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GalacticDomin8r··on Ask HN: Why can’t I block all incoming calls that aren’t in my contact list?
You stated they are vital. This is an assumption. They are not vital. The real consequences are already part of the system and the collection agencies serve no purpose but to harass and annoy.
GalacticDomin8r··on Ask HN: Why can’t I block all incoming calls that aren’t in my contact list?
They are vital in the same way mosquitoes are vital to the ecosystem. You try to assume they must serve some higher purpose greater than blood-sucking(eg food for fish), but nope that's it.
GalacticDomin8r··on Ask HN: Why can’t I block all incoming calls that aren’t in my contact list?
Your provider/mvno should allow you change that one easily. I just did with mine that some spammers had. Works great except new one is on the school districts notification list with no easy way to opt-out. But that one is easy to block.
GalacticDomin8r··on The potential risk to ZFS created by the shift in its userbase
Not sure where you are getting the push from to use RAIDZ over mirroring. Definitely not from ZFS proper. It's all about what's the best for the situation. Most my things are ZFS mirrors. But given a choice between RAID 3/5/6 or RAIDZ, I don't have to think long.
GalacticDomin8r··on Farms, More Productive Than Ever, Are Poisoning Drinking Water in Rural America
Economies of scale like everything else. An example is big farms have their own veterinarian staff.

Much of the government management eg subsidies are also favorable to big operations. The expertise of knowing about them, filing and complying correctly, and in some cases even qualifying all are weighted to large players.

GalacticDomin8r··on Remote code execution vulnerability in SQLite
Yeah, of the browser or plugin. SQLite is neither although does have a local exploit.
GalacticDomin8r··on FreeBSD 12.0 is now available
8 straight to 11 is not a supported process at any point in the FreeBSD timeline.

The canonical path is something like(this is documented somewhere):

8.0 > 8.4 > 9.0 > 9.3 > 10.0 > 10.4 > 11.0 > 11.2

Although I've had decent luck jumping straight from X-STABLE branches.

GalacticDomin8r··on FreeBSD 12.0 is now available
Maybe the init system in the 90's was similar when Slack was compared to contemporary Linux distros. There is very little modern resemblance. I wish this perception would go away. Spend a day with both and I'd put money on an honest person never making this claim again.
GalacticDomin8r··on Abandoned Frank Lloyd Wright – Tour of Shams Palace, Iran
Something about "lasting" and "maintenance woes" doesn't quite belong.

Op did acknowledge the artistic value, so not sure why your response is simply an appeal to artistic value.

GalacticDomin8r··on Maximizing password manager attack surface
Also forgot step 1a, which is get your subtitle right. The title at least is mildly interesting.
GalacticDomin8r··on How America lost its love for the stick shift
Yeah and zipper merges don't increase traffic flow, they combine backup congestion so that the impact of the selfish driver is minimized. It is implemented so those who will not take their turn as intended don't have as much negative impact on other drivers.

"Lines", to use your emphasis, are by far the major time component so for me this is a meaningless distinction. Normal traffic merges should of course be accepted gracefully.

GalacticDomin8r··on How America lost its love for the stick shift
> Why deny others the same opportunities?

Almost exclusively these people will zip around a line and force their way in at the end. Even kindergartners are taught budging in line is not good.

Why is this the problem on the people actually being considerate and are in the correct lane at the appropriate time?

GalacticDomin8r··on Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL
Having to use both for supporting complex web apps, I can't really agree that FF is noticeably slower. Chrome does seem to have less silly bugs though, like quick searching doesn't find multi-select box text in FF. Works great in Chrome.

Regardless of FF's little quirks, I use it almost exclusively for personal stuff. I would rather deal with those types of things than the mentality Chrome brings to table.

GalacticDomin8r··on The Promise of CBD, the Cannabis Chemical That Won’t Get You High
Seems like that's a good definition then, if it's reproducible across a large number of people in a scientifically rigorous format.
GalacticDomin8r··on Losing 100 pounds in 276 days
Are you sure?

Exercising to the point of burning >1000 calories is not trivial. You're basically committing to run like 8 miles just for that amount. Then you'll still be hungry with the additional food.

Your BMR is far more important to weight loss than what most people can do with exercise.

http://physiqonomics.com/exercise-pointless/

GalacticDomin8r··on An Airline Fee That Exists for No Apparent Reason
A good policy probably, but getting "a breakdown of taxes and fees" is easy in US as well. That is assuming you accept the definition of a breakdown as:

Fees: X Taxes: Y

And that's it. So it doesn't seem that policy would help much regarding the point of this article.

GalacticDomin8r··on Losing 100 pounds in 276 days
You may want to see some evidence on those claims. For example:

https://www.mensjournal.com/health-fitness/if-you-want-build...

> “Lift to the point of exhaustion and it doesn’t matter whether the weights are heavy or light.”

GalacticDomin8r··on FreeBSD has lower latency, and Linux has faster application speeds
A better explanation I think is found here:

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-advocacy/2008-Au...

GalacticDomin8r··on Bitcoin’s Price Was Artificially Inflated Last Year, Researchers Say
> With crypto, there's arguably an unlimited supply at zero cost.

I like that one. Makes it seem like its a perpetual motion machine and we all know how that ends.

GalacticDomin8r··on FreeBSD gets pNFS support
Since Panasas contributes a fair amount to FreeBSD, perhaps they are happy as well.

eg https://people.freebsd.org/~rpokala/2017-03-24.nvdimm.txt

GalacticDomin8r··on Charles Krauthammer note to readers: “My fight is over”
Yes, I still think genocidal mass murders shouldn't be in power.
GalacticDomin8r··on Charles Krauthammer note to readers: “My fight is over”
All Americans are partially responsible for the costs of the Iraq war. That is irregardless of their support of it. This is how a democracy works, or to a bit lesser degree a psuedo-democracy republic as is the case here.

A citizen's level of responsibility increases for those who advocate for such actions, and the level increases with a wide and strong advocacy.

To attempt to wipe the slate clean of such responsibility is grossly unfair for everyone involved and must involve some deeper issues of which I will not speculate. The fact there was an appeal to eminent death as a reason to not call this out is absurd. A terminal condition doesn't retroactively absolve responsibility.

This is coming from someone who thinks the Iraq war was needed however it was done so in the height of incompetency.

GalacticDomin8r··on Google quits selling tablets
Yep pretty hard to beat my Lenovo Tab 2 10 for my purpose and have used tablets daily for years. M
GalacticDomin8r··on De Beers admits defeat over man-made diamonds
More like Hedging, either way Sergio Zyman looks like a genius:

Doesn't stick = Intentional devaluation Sticks = Brilliant capitalization of the market.

Tab back then was far more popular than today. It was at today's level of Dr. Pepper.

GalacticDomin8r··on GDPR: Removing Monal from the EU
> We're talking about chat..

The comment I replied to seemed to reference far more than chat.

GalacticDomin8r··on GDPR: Removing Monal from the EU
"Allow removing it" is a pretty big barrier for many.
GalacticDomin8r··on The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015)
> but the world is more complex than what /bin/sh can see

That is blatantly false, but I get the premise behind it. Writing and maintaining complex stuff in bourne or bash is not fun or easy.

I always use bourne until certain level of complexity or awkwardness is reached. It's pretty easy to write and dead simple to troubleshoot.

GalacticDomin8r··on “We didn't chase the fad of using every Intel CPU feature”
Since he was right to do so and also right about the underlying meltdown issue, perhaps deserves more than ridicule?
GalacticDomin8r··on E-waste recycler loses appeal on computer restore disks, must serve prison term
>if you don't crime, you don't get punished for crime

If only...

GalacticDomin8r··on Jeff Bezos' annual shareholders letter
Using 2013 census data, if Amazon employed only the population of Wyoming and its entire population was in the labor force, Wyoming would have an unemployment rate < %4.
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