jamesbritt

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by jamesbritt 7y ago
Extra irony: I went to try Dogpile, but got redirected to some anti-something site (seems to not like my VPN IP) that wants me to do a Google Recaptcha.
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by jamesbritt 7y ago
People reference the essay, and in so doing they are referencing the whole essay, including the nasty parts. People doing this need to be aware of that; I suspect many are not. Being cited doesn't make anything true, so I'm not su
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by jamesbritt 7y ago
More about Hardin's essay: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/the-tragedy-of-t... > The Tragedy of the Tragedy of the Commons The man who wrote one of environmentalism’s most-cited essays was a racist
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by jamesbritt 11y ago
> But even if they were working on Pinboard, it's still a free service https://pinboard.in/faq/ What does it cost? Pinboard costs $11/year. Archiving accounts cost $25/year. Happy p
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by jamesbritt 12y ago
How do you know how simple it is for a CSR to offer you a refund? I don't. So I asked the CSR to please pass my request on to someone higher up. The response? Nothing. Zilch. Not even the decency to tell me, "No." I gather
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by jamesbritt 12y ago
You already bought it. It's done. Your option is to cancel at renewal or not. This is technically true. In the bigger picture we should judge people and companies by what they choose to do, not by what they have to do. Had Drobox eve
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by jamesbritt 12y ago
According to OP, he was knocked down to free tier but not issued a refund. That is incredibly odd, given that he already paid for the service To be clear: The knocked me back to the lower free tier and quota, and only restored the quota a
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by jamesbritt 12y ago
I'm not surprised at all that a company doesn't want to refund you because of a political disagreement you have with them. What's important here is how they handled this. A company can issue a refund anytime it likes, the
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by jamesbritt 12y ago
Dropbox is morally corrupt and support for them by HN users is disappointing. I wrote to Dropbox and said I wanted to cancel my account and get a pro-rated refund because of their hiring of Condoleezza Rice. Her involvement in the Iraq wa
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by jamesbritt 12y ago
Absolutely. The support for Dropbox here is disheartening.
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by jamesbritt 12y ago
Oh, very cool. Thank you.
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by jamesbritt 12y ago
Very cool. Props to you. I've a question that's not specific to this app but related to Web apps in general: When I think about installing a PHP (or Rails, for that matter) Web app I get a bit antsy abut security. I keep thinkin
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Latitudes of Acceptance(edge.org)
3 points by jamesbritt 12y ago|0 comments
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by jamesbritt 12y ago
Previously posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8227198
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California's smartphone kill switch bill has been signed into law(theverge.com)
2 points by jamesbritt 12y ago|0 comments
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by jamesbritt 12y ago
Wouldn't it make sense to create more interactive content so readers/users can try out the code as they go along? One upside to the days of paper-only was that I was forced to hand-enter a lot of code to see it in action. It ma
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by jamesbritt 12y ago
Do they let you carry that own or do they hold that until you get off the plane? The latter was my experience some years ago.
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Actor and director Richard Attenborough dies aged 90(bbc.com)
4 points by jamesbritt 12y ago|0 comments
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Sysadmin Posters from the 1980s(prostheticknowledge.tumblr.com)
4 points by jamesbritt 12y ago|1 comments
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‘Geek Sublime,’ by Vikram Chandra(nytimes.com)
1 points by jamesbritt 12y ago|0 comments
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The state and the state system alike are in trouble(the-american-interest.com)
2 points by jamesbritt 12y ago|0 comments
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The Evolution of the Headphone(ligo.co.uk)
24 points by jamesbritt 12y ago|31 comments
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U.S. Copyright Office: Photos Taken by a Monkey Can't Be Copyrighted(mashable.com)
10 points by jamesbritt 12y ago|0 comments
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by jamesbritt 12y ago
I tend to upvote helpful comments, especially if it's in response to something I said or asked. I like to also post a "Thank you" reply but I seems to recall some push-back on that because such comments don't (supposedly
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Getting Groovy With Reactive Android(open.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by jamesbritt 12y ago|0 comments
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Facebook tests “satire' tag to protect users from The Onion(m.ajc.com)
5 points by jamesbritt 12y ago|0 comments
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by jamesbritt 12y ago
Side topic: how is the hn dupe-detector not catching this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8183230
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Tate After Dark: Remote-controlled robots for viewing the Tate museum(afterdark.tate.org.uk)
5 points by jamesbritt 12y ago|0 comments
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by jamesbritt 12y ago
Seems we a lot of people coming here from Canada. Not sure if they're permanent residents, or just snowbirds. Ontario plates are pretty common (as are Illinois).
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On the Feasibility of Large-Scale Infections of iOS Devices(usenix.org)
1 points by jamesbritt 12y ago|0 comments

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