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by sellyme 6y ago
> It’s also in ascii No it isn't: > 10:48:55.380 document.location.href > 10:48:55.384 " https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26166797 " > 10:48:57.723 document.characterSet > 10:48:57.726 "
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by sellyme 6y ago
All three of your examples concern people with a vested interest in arriving at a certain conclusion established long before they ever actually look at the text in question. No communication medium will solve the problem of humans trying to
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by sellyme 6y ago
Sure, their return policy is good if you bought an item and later decided it doesn't suit your needs - that's an issue that's often entirely your own fault, and they're happy to refund you in the hopes of keeping a custo
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by sellyme 6y ago
I suspect that Amazon's argument is that they're more akin to eBay than they are to a supermarket. "We're not selling the product, we're only selling the floorspace" kind of thing. That's a lie, but it is
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by sellyme 6y ago
> The windows EULA (End User License Agreement) clearly states that the agreement can be refused by the end user, and that windows can be returned to the manufacturer. In real life, however, manufacturers typically say that they can&#x27
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by sellyme 6y ago
> I mean, one could raise taxes and offer quality free education to everyone In fairness I'm not sure the New York Times really has the authority to do that.
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by sellyme 6y ago
> Your home security system won't actually keep anyone who knows what they are doing from robbing your house if they decide to rob your house. What it could do is make them decide to rob your neighbor's house instead. What happ
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by sellyme 6y ago
If there's an emergency at a power plant and you need the sysadmin to personally fix it, then that has the potential to be just as big of a safety issue as a malicious actor is. It's trading one form of security for another.
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by sellyme 6y ago
Under some definition of "efficiency" that isn't too fussed about whether the work was actually desired, sure. Crapware isn't really about the quality of the code, though. This could be the most pristine and elegant piec
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by sellyme 6y ago
I got a ROG Phone 3 recently, and while it does come with some OEM software, most of it is actually pretty useful. The only obvious "yeah you were paid to put this crap on my phone, not because you thought it improved the experience&
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by sellyme 6y ago
Preferably "megabyte" and "short megabyte", because that will annoy HDD manufacturers more.
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by sellyme 6y ago
Yeah in most common forms of English you will likely go your entire life without ever hearing a single person use the long scale forms. Many of the words in other languages that used to translate to the (long) "million", "bil
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by sellyme 6y ago
> Stuxnet Yeah, and even the best security practices aren't going to work too well if someone drops a nuke on your facility. Stuxnet was an extraordinarily sophisticated attack well beyond what a typical industrial system will need
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by sellyme 6y ago
That might cause some problems if you run out of candidates and the sysadmin is trying to come up with an easy solution...
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by sellyme 6y ago
Sometimes when reading documents from the infancy of the internet it's difficult to get a sense for the online environment at the time it was written. For this one that difficulty disappeared very quickly once I got to the section wher
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by sellyme 6y ago
No, Australia. As for cost of living, my first job was doing 20 hour weeks at a McDonald's as a teenager. It paid enough for me to live very comfortably just 5 minutes outside of a major city (>1mil population). Obviously that'
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by sellyme 6y ago
> It is a difference in who decides how much they’re paid. In a traditional business their pay is at the discretion of the business and thus in competition with what could be the business’s profits. I don't really see how this is an
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by sellyme 6y ago
> I really don't see how you pay them that much. But they're apparently already getting paid that much! Either people are drastically misrepresenting how much waitstaff take home in tips, or there's enough money in the eco
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by sellyme 6y ago
> Incentivize doing your job Surely keeping your job is a good incentive to do your job? > Result in taking home much more money than otherwise People are still willing to pay the same amount of currency for the same product and servi
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by sellyme 6y ago
> If it switched to fixed hourly pay, they'd be taking a pay cut since there is no way their hourly pay would be $30/hr. Why not? I live in a country with no tipping culture and we have no problem paying service industry worker
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by sellyme 6y ago
Depends on the game. I've found communities whose preferred method of communication is Facebook Messenger!
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by sellyme 6y ago
I suppose that depends on whether you think the job of journalists is to report news, or to generate clicks.
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by sellyme 6y ago
D) This is the most interesting time in history so far , and the correlation with population will hold as population grows. Although echoing the opinions of many other commenters, I believe the early 20th century probably takes that crown.
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by sellyme 6y ago
> It's been at least 2 years since I've run into a issue with python and dependencies that wasn't solved by both of those approaches. The problem is that this leaves us with 2 years of documentation that's reliable an
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by sellyme 6y ago
If they're experiencing a breeze they might have bigger problems to worry about than a cracked hull.
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by sellyme 6y ago
I routinely see English errors far more egregious than that in publications written exclusively by native speakers, so I'm not sure it's too noteworthy.
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by sellyme 6y ago
> but he’s obviously wrong or a troll He once made this assertion while standing in front of a PowerPoint slide that read "It's pronounced 'JIF' not 'GIF'". It has to be a troll, because no-one smart en
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by sellyme 6y ago
> I think it's disgusting that they are sniffing out IPs for such low level offenses. Moderators on Reddit have absolutely zero access to IP addresses. You are misinformed.
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by sellyme 6y ago
> If you attempt to evade the ban even innocently they will sniff you out. How exactly do you "innocently" attempt to evade a ban?
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by sellyme 6y ago
If everyone else is getting the same dozen daily scam emails related to Ethereum that I am, I'd have to assume that it has irreparably harmed the currency's reputation.

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