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by sbov 8y ago
But if AT&T unfairly cuts you off from the internet, you could just go to a competitor!
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by sbov 8y ago
Courts make mistakes (in the appealer's view) because people misinterpret evidence/the law. If you get the same people in a higher court the same mistakes will happen again.
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by sbov 8y ago
Because of https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/47 It makes sense. When you appeal you want a different person's opinion, not the same person's multiple times.
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by sbov 8y ago
If they exercise editorial control, why aren't they legally liable for the content they serve us?
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by sbov 8y ago
> 2b. Continuity of coverage may itself be at risk with pre-existing conditions returning to the political debate. This reminds me, when I was in college I had a pretty bad accident, but I had some college provided health care plan my pa
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by sbov 8y ago
> That is true, height is often a bad proxy for some other quality you're looking Be careful of what you wish for. Because getting at the actual quality you want is part of what makes building in SF so difficult, e.g. the infamous
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by sbov 8y ago
> It would be vastly easier for businesses which wish to let their employees out early enough to enjoy the sunlight to change their hours for a few months than for the entirety of society to change their sense of time. Actually it wouldn
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by sbov 8y ago
It really depends on the topic. Certain topics get very tribal, and generally the snarkiest, least useful comments float to the top.
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by sbov 8y ago
But laziness is only good if its long term laziness. E.g. a clever lazy person that job hops a lot and/or only do greenfield dev tends to leave huge messes for maintenance programmers to untangle. At least, in my experience.
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by sbov 8y ago
I've bought plenty of $300 pairs of shoes that fell apart in a year. Price has little relationship with quality nowadays. You just need to do your research.
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by sbov 8y ago
Just like reputable shops don't sell stolen goods, reputable repair shops wouldn't use stolen parts. I mean, yeah, they would be cheaper, but that's the case for anything stolen. Yet we don't have an epidemic of all sho
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by sbov 8y ago
Because most users would never set this and thus would never update.
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by sbov 8y ago
The name of the prop actually wasn't confusing. Initially it was called "California Marriage Protection Act", which is pretty common for anti-gay-marriage acts. Later it was called "Eliminate Rights of Same Sex Couples t
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by sbov 8y ago
I used to be a pretty big Musk supporter, but he's becoming increasingly juvenile. His tweets like this make me feel like I'm back in high school.
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by sbov 8y ago
Interestingly, a lot of states are like that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presiden...
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by sbov 8y ago
Finding a good neighborhood helps a lot with this. We've made more friends in a couple years in the suburbs than the 8 we lived in SF. We know everyone on our block. We all go out after work so people's kids can play with eachot
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by sbov 8y ago
I tried using twitter to get news before. But the news magazines I subscribed to on twitter tweeted out the same article more than once. It was rather frustrating.
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by sbov 8y ago
We should be fair to Donald Trump, because why not? Being fair doesn't mean nodding your head along to everything he says, it means not jumping the gun on all sorts of things and embarrassing yourself when it comes out wrong, which th
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by sbov 8y ago
Most auto places I've seen have things like a key dropbox.
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by sbov 8y ago
Is this a major concern? Isn't this part of why Java works to maintain backwards compatibility?
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by sbov 8y ago
Code with excitement. Code in assembly.
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by sbov 8y ago
> It's up to the read model to ask, 'has this invitation already been accepted?' I feel like you've skipped over the interesting part of your strategy here. If it's an eventually consistent system, what keeps the
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by sbov 8y ago
Yes, my favorite was a while back, someone's list of algorithmic interview questions got posted on here, and a couple of his answers were wrong! And he STILL insisted they were good interview questions! Our field is full of some of th
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by sbov 8y ago
> How do you have a discussion with someone who believes the political equivalent of a flat Earth? How can you decide if someone is the political equivalent of a flat Earther unless you actually attempt to have a discussion with them? A
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by sbov 8y ago
Overall I agree, but maybe the person you're replying to just enjoys it. My mother in law was a preschool teacher. Parents would ask when they would learn to spell, math, etc. She would say: after they learn to wait their turn in lin
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by sbov 8y ago
I know uptime pingers are easy and obvious solutions (I use them myself), but everytime I have to resort to this sort of hack it reminds me of how immature serverless is.
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by sbov 8y ago
I'm amazed you're getting downvoted. I would love to share this article with conservative friends, but potshots like the above make it pointless. If you want to inform anyone other than your own echo chamber, this article is poi
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by sbov 8y ago
It's not valuable if all they find is standard roman clay pot # 123,312 to 124,312. There was an article about this when they were building the tunnel in Istanbul. They did find some significant stuff, but the vast majority of it was
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by sbov 8y ago
I know what the original comment asked, which is why I did not answer that original comment. But this most recent comment did not ask that: > I'm a bit confused by this. It is selfish, in the workplace to ask a colleague for help w
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by sbov 8y ago
AFAIK they don't have any capabilities SpaceX won't have, so SpaceX's "niche" is to just charge less for the same service.

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