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by miend 9y ago
I also heard Psyonix was considering bringing Rocket League to the platform. If they do, that would be another very good reason to get it. But I agree that BotW would be the only reason I'm interested in the console at all -- similar t
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by miend 10y ago
For some input from someone who's never been a Zelda fan (me), when watching this game, I think I understood the hype. Previous Zelda titles never interested me, but this one looks like it takes some of the best elements from the Dark
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by miend 10y ago
Like any other hosting, if it's in the US, it must be considered compromised in these terms. That's the world we live in now.
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by miend 10y ago
I use this combo whenever possible, though the number of services yet supporting FIDO/U2F is still a bit disappointing. It's been incredibly convenient to be able to use my bitcoin hardware wallets to double as U2F keys wherever I
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Rangzen: Anonymously Getting the Word Out in a Blackout(arxiv.org)
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by miend 10y ago
Quaker oatmeal is sugary? I thought it was simply "oats". I've never noticed any sugar that I haven't added myself.
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by miend 10y ago
I can imagine this being made illegal when mass physical shop tracking becomes the norm (more than it already is).
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by miend 10y ago
I'm not sure why you would say something like that. The original TextSecure and Redphone apps were exclusively on Android until it got bundled into a single app and released as Signal on both platforms. Android is still often ahead, an
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by miend 10y ago
What about a lifestyle where you have time to take a break, but you don't want to spend that break preparing, eating, and cleaning up after food? You'd rather spend it, say, reading a great book, working on an interesting side pro
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by miend 10y ago
> It's not just eating it, it's all the flavours and ingredients and cooking with friends and loved ones and parties and such. One possible angle for explanation is that if you're already missing these things, there's
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by miend 10y ago
Lenovo Thinkpad T-Series here, all hardware functional out of the box. Additionally, any Dell I've tried it on works just fine (XPS 13 has explicit support for it, too). In fact, in most cases it "just works" these days, but
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by miend 10y ago
Not to mention we have little means to increase our understanding, because the code is closed-source proprietary (along with everything else).
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by miend 10y ago
Judging by his comment, it doesn't seem he's advocating for forcing a private entity (or at least this particular one) to do anything "against their will". Instead, he's moving his business elsewhere because of a po
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by miend 10y ago
Given the Cato Institute is a libertarian policy think tank, I'm not sure how the second group would maintain that idea.
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by miend 10y ago
Very easy to use Circle to purchase bitcoin with a regular card, then move that bitcoin to your own external wallet. I can recommend this as a smooth experience.
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by miend 10y ago
How is it so ruinous? It's a fairly bog standard way to say "naïve", "ill-advised", and so on. Hopefully you wouldn't let the rest of the content be overshadowed or dismissed by a particular pejorative. OP stil
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by miend 10y ago
Looking at projects like this, it almost looks like Google is actively seeking to become some kind of additional branch or agency of the government -- one with powers to do what the Fed can't, so they sell their services to those same
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by miend 10y ago
Don't forget that they're also entirely complicit to NSA demands for live access to data as well, per the somewhat-recent leaks. That's another level of evil above regular profit motivations.
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by miend 10y ago
Not OP, but laundry for me consumes about that much time, since I swing by a local (self-service, in my apt complex) laundromat to drop things in the wash, which takes a couple minutes, swing by again to transfer to dryer, and then the thir
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by miend 10y ago
The US Constitution must blow your mind, then, because that's largely what it does.
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by miend 10y ago
I'll admit that I went with a Thinkpad T430 over a Macbook Pro partially for this reason (I was also planning to run Linux on either, and I could get all-Intel on the Thinkpad). I still personalize it, but it's refreshing being ev
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by miend 10y ago
He was denied the ability to travel (US revoked passport) while making a connection in Moscow. The US's actions trapped him there -- it was not his destination. Do you believe he had any reasonable choice at that point but to accept th
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by miend 10y ago
I'm ready for ornithopters if you are. And then heighliners.
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by miend 10y ago
https://whispersystems.org Open Whisper Systems' Signal is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted messaging client which can handle your regular SMS/MMS traffic, as well as (better) encrypted text communication between
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by miend 10y ago
This sounds like the kind of day which, as I lie in bed at the end of it, leaves me feeling very anxious for having effectively done nothing with it. I'd at least throw in some physical exercise -- that ought to help. Or any kind of cr
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by miend 10y ago
I don't know if the freedom of Bandcamp's model is the primary psychological factor for me in this behavior, but I find myself much more liberally spendy (paying more than what the artist usually asks, if it's an option) with
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by miend 10y ago
I'd also add that microservices have increased value if you begin with such an architecture in the first place. It's much more difficult to "gracefully" rip an existing monolith into modular pieces than to build modularl
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by miend 10y ago
To my shame, I started with a low-effort comment instead of fleshing out what I meant, but there are several more (and more powerful) difficulties regarding the election system than simply "people are lazy/can't make it to th
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by miend 10y ago
#1 way to increase voter turnout: Make it not seem pointless.
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by miend 10y ago
It sounds downright Orwellian. The government, its banks, payment processors all having the ability to instantly lock you out of the economy and watch your every transaction, leaving you totally out of options should you get on their bad si

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