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Interesting side effect of having to choose calendar years is that it misses the break between Xmas and New Years' Day that is often a good-value time to take off (and many people …

... > very plainly morally and ethically unambiguous unambiguous[ly] _what_? Bad? Good?

As mentioned - only works for YT. I also don't know if the crowdsourced skiplist works for podcasts as well as for youtube ads, since I think a larger proportion of podcasts use dy…

Do shops usually show both prices, so you can see before you have it rung up "how much the government is fleecing you"?

Agree that it could be seen as excessive, but this was not just in response to these commits, but also to the university's failure to act once they were informed of them. They univ…

> We just want you to know that we would never intentionally hurt the Linux kernel community and never introduce security vulnerabilities. Our work was conducted with the best of i…

I think that it's straightforward enough in Australia, but that's partially because we file and pay only federal taxes, with states levying payroll tax, land tax (or stamp duty), e…

This reminds me somewhat of people who aren't particularly skilled at math, or are proud of not being particularly skilled at math. A common refrain is "I'm hopeless with math/numb…

On android, Firefox beta (and maybe stable; haven't used stable in a while) allows you to have bookmarks as well as open all links in a private tab by default. On desktop I use mul…

> On Android this is more acceptable since you need a Google account for the OS itself anyway. I don't think you do, I'm pretty sure I've skipped that step during device setup on o…

> If you show up at the polls to intimidate voters you get arrested. Yes, if this is consistently and fairly enforced, I agree - only doubting that it is because I honestly don't k…

I don't quite understand why the expect that there would be ~6x the number detected, though, assuming that the ~8500 cases detected is accurate. It would be very (and probably stat…

I'm not sure that refusing a gay wedding cake to a straight person would avoid your action as being discriminatory toward a protected class, since that's the effect. Perhaps it wou…

Not sure where 15,000 to 45,000 comes from, as the report itself concludes only c.8500 cases of duplicate voting. I'm also not sure about the methodology there, so perhaps someone …

I don't know whether the distributed nature is a problem, though. Voter intimidation is a lot easier, for example, if you know where and when to turn up. You would probably find it…

Firstly, thanks! This has been immensely useful to me, and yes, my main uses have been primarily web scraping and then piping it into various channels. Been running it on a cheapis…

Interestingly the most... clever, if not necessarily convincing, phishing attempt I've heard of, went like this: 1. Phishers call someone and pretend to be from their bank. If they…

I get these calls from time to time, and any bank with proper training should be 100% okay with you questioning their authenticity. There are some replies which indicate that the a…

Whoops: [2] indicates that using singular they is as good as 'he' for male referents, and better than 'she' for female referents.

Studies around singular they/them: [1] it was in use long before the prescriptivist grammar movement (yes, I know you've raised that this has shifted but I just wanted to highlight…

Well, that's not entirely true either. > The driver's coming at 5pm and they're always on time, so we'll need to be ready for them. Seems pretty unambiguously alright to use it in …

I don't know if we're in the minority, but I agree. Facebook has just become the defacto shared calendar for me and my friends, so I spend less than a few minutes on it on average …

You don't necessarily need to hire a lawyer, but I've always found this to be one of the pains of the American costs system. On the other hand, a court can't really order you to wo…

The legal enforceability of browsewrap is questionable. Certainly if it's not prominent enough, it would be a weak argument.