tomc1985

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by tomc1985 5y ago
Yeah but $9 for a beer is already insane in most locales. Most bars charge $5-$7, going down to $3ish (or even a dollar) for a cheap beer in a lower-income area. Unless these restaurant owners are already capped out they have a lot of wiggl
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Business owners can raise their prices slowly. You know, boil the frog. Surely that prevents the harsh reactions that customers have to suddenly having the price raised?
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by tomc1985 5y ago
The concern here is more that a lot of old websites embed ftp:// URLs into their links, which this will break. Now they have to be handled by an external protocol handler, and I'd bet most of us don't have one set up, so
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by tomc1985 5y ago
I used to agree with this, but with how easy it is to run MITM attacks these days I think there is a pretty compelling argument for removing plaintext FTP. I don't think FTPS should go, but tbh I don't think I have ever encountere
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by tomc1985 5y ago
As some other comments point out, security hardening doesn't directly raise company value. It's hard to justify in the short-term. Attitudes about it are much better now than they have ever been, but there are still a lot of folks
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by tomc1985 5y ago
> So is your argument that it's not just "hardcore nerds" capable of successfully building the systems in this thread? Because that's been my entire point. My point is that we are not closed to outsiders. Anyone can b
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by tomc1985 5y ago
You bring up a very good point, and personally I attribute this to the tyranny of shareholder primacy. At least here in the states, nothing is going to change until there is an alternative that places shareholders at a level that is at most
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by tomc1985 5y ago
To the first point... some stores do. Hell, even fast-food restaurants in some big cities hire armed guards to keep the peace. Have you ever seen a McDonald's with armed security? I have. And in any case the threat surface is way diffe
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by tomc1985 5y ago
You can call it those things but it falls away for those who put in the effort to learn the skills at an acceptable level. We don't care where or how you learned it. Can you do the work without fucking it up consistently? Then you&#x27
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by tomc1985 5y ago
It increases adoption at the cost of everything turning to shit
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by tomc1985 5y ago
> Or...you know....as with all technology, just make doing the _right thing_ easier and cheaper. This has proven, over and over, to make things worse. Important levers get removed because Joe Sixpack can't look at more than a label
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by tomc1985 5y ago
God these "we're so ignorant!" responses are sooooo tiring. If people don't want to hire the hardcore nerds that know this shit, if they don't want to pay for the expertise to work the technology they build their b
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by tomc1985 5y ago
The problems were never with kodi, it was always the platform or the hardware. I've been running the same Kodi setup (basically just setting up SMB access to a shared network drive) since XBMC on my modded Xbox. Odroid on both their Ub
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Which is weird because that is absolutely not the vibe that I am getting every time it comes up
915.
by tomc1985 5y ago
I don't know, that argument isn't super compelling. It kind of reminds me of that one marketer at SXSW a while back that wanted the whole conference hall to have "idea sex" as some weird way of framing brainstorming or i
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by tomc1985 5y ago
I did this with odroids instead of RPI and got sick of dealing with issues. Shield TV has been great as a kodi-and-netflix-and-nothing-else box up until now.
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by tomc1985 5y ago
But that rebellion is from a stimulus of some kind. It's a subculture in rebellion from disenfranchisement, war, fascism, or what-have-you. There is anger and lots of other negative emotions. This vision is too bland and perfect to be
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by tomc1985 5y ago
They need to ditch the 'punk' word if it's not dystopic. Like have these people forgotten what it means to be a punk?
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by tomc1985 5y ago
First of all, where is the 'punk' aspect? There needs to be an aspect of dystopia to use that word. This sort of organic-growth-everywhere aesthetic is not new, it has been in utopian urban visions for the last 20 or 30 years. Per
920.
by tomc1985 5y ago
I agree. Fuck the regular folks! They are a cross upon our backs
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Slab City is it's own thing. It was probably a nightmare because they are not trying to appeal to you... or anyone I think it's the only semilegal squatting village in California
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by tomc1985 5y ago
I don't understand, why is spinning metal not good enough? For the large amount of storage required it seems like it would be a good idea.
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Honestly the way the touchbar handles volume is about the only thing I like about it. It's also literally the only thing I use on it besides the software "ESC" button.
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by tomc1985 5y ago
It shouldn't cast doubt on the value of politeness, but it does cast doubt on its application and where and why it is appropriate. Are you saying that this legacy has not cast any shadows on modern culture?
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by tomc1985 5y ago
It's fucking ironic how AWS selling point was how it was more cost-effective than managing your own infra. Yet another classic SV-style rugpull.
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by tomc1985 5y ago
I don't think that politeness is inherently racist, but it has been used as a tool of racial suppression, and as a way of keeping itinerants in line https://www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/news/jimcrow/question&#x
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by tomc1985 5y ago
I can afford not to care. Sure in situations resembling servility I might have to revert to a more polite manner of speaking, but I make great effort to avoid them as they are debasing. A lot of the folks here on HN are responsible for the
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by tomc1985 5y ago
> Vulgarity is often just a verbal tic for the inarticulate. If this doesn't apply in your case, then you and your message will be disadvantaged by association. This is incorrect. Vulgarity is the strongest possible choice when eval
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by tomc1985 5y ago
I understand your point but I think that emotional suppression is a much greater crime than failing to be polite. After all, politeness has quite a storied history in being used to suppress and control people that are used to being 'ot
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by tomc1985 5y ago
My vulgarity is an expression of frustration in their overall apathy to the consequences of their actions. Forcing people to smother their feelings in the name of 'genteel' discussion does a disservice to those who feel oppressed

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