ryanfreeborn

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by ryanfreeborn 10y ago
Yup, vertical mouse solves most of my right-side issues. It can't be one of those cool-looking vertical mouses either (e.g. Anker, Evoluent). While those do help, it's not enough for me. I get the most relief from an actual joysti
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by ryanfreeborn 10y ago
Good to know. And ya, a security question to bypass a phone 2SV is a joke. Almost entirely defeats the purpose.
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by ryanfreeborn 10y ago
Is 17 days an acceptable TAT here? I know investigation and fixes can be a challenge, but with the severity of this exploit+PayPal being a serious financial service, I kind of would hope for a faster fix. Maybe I'm off base...I really
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by ryanfreeborn 10y ago
I started reading the physical copy and switched to kindle after a few hundred pages. I know it's not the "pure" way to read it but it improved my experience considerably. Not only does it make the book very mobile, but flipp
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by ryanfreeborn 10y ago
I can't imagine the incessant legal and legislative battles they are fighting are coming cheap. That means hiring legal and policy people, paying a ton of money to outside counsel, lobbying expenses, the hidden costs of building influe
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by ryanfreeborn 10y ago
That's not really the case. The courts have decided otherwise: http://itlaw.wikia.com/wiki/Theofel_v._Farey-Jones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Warshak
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by ryanfreeborn 12y ago
Oh interesting. I didn't know it was still moving along. It had a lot of momentum a few years back, but hasn't been making nearly as much noise since. Not sure if the founder's suicide actually correlated with the dropoff in
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by ryanfreeborn 12y ago
You mean Diaspora? (or maybe there's another clone I missed out on). The founder of Diaspora committed suicide. I think the project mostly died with him.
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by ryanfreeborn 12y ago
Neither really. If I do either it's very rare (and if I'm searching I'm probably using Google). Most of the time the information I need can be found quickly through the sidebar.
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by ryanfreeborn 12y ago
Subreddit communities. Particularly the small to mid-size ones. I honestly think knowing how to use subreddits as a resource is essential to being a functional user of the Internet. It's a crowd-curated feed of all things relevant to a
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by ryanfreeborn 12y ago
Yup. Couldn't agree more with this response. There is this growing contrarian sentiment—particularly in the HN and Reddit communities—that "college isn't for everyone". The college industrial complex aside, I cannot see
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by ryanfreeborn 12y ago
shame about that near-eastern medical attache in Boston...
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by ryanfreeborn 12y ago
...citation?
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by ryanfreeborn 13y ago
Back when my friends and I played Catan a lot, we developed a simple way to avoid the spoiler effect: running point totals. Games are still played in regular fashion, but your victory points for each session are added up over time. Winning
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by ryanfreeborn 13y ago
He's talking about the 39 inch, which is $500. When you go to Amazon, it defaults to displaying the 50 inch. Click 39 inch button to the right of the product image and you'll get the $500.
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by ryanfreeborn 13y ago
I think you're reading into the $5 wrench a bit too literally. It's not about perpetuating the idea (false or not) that torture is an effective means of procuring intelligence. The point of the comic—at least to me—is about tunnel