iamnotlarry

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by iamnotlarry 8y ago
I, for one, hope that a driver's license in not an acceptable ID for voting. It certainly is not sufficient to prove citizenship. Perhaps you think we control for that as part of voter registration. We do not. I registered by walking i
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by iamnotlarry 8y ago
I was responding specifically to a claim that people without a car must be poor and on government support. That was followed by a question about how many adults don't have Driver's Licenses. To the first claim I responded with exp
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by iamnotlarry 8y ago
This is completely separate from voting issues, but I tend to avoid settings where I am treated like a suspect. I certainly don't pay people specifically to treat me like a suspect. As you might guess, this means that I don't do b
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by iamnotlarry 8y ago
I have no way to count them. But I can give you one off the top of my head. My dad. Incidentally, he owns two cars.
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by iamnotlarry 8y ago
I live in a small U.S. town. There are not 10K people living within 25 miles of my house. While few here would admit to being rich, people who don't live here might see them as pretty well off. There is probably something close to 1 ca
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by iamnotlarry 8y ago
I have an ID. Last time I renewed it I specifically spurned the "Real ID" option. Which supposedly means I can't get on an airplane. I have since been on an airplane. But not one that required a loss of dignity. I did not pro
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by iamnotlarry 8y ago
That's an amusing video. Well framed. But as to your idea about life without an ID... I routinely refuse to show my ID to bank tellers, doctor offices, trains, planes, etc. I avoid most activities the require ID. There is one obvious e
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by iamnotlarry 8y ago
yes
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by iamnotlarry 8y ago
I wouldn't say that Google is high on my list of trust, either. But TypeScript and VS Code do not jump you into a #2 ranking. Go and Chrome easily trump them for starters. Then you get things like node that ride off V8, and Atom that r
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by iamnotlarry 8y ago
I don't think so. See, for example, Wells Fargo. It's hard to imagine an institution that has abused their customers in a more ridiculous way and suffered fewer consequences. People just don't seem to care how many times they
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by iamnotlarry 8y ago
Selling a DVD for 0.25USD is hardly snake oil. Perhaps you are confusing him with the official from Microsoft who testified that the discs were equivalent to the 25USD discs sold by Microsoft.
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by iamnotlarry 8y ago
I very deliberately don't participate in loyalty programs. Every single time I go through a checkout at a local business, they ask me for my loyalty info. Every single time, I decline. Then I swipe my credit card through their machine
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by iamnotlarry 8y ago
I wrote a very small resolve hook for node that does this. It makes the directory of the initial module / for all imports. Node has made resolver hooks like that dead simple.
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by iamnotlarry 8y ago
I think this is important. In the bad old days, I always developed in Firefox. I made a point of following standards. I despised IE. I still use Firefox as my personal browser, but some recent development I have done has been in Chrome. Mos
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by iamnotlarry 8y ago
Zuckerberg should invest in a competing startup. Something that can cash in on the anti-Facebook mania of the moment. Give users a cut of the ad revenue specifically generated from their pages and let them decide how much they will get paid
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by iamnotlarry 9y ago
No. Sorry. They did not cause an accident. It is important that your understand this. Note that I am not sympathetic to the driver of the car. They probably deserve criticism, but not blame for your slide. I know that you want to blame some
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by iamnotlarry 9y ago
I think you are making the wrong argument here. A bicyclist should have control of their bike. If there is injury involved, that is on the cyclist. (Dooring is another issue.) But I think the problem becomes very clear if you allow another
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by iamnotlarry 9y ago
I am not anti-gun, but this argument tends to trigger me. What "level of destructive power" do you really need to feed your family? Not much. A single-shot rifle would suffice. I have neighbors who own dozens of guns. Some of them
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by iamnotlarry 9y ago
This is written by one person who is one small part of gun culture. There are lots of angles in "gun culture." I live in a place that goes pretty strongly pro-gun. I think that most of "gun culture" around here is not mu
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by iamnotlarry 9y ago
You could do the same with wireguard, only the conf file would be about 6 lines of text. And you can understand the obvious purpose of each line.
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by iamnotlarry 9y ago
+ 2 weeks sick leave + x hours vacation/year of employment
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by iamnotlarry 9y ago
Then make it super easy to reflash them back to factory. Problem solved. Why are you contorting to find justification for locking?
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by iamnotlarry 9y ago
Speed bumps have proven to be undesirable tools in many situations. For instance, it is often the case that motorists will increase their speed after a speed bump to make up for the time lost because of the speed bump.
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by iamnotlarry 9y ago
Nuclear weapons are the reason Russia can invade Ukraine without consequence. And annex Crimea, and attack Georgia. They are the reason that Turkey can shoot down Russian fighters without Russia attacking Turkey. They are the reason USA can
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by iamnotlarry 9y ago
I visited a location this week where there were 2-4 houses per mile along country roads. The residents had a choice of ISPs. The house I visited had dialtone from a VOIP service. Yes, it costs money to build out last-mile infrastructure. Bu
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by iamnotlarry 9y ago
As a little experiment, I picked a random dot in the middle of Nevada--northern Nevada, far away from Las Vegas. I landed on this house: <deleted out of respect for the owner>. This looks pretty rural to me. Then I went to their telco
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by iamnotlarry 9y ago
The real snag in net neutrality, and "saving the internet" in general is not in getting a bunch of pop-up isps. The real crux of the problem has always been in peering relationships. It's not that hard to start a wISP. It&#x2
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by iamnotlarry 9y ago
grid fights with other css. For instance, shading every other row of a grid has to be done on each cell, not on a row, and becomes problematic if you set css order, or if you fill a row with fewer columns, etc.
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by iamnotlarry 9y ago
"Without electronics" except for the computer devices that have to be dedicated to monitoring for the back-scatter created by the 3-D printed objects and translate it into something meaningful.
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by iamnotlarry 9y ago
The supply of doctors in the U.S. is tightly controlled by interests best served when the supply is limited. This is not competitive pressure. Allow doctors to be "certified" by private organizations, then watch how quickly medica

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