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Thanks! Didn't realize that existed.

Replying to this so I can find this later.

I ran Privacy Badger for a while, but I have never actually seen it do anything. Not sure I messed up something, or if it was due to me already having an aggressive block list on u…

No pre-election analysis had Trump at 0%. Unlikely outcomes happen. If I put two blue marbles and one red marble in a bag and ask you to blindly draw one, you probably won't be too…

There are two different processes here: the DMCA and ContentID. If YouTube receives a DMCA request it will take the video down immediately (in accordance to the law). However, you …

It might not be farfetched, but we shouldn't jump to conclusions without proof. People essentially claimed he was bought and paid for by Verizon since the day he took office, befor…

>Ajit Pai, for example, famously worked for Verizon before government. Pai worked at Verizon for two years between 2001 and 2003. He was appointed as FCC member in 2012. How much l…

Google does not have the power to determine if something is fair use or not, that is up to the courts. You might think something is fair use, and I might disagree. We are supposed …

I think the attraction for writers were network effects. It's kind of like YouTube for text content. Recently, I watched a video about the game Crokinole on YouTube. Afterwards I g…

In Haskell you usually use `otherwise` for the last guard clause, like so: f x | x It took me a while to realize that `otherwise` isn't a keyword or bit of syntax. It's just a vari…

This honestly reads as "working as intended" to me. No side can become the tyrant and get everything it wants and screw the other ~50%.

Not him, but IIRC back when Steam Spy was a thing it discovered that most accounts on Steam only have one game on it. Usually Dota 2 or CS:GO. That makes sense to some extent since…

Not a lawyer, but my understanding is that this is dependent on if you are in a community property state or not. In a community property state (Arizona, California, Idaho, Louisian…

My gift to industry is the genetically engineered worker, or Genejack. Specially designed for labor, the Genejack's muscles and nerves are ideal for his task, and the cerebral cort…

Since everything in physics tells us that FTL travel is impossible (as far as I am aware), then when a civilization detects signs from another civilization in another solar system …

Sounds like what Yik Yak tried to do. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yik_Yak

Yes, but if you watch the news that fact is never reported. Instead you get story after story of robbery, murder, assault ...etc. TV news stations care about ratings, papers care a…

What you are describing has only been my experience in suburbia. Major cities are a lot more walkable as far as getting to a grocery store or convenience shop or whatever. I'm curr…

> If we were not on an anonymous website, we would probably not start the conversation with “I disagree.”. I do that in in-person conversations all the time. Although I'm probably …

I've copied lines from a shell script into a makefile and it copied the leading spaces as well. I didn't really think about it and when I ran make I got a bunch of weird errors. I …

Been a while since I've done Haskell, but the essential breakdown as I understand it is this: At lowest level you have the Control.Concurrent primitives: forkIO and MVar. forkIO al…

>The first example is missing the scope brackets likely enclosing the expressions Sure, but so is the Clojure one. So I guess it's more like: fun bar () { let x = 5, y = 10 foo(x,y…

>(print "foo") vs print("foo"). same same. If you look at things other than function calls, it starts to look different: let x = 5, y = 10 foo(x,y) vs (let [x 5 y 10] (foo x y)) I …

>If they were, would the denominator always be 100 or 1000? The numerator and denominator get automatically reduced to lowest terms (just like you learned in elementary school, so …

>An alternative to live meetings is to move any procedures involving the full House to a web-based medium, similar to HN. Can't wait for $PARTY party to yell "Conspiracy!" when the…