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721.
by sjy 8y ago
It's not 'arbitrary' to weigh the cost of an activity against its benefit just because it's hard to quantify them. Most vegetarians would eat meat if their lives depended on it, and most people today consider it unaccept
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by sjy 8y ago
Seems below average for law firm partners [1], and there's a lot of them out there, so it doesn't surprise me at all that technical consultants with genuinely rare skills could command hourly rates like that. [1] https:/&#x2
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by sjy 8y ago
Anyone with the original document can eyeball individual pages and confirm that they (or black bars of the right size) appear in the redacted version. Doing that with unpaginated HTML requires you to use and understand some kind of diff too
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by sjy 8y ago
So why hasn't the broken system been fixed (or at least brought up to the standard of the rest of the developed world) yet?
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by sjy 8y ago
I've been doing this for a few months now and the impact on battery life is noticeable but acceptable to me. iOS reports that WireGuard was responsible for 8% of my battery use today.
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by sjy 8y ago
If your point was that Snowden shouldn't have described the case as 'weak' if what he meant was merely 'the prosecutors shouldn't have filed it,' because some people would insist that 'weak' is a term
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by sjy 8y ago
Surely if a previous DOJ refused to prosecute the case it is 'weak' in some sense. Perhaps in the sense that while a crime can be proven, it's not an appropriate use of public resources to prosecute. Or perhaps because there
728.
by sjy 8y ago
Your confusing analogy about bears and wolves was the counterargument. I didn't find it a persuasive response to the original argument: "Every other city's experience with congestion pricing shows decreased car use in favor o
729.
by sjy 8y ago
But I'm using Caps Lock to type Ctrl-C!
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by sjy 8y ago
There is a loss though, which is that Visual Studio is incredibly slow, and editor latency has "important effects on typist behavior and satisfaction" [1]. You wouldn't want to use Visual Studio to edit a single config file,
731.
by sjy 8y ago
No doubt the internet itself has created new opportunities for small businesses, but why do you say that huge companies like Facebook and Google needed to accumulate market power to achieve that?
732.
by sjy 8y ago
But physical pipes run in parallel too! If you have a pipe full of water, and you push some more water in one end, there is an instant effect at the other end. If it's empty, then sequentiality is introduced because it takes time for t
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by sjy 8y ago
Have you tried git-annex? I found it to be a simpler, more git-like solution to the large binaries problem than LFS, which seemed like a centralised system that would be painful to set up.
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by sjy 8y ago
Dang. That’s what I’m doing too and I’m somewhat happy with it. But it does bother me that it only works with PDFs, and there’s no easy way to decouple the annotations from the content, so I was hoping that Polar might be significantly bett
735.
by sjy 8y ago
This is the original meaning given by Dawkins in The Selfish Gene. The word ‘meme’ is more than a repeated fact – first, it doesn’t have to be a fact, and second, it suggests that our culture is the result of evolution in an environment whe
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by sjy 8y ago
These days there is so much statutory law in the developed world that this distinction is fading away. Yes, it’s technically possible for a common law court to grant a new form of relief that isn’t derived from legislation or binding preced
737.
by sjy 8y ago
I'm currently building an app that works nicely as a web app, but it needs to store gigabytes of data and work with only intermittent network access. I'm considering trying to bundle the server-side code into a simple Windows bina
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by sjy 8y ago
I'm pretty happy with Gollum ( https://github.com/gollum/gollum/wiki ) for this. Your data is just a Git repository containing a hierarchy of files. You run Gollum to fire up a local web server, which gives you
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by sjy 8y ago
What’s wrong with the statement is that it is ‘entirely subjective,’ like your own views – it is no less arbitrary to include only humans on your list of animals deserving of empathy. Such an ethical rule cannot accommodate the proposition
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by sjy 8y ago
> It's not brewing by the pressure you are applying but time + agitation. The press is just removing the grounds. Is that right? I’ve never understood the purpose of the high pressure air pocket inside the Aeropress. If the pressure
741.
by sjy 8y ago
If going from 100 °C to 90 °C was a 10% decrease, then going from 0 °C to 1 °C would be an ∞% increase. Metric units are superior to imperial for many reasons, but this isn’t one of them.
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by sjy 8y ago
Same here. It’s not just the lack of offline support but the absence of an on-premises offering that kills this product for me. The great thing about Excel and Access is that there are no barriers to using them in a typical enterprise envir
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by sjy 8y ago
I was confused by your reference to understanding the text, so I looked it up. I think a scribe who really understood the text would recognise the intentional misspelling. The transcription error reflects a lack of understanding. But the
744.
by sjy 8y ago
This comment is very confusing. The quote is from Graeber’s dismissive summary of an article in The Economist [1]. Here, Graeber specifically rejects the notion that his book is an ‘ethnography of such over-specialized jobs.’ In Chapter 1 h
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by sjy 8y ago
It would be nice if there was a local alternative though. You can’t always put all your data in a cloud service which doesn’t work offline or interact with the local file system.
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by sjy 8y ago
> There's no way that many separate people and agencies, all with access, would be able to maintain operational security Then why isn’t this already the case for unencrypted communications? Law enforcement agencies all over the worl
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by sjy 8y ago
Yep, I could have learned much faster with a good book. Most PS tutorials are targeted at sysadmins with minimal programming experience. I would have preferred something that assumed programming experience and focused on what makes PS diffe
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by sjy 8y ago
I’ve been solving this problem with PowerShell for the last year or so. It’s usually available on locked-down corporate Windows boxes, and you can use the entire .NET Framework, as well as third-party .NET libraries, without admin rights. I
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by sjy 8y ago
> Where do you appeal of the judge decides not to even offer you bail, for that matter? To a higher court, as with any other judicial order? This is how things work in normal common law countries like the UK, Canada and Australia.
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by sjy 8y ago
Whether Apple is in a monopoly position (with respect to the market for iOS apps) is an open question, really: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._v._Pepper

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