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forgottenpass

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About forgottenpass

I forgot my old password, I'll try better this time.

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    Comment #22487975

    >To be clear, if you dispute and counternotice everything This isn't happening under the DMCA, it's Google's own brand of copyright process more tailored to appeasing the giant med…

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    Comment #22479052

    I vehemently implore you to spend some time outside the Valley bubble.

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    Comment #22368595

    But how'd they get there in the first place? Contact with a D12 is terminal? What set our hypothetical failure apart from a 20-something guy that drinks, does drugs, plays games, i…

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    Comment #22367968

    >the amount of men don't cry, men don't show emotion >I'm actually sad that most men don't feel like they can talk about their vulnerabilities and emotions. Do they not talk about …

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    Comment #22366565

    >After living on the google tech island for a while, it's surprising how much of this people have tried to "solve" You're missing the point of the article. Most people and organiza…

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    Comment #22357890

    You're assuming this was a "didn't know" failure mode, not a "didn't care" failure mode. I'd wager it was a "didn't care". They knew about the limitations, figured the product woul…

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    Comment #22356961

    >If you feel attacks on toxic masculinity are attacks on you fathers/husbands/sons maybe there should be some thought about what about their behavior overlaps the above, and whethe…

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    Comment #22326841

    How is point "C" anything more than "People on that side of the fence are not thoughtful, unlike people on this side of the fence"?

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    Comment #22326695

    >This seems like a pandora's box. Of what? Damages can rarely be calculated perfectly. It's not the court's fault Apple falsified timecard data.

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    Comment #22318124

    So my personal email account just got $490/year more expensive? Or $24990/year if we count non-english dictionaries? And I ought not to have it because I'm not hosting an online st…

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    Comment #22317829

    >They help teams manage complex interdependencies by creating strong ownership boundaries, strong product definition, loose coupling, and allow teams to work at their own velocitie…

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    Comment #22310399

    >Mostly what we have are jigs. [...] Of course, it's not a shitty jig like in the bad old days of shell scripts[.] Instead of making it out of scrap wood, we now make it out of scr…

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    Comment #22266084

    underrated comment

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    Comment #22256364

    >I'm pretty clearly undermining the idea that there exists an authority that can identify the social ill of "purity spirals". You can't undermine a point nobody is really making. M…

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    Comment #22251385

    What's to take away from this? Automate deployment? Fine but boring. That's the prevailing dogma today. I don't remember where the devops hype train was in 2012. Package management…

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    Comment #22248879

    >Thing is, the only way they can succeed is if people take it seriously and keep the spiral going. Why would that stop anything? I spent half an hour over Christmas explaining to a…

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    Comment #22248605

    >But in the mean time I get to enjoy the irony. There are so many fun words like this. I've only recently gotten any good at seeing the metagame strategies evolve. I used to get wo…

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    Comment #22248048

    Your line of conversation was spiraling towards the philosophical underpinning of knowledge. The parent poster cheekily pushed you off the cliff and ran away. Appealing to the auth…

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    Comment #22205676

    Because everyone in TV knows that TV isn't about the truth, honesty, information, or any of that hogwash. It's about selling ads. Cable TV "news" is outright corrosive to our civic…

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    Comment #22204054

    >I've never heard this stereotype of Tesla drivers. Really? Tesla drivers are like 2% tech enthusiasts and 90% the kind of people seeking the latest and greatest flashy car.

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    Comment #22203688

    Stolen from reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/thelastpsychiatrist/comments/70rbuu... : > ten years ago Steve 'Asshole' Jobs played a hilarious prank on all the digitally-illiterate 2…