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rregoon Jury Duty

This assumes that both lawyers were of equal competence. The authors does not think so (other members of the jury didn't think so).

In the end, won't the jury have to interpret "case law"? How can you be presented something without interpreting it.

rregoon Leaked Documents Reveal Police Department Planted Drugs for Years, DA Complicit

Also to consider is the ridiculous police letter. Which is probably the second most farcical part of this article.

I do hope this story is true. It is going to drive the narrative of police corruption for a while, since it's big enough. I do have doubts about its authenticity however.

rregoon A letter to our daughter

First time I've heard of Facebook Notes, which apparently aren't new at all. The notes that I do see aren't styled the same way as Zuckerberg's letter.

rregoon Japan's Cute Army

Why does a country need to have a military (as opposed to whatever the SDF is) to remain sovereign/independent? I don't see it as doublethink; rather, the author doesn't carry that assumption.

Does Japan not govern itself?

rregoon Cable companies have started showing fewer ads because of Netflix

I've been trying to (unsuccessfully) research why OTA broadcasts of channels exist in the first place. Why do/would these networks provide their service for free? I thought transmissions were to be encrypted.

Am I missing something?

rregoon 1Password Leaks Your Data

>You'd never encrypt a password but leave all the filenames/directories viewable without the password...

I'm still not convinced that it isn't acceptable to leave your filenames/usernames still visible without the password for ANY password manager.

The first point is a valid concern, but minor. His second point is really only relevant to this 1password service.

Reason I ask is because I use pass + remote git server. Pass doesn't encrypt the filenames so the files are easily searchable. Are there any risks to this method?

rregoon Condé Nast Buys Pitchfork Media

I should have clarified, by saying the individual sites have low merit, despite serving an important function. But, this is just a personal opinion; After reading several of their reviews that were anecdotally driven, influenced by hype, and just logorrheic. It's also difficult to be aware of the bias in a publication with several writers.

Pitchfork today, which still wields that same influence, is different from that of even 5 years ago, or when I last read it. Looking at the reviews from today, they are actually pretty restrained and informative.

rregoon Condé Nast Buys Pitchfork Media

There was an excellent (paywalled) article on N+1 about pitchfork. It really is separate from other sites (Lack of comments, 100 different possible ratings [0.0 to 10.0)], extreme "hipster" snottiness).

The website really has, and continues to shape "alternative/indie" music tastes. It is probably the biggest indicator, and perhaps driver, of an alternative album's commercial success. Sites like these regardless of their merit (which is really low IMO), are indispensable in the saturated music market.

rregoon Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of 2channel, has taken ownership of 4chan

Is there any source on this?

rregoon Windows 10 Review

Thanks for the extra reddit link which was definitely more in layman terms.

rregoon My Great Grandmother’s Industrially Processed Food

epoxy-like tubes of Go-Gurt

Well, the important part of that statement is probably epoxy-like which is probably meant to describe the consistency of the Go-Gurt. What makes go-gurt more epoxy-like than yogurt and what that adjective means elude me though