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by pyre 2y ago
The title is written from the perspective of the original problem, not from the solution. It then leads the user through the process of discovering why the bytes were 'disappearing.' From the perspective of the original users the
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by pyre 2y ago
Sounds like the real issue is "we are replacing X with Y" and there are use-cases for both X and Y to co-exist.
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by pyre 3y ago
There is plenty of information that you wouldn't necessarily want to publish, but wouldn't be the end of the world if it were leaked either.
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by pyre 8y ago
Gen Y == Millennial This is why there is a Generation X/Millennial "transition" group of people that is sometimes referred to a Xennials[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xennials
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by pyre 8y ago
> Very few people walk around with that amount of cash today. ... because the cops would stop him, insinuate that the money probably had something to do with crime, and then seize it to line their own pockets cough cough I mean &quot
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by pyre 8y ago
> I'm fine with anything non-ionizing Marie Curie was also fine with working with Radium... until we found out that it wasn't good for you. The thing about stuff like cancers is that it's really difficult to say "th
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by pyre 8y ago
You know that saying controversial things about Apple has basically always been his schtick. It drives pages views when people get all upset and flood into the site to read the article so that can go back to Hacker News/SlashDot/R
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by pyre 8y ago
> not really all that different from many things that Dvorak has written over the years Dvorak's writing has always been about being contrarian and kicking up controversy.
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by pyre 8y ago
> Right, and such a concession to be agreed on by Canada would require an equally beneficial concession made by the U.S. no? The way that Trump likes to negotiate that's not necessarily the case. He may think that he can get huge
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by pyre 8y ago
We're sort of focusing on digital here, but some of the IP rights stuff in the agreement would make certain generic drugs available in Canada illegal... so the prices of medication would go up since you could no long buy the generic br
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by pyre 8y ago
That's what the article is claiming, but not what Tesla is confirmed though, which is what this thread started with. Tesla's statement says no such thing.
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by pyre 8y ago
> High prices isn't a signal that we have run out, it is a signal that more mines are needed. It is likely the market will heed the signal. It is a signal that there is a high demand, and not enough supply (whether naturally or ar
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by pyre 8y ago
> - Tesla declined to comment on the specific memo, but confirmed that it had asked this of some suppliers. Tesla confirmed that it was seeking "price reductions." Tesla's statement is not confirmation that they are runnin
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by pyre 8y ago
IIRC, Colloquy (a macOS IRC client) used to do this. Each IRC channel was basically an XML feed, and the theming was just XSLT applied to the XML feed and the output displayed in a WebView widget.
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by pyre 8y ago
I'm thinking it has more to do with spread than concentration. Trace amounts distributed over the entire universe, vs trace amounts in a localized area.
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by pyre 8y ago
Not everyone hears about the name change because it doesn't make the same headlines as the original controversy. So people still associate the controversy with the old name, and have maybe never even _heard_ the new name yet.
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by pyre 8y ago
There is no one to point the finger at (i.e. blame) when something goes wrong.
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by pyre 8y ago
> I would guess that with antibiotics, meat production can be like 20% more efficient, maybe somewhat more. But at great cost. The farmer makes more short-term profit, while offloading the externality of dealing with the consequences (
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by pyre 8y ago
This has been known for quite a while. I'm sure you could come up with quite a few sources if you really wanted to, though I'm not sure how well the phenomena has been studied (seeing as we still don't know what causes it).
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by pyre 8y ago
Most of these devices are insecure not because the attackers are hyper-sophisticated, but because the software is rushed and a second-thought to the hardware. There is no one (in power) at these companies that cares about crafting quality s
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by pyre 8y ago
One thing that I realized is that in the past whenever I've had to replace my power adapter for an Apple laptop, it's always been the small cord from the adapter to the laptop that gets damaged... which requires the entire power b
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by pyre 8y ago
The part you're missing is: ... to third parties. They aren't spoofing the domain, they are just making sure that outside parties to an SSL connection will have a difficult time determining where that SSL connection is goin
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by pyre 8y ago
How do you propose that they implement domain-fronting to circumvent censorship from their own servers?
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by pyre 8y ago
> They are under no obligation to give out something for free just because others think they should In the same vein, they are under no obligation to _not_ give it away from free. Their actions are purely a choice, free from obligation
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by pyre 8y ago
"Coming from a rich family" or "part of a Native American tribe" is not a wide enough distribution of people to draw conclusions. Any failures / successes could be down to the environment and may not be able to be e
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by pyre 8y ago
Git has something similar called git-notes, but at the time I tried using it, it was really early-days. No idea how support is working for that now. You could also make an annotated tag, which has it's own "commit message", b
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by pyre 8y ago
> Animals often fuck without consent (although most other mammals have mating sessions that last less than 15 seconds). ... are you advocating non-consensual sex should be legal?[1] I don't think so, but I'm not really sure h
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by pyre 9y ago
> So far, all of the gloom and doom scenarios from the repeal of net neutrality have failed to emerge How quickly do you expect these things to happen? Overnight? This isn't Hollywood. The moment the decision is made storm clouds
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by pyre 9y ago
Both Google and fastmail support IMAP (and IIRC POPv3). There are a great _many_ clients (and backup scripts) that support these protocols. In light of this, how is Thunderbird the last way to download emails?
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by pyre 9y ago
I was commenting more on dismissing the issues of others because you have not personally experienced them. There could be numerous examples used in place of the BSOD.

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