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by zaksoup 8y ago
This was some fantastic investigating by Alex in this episode. Reply-All has done some really great journalism and reporting, including their episode on the fake tech support phone scam[0] and a more recent episode on the effect of the Back
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by zaksoup 8y ago
You’re right, this is tangential, and frustratingly derailing from the point I was making. > the fact is that a living human is killed in an abortion. This is absolutely the talking point of somebody pushing an agenda and represnting it
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by zaksoup 8y ago
I would push back on this bit about teenagers: > so they don't count as they aren't living on their own. I think it's a significant assumption to make that parents would be able/willing to cover a random $400 expense.
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by zaksoup 8y ago
This is such a fascinating and interesting question. I highly recommend reading the book 'Automating Inequality'[0] if you haven't already. My initial reaction to this question was 'I certainly would prefer groups of hum
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by zaksoup 8y ago
Exactly this: If one group feels harmed and another group asserts that there was no harm then the courts exist to solve this exact problem.
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by zaksoup 8y ago
Still haven't answered my question about how individuals can pursue legal recourse against a large company without allowing class actions to exist.
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by zaksoup 8y ago
you didn't really answer my question, and it also seems like the claim that there was no harm done is a bit specious, enough users to form a class certainly seem to feel harmed.
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by zaksoup 8y ago
Genuinely curious: what recourse exists for folks who aren't google-sized with google-sized legal teams to push back against bad-faith/illegal actions like this particular one. It seems clear that they acted against their users in
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by zaksoup 8y ago
Good question, and I have no idea. The conferencing system in meeting rooms was managed by a facilities team. Probably it was Skype for Business, given that? Now we're all using Zoom and it's much smoother. /anecdote
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by zaksoup 8y ago
Microsoft definitely has been moving towards a more cross platform software suite. My biggest issue is that Skype is by far the worst video calling platform. Zoom and BlueJeans long since surpassed hangouts, and even hangouts is better than
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by zaksoup 8y ago
The thing I was talking about was that around the time of Twitter's IPO (I don't remember the exact timeline) Twitter announced changes and limitations to 3rd party clients, including a 100k user maximum via a hard token limit[0].
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by zaksoup 8y ago
I deleted my twitter account a while ago but this is a new level of forgetting history. If I remember correctly Twitterrific/Iconfactory were the first folks to actually use the verb 'tweet', and absolutely provided the first
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by zaksoup 8y ago
Thanks for the correction!
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by zaksoup 8y ago
No disagreement from me here. I was just commenting on the mechanics of apple pay and why they can't just use the card on file with App/iTunes store.
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by zaksoup 8y ago
Apple Pay can't just charge the credit card on file with iTunes because Apple doesn't actually store bare card numbers for Apple Pay payments. They use the card number you input to access the provider's network and get a toke
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by zaksoup 8y ago
nit: I think the apple naming convention has been (name)kit and core(name).
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by zaksoup 8y ago
I think some of this is just confusion about "open" vs. "federated". Moxie doesn't like the federated model but anybody can write a signal client that uses the signal protocol (FB Secret Chats), and OWS's code
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by zaksoup 8y ago
Yeah I think you're totally right. The Author seems to be drawing a conclusion based on what is highly visible, but Matrix.org is both federated (what I think Thompson means by 'open') and supports e2e encryption. There&#x2
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by zaksoup 8y ago
This is some of the wrongest I've ever seen Ben be. I'm not sure how you can write an article about "open" vs. "secure" vs. "private" messaging/communication and fail to mention Signal (an "
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by zaksoup 8y ago
I think the parent is being pedantic. All the literature I could find on eFuses (including the wikipedia article) either used 'blowing' to refer to permanent writing, or '"blowing"' (in scare quotes). Whether o
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by zaksoup 8y ago
I recently read the book Nudge, if you haven't read it I strongly recommend it. [0]. The author just won a nobel prize for his work in socio-economics and it discusses exactly this. One of the fascinating examples discussed is a study
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by zaksoup 8y ago
Why is your link for Dutch disease an email address?
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by zaksoup 8y ago
I've got an FoST and I don't think it compares with the Civic Si or i30n/veloster turbo at all. It's a full 5-door, and the civic Si is only available in 2 or 4 door sedans, and with barely 205hp to the ST's 250. Ba
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by zaksoup 8y ago
I drive a Focus ST and I think it's the perfect bay area car. It's large enough (bigger than Fiesta) to fit me and 4 friends in relative comfort, or fold the back seats flat and fill it with skis and other gear for a weekend trip
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by zaksoup 8y ago
The example you cite sounds reasonable and not misanthropic to me. Disincentive personal car user/ownership and incentivize public transit use. Can you expand more on why you find that problematic?
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by zaksoup 9y ago
Requirements for licenses and regulations of that sort almost always end up entrenching existing businesses more than they help consumers. I'm about as pro regulation as one can get but I'm always leery toward suggestions that lic
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by zaksoup 9y ago
I really like this view. GetCalFresh[0] receives 30,000 applications for food stamps in 33 out of 58 counties in California each month . Not only is this absolutely a necessary utility but when it breaks or doesn't work the repercussi
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by zaksoup 9y ago
Wow. I was just sorta giggling quietly at what seemed to be a mild case of blogs-about-weird-things. I had no idea how deep the rabbit hole went
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by zaksoup 9y ago
Really, classic dilbert is Scott Adams blog posts about how Donald Trump is using hypnosis to control the electorate. What happened to that dude!?
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by zaksoup 9y ago
HI BRIAN

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