snowwrestler

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by snowwrestler 8y ago
The UK is a sovereign nation and absolutely can enforce its laws against anyone within its borders, regardless of citizenship. The only potential exception is diplomatic immunity, and that is only granted to the few people who are directly
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by snowwrestler 8y ago
It's worth pointing out that the U.S. Congress can also directly subpoena documents and testimony without going through a judge.
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by snowwrestler 8y ago
True but the point of literature is not just to deliver factual information as quickly as possible. By analogy, you can drive to the top of Mt. Washington, but people still hike it. Either way will deliver the view from top, but each will b
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by snowwrestler 8y ago
> They are about to lose the teenage market. That's mostly a cost problem. What, do teenagers suddenly stop wanting things just because they can't afford them? When did that start? I think it's easy to confuse "sales
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by snowwrestler 8y ago
That's amazing to me, actually. Compare what 3Gs can do vs an Xr, and that's only $50 more in real dollars? Incredible. Shows the rapid rate of progress in mobile technologies.
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by snowwrestler 8y ago
Thanks for a graceful reply to my comment, which was probably more strongly worded than it needed to be to get the point across. I think we are currently seeing an attempt to swing things backward, which is why I think it's important t
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by snowwrestler 8y ago
Pixar really wants to stay out of the uncanny valley with their characters, so they intentionally design them to look "cartoony"--closer to the classic hand-drawn animation of the past. They want their movies to look like animated
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by snowwrestler 8y ago
This is ignorant and wrong. Integrated communities date to before the founding of the United States. Frederick Douglas was a prominent and internationally recognized voice for equality and integration 100 years before the 1960s. We fought a
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by snowwrestler 8y ago
How about “here’s a subpoena, give me a list of young Democrats.” It’s not the highest bidder but it’s still a problematic consequence of concentrating so much data in one place.
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by snowwrestler 8y ago
Fixed! Thank you
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by snowwrestler 8y ago
Amazing anecdote from a 2016 New Yorker article on the show: > During one visit to Google’s headquarters, in Mountain View, about six writers sat in a conference room with Astro Teller, the head of GoogleX, who wore a midi ring and kept
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by snowwrestler 8y ago
I would encourage people to find a better career coach than Scott Adams. Like many people who achieve remarkable cultural success, he doesn't actually know why it happened. For instance: does anyone think Dilbert succeeded because Sc
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by snowwrestler 8y ago
I think it's a huge mistake to compare the life of Richard Feynman and the results of an IQ test and think "huh, maybe he wasn't that smart." Richard Feynman was obviously brilliant, based on any measure of real life imp
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by snowwrestler 8y ago
Look, this essay is ridiculous. It starts by citing Aristotle, Leonardo Da Vinci, and Benjamin Franklin, and then delivers silly things like this definition of a "generalist": > Someone who becomes competent in at least three d
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by snowwrestler 8y ago
That's not the issue. The issue is that actual, proud anti-Semites have created and pushed horrible conspiracy theories and gross content about George Soros for years, and any PR company worth their salt should know that. Knowing that
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by snowwrestler 8y ago
> Nearly every argument I hear that says "facebook newsfeed sucks" boils down to "the people you choose to follow share crappy shit." Unfollow them. Here is the failure of Facebook, right here. Facebook says that thei
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by snowwrestler 8y ago
Freedom is not an ad blocker; Apple has approved other apps that block ads; iOS ships with native support for ad blocking and VPNs. It's a bummer for fans of Freedom that it got blocked, but it's not accurate to extrapolate that i
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by snowwrestler 8y ago
The reason you're getting downvoted is that your argument is basically "well what if they're wrong?" Pew has established a reputation as an organization who conducts polls regularly and properly. You are a throwaway acco
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by snowwrestler 8y ago
To create article previews, WhatsApp scrapes the URL you share. They can't see the text you type in and send, but they definitely know which URLs are being shared, and how often.
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by snowwrestler 8y ago
Isn’t this a known feature of Twitter, usually called a soft block or forced unfollow? You block and unblock someone quickly and it forces them to unfollow you (and more importantly, does not signal them that it happened). I have heard of p
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by snowwrestler 8y ago
Small businesses receive a number of subsidies in the form of tax breaks and exemptions based on size. For example Section 179 allows small businesses to deduct capital expenses below a certain amount instead of depreciating them, and Obama
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by snowwrestler 8y ago
The details of the NoVA bid have not been released or leaked yet, to my knowledge.
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by snowwrestler 8y ago
The story says Crystal City, which is close to DC but has a lot of nearby residential and transit options. And it has been losing tenants for a while so there is some slack for Amazon to take up.
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by snowwrestler 8y ago
Social Security is funded from payroll for the same reason 401k's are funded from payroll: because it is a retirement program that people invest in while working, and draw down when retired. Now, I know and you probably know that it is
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by snowwrestler 8y ago
Right. And obviously if a person is an immigrant, they must be from "poor areas in South America" and "used to living on a dirt floor." Even though "no one is saying" they are "uneducated third worlders&qu
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by snowwrestler 8y ago
More recent companies that redirect from the root to www: Airbnb, Uber, Lyft, WeWork, SpaceX, DiDi, Coinbase, Blue Apron, Stitch Fix, The Information, Flexport. Gitlab goes one better and redirects the root domain to about.gitlab.com. How a
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by snowwrestler 8y ago
Customers do not look in the address bar, so it has no brand impact. When putting your domain in print, you should omit the www if you can. Just catch the root domain request and redirect to www if you want it.
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by snowwrestler 8y ago
I doubt that Alphabet cares if anyone goes to that website, though. I don't think it has been updated since the day it launched, has it? All their public services default to subdomains, including www. Although technically Google Search
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by snowwrestler 8y ago
What the heck does age have to do with anything? Do you think that Google and Facebook don't know how to redirect from www to the root domain because they're too old to figure it out or something? This is just further shows how it
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by snowwrestler 8y ago
This would be a tenable argument if immigrants were all "uneducated third worlders" (they're not) or that immigrants measurably strain infrastructures (they don't). Historically speaking, immigrants are far more likely t

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