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Comment · 3 years ago
I mean, I have to figure out which peanut butter to buy from a shelf of 37 peanut butters. If anything, there's too much choice in a lot of cases. It's tiring.

I've heard way more Android users disparaging iPhones than vice versa. If anything, the fault of iPhone users is not even knowing or caring anything else exists.

Comment · 6 years ago
For example, if you do choose to use emacs, then you are missing out on time you could have spent learning vim.
Comment · 6 years ago
What it does mean, though, is the person who sent the email now knows, at the minimum:

1. Someone receives and reads the email sent to this email address.

2. That person is willing to enter data into a form.

This is 2 pieces of information the person didn’t have before, and it can be used in further phishing attempts in a variety of ways.

It doesn’t mean you were fooled, but that’s only half the story.

Comment · 6 years ago
If we're going to assume the Brave user just installed Brave and has 0 BAT, then let's be fair.

You had to spend a certain number of years on Earth to become old enough to have a credit rating and legal standing to get a credit card.

You had to obtain a credit card by filling out paperwork and being accepted by the company issuing the credit card.

You had to wait for the card to arrive in the mail.

You had to activate it the card.

I don't think it's fair to just skip over all those steps just because they're already done. Sure, for you, today, the card is probably easier. But by that token a guy with a horse in 1900 who already had a stable and a bunch of hay could say, "Why would anyone buy a car?"

And he'd be right, on that particular day, for him. But not for everyone, and not forever.

Comment · 6 years ago
Well, if that's not enough to convince you to subscribe, I don't know what would be.
Comment · 7 years ago
Other than the convict organ harvesting and such.
Comment · 7 years ago
> They can search you because you're entering an airport, but you're free to leave at any time (though they can detain you until police arrive, as any citizen can).

If they can detain you then how are you free to leave?

Comment · 7 years ago
In fact, mentioning a History degree might make someone doubt your ability to keep your code DRY...
Comment · 7 years ago
Yep, we are pretty hosed.
Comment · 7 years ago
How would that even be statistically quantified?
Comment · 7 years ago
Still a contender for History's Greatest Monster 10 years later.
Comment · 8 years ago
Any chance you can bump me up in the queue for getting managed DB beta access?
Comment · 8 years ago
Turning off or modifying automated systems in any large device - buses, cars, airplanes, centrifuges, stadium roofs - would have potential for massive violence/destruction.
Comment · 8 years ago
Search for anvil.works. I never actually used it but the demo looked pretty cool, and it seemed pretty affordable.

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