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by sgc 4y ago
I agree, but want to note: Landlords only vote once. Short of being extremely patronizing and presuming that the residents of SF are easy to bamboozle when they are paying very high prices to live there, it has to be recognized that there i
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by sgc 4y ago
I recently tried to register at facebook using a twilio number (yes, I was pulled in kicking and screaming). They never actually sent the verification code until I used another number.
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by sgc 4y ago
I agree. May he with the biggest propaganda machine win! /s There is obviously a massive problem with modern disinformation tactics, to the point that if you deny it, I presume you have an agenda to sell. There are most definitely terr
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by sgc 4y ago
Try nitter.net
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by sgc 4y ago
But this is another reason why people don't lose weight / get fit / make progress on so many things. 50g / day is fine according to WHO. If that is correct (for argument's sake), we can't then use their 'b
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by sgc 4y ago
Agreed. I for one am very happy with the wider EV push, because I will never need to buy a Tesla. I am sure many other people have similar sentiments. Obviously they are valued for their batteries and solar as well, but their business model
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by sgc 4y ago
In other words, strategically hidden where you would want it most.
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by sgc 4y ago
I have literally had financial institutions reject my password for being "too long" or containing "wrong special characters". Quite recently, my bank site was having a fit and I couldn't log in, with only cryptic er
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by sgc 4y ago
Although I completely agree that Valve should be held accountable, this is an abuse of HN and I would rather see the post and new accounts removed, so we can start over correctly.
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by sgc 5y ago
These companies need to be reminded that users are the sina qua non condition for any customer whatsoever, and that their disinterested to hostile attitude towards users is a poison pill for them. "Users aren't the customer"
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by sgc 5y ago
Right, but if in the process you take your great code and turn it into a crappy deliverable, that's on you. You don't get praise for taking serviceable software and bogging it down while locking out end users on an open source pla
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by sgc 5y ago
Mill is wrong. because he ignores the extremely strong negative effects of sustained disinformation campaigns, and immediate and obvious harm should not be the bar. Society could never handle that, it just thought it could. Such an attempt
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by sgc 5y ago
Useful! There is a nitter add-on at least for firefox, called nitter redirect. All twitter links go there seamlessly.
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by sgc 5y ago
How Putin came to power and how he is now in power are two distinct things. I was talking about the present, with 20 years of many/most Russians just basking in Putin's killer tough guy shtick while he had his soldiers massacre an
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by sgc 5y ago
Neither of those things are clear at all. I don't think anybody in Russia is surprised by Putin. They are, far and away, primarily responsible for him being in power. NATO stopped some pretty horrific atrocities from spiraling even fur
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by sgc 5y ago
Around here they make about $150 an hour if they are contractors and work for themselves. So I would guess 80-100 for an electrician with 5+ years experience. About the same as most other semi-specialized trades.
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by sgc 5y ago
If your server crashes counting the MIT-2 license files, do they satisfy the requirements?
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by sgc 5y ago
Along with the other recommendations, I was introduced to The Architecture of Open Source Applications from an HN post some time back, and have found it quite interesting. You can use it together with a more detailed walk through the resp
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by sgc 5y ago
If you meant that Vimeo is shaking down small business clients, that might be true. But the way you phrased things it sounded like you were saying small business services in general are a shakedown, and Vimeo was just another example of thi
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by sgc 5y ago
Interesting that you redefine their legend to mean what you want it to mean. Solar is economical and effective in most of Europe, which does not have the same solar potential as the US, because the US is generally further south.
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by sgc 5y ago
I think a lot of people here offer b2b services that are not shakedowns.
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by sgc 5y ago
Now I'm playing snake on home depot's dime!
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by sgc 5y ago
What was their reason for doing this?
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by sgc 5y ago
That is just the android facebook app in lite mode! I tried it for about 24 hours once after much social pressure. Now I just look at my wife's feed if she mentions something interesting.
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by sgc 5y ago
That was one of the arguments for globalization. But what we see is there are only a few big actors, who will remain big actors for centuries if not forever due to their size and nuclear capabilities. One of the three biggest actors showed
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by sgc 5y ago
I hope they add value instead of just saying hello when they see people irl. Because turning don't say hi into a crusade is sure wasting more of my time than just accepting an awkward hi from time to time. I passionately hate the synta
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by sgc 5y ago
I agree, not so much about stealing the thunder, but trying to limit the bad optics to reduce sanctions. They clearly underestimated the way other countries would react if that is the case. They could also have made some sort of agreement w
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by sgc 5y ago
There is some chance that US and other countries making a lot of noise about false flags set back the timetable, just enough to allow the thaw to come into play in an early thaw year. They could have had logistical difficulties just getting
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by sgc 5y ago
The entire point of your own domain is to provide continuity. Of course it's one more thing to worry about, but it also one more layer of protection (an important one).
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by sgc 5y ago
Unfortunately, as long as they have nuclear weapons they will remain poignantly relevant.

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