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by stordoff 7y ago
I too heard it as "SSD and solid state drive", so thanks for the clarification. I was picturing some sort of hierarchy of SSDs (which sounded insane).
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by stordoff 7y ago
To be honest, it's getting to the point where even if most of the accusations are true (and I'm quite willing to believe they are), they don't _feel_ true. When (seemingly) everytime you open Hacker News there is a new accusa
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by stordoff 7y ago
Also actual cash ("5 EUR (or an equivalent amount in any other currency)" for a month), which may be easier to make anonymous than crypto.
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by stordoff 7y ago
Slightly pedantically - England and Wales. Scots law doesn't require consideration. I'd certainly check with a lawyer though - it's been a long time since I studied it ( English law), but my understanding is that not paying i
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by stordoff 7y ago
I don't think that's quite true, based on my reading of it: > Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, _to give any third party_, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source dis
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by stordoff 7y ago
Assuming it's OpenBSD or GNU dc, it appears to be written in C.
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by stordoff 7y ago
> The exercise of such a common right the city may, under its police power, regulate in the interest of the public safety and welfare[...] > The regulation of the exercise of the right to drive a private automobile on the streets of t
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by stordoff 7y ago
Steam does this: > Notice: > You are leaving Steam. > Never enter your Steam password on an untrusted website. Any login form on an official Steam site will display "Valve Corp." in green with a padlock icon in your brows
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by stordoff 7y ago
> "When is the new Avengers movie out?" "Which channel is The Crown on?" "Was Michael Jackson a Paedophile?" "Who is that girl from Stranger Things?" What I'm increasingly noticing in the resu
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by stordoff 7y ago
The ISPO has ruled against the Daily Mail / Mail Online multiple times: https://www.ipso.co.uk/rulings-and-resolution-statements/rul... - "The publication had failed to handle publication sensitively" h
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by stordoff 7y ago
> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. The fact that this has prompted over 40 comments and good discussion would seem to suggest it is on-topic. Furthermore: > Please don't complain that a submission is i
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by stordoff 7y ago
Calling it iPadOS feels like a step in the wrong direction for that. Calling it iPadOS could make people say "This is an iPad, not a Mac", whereas iOS is a more natural merger.
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by stordoff 7y ago
If it's telling you to configure settings on the device, can it be considered forensic? Something about that feels off.
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by stordoff 7y ago
I feel like many of these are examples of that what people do with the information is dangerous, not that the information _itself_ is dangerous. Perhaps a slight difference, but one that I think exists. I think people suffering PTSD is a be
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by stordoff 7y ago
Lots of things can influence the placebo effect, branding is one of them: > and we know that two placebo sugar pills have a bigger effect than one, and that an intramuscular placebo injection is more effective than a placebo sugar tablet
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by stordoff 7y ago
> I would like that treatment options be selected and evaluated on the basis of empirical evidence. How do you balanced the subjective benefits against the potential risks and decide if (continuing) treatment is worth it? That would seem
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by stordoff 7y ago
> and produces timber which is not nice and desirable timber, to avoid the temptation Why is this necessary? Wouldn't using it as timber still capture the carbon, albeit not as completely as the scenario above?
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by stordoff 7y ago
We wouldn't use Democratic People's Republic of Korea to interpret the meaning of "democratic".
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by stordoff 7y ago
Also _regional_. Mirroring how my grades were given as school would be >40% - pass, > 80% - exceptional. Example grade boundaries[1]: 71/180, or 39.4% - pass; 88/180, or 48.9% - a strong pass[2]. Top grade is 147/180, o
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by stordoff 7y ago
English language version: https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/201...
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by stordoff 7y ago
FWIW, this is not the case in the UK. Most of the time, for a low-value item (<£5 or so), Amazon will say not to bother returning it, and just refund.
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by stordoff 7y ago
> Also, Canva hasn't accepted nor denied if their salt was compromised AFAIK, it's assumed that the salt is compromised with the hash - it's stored alongside the hash. The point of the salt is to prevent lookups. Telling y
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by stordoff 7y ago
I'd certainly be interested to hear your thoughts on the Shadow Brokers.
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by stordoff 7y ago
Strange, it was working for me early (it appears to only load if you got go to 7k7k.com first). The image RIMR linked to is the same.
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by stordoff 7y ago
It may not be a clone of Clicker Heroes, but it does appear to be extremely close (visually) to Tap Titans: 点击英雄: http://n.7k7kimg.cn/m00/6f/37/01b6d018a2f7485ea9de55f4b02bf2... Tap Titans: https:/&#x2F
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by stordoff 7y ago
RMS's stance is that he is against the idea of 'intellectual property' as an umbrella term for copyright, patents, and trademarks, as it conflates three (or more) largely unrelated areas of law. This does not necessarily mean
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by stordoff 7y ago
FWIW: What The Swedish Pirate Party Wants With Patents, Trademarks, And Copyright (2012): > Copyright must be reformed. We’d like to keep the copyright monopoly for commercial use (but with shorter, more sensible terms of protection). Th
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by stordoff 7y ago
This absolutely _isn't_ normal. I don't routinely carry ID, and never have done. The only place I can think of that did this was one nightclub near my university, but the upshot was we just didn't go to that nightclub often.
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by stordoff 7y ago
One thing I've noticed since getting an Apple Pencil is that I tend to use it even for general tasks, so I would tend to disagree.
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by stordoff 7y ago
What I find interesting is that there are exceptions to the current practice in English. Yoko Taro (family name: Yoko) is known widely as Yoko Taro, yet most other Japanese game developers are known as GivenName FamilyName (in English). [1]

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