throwhauser

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by throwhauser 5y ago
I don't know anything about Epic Games, but as a huge fan of Bandcamp, this feels like a bit of a drag. There's something about Bandcamp that seems exactly right. It's an open, fair and creative way to discover and publish m
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by throwhauser 5y ago
"Fight with" can mean "fight for" or "fight against", which do you mean?
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by throwhauser 5y ago
That makes no sense. If Russia had an effective way to conduct its business without SWIFT in the event of sanctions, it would also have a way to conduct its business outside of SWIFT any time it has something to hide. To follow your analog
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by throwhauser 5y ago
> ...a Soviet guy decided it was best not to send missiles back In that case the judgment was whether the telemetry was reliable enough to justify launching a retaliatory strike, with all the grave consequences that produces. An unambigu
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by throwhauser 5y ago
> But it's only valid for US citizens. The US Constitution is applicable to anyone within the jurisdiction of the US, regardless of citizenship or immigration status (including undocumented).
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by throwhauser 5y ago
Good. There was something absurd about having to accept id.me's terms-of-service, which involved "deals, discounts, cash back rebates and employment and educational opportunities", to access government services online.
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by throwhauser 5y ago
Didn't think of that. Just saw my iPhone rocket down from 50% to 10% one time too many and instantly ordered the new Android phone.
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by throwhauser 5y ago
I just tried saying "OK google" to my phone and it did not summon the assistant. (Hooray!) I have the generic "Google" app disabled, which I think is the thing that listens on the microphone for that. I don't real
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by throwhauser 5y ago
The lack of a headphone jack was one of the reasons I was reluctant to get a new iPhone.
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by throwhauser 5y ago
It's strange that it has to be this way though. I just retired my iPhone 6s because the battery didn't last very long anymore. I don't really need anything but text/phone/email so I didn't feel like shelling
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by throwhauser 5y ago
After-hours on-call is a thing that needs to be destroyed. A company that is sufficiently large that the CEO doesn't get woken up for emergencies needs to have shifts in other timezones to handle them. I don't know why people pu
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by throwhauser 5y ago
If you're being attacked with a wrench, wouldn't you want to avoid deniable encryption? If there's no way to 100% establish that all the money has been extracted, an attacker might keep going indefinitely to see if there&#x
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by throwhauser 5y ago
What does it do that can't be accomplished with something the size of a remote controlled car?
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by throwhauser 5y ago
"To help you fool yourself" seems like a euphemism for "to fool you". It's gotta be tough to go from "scant knowledge of S3" to genuine knowledge if the documentation is doing this to you. If the docs are
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by throwhauser 5y ago
Writing out the digits gives a more visceral impression of the difference in weight, from roughly one, to a six-digit number, to a nine-digit number.
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by throwhauser 5y ago
It seems somewhat strange that a company selling a service to EU customers might be in trouble for using Google Fonts in a jurisdiction (e.g. Germany) where there are ways to identify a user by means of IP address [0]; but a weblog that was
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by throwhauser 5y ago
> The issue is if a person visits a resource from a company in the EU Does it have to be a company in the EU? I thought the GDPR covered any website an EU citizen, resident, or visitor might use, in which case US-based websites might ha
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by throwhauser 5y ago
> The IP Address is NOT the only thing that makes this data into personal data. Can you cite a reference for that? I fully believe that Google is using cookies for this, but that doesn't mean that the legal authority here isn'
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by throwhauser 5y ago
If a lockdown and travel restrictions, with limited duration, could have contained the spread of COVID or some other disease, I don't think it's an unreasonable impingement on civil liberties. Practically speaking a few weeks of
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by throwhauser 5y ago
The author of the piece seems to be taking the tweet about half the journalists under 40 living in that area pretty literally. I don't know if the author of the tweet intended it that way (and if he was speaking figuratively I wouldn&#
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by throwhauser 5y ago
The police wouldn't have to raid the family members, they'd likely give up what they know immediately, to avoid become accessories to whatever crime the police were alleging.
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by throwhauser 5y ago
> If you want good online validation for the public, you need a third party right now. I should not under any circumstances need to enter into a direct agreement with a private entity like id.me in order to access public services. The g
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by throwhauser 5y ago
It's not just the potential for a breach. I didn't want id.me itself to have my information. It's ridiculous to have a private company, not accountable to the public, gatekeeping government services, regardless of how many
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by throwhauser 5y ago
What a bizarre essay. It has a Modest Proposal vibe, but since "Poe's law" is a thing now, I can't tell if it's satire or not. Morality is conspicuously absent, but I'm concerned that devoting any thought to
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by throwhauser 5y ago
I don't think improvised desks are inappropriate for early-stage startups, especially in the 1990s. Apple started in Steve Jobs parents garage.
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by throwhauser 5y ago
> it was the anonymity that was the civility I've noticed this as well. People fight like animals when their reputation is at stake. The way that the internet lures people into making public, attributable statements means they can
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by throwhauser 5y ago
> you trade a crypto with "bad history" for a crypto without bad history and just like that even the strictest exchanges will happily give you an off ramp into fiat Who is on the other side of that trade? If it's an ident
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by throwhauser 5y ago
> We had a free society and democracy before the internet. But if the internet had been developed earlier, we would have debated something like this in the past.
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by throwhauser 5y ago
I was with you up to here: > And Zuck is very smart. The moment I saw the rebrand to Meta I knew that he saw this day coming perhaps years ago. He knows the next frontier is the meta verse Zuckerberg has been a surprisingly good steward
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by throwhauser 5y ago
Isn't it Jump Trading that is out $320M? Didn't they put up the money to make sure the maliciously created Solana tokens were backed by [whatever they're supposed to be backed by]? Jump doesn't own the tokens now, do t

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