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by zyxley 11y ago
It wasn't. The people doing it just pretended it was.
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by zyxley 11y ago
> It's not "exceptional." The problem here is... well, I'll make an analogy. I have a safe. The government gets a warrant to search that safe, and since I refuse to help, they get a professional locksmith to open the
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by zyxley 11y ago
Exactly. The Fourth Amendment should already be plenty for this, but a ton of exceptions have been carved out of it, along with the general interpretation that if your data is on someone else's server then no warrant is needed to acces
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by zyxley 11y ago
> It's amazing how little effort many seemingly qualified people put in to secure an entry-level job. That would be because when you're applying to a huge number of jobs per week and get no response for almost all of them, it g
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by zyxley 11y ago
I don't understand what makes this more useful as a text-based thing, rather than, say, something like the OS X right-click Actions/Share menus, especially when when the latter can work on fragmentary parts of other documents with
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by zyxley 11y ago
Yeah, it's fundamentally not "this is impossible" but "this is very hard and expensive", and very hard and expensive tasks have a remarkable way of becoming cheaper and easier over the long term.
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by zyxley 11y ago
> This is a roundabout way of saying "never build an online game for kids / I have no idea how Minecraft hasn't been sued over this yet" That's the basic problem of the MMO approach, rather than Minecraft's
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by zyxley 11y ago
> Am lucky to have rent control. Right now, if I move away, I wouldn't be able to afford moving back. SF-style widepsread rent control seems like part of the problem to me, in the sense that it hides the true extent of market distor
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by zyxley 11y ago
I'm honestly surprised there's never been any sign of a "Minecraft: Lego Edition" (rather than the physical "Lego: Minecraft Edition"), with mechanics basically identical to Minecraft now except with all the te
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by zyxley 11y ago
In my city, I've only ever seen billboards mounted directly on building walls (there's probably some local law involved but I have no idea what), which means that they're usually covering up a big, drab windowless expanse of
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by zyxley 11y ago
It looks like Autodesk Graphic is to Adobe Illustrator as Pixelmator is to Adobe Photoshop.
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by zyxley 11y ago
Yeah, to me this just looks like a case of false positive pattern recognition, given the relatively tiny number of conspiracy-theory-style complaints about it. All you need is some more or less benign targeted advertising by local extermina
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by zyxley 11y ago
The part of that whole affair that's simultaneously hilarious and incredibly sad is that the guy literally couldn't have tried harder to make that fire grow. He gave it kindling doused in lighter fuel, then he gave it more kindlin
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by zyxley 11y ago
> Backblaze The basic problem with Backblaze is that they delete remote files 30 days after they're deleted locally... which means that if something important is intentionally or accidentally wiped and you don't notice for a mo
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by zyxley 11y ago
I think it's pretty likely that a seisomograph somewhere else is going to notice an earthquake of that magnitude.
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by zyxley 11y ago
I don't see the similarity. Where are the disadvantaged and at-risk groups arguing that Facebook's name policy is a good thing?
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by zyxley 11y ago
Except in cases like those noted in the EFF's documents, where FB will change your publicly listed information without your consent and remove your ability to change it back.
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by zyxley 11y ago
> Did you not notice how the policy of replacing messages with farts is not limited solely to intolerant and disrespectful ones? Why do you presume that the author is going to take that action with any messages that aren't intoleran
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by zyxley 11y ago
A policy of tolerance and respect does not require being tolerant and respectful of intolerance and disrepect.
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by zyxley 11y ago
Don't forget the double-neckties fashion.
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by zyxley 11y ago
This is a really good idea.
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by zyxley 11y ago
I wonder if it would be feasible to have browser functionality that starts the download, then stops it once it has enough data to make an image the width of the element on the page. (Maybe then continuing the download later if it's res
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by zyxley 11y ago
> and don't care if some kid walks down the street alone http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/04/13/parents...
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by zyxley 11y ago
Many people are now overprotective of their children not because of fear of crime but because of fear that the state will take those children away if they're not kept in bubble-wrap and on leashes 24/7.
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by zyxley 11y ago
I have a desk like that (one out of a set rebuilt from giant wooden doors, of all things), but I find I only use maybe 6/10ths of the space.
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by zyxley 11y ago
Yeah, basically the only way this wouldn't scare me off would be if it was explicitly advertised as a siesta-style schedule - e.g. everybody works X hours/day but with a break of an hour or two in the middle of the day to do whate
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by zyxley 11y ago
It probably depends on if you've got one of the reps who's worried about being fired because they've gotten too many "I want to cancel" calls. It's not unusual for call centers to 'motivate' their emp
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by zyxley 11y ago
Direct pricing negotiation with hospitals might be easier. From what I understand many hospitals will reduce your bill, or set up a limited- or no-interest payment plan, if you're uninsured or underinsured and can make a coherent case
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by zyxley 11y ago
To me, it looks like structural core of some other, much more appealing but tragically unfinished building.
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by zyxley 11y ago
> and if I'm traveling I'm going to carry an external USB battery anyway because no practical smartphone is going to last for, say, a 7 day backpacking trip Same here. Basically the only situation where I'm still unhappy a

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