seanp2k2

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by seanp2k2 6y ago
This. I believe that the problem has more to do with most users relying on platforms that are fundamentally advertising companies, and content that doesn’t go well next to an ad gets removed because it becomes a direct threat to revenue. Vi
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by seanp2k2 6y ago
If you poke around a bit on YouTube, there are multiple videos of it happening on there. My guess is that the woman was trying to get into a corridor that the Secret Service was protecting, and they really didn't want anyone in there.
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by seanp2k2 6y ago
Many of them were also carrying guns. No idea who thought it'd be a good idea to just stand down and let them in, but my guess is that making martyrs of them would push us closer to something like the beginning of a civil war.
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by seanp2k2 6y ago
this was my thought as well. No idea why that was allowed to happen. No way that they went through everything with enough scrutiny in that timeframe.
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by seanp2k2 8y ago
shh don't tell everyone about REITs and how you can get into and out of the upsides of housing markets without actually maintaining properties and dealing with tenants!
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by seanp2k2 8y ago
The point that was attempting to be made, which I agree with, was along the lines of the bank having the power to take it back means that they ultimately have control, regardless of the technical legal terms that indicate that the homeowner
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by seanp2k2 8y ago
I came up with a clever solution to the Prop 13 problem: tax the sale of that property with all of the previous savings if they ever sell it for a profit. So sure, you can stay in the house you grew up in, but if you're thinking you ca
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by seanp2k2 8y ago
https://hackaday.com/2018/10/26/dmca-review-big-win-for-righ... However, the actual practice of applying the now-legal practice to something like you described is far above the technical skill of most automot
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by seanp2k2 8y ago
FWIW a lot of work DOES go into making high-quality releases, running infra, writing tracker code and maintaining high quality, even on torrent sites. Sure, a dedicated small team of passionate individuals can do it in their free time, but
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by seanp2k2 8y ago
Agree, but population density is heavily skewed toward cities, which tend to have (though not always) better internet: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=29072 https://www.networkworld.com/
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by seanp2k2 8y ago
Y'all love tabs too? Let me blow your minds real quick if you haven't seen these: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sidewise-tree-styl... (tl;dr view tabs on the left with some visual hierarchy t
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by seanp2k2 8y ago
I used to be a big pfsense fan, but Ubiquiti's UniFi is my jam now. If you get their gateway, PoE switches, and a couple of APs, it's by far the best SoHo system I've ever used. Enterprise features that are easy enough for no
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by seanp2k2 8y ago
If you want what they use in places like the Senate and other Big Boy meetings, get a Shure MX418D/C and a real external audio interface with phantom power. I use mine for gaming, and while it's totally overkill, it's a purpo
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by seanp2k2 8y ago
I feel like some people get a lot out of it, and others not so much. As in, if someone has the type of personality where they work best with lots of "heads-down" time on projects (and frankly many of the best engineers I know are
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by seanp2k2 8y ago
and in return for all that money, they receive the sewage waterfall: http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/05/penn-stations-latest-... Honestly, why is this so hard when so much of the rest of the developed wor
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by seanp2k2 8y ago
While I agree with most of what you wrote, there are already countries where all individuals' tax returns are public https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/artic...
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by seanp2k2 8y ago
There are even dedicated sites for the products they've killed off over the years: https://www.wordstream.com/articles/retired-google-projects https://gcemetery.co/ https://killedbygoog
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by seanp2k2 8y ago
Came here to post this; they're re-inventing AOL keywords. It was bad then and it'll be bad now. Chrome is user-hostile.
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by seanp2k2 8y ago
>Now, what would I have meant here? Interestingly (to me, at least), this is also how I remember where I put something if I've misplaced it. I ask myself, and really try to visualize, if I were putting that thing away right now, whe
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by seanp2k2 8y ago
Let's not forget https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2013-1050/ and https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2015-7496/ and https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2017-890
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by seanp2k2 8y ago
or just get a magnetic bracelet?
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by seanp2k2 8y ago
also: hosts file can cause problems with things like Windows Update and other software that you might want to keep working. Pi-hole is easier to disable. I always forget that I installed some hosts file blocks with Blackbird ( https:/
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by seanp2k2 8y ago
DNS filtering has been on the "losing side" for a few decades now. As long as more than 0.1% of people don't use it, it's not worth solving for most ad companies. Even if places like YouTube DO find ways to stuff ads int
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by seanp2k2 8y ago
Same. It's crazy to me that people are saying that they can hear the difference between 24-bit 192khz recordings and something like 320Kbps MP3 or 192 VBR (which is what most of my personal collection is at). Back in the day on [huge;y
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by seanp2k2 8y ago
See https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/12/11/why-netflix-isnt-i...
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by seanp2k2 8y ago
I get it; I'm guessing that this is a "I value my time at $60 per hour and each one takes 20 hours to make" type of situation, which unfortunately gets misunderstood ALL THE TIME in the art world. People will look at a one-of
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by seanp2k2 8y ago
I don't mind Github as much, esp if you're instructing people to download a zip, unpack it, and start there.
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by seanp2k2 8y ago
The other big thing with tutorials that I've seen is trying to introduce many build tools at once. Lots of people have enough trouble even getting Node to run on Windows, so requiring Node and Babel and Webpack when you could just pull
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by seanp2k2 8y ago
There are lots of herbal teas that don't have caffeine already out there. What makes anything "tea" beyond putting some type of [dried, possibly ground-up] plant into a strainer in hot water, then drinking the result?
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by seanp2k2 8y ago
FYI for anyone wanting higher-quality over Bluetooth, make sure that your devices all support a compatible codec: https://www.audioholics.com/audio-technologies/bluetooth-aud... e.g. iDevices support AAC but not aptX,

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