket players. I agree, it is
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by rtsil 5y ago
I like listening to music, not having music in the background. Maybe that's the difference. Music is like everything else, the more work you put into it, the more enjoyment you'll get. But it's perfectly understandable if non
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by rtsil 5y ago
How about a poor guy caught with a few grams of marijuana, only looking to pleasure himself? On the other hand, Wall Street put many people's loved ones in clear danger, leaving them in the street, without jobs and without health insur
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by rtsil 5y ago
I'm not familiar with Costco. Do their sellers operate their own stores inside Costco's premises?
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by rtsil 5y ago
That's because HN's audience is composed of a large majority of white collars, and from a larger perspective, 99% of politicians, judges, lawyers, journalists, columnists, editorialists and commentators are white collars. It'
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by rtsil 6y ago
The question here isn't ownership, it's possession. > "Apple contends that '[n]o reasonable consumer would believe' that purchased content would remain on the iTunes platform indefinitely," writes [U.S. Dist
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by rtsil 6y ago
Where I went, it was so widespread that it was considered normal and nobody would even think about speaking out about it. Only with hindsight did I realize how despicable it was.
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by rtsil 6y ago
Oh, France absolutely funds it for propaganda reasons, and that was one of the stated reasons of forcing RFI to joint the new, state-backed international Radio-TV group a couple of years ago. That's not even some hidden, secret motivat
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by rtsil 6y ago
Well, as a young boy, I learned European geography through its football clubs so he's not completely wrong.
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by rtsil 6y ago
Well, "terrorism" is in the eye of the beholder, isn't it? But sure, they regularly interview rebels of all stripes, except Islamist insurgents I think (at least I can't think of one such interview). > they still basi
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by rtsil 6y ago
He's not. France froze his assets for being a member of a terrorist organization, and France is the Western power that has always supported Deby and is currently supporting his son. If anything, France has helped the regulary army agai
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by rtsil 6y ago
It was an interview(1) of the rebel's leader on RFI radio (in French) earlier today. They apparently realized Deby was there because the combat was extremely violent. They attacked him, he was wounded and evacuated on a helicopter. (1)
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by rtsil 6y ago
Painfully accurate.
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by rtsil 6y ago
The rebels claimed to have wounded him during the fights so this is more of an admission than a cover-up.
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by rtsil 6y ago
I'd argue Liverpool FC has made more for the notoriety of the city of Liverpool than anything else except the Beatles, and the same goes for the two Manchester clubs, so I'm not sure such a move would be really great for the city.
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by rtsil 6y ago
Reading the Source selection document (1), NASA only negotiated with SpaceX because the company was: > both very highly rated from a technical and management perspective and that also had, by a wide margin, the lowest initially-proposed
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by rtsil 6y ago
The reason is that NASA doesn't even have the budget to afford a single winner, and SpaceX agreed to update its payment schedule to make the contract work.

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