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by ygjb 6y ago
That's certainly one perspective, but OTOH if you play 1e or 2e monsters straight, there are alot of instant death effects that are much higher risk and far more debilitating impacts :) If the players are comfortable with it, it can b
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by ygjb 6y ago
The later reincarnation of Dungeon and Dragon magazines that coincided with the release of D&D 4th edition were exactly this, you could purchase a D&D Insider (iirc) subscription that included these two magazines and some online too
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by ygjb 6y ago
Were they a part of a mob swarming the baseball practice? If so, then yes, they were all complicit for not stopping an escalation of violence. If not, then no, it was a single actor. It's not that hard to apply a tiny amount of crit
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by ygjb 6y ago
That's some real magical thinking there. Why is it acceptable for the leaders of companies to subvert the company to serve the personal and ideological goals of the company leaders, but it's bad for the employees to do the same wh
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by ygjb 6y ago
And respectfully, despite the fact that Google is an objectively good place to work for many people (good pay, good opportunities for growth and advancement, etc), there is an abundance of evidence in recent years that for minorities, and f
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by ygjb 6y ago
No social media site needs to enforce restrictions on multiple accounts, the primary reason they do is to exert control over their users. Just off the top of my head a single use case: a reddit account for posts I make for myself, vs. those
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by ygjb 6y ago
What a completely ethnocentric and asinine perspective. I am not defending China here - obviously they are up to a lot of problematic atuff. If it wasn't the CCP, it would be Russia again, or if not Russia, then another emerging power
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by ygjb 6y ago
It's weird that when I tell my kids that when they want to help, but they won't help in the way that someone needs help, that they aren't actually helping, they understand it. Mozilla has buckets of money, between the Corpora
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by ygjb 6y ago
Honestly, at this point Google products should come with some kind of versioning and labelling for commitments. It would be far easier to choose Google services (and less irritating as a consumer) if services were labelled alpha, beta, prod
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by ygjb 6y ago
Meh. You are moving goal posts, and you are making baseless claims against an experienced reporter who is well connected in the Bay Area for a major newspaper. You are offhandedly discounting the reported experience of more than 20 people,
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by ygjb 6y ago
> You're arguing against a straw man here. [...] There's nothing even like that. And you are arguing in bad faith; there are several parts of the article that detail exactly what you are looing for. In the second paragraph, the
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by ygjb 6y ago
Insulting people wasn't my intention, but I have some uncharitable views of the HN community members that cry meritocracy and find founders blameless. You are correct that the people in the article that either filed complaints, or spok
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by ygjb 6y ago
It's only incongruous if you evaluate it in the context of people who expect to be treated fairly when they report mistreatment. There is a pattern of behavior minimizing the scope and impact of abusive or discriminatory actions across
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by ygjb 6y ago
You are correct; you can't direct money to Mozilla to develop Firefox, by way of the foundation. You can fund OSS contributors, not Mozilla staff (and they are well funded already, to work on Firefox).
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by ygjb 6y ago
Sure, you can donate money to develop Firefox, but it's not a core part of Mozilla's business model to support that. Instead you would need to track down an OSS developer that is either an active contributor, or who is willing to
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by ygjb 6y ago
The irony is that from both of these comments it implies you have a concern about the future and the stability of Firefox as both an open source project, and it's role in preventing a browser monoculture. Setting aside concerns about l
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by ygjb 6y ago
You are criticizing the "Canadian government" as being run by a bunch of clowns, then complaining about evictions, which is a provincial matter. The LTB reference leads me to think you are in Ontario. I agree that there are probl
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by ygjb 6y ago
Solidarity to all of the folks who have had to work with elected officials. I got ripped a new one because I recommended we disable a PHP project in the mid-2000s because a hay bale reporting app (report counts of bay hales on farms) due t
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by ygjb 6y ago
It's a problem since a large part of Apple's value proposition is positioning it's devices as luxury, high-end devices. Having obsolete and used devices generally available on the market at a large scale dilutes this brand.
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by ygjb 6y ago
The difference there is that Microsoft has a huge, dedicated security team, and has spent the last ~15 years aggressively improving their security posture, as opposed to some spyware author that decided to go 'legit'.
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by ygjb 6y ago
Ok, but how is Tik Tok a national security issue, but the fact that damn near every electronic device available on the market is manufactured in or out of components manufactured in China doesn't seem to be one?
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by ygjb 6y ago
It depends on the nature of the hearing loss, for example, FX-322 and OTO-6XX appear to work by triggering regeneration of hair cells, while OTO-413 appears to work by triggering regeneration of synaptic connections (both of which are proba
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by ygjb 6y ago
Generally, yes. The circuitry for power does more than charge the battery, it provides power regulation to prevent over discharge and reduce the likelihood of short circuits (among other things)
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by ygjb 6y ago
This is your opinion. In many parts of the world, criticizing a piece of accessibility equipment as unprofessional is likely an HR violation, and probably grounds for termination.
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by ygjb 6y ago
And I routinely placed in track races when I was a teenager, but funny how that doesn't help me with running as a middle aged overweight guy. I love the Mozilla mission, and worked at Mozilla for several years as both an IC and Manager
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by ygjb 6y ago
> we now have the technology to detect and divert such objects so hopefully it will not be an issue. Citations needed for that overly broad claim, because Armageddon was not a documentary.
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by ygjb 6y ago
Also, when you are homebrewing a device, vs say, shipping 400,000 devices to users, you just don't get the same economies of scale.
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by ygjb 6y ago
So uh, for the most part, $50-$60k/year is a middle class income, and depending on where you live, can be upper middle class (in the US, in USD; in Canada the numbers are lower in CAD). For the vast majority of workers in North America
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by ygjb 6y ago
Do you host it there because it's free, or because you are paying for it, and it provides the best value for your business?
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by ygjb 6y ago
https://seafood.ocean.org/ is a good international alternative; for example, Ocean Wise logos can be found on many menus in Vancouver and other Canadian cities.

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