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deadowl··on Dead Internet Theory
On a typewriter, you'd be able to just adjust the carriage position to make a continuous dash or underline or what have you. Typically I see XXXX over words instead of strike-throughs for typewritten text meanwhile.
deadowl··on “Google: it is time to return to not being evil”
And the XMPP Federation couldn't provide that ideal?
deadowl··on How I got banned from Codewars
I didn't know they started banning people.
deadowl··on Reasons to Switch from Chrome to Firefox
For me, it's the dinosaur game you can play when the internet is down.
deadowl··on Bitcoin and Ethereum Just Crashed, Taking Coinbase Down with Them
I suspect that's related to the high degree of speculation and the lack of commodity backing.
deadowl··on A lawsuit over Costco golf balls
Vermont gas distributors have the highest profit margins in the nation. The gasoline oligopoly here is committed to creating high barriers to entry. This includes buying their competitors just to remove the tanks on premise.

http://www.sevendaysvt.com/OffMessage/archives/2015/06/22/la...

Costco decided they were going to distribute gasoline at its Colchester, VT location. They spent years in court battles with Skip Vallee, owner of R.L. Vallee, Inc., eventually went up to the Vermont Supreme Court, which handed out a decision last year that Costco is permitted to build a gas station.

http://www.sevendaysvt.com/OffMessage/archives/2016/08/05/ve...

deadowl··on Vibrator Maker to Pay Millions Over Claims It Secretly Tracked Use
Then again, considering the number of retailers that categorize sex toys under sexual health and wellness, health being the keyword, is it possible that HIPAA could be relevant? And if not, should it?
deadowl··on Vibrator Maker to Pay Millions Over Claims It Secretly Tracked Use
The article says 300,000 people. The talk says 2 million people.
deadowl··on Annotation is now a web standard
Crowdsourced moderation, like downvote buttons on certain websites, hasn't worked particularly well. Wikipedia probably has the most appropriate moderation model I've come across. I'd mostly be concerned that annotation could become a stalker tool unless services are vetted for moderation.
deadowl··on Mark Zuckerberg's manifesto for Facebook offers a social dystopia
Was that also the case with people googling google.com? https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=google.com
deadowl··on Iranian MIT student goes home over break, denied return for spring semester
I'm not saying that Americans shouldn't own this problem, but it's notable that Trump's presidency isn't even majority representation, nevermind democracy.
deadowl··on Unexpectedly Good Things VR Will Probably Cause (2016)
Hearing any mention of VR brings back memories of me trying out Mario's Tennis on the Nintendo Virtual Boy at Blockbuster Video back in the 1990s and then having a headache for the entire ride home.
deadowl··on Pandora is laying off 7% of its US workforce
The company that fired their mascot?
deadowl··on Reflecting on the Right to be Forgotten
You can be arrested without probable cause and still not be able to expunge the record at all, as in not even be able to request so in court, so I wouldn't exactly call it a right.
deadowl··on Google Makes So Much Money, It Never Had to Worry About Financial Discipline
Are you kidding me about Google customer support? They're the only company that ever solved my problem with a Linux question, and later helped me when I purchased a movie on YouTube on an account I didn't intend to purchase on. They might not provide great customer support to some market segments, but when it comes to the end-consumer, they go above and beyond.
deadowl··on Bill Gates: He eats Big Macs for lunch and schedules every minute of his day
Most successful people are able to hire someone to manage a schedule planning out their days.
deadowl··on How does Google know where I am?
cell tower triangulation.
deadowl··on What to Do When Your Colleague Creates Spaghetti Code
What about the code for this python regular expression engine that is filled with goto statements? https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Modules/sre_li...

Or the code for the OpenSSL handshake that interleaves preprocessing directives? https://github.com/openssl/openssl/blob/master/test/handshak...

deadowl··on How the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame to Fat
Organic is pretty easy to get information on. https://www.ams.usda.gov/grades-standards/organic-standards

From what I've been told, there are definitely some things you can do that would increase sustainability that would cause you to lose your organic label. E.g. substituting a biodegradable material that doesn't list its ingredients could cause you to lose the label when using plastic wouldn't.

deadowl··on Tasmanian tiger: The enduring belief in an extinct animal
How about this photo of Champ? http://www.csicop.org/si/show/new_information_surfaces_on_wo...
deadowl··on TLS Everywhere, not https: URIs (2015)
The URL that's supposed to redirect to HTTPS is still vulnerable to MitM. It can be modified in transit to serve up the same data as the HTTPS URL, but in plaintext, and potentially with a different form action attribute, etc. There are different things that can help with that, but none of them universally protect privacy.
deadowl··on Reddit is still in turmoil
The problems would be portrayed differently depending on different subsets of the userbase. I don't like all of /r/news moderation, but unfortunately it hasn't alienated enough people for another relevant news subreddit to take its place. A lot of the people that are alienated enough end up being people that I don't want to associate with, e.g. the kind of people that post in the Donald Trump subreddit, where I was banned for commenting on a topic that stated a subscription spike on the Bernie Sanders subreddit was a result of paid actors. All I said was "Isn't that when he held an AMA?"

So yea, I question authority. I think it's great to question authority. I don't like when others question authority and then will not tolerate when their own authority being questioned. From my POV, the part of Reddit's userbase that conveys that attitude, such as users in the Donald Trump subreddit, is the heart of the problem.

deadowl··on Mormon Tycoon Wants to Build Mega-Utopia in Vermont
Scientologist? Jehovah's Witness?
deadowl··on Mormon Tycoon Wants to Build Mega-Utopia in Vermont
And it's a district commission appointed by the governor that makes the decisions.
deadowl··on Mormon Tycoon Wants to Build Mega-Utopia in Vermont
It's several towns. What he's doing will disrupt the local economy by inflating prices on the real estate market. New people won't be able to afford to move to town because their pockets aren't billionaire deep. The people who moved out won't come back. Once the local economy is disrupted enough by the pressure on the real estate market, the residents that never planned on leaving won't be able to afford to stay. Then they'll sell their land, and that will feed back into the cycle until the town is either in depression. That will open the door for this billionaire to import enough new residents and hijack the local political processes. Monopoliznig the local real estate market is what will lower the barriers.
deadowl··on Stack Overflow Outage Postmortem
I wanted to figure that out. I found a meta post stating the SO uses C#, so that might narrow it down.
deadowl··on Stack Overflow Outage Postmortem
I looked at that module a while back. The goto statements make it very difficult to analyze. It seems to integrate well with the signals module, which could be used to interrupt a large class of ReDoS attempts, but determining whether all potential regexps could be interrupted using signals, with the goto statements, is a difficult task.
deadowl··on United States Health Care Reform: Progress to Date and Next Steps
> Those legislation mainly affected people who weren't US citizens, though.

Then what about Samuel Worcester?

deadowl··on African wildlife officials appalled as EU opposes a total ban on ivory trade
In Vermont (US) it was the NRA that opposed it, and I imagine the situation was because big game hunting has long been romanticized by the rich and powerful, who basically tell their organizations to oppose it based on marginal cherry-picked issues like the keys on antique pianos.
deadowl··on Excel: Error when CSV file starts with “I” and “D”
I get this error all the time.
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