sarah180

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by sarah180 8y ago
I will second that the text is unreadably large on my large monitor: the characters are rendered in 41.9-point type. If I full-screen the window, it jumps up to 49-point type.
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by sarah180 8y ago
33.0.0.0/8 belongs to the Department of Defense. https://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-33-0-0-0-1/pft
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by sarah180 9y ago
> if we know that he stole cookies before, he must axiomatically be considered less trustworthy around cookies than someone who has no history of treat theft You are confused about what the word "axiomatically" means. If this i
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by sarah180 9y ago
I would argue that the "creates false expectations that leads to fatal automobile collisions" kind of bad is potentially a more serious kind of bad than the "false advertising" kind of bad.
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by sarah180 9y ago
It's noteworthy that this rule existed for broadcast networks, under the rationale that they were entrusted users of a scarce shared/public resource (slices of the radio spectrum). Cable distribution of television doesn't i
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by sarah180 9y ago
The states with the most violent crime? Alaska, Nevada, New Mexico, Tennessee, Louisiana, Arkansas, South Carolina, …. I'm not sure that your hypothesis checks out.
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by sarah180 9y ago
Does this mean I'll need to give Skype a verified phone number and some version of all my contacts for … reasons. Reasons that are, trust us, so important that we can't let you opt out of them, but that have nothing to do with us
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by sarah180 9y ago
The intent behind a gun registry is to empower courts, and potentially police. A judge would be able to identify that someone owns several more guns when considering whether to grant bail for an armed robbery, and the surrender of those wea
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by sarah180 9y ago
There's a technical reason for this. The Internet2 project spent a lot of time and effort working on things like prioritized traffic to deal with congested links. They found that it was easier and more cost effective to just add more b
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by sarah180 9y ago
Sonoma and Napa counties in California recently burned. The official causes are not determined yet, and the litigation has barely started, but there is some evidence that this was caused by improper maintenance of above-ground power lines b
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by sarah180 9y ago
Having read the second paragraph of the paper, they propose that the time and size cost of self-compilation is a useful benchmark for whether the additional complexity of a compiler feature is justified by its benefits. I agree with moomin
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by sarah180 9y ago
"Sucking it up" isn't actually an option. You're describing a mental health crisis. Unless other people might literally die (e.g., you're a soldier, police officer, etc) then your job is not worth sacrificing your o
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by sarah180 10y ago
I always wish there were a way to vote "no" on these things.