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by will4274 7y ago
Uber offers ride-sharing services (Uber Pool) and Taxi services. As a frequent Pool rider, I'm not sure what else you would call it besides ride-sharing - the three of us taking the Pool don't own cars and wouldn't have other
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by will4274 7y ago
Parent is suggesting a new regulatory category. Even if we accept that the gig economy is detrimental overall today, in theory this new regulation would bring it up to a different point. I'm not sure how you can conclude that it's
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by will4274 7y ago
Agreed. And sometimes X is not permitted or unlikely to be permitted. In my day job, I work at BigCorp and I get questions like "how do I Y without Z?" Often, the answer is "you shouldn't Y without Z. In order to have a
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by will4274 7y ago
They helped write the new standard and it's been a standard for years now. There is really no excuse.
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by will4274 7y ago
This is an anti-feature. Firefox enabled a deprecated standard because Google couldn't be bothered to move to the current standard. Classic catering to the big players.
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by will4274 7y ago
You're trading things to update. Either the bug is in the standard library and you need to update the standard library or the bug is not in the standard library and you need to update not-the-standard-library. Either way, the maintaine
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by will4274 7y ago
What's the point of saying that a standard library feature was not added soon enough? Nobody can go back in time and add it earlier. I can complain to death about features missing from C++11 or I can start using C++14.
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by will4274 7y ago
> The article text does not really support the headline While that's true, it' mostly because its a bad article rather than the headline being wrong. Of that 4.1% gain over 40 years, 0.9% were in the the past year. America is s
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by will4274 7y ago
When you consider that it's 0.9% in the past year, and 3.2% total in the 39 years prior to that, it seems more like something to celebrate. https://www.bls.gov/news.release/realer.nr0.htm
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by will4274 7y ago
From netmarketshare.com: - XP market share: 3.57% - Vista market share: 0.23% - Mac OS 10.10 market share: 0.51% (10.10 went out of support the same year as Vista)
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by will4274 7y ago
> No, it was quite unpopular, period. See: https://xkcd.com/528/ I've always read this comic as making fun of people for having unjustifiably low opinions of Vista.
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by will4274 7y ago
How many people can recite their SSH key? Surely an SSH key is "something you have".
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by will4274 7y ago
Not parent, but I didn't like: > the increasingly severe hurricanes and wildfires that are racking the country From my own understanding, increasingly severe hurricanes have been predicted but not observed and wildfires have a bit m
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by will4274 7y ago
> young male angst Tbh, it's this sort of thing that fuels the alt right. I'm a young male and I have some political concerns. I don't consider myself alt-right. But, when you dismiss my concerns as "angst" - I&#
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by will4274 7y ago
Parent's argument is that the government already has photos of all international travelers and the government already has a written record of each international arrival and departure. So, the delta between a written record of border cr
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by will4274 7y ago
> Claiming that Keith Ellison or Julian Castro are representative of the Democratic party Don't slide the goalposts. This is not a claim I've made. The exhaustive claim ("no Democrat with standing") came from the pers
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by will4274 7y ago
Does Keith Ellison not count? He famously wore a shirt that said "I don't believe in borders." He was a congressman from 2007 to 2019. What about Cortez who's slogan is "abolish ICE"? If there's a differen
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by will4274 7y ago
From the article: > The IJOP system, which keeps track of practically the entire Xinjiang population, alerts authorities when a person unexpectedly crosses virtual "fences" by driving past a certain checkpoint or checking into
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by will4274 7y ago
> Democrats aren’t in favor of open borders Citation needed. Cutting the enforcement budget for border patrol to zero (as Julian Castro proposes) is open borders in all but name. > It’s dishonest and in bad faith ... To pretend that s
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by will4274 7y ago
> many Isn't it basically just the UK?
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by will4274 7y ago
I've also had email from Google recruiters (@google.com email addresses) go to spam. I considered this a high level indicator that Google spam filtering is incompetent, not malicious - if it was malicious, they would at least be able t
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by will4274 8y ago
Yes. I'm an American and America was founded by a bunch of religious offshoots who were being persecuted in their home country for being offshoots (protestants) rather than having the majority religion of their peers (Catholic). Religi
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by will4274 8y ago
It's not just the old web. Google's results for political content or content with political implications have become increasingly strange in the past couple years. I noticed this when trying to recall the story of a false rape acc
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by will4274 8y ago
> Whether they were harassing is a matter of opinion. Perhaps. But the question of who approached who is a matter of fact. Initial reporting claimed the teenagers approached a group of Native Americans. The videos clarified that the Nati
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by will4274 8y ago
> they're also not a "minority group" by the common definition of the term. How not? The Chinese government locks them up, murders them, and harvests their organs because they disagree with the communist party. Sounds like
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by will4274 8y ago
I find the stupid names childish, but I don't think the evidence is cherry picked at all. Linking six different examples of Apple bowing to China's censorship isn't cherry picking, it's making the point well. I wish more
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by will4274 8y ago
There is a trend where all climate events are said by news sources to be indicative of climate change. Abnormally warm winters => climate change. Abnormally cold winters => climate change. Drought => climate change. Hurricanes =&gt
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by will4274 8y ago
> What sites currently let me authenticate with WebAuthn? Microsoft sites like Outlook and OneDrive.
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by will4274 8y ago
> The point being that airlines can and will fly airframes that in one way or another would be illegal to manufacture today for safety reasons Of course, this is also true for cars. The vast majority of cars on the road would be illegal
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by will4274 8y ago
It's difficult to imagine how this could be implemented in practice without automation. Stopping an automatic process seems more like action than inaction. With a site-wide canary, an person updates the document and asks legal to confi

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