okcando

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by okcando 7y ago
Do you think it was necessary to be this hostile? The poster didn't claim to be an American and even if they are American, there are lots of different opinions on what things are important to spend time on and not everyone agrees that
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by okcando 7y ago
This may be the dream but is not and has not been the reality of rooting phones and flashing them with custom software. It's ugly, it's error-prone, and the software that attempts to simplify it doesn't and is of unknown trus
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by okcando 7y ago
Another way to approach interacting with other humans is to understand that the law only describes minimum expectations and isn't a replacement for ethics or common decency. You can use all the tools of the law to disadvantage others b
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by okcando 7y ago
I went through a similar change from my sparkier first years of driving as a teen and early twenty something to now. The motivation incidentally wasn't to improve economy or avoid citations. It was mostly to reduce the frustration of f
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by okcando 7y ago
What I find especially bothersome is that their resolution has, in practice, only cost their victims more. Because the time needed to fill out that form and provide the documents will have been worth more than the payout, if one ever comes,
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by okcando 7y ago
This particular example is an added expense but doesn't strike me as an extraordinary one, and brings with it many administrative savings to do with applications, enrollments, grading, payments, educational resources, and so on. These
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by okcando 7y ago
There certainly would be more murders if concrete deterrents were relaxed or eliminated. We definitely do not rely on the honor system to keep murder rates in check. In any case, someone raising questions about emergent behavior in the gene
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by okcando 7y ago
Trying to address a problem like this one by placing the responsibility squarely on end consumers seems like a mistake. There are too many of them in too many places and their behavior is harder to regulate. Placing the cost of disposal or
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by okcando 7y ago
This is nearly the opposite of what I would want from HTML or the web. A fixed layout is not going to work for all devices. Such a choice is tantamount to deciding that some classes of devices are not going to be supported, which may be a r
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by okcando 7y ago
How does this use case differ from (legal) distributed file sharing, like Bittorrent, which people do at home all the time?
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by okcando 7y ago
Sure, but it's not conventionally what is called "uptime", an uninterrupted period in a normal and responsive state. Voyager has had faults and been rebooted. In any other situation that I'm aware of, you'd have to
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by okcando 7y ago
I still get Corelle branded dishes, like you see at Walmart these days. I haven't broken one yet; they're remarkably durable compared to your usual ceramic pieces. That they're thin and light and a little translucent like chi
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by okcando 7y ago
Claims like this have been made from older generations to the younger and about every language since recording began. They were once made in Latin about a degenerate bastardization that eventually became French. Naturally, the French have i
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by okcando 7y ago
[Excentro]( http://www.excourse.com/excentro/ ) is fun specialized software for creating guilloche or "Spirograph" vector designs like you might see on bank notes and contracts and such. You can bring the resul
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by okcando 7y ago
I'd say that's a pretty uncharitable reading of my comment! That wasn't intended, to be clear.
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by okcando 7y ago
Eeeehhh... He's arguing for principles and I'm not comfortable with the claim that not having principles is every bit as valid as having them.
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by okcando 7y ago
In US law, you aren't supposed to be able to trademark or copyright things that are functional to the product, which I'd strongly contend applies to their word list and their algorithm, though who knows how it would play out if so
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by okcando 7y ago
Things not being free isn't a very compelling argument for inventing a problem and charging for its solution while adding no value. That's called rent-seeking.
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by okcando 7y ago
There are licenses to address that, though they're even more expansive or "viral", making the proposition less attractive. What I've seen instead is software project owners, tired of being profited upon by cloud services
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by okcando 7y ago
The way I see it, we're drawing from a pool where most ideas are bad. Most problems (or, more broadly, "systems") have unsettlingly narrow parameters under which we can secure a beneficial outcome. Like the human body: a very
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by okcando 7y ago
Yours is a good example, if a bit meta, of one side arguing in bad faith and being less legitimate than the other. Arguably so is this one.
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by okcando 7y ago
These tradeoffs aren't laws of nature and they can be changed. Discussing them, the economic and social forces behind them, and what remedies might exist is reasonable and worthwhile.
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by okcando 7y ago
By analogy, you might as well be asking if I've ever seen Rolexes get cheaper. Why are you talking about Rolexes and not watches?
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by okcando 7y ago
It's a seldom-acknowledged fact but ad hominems run both ways. If saying that he can't have been that good for his bad actions is an ad hominem, then saying he can't have been that bad for his good actions is surely also an a
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by okcando 7y ago
Would it be impractical to engineer a limited portion of the fuselage to withstand this scenario?
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by okcando 7y ago
> They gave the market what the market demanded at a cost they tolerated. This suggests a level of informed consent that I don't think existed. It implies that "the market" (who?) knew of, understood, and agreed to the ris
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by okcando 7y ago
OK, wise guy. There's a single bare lightbulb suspended out of reach in the void. The walls feel like ScotchBrite though you can't see them. You aren't wearing any clothes. The room begins to rotate slowly as if it were a lar
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by okcando 7y ago
An almost perfectly black and almost perfectly anechoic chamber with almost zero external sound. Peaceful or nightmarish?
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by okcando 7y ago
Surprisingly, you can microwave a stapled tea bag that's submerged in water. You can also get away with microwaving metal spoons but _not forks_.
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by okcando 7y ago
I've been trying to avoid groceries that come with single-use plastic and it's tough. Grapes and cherry tomatoes come in plastic bags or cartons, even at salt-of-the-earth type places. Meat or cheese from the deli gets a zip lock.

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