mithaler

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by mithaler 4y ago
You don't stay in business for 100 years by coasting. I can see they've kept with the times in ways other than the video goes into; from a quick Internet search, they own the domain https://customfabricflowers.com/
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by mithaler 7y ago
If what you really need is security, then I don't see how (1) and (2) can be overriding concerns. If I were in a situation where my life depended on my messages being confidential, my choice of medium wouldn't turn on the convenie
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by mithaler 10y ago
I have to disagree. I'm a programmer, but I'm not good at math. I know this. And yet, the Tau Day Manifesto explained the geometry of the circle to me more clearly and understandably than any of the math classes I've ever tak
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by mithaler 11y ago
By this logic, Coinbase basically can't win. If they do what they need to do to allow Bitcoin to become popular -- that is, make it as pleasant to use as a bank with credit and debit cards -- they essentially become a bank, thus earnin
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by mithaler 12y ago
You can argue that "undocumented immigrant" doesn't capture the actual meaning, but that doesn't make jorgeleo's point any less valid: the action is illegal, not the person.
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by mithaler 12y ago
More detail on the cycle-stealing bit, which caused an alarm during the Apollo 11 lunar descent, which the AGC's priority scheduling allowed it to recover from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer
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by mithaler 12y ago
My understanding, unless I'm wrong, is that a Title II reclassification can be done unilaterally by the FCC without Congressional assent (though it would immediately be sued by all the carriers). Accordingly, I'm reading it as a p
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by mithaler 12y ago
Without remarking on the relative rightness of the moral stands in question, the difference between being vegan and switching to a new social network is that the latter affects people beyond the person making the moral stand. It's perf
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by mithaler 12y ago
We can probably go back and forth for hours on whether I'm being "defeatist" or "realistic". :) I would love to see positive change in this area, but we need to be aware of what's really important to our inte
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by mithaler 12y ago
Today we have users voting with their feet: eg I use Twitter/I stopped using Twitter after they pissed off the developer community. The fraction of users who actually do this is so tiny that they don't make a dent in Twitter&#x2
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by mithaler 12y ago
Not just "ideally"; I would go so far as to say that the situation where the rejected person does not gracefully accept it is the point at which anyone in that situation has first done something "bad". (We have a term fo
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by mithaler 12y ago
Do you mean "arbeit"? http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Arbeit
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by mithaler 13y ago
There's a difference between an explanation and an excuse; rayiner was giving the former, not the latter. In any case, is it a flaw of our government that our legislators write laws that the majority of people happen to want? The fact
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by mithaler 13y ago
I love Turntable, and it's sad to see this, but it's not a huge surprise; for their whole history they've offered an amazing service and charged well below the true value of the service (they only added ads recently). I figur
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by mithaler 13y ago
I still remember using Aardvark, which got shut down shortly after Google acquired it. This seems to be similar. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aardvark_(search_engine)
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by mithaler 13y ago
https://developers.google.com/cast/
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by mithaler 13y ago
How does one make the claim that a response to an action was disproportionate, without implicitly claiming that the action that precipitated it was a lesser evil? Either way, I don't think either of us is ever going to convince the oth
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by mithaler 13y ago
Whether Aaron's actions were morally wrong is irrelevant to a discussion of the morality of MIT's response to them?
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by mithaler 13y ago
I do not believe MIT was a bully. A bully is someone who harms others because they can; MIT was responding, I believe reasonably, to a person breaking into their network closet and violating their terms of access. That that person happened
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by mithaler 13y ago
In the hypothetical you raise, Weev is at best an unprovoked aggressor, and at worst a bully who harasses people because he can. In contrast, MIT can reasonably claim that Swartz was the aggressor against them; he was the one who sneaked in
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by mithaler 13y ago
So you automatically assume any allegation leveled against the government to be true until someone in the government spends effort disproving it? Is it really so much to ask that we criticize the government for things that we know it actual
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Jerrold Nadler Does Not Think the NSA Can Listen to U.S. Phone Calls(theatlanticwire.com)
2 points by mithaler 13y ago|0 comments
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Uber drivers protest for better pay and treatment in San Francisco(theverge.com)
1 points by mithaler 14y ago|0 comments
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by mithaler 14y ago
That depends on what your standard of accuracy is. http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/08/accuracy-takes-power-o...
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by mithaler 14y ago
I happen to live on the 7 train, so I know a fair bit about the difficulties of installing it there. The 7 train is still controlled entirely manually, with the old block-based signalling mechanism that can only be aware of the location of
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by mithaler 14y ago
The move to MTP was because Android now uses a virtual file system that unifies the SD card and internal storage, making it unsafe to allow a foreign OS to munge the content of the filesystem at the block level. This is why it uses MTP for
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by mithaler 14y ago
Law enforcement agencies routinely unravel money laundering schemes that are much more sophisticated than this. You really think this'll stop them if they have a reason to investigate your funds?
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by mithaler 14y ago
What is it about this comment that you worry is so "controversial" or "dangerous" that you wouldn't consider posting it under your real name? (I'm not saying you should, I'm just curious.)
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by mithaler 14y ago
As an aside, I'm starting to doubt the inherent value of Internet anonymity in the first place. There are obvious good uses for it: Wikileaks in its heyday comes to mind (that is, the time when they were actually a wiki, releasing leaks whi
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by mithaler 14y ago
Dunno about iOS, but Chrome does on the desktop; it asks you for an application-specific password when you turn on sync.

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