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854karma·217submissions·December 11, 2016
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I think Wikipedia has it wrong actually after reading more closely. It’s not a way to solve the year 10,000 problem, as in a date formatting issue akin to Y2K, as Wikipedia suggests. Instead it’s to g…
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Guessing it’s from following the style of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Now_Foundation …
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The noughties!
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When I sign up for a service, I don’t expect them to break the law on my behalf, regardless of their advertising.
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I pay for both, use them for different things, but to be clear, fastmail does not have the encryption features that ProtonMail does. Not a direct replacement if you’re interested in the privacy aspect…
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I’ve used the iPhone app daily for almost 10 years at this point and it is reliable for me. What problems do you have?
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One of the best TV shows of all time, I second your recommendation. Rare show that gets better with each season.
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> You're on a ship going between destinations, but there's no light-speed shortcut, or jump-cut to the destination. Instead, you have to maintain the ship for the entire duration of the j…
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Yes
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In NYC, you typically need to earn 40x the monthly rent in annual income to not need a guarantor. 73k / 40 = $1825/month in rent. The median 1 bedroom apartment in NYC is $3,263 according t…
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“In a word, no.” I thought this was crazy.
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This is John Britton, not Jeff Lawson, but an example of the live coding. Epic demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VuXIgp9S7o …
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Woah! I love Neptune’s Pride, thanks for the game! While in college, I stayed at a hacker house airbnb over the summer with a bunch of newly befriended tech friends, and I got us all playing. I have f…
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“It’s not just about child mortality, life expectancy increased at all ages” https://ourworldindata.org/its-not-just-about-child-mortalit... …
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I find it amusing that you live somewhere known for such an obscure tendency.
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They’re joking. The cliché in criminal investigations is the suspect needs means, motive, and opportunity to commit the crime. You gave motive, so means and opportunity remain.
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Related: Who Does That Server Really Serve? https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s... …
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Since you said you don’t know much about licenses, I suggest you check out https://writefreesoftware.org/learn/copyleft AGPL is a copyleft license, MIT is not. There’s good reaso…
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In New York, reservations are often necessary. A lot of restaurants don't do walk-ins.
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We can just put them on the street, replacing parking spots.
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Yeah, in monopoly you don’t have to pay rent if the property owner doesn’t notice.
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I’m using a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ to run Steam Link to stream games from my desktop computer upstairs to the TV in the living room. I managed to connect some XBox series controllers to it using Blue…
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Totally off topic, but I just got two Xbox Series Controllers working over Bluetooth flawlessly, connected to a Raspberry Pi, using xpadneo driver. Can highly recommend that driver.
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I think those two are the most reputable VPNs. I’ve used ProtonVPN for years just since I wasn’t aware of Mullvad at the time and can’t be bothered to switch. I believe ProtonVPN hasn’t had infrastruc…
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I use DDG and never feel the need to add !g, but if you do, try using !sp instead. Startpage takes Google’s results and proxies them.
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I’m curious how this works with AGPL. Do they not have to release the source of the paid version?
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Even Blu Ray isn’t DRM free unfortunately. Hard to own movies at all.
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I've written about this phenomenon specifically with regard to intuitions and vegetarianism. Our intuitions are from system 1 thinking, which includes (for you and me) "yuck, meat". But…
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