chimeracoder

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by chimeracoder 1y ago
> Strange. I remember reading nothing but complaints about Pocket when they bought and integrated it. I guess it grew on people. They bought Pocket to assuage complaints from people that they were "selling out" by including an
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> I’ve been at sea when a 3m tsunami passed, we barely felt it. How far out at sea were you? And how did you know at the time?
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Yeah, removing the quotes from the title in the submission (which may have been done automatically or by a mod) completely changes the meaning of the title as read.
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> my understanding is that Visa/Mastercard police their perceived brand risk primarily through broad statements that are then interpreted by payment processors in detail. Visa aren't the ones saying "Women having sex on th
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> Content widely accepted to be immoral and/or illegal such as non-consensual pornography (that is explicit content posted without the consent of those filmed) and child sexual abuse material is forbidden. This is what the pornhub t
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> That's an interesting effect but I really don't think that's a significant driver here. It really seems to me like they're just being threatened by activists, journalists, and activist investors. Right-wing groups l
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> It is European law, as in EU law, not law from a European state. In EU matters, the teleogocial interpretation, i.e. intent applies I'm not sure why you and GP are trying to use this point to draw a contrast to the US? That very m
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by chimeracoder 1y ago
> That was before Uber... Get outside a major urban area and it's extremely difficult to find an Uber at the hours when you'd expect to be leaving a party to go home. Heck, this is true even in some suburbs of New York City.
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> Unless we're arguing that people simply didn't socialize before cars existed. No, the argument is that cars changed how society is physically structured, to the point where society at large is designed to center car-based tra
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> Obviously? I think I've had this phone call myself a few times, although in my experience it was never from a statistician and they didn't give me as much data, but I'm pretty sure the story is mostly accurate. Yeah, the
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> That’s always a good idea, but they’ll still be able to tell when someone is home because the outbound internet traffic will increase. Sure, but not necessarily who is home, since they won't have the MAC address of your device(s
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One takeaway from this is that there's a strong privacy case for disabling the built-in wireless network from your ISP-provided modem/router and using your own, to reduce the number of ways that your ISP can surveil you.
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> an alternative interpretation is that the union workers know more about how to safely do underground work than accountants and supervisors do. As someone in New York who supports congestion pricing and public transit, I will say this:
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Did you try searching for it? The first result on Google for "daringfireball.net flat design 2013" is https://daringfireball.net/2013/01/the_trend_against_skeuomo... Tack on site:news.ycombinator.com, an
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by chimeracoder 1y ago
> That's quite a rewrite of history considering Windows Phone and Microsoft's Metro interface launched a full three years before Apple's move to a flat design in iOS 7. Even Android had moved to a flatter design pattern 1-
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> I've always thought of these VC fueled expeditions to nowhere as the opposite. Wealth transfer from the owning class to the middle class seeing as a lot of these ventures crash and burn with nothing to show for it. That would be t
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> What hosted products has Apple dropped? iCloud might stop supporting old devices but that doesn’t stop you from keeping the data on device or accessing via a new device. Apple is a bit of a weird case because historically they've
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> and I will never trust Mozilla with any service again. Who will you trust? Google? Apple? Microsoft? It's not like any of the other behemoths have a better track record when it comes to long-term maintenance and availability of ho
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by chimeracoder 1y ago
> I'm not quite following here. What is Hochul supposed to do about Adams? Remove him from office? That's a power the governor has, and which the previous governor (Cuomo) threatened to use for petty personal disagreements with
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> Again, anecdotally. This point came from a bartender in the east village, who has indeed driven into the city every day for years. To be clear: you're basing your understanding of the effects of public policy from an offhand conve
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> Anecdotally that seems to be the case. The largest burden of this tax is falling on low income commuters who live off the train lines and have to drive into Manhattan, yet all of the money is going to... the train lines (MTA). Understa
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> You may well actually be prediabetic though, it just depends on the specific numbers for A1C/average & peaks combined over time and not the presence of a response itself. Just to clarify - A1C is itself an easily-measured prox
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> "You" is often plural. If we're being pedantic (which we absolutely are at this point), "you" is always plural, and plurality is sometimes used to denote formality or respect for a singular subject (analogous
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by chimeracoder 1y ago
> Just read the CBS article linked by the author. As she mentions it always cited WaPo. And it now it properly cites her, too: I wouldn't say it properly cites her. It says that the Washington Post reported it first, which is nons
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> HN also does the same for far left authoritarian ideologies, those are also here and upvoted. Appropriately, this reply (which is exactly what I was expecting) is itself an example of the effect I'm describing: the false presumpti
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> I have yet to hear a coherent description of what "woke" even fucking means that doesn't ultimately dissolve into a pot-pourri of personal grievances. Exactly - that's the entire point of a dogwhistle.
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> Like all other forums, public and private, HN has an ideological filter. I'm as surprised as the next person that the HN ideological filter turned out not to be permissive enough to discuss the downfall of the free society that fo
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AFAIK Selley Joseph was charged, but she was not arrested. Arresting a judge in this sort of scenario is essentially unprecedented.
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> Why are some people so obsessed with protecting people with no regard for our laws This is a wild statement for someone to write in defense of people who just broke the law while arresting a federal judge who was herself attempting t
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> Sometime in the past few years I saw a new wrinkle: password must be changed every 90 days unless it is above a minimum length (12 or so as best I recall) in which case you only need to change it yearly. Since the industry has realized

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