tokyodude

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by tokyodude 8y ago
Guess HN needs to banned then. Their news feed is designed to exploit my need for novelty and it works. I'm here far more than I should be. I guess I should expect the government to regulate HN to save me from it's exploitative pa
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by tokyodude 8y ago
what makes it awesome? reading the spec nothing sticks out. I often wonder if it's just ObjC survivor bias but if there is anything that makes it actually special I'd love to know.
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by tokyodude 8y ago
well in some countries they don't allow prices that high for services and drugs. no idea what problems that caused but ATM prices charged for various services and drugs in the USA are 3x to 10x some other countries
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by tokyodude 8y ago
I'm really curious where social anxiety comes from. I get it though not crippling most of the time. But for example public speaking I can logically see that I publicly speak any time I'm at dinner with friends or voice my thoughts
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by tokyodude 8y ago
my question is not "what data does Google collect". My question is "what data can I buy from Google" as op said that data is for sale
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by tokyodude 8y ago
Can you point me to where I can by this data Google is collecting? I'd like to see what data is available.
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by tokyodude 8y ago
why? example: blind person has cameras installed for eyes. Are they no longer allowed anywhere there is a no camera sign or is it seen as the restructing their rights? Can a person with long term memory issues augment to record so they can
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by tokyodude 8y ago
I see no correlation
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by tokyodude 8y ago
How do they do this? How is the device not trivially trackable ?
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by tokyodude 8y ago
> Are you entitled to a DNA sample from some skin cells that floated in the air while you were having said conversation? Yes. Why wouldn't I be. Those DNA are in my body. They might be infecting me in some way. Why would I not be ab
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by tokyodude 8y ago
or conversely not getting mugged on the street. Having lived in Singapore for a while there are trade-offs. I liked the feeling of safety I don't get in the west. I saw lots of fun times as well so to each their own.
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by tokyodude 8y ago
it's not enough for me (yet?) for the job to be useful for society at large. quit a job because altough it was useful I was bored
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by tokyodude 8y ago
maybe not exactly the same but it is aguable if the majority of people had to write check to pay their taxes instead of having their taxes auto-deducted by their employer they'd push much harder for lower taxes and less government spen
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by tokyodude 8y ago
there are lots of other issues. AFAICT HTML is allowed inline in markdown but the flowing inline HTML is interpretted differently depending on implementation some markdown text <div> some **inline** text
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by tokyodude 8y ago
By that arguement Apple should disallow all Appa. Any app could be a scan.
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by tokyodude 8y ago
I know of no hd-dpi wide screens. They's need to be about 7680 pixels across and at least 2140 down
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by tokyodude 8y ago
see post above yours. Apple is not protecting your privacy. in fact they are explicitly disallowing your privacy to be protected.
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by tokyodude 8y ago
that doesn't sound like Apple is protecting my privacy like they claim . it sounds the exact opposite of protecting privacy
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by tokyodude 8y ago
I keep plenty of containers and use them to store food or at a party to give people leftovers. I know in SF, Rainbow Groceries require/allows you to use your own contaners for many things. spices, gains, nuts, pickled things, ... The o
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by tokyodude 8y ago
Do they? In the USA there's Christmas merchandise in every store for 2 months. People buy trees, cars, tree decorations, candles, wreaths, house lights, cakes, egg nog, etc. etc. For Halloween custom stores open all over the place for
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by tokyodude 8y ago
Yes, part of my point was it's just culture. I grew up in Los Angeles. I lived in Japan for many years and got used to the various celebrations. I then came back to Los Angeles and noticed all the trees blossoming that I and pretty muc
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by tokyodude 8y ago
not sure why Japan is being singled out here. Nearly every culture has celebrations that are then commercialized. Christmas, Halloween, Valentine's Day, July 4th (USA), Spring Day, Flower Day, Day of the Dead, St Patrick's Day, et
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by tokyodude 8y ago
What I've noticed is rather it's culture. Cherry trees blossom all over the world as do other trees. Almonds, Plums, Jacarandas, lots of others. Nothing special about cherry trees except they got lucky that one culture decided to
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by tokyodude 8y ago
make it more like Japan means privatizing the public transportation and giving the companies running the lines the ability to buy and own real estate in and around the stations as well as not giving all lines to one company
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by tokyodude 8y ago
and lots who don't http://www.econtalk.org/extra/where-have-all-the-busboys-gon...
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by tokyodude 8y ago
Simple, which ever one switches first will lose all their users as they scramble to use a browser that still lets them watch the content.
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by tokyodude 8y ago
IANAL but I'm pretty sure Getty is guaranteeing you won't get sued From their license > Warranty of Non-Infringement. For all licensed content (excluding content marked “access only”), Getty Images warrants that your use of suc
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by tokyodude 8y ago
I wrote some basic for the first time in like 25 years. Forgot how there were no local variables nor parameters to functions. Everything is a global variable and GOSUB is just GOTO with a return stack (no parameters). Also forgot depending
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by tokyodude 8y ago
I had an opposite experience. OKRs were a complete waste of time. I was required to waste hours trying to come up with OKRs, none if which had anything to do with what my actual day to day work entailed. The OKRs were then promptly ignored
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by tokyodude 8y ago
Deadlines are effectively reality for many projects because tons of people and scares resources need to planned around them. Rallying against them is unrealistic Let me give some examples: You're making a product for retail. The stores

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