spindritf

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by spindritf 12y ago
There is no connection between CryptoLocker and ad targeting. What you're proposing would do very little to thwart tracking (imho strong identities would make it easier) and completely kill the open Internet where I can send and receiv
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by spindritf 12y ago
Yeah, I'm not a google bot, I get that falcor wanted to call breitbart garbage.
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by spindritf 12y ago
If you're from the EU and looking for a tech-job over here, I'd be happy to help out How important is it to speak German?
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by spindritf 12y ago
You cannot simply extrapolate from smaller intervention but it does lower the prior for a larger one, of course. Maybe unless you have a specific hypothesis which predicts a non-linear effect. Also, exercising will actually do very little f
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When Korea imposed a limit on working hours, did it make people happier?(digest.bps.org.uk)
85 points by spindritf 12y ago|87 comments
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by spindritf 12y ago
Really? Seems to be mostly try-hard humour. http://computer-engineer-barbie.herokuapp.com/view/266 http://computer-engineer-barbie.herokuapp.com/view/402
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by spindritf 12y ago
Well, you can get a cheap VPS in the US, or UK, or wherever the content is available, and run youtube-dl there. You can also use a proxy[1]. Unfortunately, I think socks proxies are not supported yet[1]. [1] https://rg3.github.io
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by spindritf 12y ago
The frequent (almost daily, sometimes more frequent than daily) updates are really impressive.
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by spindritf 12y ago
Including non-video sites like Soundcloud and it supports playlists (downloads multiple files) on and off Youtube.
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by spindritf 12y ago
This has not been my experience but either way, let's say someone pronounces that 2+2=7. You could respond with "it's actually 4" (address the idea) or "anyone who believes 2+2=7 should be fired" (attempt to si
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by spindritf 12y ago
The threats of violence are usually empty posturing but there are other serious risks associated with speaking out online under your real name. In the US you can get "swatted"[1], which is an evil twist on usual pizza pranks. It&#
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by spindritf 12y ago
I'm rarely if ever troubled by UI changes but it took me a good moment before I figured out how to rerfresh your inbox in new Gmail. It's pretty obvious that you need to drag down when there are messages but without any (inbox zer
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by spindritf 12y ago
You set up a catch-all on your domain, and just make up whatever@domain.tld whenever you need an address. I have all my domains set up that way. Not even for unique addresses, just for convenience.
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by spindritf 12y ago
I still don't get it. Is there something in the name, a pun?
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by spindritf 12y ago
Those are lost on many people nowadays. And strike through imho looks better.
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by spindritf 12y ago
It's not. It's on par with the rest of the western world[1], maybe except Finland which is an outlier whether you include the US or not. At least as of 2009, I doubt it somehow collapsed since. Not to mention higher education, whe
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by spindritf 12y ago
Also, strike-through. Which is the one I find genuinely useful because I like the suggestive way to say s̶o̶m̶e̶t̶h̶i̶n̶g̶ then visibly correcting to something else. http://adamvarga.com/strike/
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by spindritf 12y ago
No. A proper certificate protects against malicious DNS resolver. What you're talking about is being introduced alongside DNSSEC, and it's called DANE. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS-based_Authentication_of
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by spindritf 12y ago
ACME sounds great. Copying codes from emails is suboptimal at best. Free certificate from command line and free revocation from the same client sound even better. I just don't know about the automatic configuration tool. Like webpanels
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by spindritf 12y ago
One can hope that once it happens a few times, journalists will maybe rediscover the basic ethics of their profession. Right now, they simply seem to demand a monopoly on digging for dirt.
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by spindritf 12y ago
I'm pretty sure the language barrier and a massive internal market do most of the heavy lifting here. Look at Yandex. The Great Firewall is a wash at best. It protects local companies from international competition but it's part o
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by spindritf 12y ago
I cannot treat complaints from journalists about digging up dirt seriously. This has essentially become their job. Were was this criticism when some guy's personal phone calls were broadcasted and dissected? When Gawker was buying peop
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by spindritf 12y ago
They have seen a couple of departures lately. Joey Hess[1] blamed the way decisions are made within the project[2]. [1] https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/on_leaving/ [2] https://lists.debian.org/d
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by spindritf 12y ago
I have set refcontrol[1] to forge referral and send google.com for online.wsj.com. Saves you the googling. [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/refcontrol/
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by spindritf 12y ago
The alternative explanation to easier access is "great stagnation." Discovery is slowing down, low hanging fruit has been picked, so older papers are relatively more important than they used to be.
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by spindritf 12y ago
The comment wasn't about poverty in general but about whether poor people work and how much. The ill-designed incentive structure and generally disappointing performance of government bureaucracy in helping anyone are worth noting, how
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by spindritf 12y ago
If everybody merely followed the standard and didn't extend their browser, progress and innovation would slow down quite a bit. At the very least, with Chrome Google put some fire under javascript performance and encryption/SPDY.
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by spindritf 12y ago
It goes against the preferred political outlook of downmodders. It could have been something as boring as a government statistic and it would have been downvoted just the same.
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by spindritf 12y ago
Personally, I use Google Apps with a vanity domain :) That's how I know. The only (free) alternative left seems to be Yandex[1] which comes with its own host of privacy issues. You don't really need a secondary MX when running you
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by spindritf 12y ago
Google Apps have always been a tack-on for many of Google's smaller services. Google+ was completely unavailable for Apps at first. Now Inbox is unavailable. It's a fairly conservative product targeted primarily at organizations w

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