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You shouldn't be doing anything, let alone torrenting, without a VPN these days.

That is a start, but any interruption at any time can be disruptive, and email is a particular problem.

What would be handy in a tool like this is being able to set up what I described above; normally don't ever notify me, but allow me to turn on real-time notifications for particular people on demand, or other rules for knowing when it makes sense to interrupt.

"Real-time email notifications considered harmful"

Seriously, if your daily activities require actual thought, turn all that shit off. If you need to know when a critical email shows up from time to time or from specific people, find a tool that does that or wire one together yourself with IFTTT and a push notification service. Your flow will thank you.

During beta. It will be on other platforms soon. Chill.

The typical attack in the past involves two devices, one by the car and one by the key. But that attack only works on proximity fobs for obvious reasons.

You may be level headed and well adjusted by surely you've noticed the large number of people who are CCW proponents who are not? More importantly is this; when a gun is part of the equation there is now a non-zero chance someone is going to get shot.

The vast majority of the time the only gun in the vicinity is going to be that of the CCW. MOST people go through their entire lives without ever encountering a 'bad guy with a gun'. Ever.

People who CCW think they are bringing a gun to a gun fight, when maybe they are bringing a gun to a fist fight, or a stern conversation.

People who are pro ccw have a very cartoonish understanding of the world.

Or just piggyback an antenna into the hardware otherwise installed at each consumer location. There was a theory almost a decade ago that Google would do something like that on top of all the 'dark fiber' it was buying up at the time.

Living the libertarian idyll.

It is abstraction layers all the way down. We all find our level of comfort in the stack, somewhere between the most abstract thing currently achievable and CPU microcode.

In this particular case it makes something otherwise tedious much simpler, which is what adding abstraction is always about.

And if you have little kids treat them like guns. Lock them up when you aren't around.

How about while reading? Or thinking? It's not like "using a computer" is a monolithic activity. Electric desk frames allow you to change position throughout the day. The latest one I got (3 segment legs from geek desk) can go so low I can sit lotus in front of it.

I think it was an accident of history in Europe. Something to do with the architecture of castles and ships perhaps.

It is a shame that much of Asia is losing the squat toilet over time. I've found it to be very helpful on occasion. It dramatically reduces apparent constipation.

The whole push to wireless charging feels like a bad idea. We already are deeply in need of reductions in total global power use or at least efficiency improvements, and wireless charging wastes a huge amount of power. Unless they can figure out how to bring the efficiency in line with direct contact we're better off with clever direct contact without a plug schemes.

The problems that led to this failure of the system are cultural not procedural. We already have the constitution and many laws and procedure that should have prevented what has been going on. What we have is a profound lack of understanding of how intelligence works and the limits of what can be done with it, intentionally or not.

You can't fix culture. You can only shut it down and start over. And that will not happen.

I'm sure it has been asked many times before, but I'd love to hear the latest thinking... Why in 2013 is HN still running on bespoke hardware and software? If a startup came to you with this sort of legacy thinking you'd laugh them out of the room.

I'm afraid most are only exposed to 1984 and then reassure themselves we dodged that bullet.

The water table in Seattle is very high, about 4 feet in that area. So at the point of the blockage they are under 40 feet of water. Every ~33 feet of water is an extra atmosphere of pressure.

He's fast-tracked for management no doubt.

Who it is coming from makes it seem all the more whiny. And hyperbolic.

I suspect they will at some point in the next ~18 months.

MySQL is richly deserving of ridicule as well. It's ubiquity is unfortunate.

What is actually new here? Pay with Amazon has been around quite awhile.

A thousand times, this.

By the time I was on dial up to a local unix mainframe it was 85 and I had an Amiga and a PC. I actually went and bought a second hand amber screen VT100 work-alike for $50 and started using it all the time because the terminal behavior was rock-solid compared to the emulators available, and the text was very easy on the eyes. Good times.

Came here to say this. Gabe is welcome to his version of events but like all humans is suffering from selective memory syndrome. Alex St. John is the one who "made it happen" in my recollection, and I was pretty close to the action.

In the US CVs don't include a photo.

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Treason.

The shame of this is 1) Turntable is still around? Holy cow 2) Never effing heard of Piki