- I believe they no longer allow new accounts without an email address.
It used to be that reddit had a user creation screen that looked like you needed to input an email address, but you could actually just click "Next" to skip it.
The last time I had cause to make a reddit account, they no longer allowed this.
- Stephenson? Ah yes, the deservedly obscure dadaist prose stylist who thought it was cool to stop his books mid-sentence.
- Starlink has a use case.
At Voyager 1 speeds, it'll take 70,000 years for a probe to reach Proxima Centauri. So you'd just be launching a probe a year for the next 70,000 years to create a temporary chain on a course to fly by one particular star. And for what purpose? Okay, in 70,000 years, if everything works out as expected, we have a chain of probes on a course to fly by Proxima Centauri. What problem does that solve for us ("us" here being whatever is kicking around on Earth after a period of time 5x that of recorded human history thus far).
- centi = 10^-2
- > Got no compensation
Did you bring a lawsuit? In such a situation you don't need to rely on the kindness of people's hearts.
- Why flag a list of books? Is it specifically because it's from A16Z? If it's just "I don't like the books they've chosen" that seems like a wild reason to flag a submission.
- At one point this morning, this thread was about 50% posts by someone repeatedly pointing out that it wasn't the founder of Project Gutenberg who had passed away and being maybe a little precious about writing their dates with a leading zero.
Imo, it was a valid criticism.
- To cheat someone implies there is some obligation owed which is reneged upon, even if that's just the minute obligation owed from one member of a society to another.
In your hypothetical situation, I owe no such obligation to the Nazis who as you'll remember were an occupying force. I entered into no social compact with them.
- That's all well and good, but when you have to put your trust in someone and person A believes "it's wrong to cheat people" and person B has a whole framework for thinking about the problem on a case by case basis, you just go with A, right?
- > which are favored by [...] underage users (price point and potential seizing by parent/teacher/police).
- Everybody wants to be the one who overcame the odds or struggled bravely on. Everybody wants their story to be special because of how hard it was for them compared to everyone else.
I think some of it comes from the value the culture places on underdog stories and some of it comes from the oversaturation of everything in modern life.
- What does somebody buying hundreds of vapes to resell and then having them stolen have to do with individual customers, which was the original premise?
- U+1F921
- Reading the thread, I don't see how that's much of a defense.
A GNOME foundation member going through the thread to decorate the reporter's posts with clown emoji reactions is not great.
It seems reasonable to say "even if this is caused by one your library dependencies, users are using your application and you should try to find a mitigation."
If you get in a wreck because your brakes fail, imagine the car manufacturer saying "oh that's not a problem with the car, it's a problem with the brakes. Talk to the brake manufacturer."
"No warranty express or implied" and all that, but still.
- It's only existed for 6 of those years so perhaps you can be forgiven :)
The last time I wrote Python in a job interview, one of the interviewers said "wait, I don't know Python very well but isn't this kinda an old style?" Yes, guilty. My Python dates me.
If they successfully steer you towards Netflix produced content, you're less sensitive to what happens to the licensed content.