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by declan 8y ago
Section 4(J): "YouTube reserves the right to discontinue any aspect of the Service at any time." Section 6(F): "YouTube reserves the right to remove Content without prior notice." https://www.youtube.com/
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by declan 9y ago
If you have normal blood pressure (normotensive population), then a high-salt diet has no association with cardiovascular events and death: http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-67... &#
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by declan 9y ago
I think there is a big difference between merely requiring IDs (which as you say may well be the case today) and being subject to thousands of pages of regulations, of which requiring IDs is only a subset. For example, a big part of those t
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by declan 9y ago
Not quite illegal, but not quite legal (in the current relatively unregulated sense) either. I did a writeup of the Senate bill in the HN thread on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14567005
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by declan 9y ago
I tried here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14567005
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by declan 9y ago
This is a far-reaching bill that gives the Feds much more discretionary authority over digital currencies. The reason it's so far reaching is that it tweaks definitions that are embedded in thousands of pages of existing laws and regul
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by declan 9y ago
Any lasting solution would be negotiated by Congress.
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by declan 9y ago
Current headline: "GOP’s “Internet Freedom Act” permanently guts net neutrality authority" More accurate headline: "GOP’s “Internet Freedom Act” preserves 2015-era FCC Internet regulation status quo" Another headline: &q
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by declan 9y ago
<zabana>: The threshold question is: do you want to make money on a "cyberpunk-inspired" news site operated as a business, or is your "cyberpunk-inspired" hobby site expected to lose money--as hobbies typically do?
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by declan 10y ago
"Also, don't get me started on the construction here in the Bay Area vs. some of the amazing craftsmanship like the one seen in the article." Drive around Menlo Park south of Santa Cruz Ave and west of El Camino and you&#x2
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by declan 10y ago
Framing requirements have become far, far stricter. Here's one construction project currently being framed on the SF peninsula: https://goo.gl/photos/hdDmcqWkEuQenvku9 It's a one-story room with a 9' cei
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by declan 10y ago
I'm generally familiar with SF bay area construction costs so let me use that as an example. That "Saratoga" house is about 1,800 sq. ft; the cost to merely frame 1,800 sq. ft two-floor new construction on the SF peninsula is
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by declan 10y ago
NSLs are likely not the case here with Yahoo (and in fact are not the most significant privacy threat, IMHO). An NSL is a demand from the FBI, not a court order. NSLs also have unique First Amendment vulnerabilities that would help a compan
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by declan 10y ago
I'm acquainted with a construction worker who's the foreman for a general contractor working on the mid-peninsula. Current projects include single family homes in Palo Alto, Atherton, Woodside, and Menlo Park. The foreman makes $4
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by declan 10y ago
Silicon Valley wages would have to increase by something like 3x--or house prices would have to drop by over 50%--to make houses here as affordable as the national average. Neither is likely to happen. A median house in San Mateo County cos
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by declan 10y ago
I visited the NeXT factory in Fremont, and it certainly seemed state of the art to me at the time. NeXT Computer Inc. eventually became NeXT Software Inc. and ceased manufacturing hardware. That was 23 years ago. I'd be surprised if an
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by declan 10y ago
It looks like this guy's blog hosted photos of necrophilia (or what seems to have been labeled as such): https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2F1.bp.blogs... Anal fisting: https://www.google.com&#
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by declan 10y ago
At the very least I presume you'd acknowledge that the U.S. Constitution lists crimes including treason, counterfeiting, and piracy. I can't think of a more canonical way to "govern the people" than a state actor specify
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by declan 10y ago
"he could probably get away with five years at worst" For better or for worse, federal prison sentences do not work this way. There are sentencing guidelines, for one thing. Chelsea Manning is serving a 35-year prison sentence at
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by declan 10y ago
Yup. There's a lot of mischief in "so far." Some products take a while to build, especially when dealing with less-than-friendly .gov regulators.
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by declan 10y ago
Also price per square foot doesn't reflect lot size. Orinda will, I suspect, have larger lots than Rockridge. If you wanted to buy a decrepit 600 sq. ft shack on a 10-acre lot in downtown Woodside, a price per square foot metric might
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Feds put heat on tech firms for master encryption keys (2013)(cnet.com)
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by declan 11y ago
I think that was the case until a few years ago. Nowadays, Reuters reports, cargo ships have "massively" increased the number of guns on board along with people who know how to use them: "Like many merchant vessels, the QM2
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by declan 11y ago
If you had a dog walking service with a route that crossed my property without permission, and after some time I asked you not to do so, you might write a blog post trumpeting: "Property owner is shutting me down." But others migh
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by declan 11y ago
Unfortunately I'd say the headline on the linked Medium.com post (by the creator of Routebuilder) is a bit misleading. I feel for the author, but Google is not "forcing Routebuilder to shut down." Google is instead telling th
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by declan 11y ago
Quite right. I posted the below grafs in a discussion a few days ago ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10761048 ) and it seems relevant again. The median home value in Palo Alto is $2.5M per Zillow; in neighboring Menlo
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by declan 11y ago
The median home value in Palo Alto is $2.5M per Zillow; in neighboring Menlo Park with comparable schools it's $2M. If you cross I-280 for larger lot sizes (and generally, though not always, more house square footage) you'll see t
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“It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture..encryption products” (1997)(thomas.loc.gov)
2 points by declan 11y ago|0 comments
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Bring Back Poindexter’s Baby: Total Information Awareness(wsj.com)
1 points by declan 11y ago|0 comments
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by declan 11y ago
Take a look at Google Photos. It's very good and getting better. I'd like it to have more advanced options, but it's probably the best choice and well integrated with Google Drive and Google+ (if you use it).

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