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by thomaskcr 9y ago
I think that's a cynical view on their reasoning -- if anything prisoners not being bored is in their best interest in terms of keeping guards safe. My guess is that a lot of problems stem from gambling debts -- you can allow cards and
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by thomaskcr 9y ago
Could just be the .xyz domain -- I've been getting emails filtered just by including a .xyz link in the body from a personal account (i.e. not automated). A lot of web filters seem to just block all of .xyz by default. I have started o
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by thomaskcr 9y ago
From that report: > The bulk of energy subsidies in most countries are due to undercharging for domestic environmental damage I understand it's an accepted part of the word subsidy but it always feels dishonest when people treat &qu
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by thomaskcr 9y ago
Net metering isn't even a US law thing, it's a physics law thing. Just basic physics should tell you that selling power for the same price you buy it doesn't make sense due to heat loss in the lines. If you want a battery buy
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by thomaskcr 9y ago
I think you're making assumptions on intent/motivations. It's not like you can't bring your own financing to any car dealer, if you really can't secure a loan from anyone else - then for these used car lots the cost
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by thomaskcr 9y ago
> SpaceX is an entirely separate company from Tesla, and not public. Investing in Tesla is not investing in SpaceX That may be strictly true, but I think most people consider Elon's ownership and direction of Tesla a big part of wha
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by thomaskcr 9y ago
It's possible to be more valuable to another company. I had a developer ask me for more money and I was just honest, if he likes working here he can stay because he was a good developer but he would undoubtedly earn more elsewhere. He
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by thomaskcr 10y ago
> Slightly concerning to see so much skepticism I think its more concerning that skepticism is a bad word in climate science . The facts are the observations about our climate, I think the conclusion it's changing and humans are ca
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by thomaskcr 10y ago
The vast majority of businesses fail, and many businesses go through cycles where they make less money than they spend. How can the average person take on the risk of not getting paid for years? One year of non-profitability would be a deat
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by thomaskcr 10y ago
For younger programming classes I try to lean towards using Scratch which is in browser. For the older classes I'll usually set up a terminal server and let them login to it. To help smooth the process of having them program on their o
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by thomaskcr 10y ago
This isn't even the worst 10 year old issue in my opinion. People have been complaining about the "chattiness" of JIRA for a long time and it's still just as bad. Every change in status for a ticket I get two emails, eve
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by thomaskcr 10y ago
> This is the same rule change that says if you use a VPN or TOR you can legally be hacked by the FBI, yes? Emphatically no. This rule changes absolutely nothing about what is required to get a warrant, including the specificity of it (m
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by thomaskcr 10y ago
Here is the actual text: https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcrmp/rule_41 There's nothing wrong with being against this, but this seems like a huge stretch of the words "new" and "hacking"
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by thomaskcr 10y ago
I don't think tariffs should be used to keep manufacturing here - but if you get to move your manufacturing to China and pay people less than you would in the US and use a process worse for the environment I think it's really sill
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by thomaskcr 10y ago
I understand tariffs aren't good when taken alone, but what else can you do to put the US on an even playing field? We want to have strict environmental laws, which make manufacturing more expensive and then companies move to where the
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by thomaskcr 10y ago
$45, I believe there are alternatives I just don't really know anything about them. You're right about their site though, every single time they've changed it the site has looked more scammy/crappy and been harder to get
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by thomaskcr 10y ago
Use Deepfreeze or something similar. You'll mark a their documents directory as excluded and then every time they restart their machine it'll be back to the exact state it was in when you first set it up. You don't want to ha
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by thomaskcr 10y ago
It's just an honor system thing. If you feel entitled to consume their content that they pay to host while making sure they don't get paid for it then that's how you feel and just like you said you fully have that ability and
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by thomaskcr 10y ago
I guess, I mean this is just based on my personal world-view, I'm not an ad ethicist and I don't run any sites that depend on the revenue - I just personally don't run an ad-blocker because I feel it breaks the "social c
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by thomaskcr 10y ago
No because they get paid to show you the ad, not make sure you watched it. Adblockers prevent the ad from being shown which is fundamentally different. On recording and fast forwarding later since it's a closer analog, the network is b
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by thomaskcr 10y ago
Because the trademark is for a specific category - there was already a company named Alphabet (with that trademark) owned by BMW and that didn't pose an issue to Google. You could start an alphabet plumbing or something. It's not
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by thomaskcr 10y ago
Technology company named alphabet seems reasonably specific in my opinion. It's not like the Alphabet Farm is going to get shut down or you'll need to start writing "The Alphabet(tm) Song"
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by thomaskcr 10y ago
I got a Wansview camera and assigned it a static IP and just don't allow any traffic not originating from the chromecasts or tablet -- it's nice because all the TVs do picture in picture with the baby camera. Still pretty weird se
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by thomaskcr 10y ago
I have literally never heard Elon mention another person who already worked at the company. I can find plenty of times he was announcing a key hire, like when they brought in Peter Hochholdinger. Every new feature, product, etc is announced
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by thomaskcr 10y ago
Any company can build an electric car and lose money while doing it. The question isn't whether he can build a cool electric car, he clearly can. I really question the position he has put himself in financially. - He used Tesla stock t
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by thomaskcr 10y ago
That's how it's supposed to be. Speedtest is measuring essentially that you're getting what you paid for. If you have 50/50 Fios, you're paying for a 50mbps connection to the Verizon network. > So you are really
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by thomaskcr 10y ago
I don't have an ad-blocker and didn't even notice there were ads until I read your comment. Why bother with the effort of denying them a little revenue when their ads aren't even intrusive at all?
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by thomaskcr 10y ago
And bodies. Had to move my laptop dock to the other side of my desk when I switched headphones from a pair that had the transmitter in the left ear to the right.
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by thomaskcr 10y ago
They refuse to increase settlement free capacity. Level 3 can pay for the bit-miles beyond what they are carrying in return for the ISPs, or Netflix can do what every other company does and lease lines as needed.
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by thomaskcr 10y ago
I didn't even think to look for this setting on LinkedIn -- it exists there too. Click your avatar > Privacy & Settings and it is on the Basics page a little ways down.

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