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by vageli 7y ago
> I don't entirely agree with the concept. Going through stressful situations can either hack away at your being or it can help make you a more informed and resilient person. > Pain can either be useful or useless. Physical exerc
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by vageli 7y ago
It appears you are the creator of this? You might want to consider reposting as a Show HN as they are typically received differently by the community.
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by vageli 7y ago
If the goal is gaming, GeForce Now and Moonlight are amazing. You can also get a remote desktop via GeForce Now but probably better just to use remote desktop.
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by vageli 7y ago
Frankly, I'm surprised the site didn't respond with a 302 redirect to SSL to avoid this kind of thing entirely (versus relying on client to specify the correct protocol).
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by vageli 7y ago
How is this a vulnerability?
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by vageli 7y ago
> As a candidate, be very careful asking interviewers ‘why’ the company does something in a particular way. > ‘Why?’ Is an aggressive question. I agree that "why" can be interpreted negatively but there are definitely more d
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by vageli 7y ago
> Is it possibly not a management problem at the core? I mean, I know exactly what you mean about suits like to ignore the future, but I've worked with a few 'wizards' who, once they've got the job under their belt, u
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by vageli 7y ago
Well I know tensions have risen with regards to Iran but they recently signed a deal with China to trade oil in Yuan. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2019/09/20/chinas-400bn...
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by vageli 7y ago
> I think it's simple. The US postal service uses postal inspectors to try and identify packages containing narcotics[0], and yet we don't make them liable for the packages they miss. Any attempt to moderate undesirable content
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by vageli 7y ago
Yeah I remember when the chumby came out I was debating getting one but couldn't think of a use case for it (besides the ever-popular-at-the-time live twitter feed or something along those lines).
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by vageli 7y ago
> Really academia needs a way to request comment on an experimental procedure without requiring results or conclusions. Then you could publish negative or questionable results and seek speculation from other researchers. I feel like anon
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by vageli 7y ago
> The thing is, the USA is the country with most tornadoes in the world. A solid house with thick walls is tornado-resistant. Yet, you lose thousands of plywood homes per year due to tornadoes, while the rest of the world builds real hou
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by vageli 7y ago
This is an aside but I wonder how a system that expired copyright based on sales and time would work out. Like copyright on a book expires in 10 years or $100,000 in sales, whichever is first. If the public loves the work so much that it ex
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by vageli 7y ago
Funny how the document itself doesn't provide for that limitation explicitly.
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by vageli 7y ago
> But LTE happened and there was a lot of money to be made to sell the spectrum to big corps... But isn't the spectrum owned by the government? There is no compelling profit motive for government-provided services. The sale vs grant
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by vageli 7y ago
The people who left their tribes (or were forced off) were effectively anonymous to any new group of people they might come across. So if you were kicked from your group for a misdeed, sure you could continue your bad deeds in the new group
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by vageli 7y ago
> At least with eBay you know the product you’re getting is actually from the seller you bought it from. > The likelihood is generally higher, but I've received drop-shipped items from eBay that come directly from Amazon & Wa
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by vageli 7y ago
I had a hyphema of my retina. Each time I visit a new doctor and they check my pupil dilation, I can tell they are disturbed when they move to that eye and it does not react. I've had doctors express alarm and tell me they were going t
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by vageli 7y ago
> I'm curious, if I have no internet access and gps turned off on my phone (Samsung Galaxy S7) is there still hidden shit which is tracking my location? .. Like, is GPS not really turned off for example? Your location can still be d
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by vageli 7y ago
You have not addressed why this is not a burden that should be shouldered by government versus business owners. > I'd much rather have robust systems, with good public health incentives, then I am to see business owners pocket a few
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by vageli 7y ago
As someone who has worked in the service industry as a server, manager, and eventually part-owner, why should we burden the business owner with the responsibility to pay when someone is sick and unable to work? This is compounded by the fac
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by vageli 7y ago
> From another angle, why would the customer spend their time (which has value to them) in a transaction where they don't get any? Well I for one always took issue with the rational consumer model. It is possible that people trade t
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by vageli 7y ago
> I feel like more people should consider euthanasia. If caring for you is a huge physical and financial burden, and you're basically waiting to die anyway, why not just get it over with? Most of the elderly (about 6 people) with wh
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by vageli 7y ago
The cynic in me wouldn't be surprised if these new plans were offered by subsidiaries of Kaiser or Premera. I certainly hope that isn't the case. (edit: deleted parent quotation)
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by vageli 7y ago
> I've had the privilege of seeing my parents take care of two of my grandparents in my parents' home after my grandparents couldn't take care of themselves any more. (In one case, for their final week, in the other case,
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by vageli 7y ago
This link [0] seems to suggest otherwise. [0]: https://www.hipaajournal.com/does-gdpr-apply-to-eu-citizens-...
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by vageli 7y ago
> Only the owner (or an authorized agent of the owner) can claim infringement. I suppose the claim of being an authorized agent is also free of perjury penalty. Forget perjury, why isn't this outright fraud?
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by vageli 7y ago
Isn't this at odds with the ruling in Amazon's favor about a similar issue? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-c...
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by vageli 7y ago
> Blokada seems to be very similar to DNS66, and is more actively maintained. Any reason to prefer DNS66? No, I've never heard of blokada. Thanks for the tip.
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by vageli 7y ago
On Android, DNS66 does exactly this, available on F-Droid. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.jak_linux.dns66/

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