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Try searching for a type of food that has a place in it's name, like "Nashville hot chicken". It'll either center the map on Nashville, TN, and show you results for "hot chicken", or sometimes will zoom all the way out and show you results for "hot chicken" in both where the map was originally centered and in Nashville, TN.

Social media sites should give users an explicit lever to see political content or not

Facebook does sorta have this, under Settings & Privacy > Content Preferences > Manage defaults. Note that the only options for "Political content" are "Show more" and "Default". The other categories listed also include "Show less". There is no "off" option for any of the categories.

Bots used to just take other popular comments and repost them either in whole copies of threads, as in the example here, or taking a top comment in a new thread and reposting it elsewhere in the same thread. Now they're using LLMs to rephrase comments to try to avoid detection (though they often come across sounding a bit off so they're sometimes easy to spot).

Ok, some questions:

Where do these posts show up for the page owners, in case they want to delete them? (Or in case these posts were posted to their account without their knowledge because their account was compromised)

Why isn't Facebook doing anything to combat cases where users accounts are posting obvious compromising content to their accounts in a way that should be easily detectable and prevented?

Personal anecdote: A few years back I left my car at a dealership for some warranty work that was going to take a few days. It has a soft top and they left it in their gated lot overnight, where it got broken into (slashed the top, ripped open the glove box, stole a cheap machete I got from a white elephant exchange). They claimed that they weren't liable at all since I signed a waiver and should go through my own insurance. After a little push back, they caved and covered it under their insurance like they should have from the beginning. I don't go to that dealership for anything anymore, for that and other reasons.

To be fair, that's sorta wrong. Only >4 consecutive weeks of vacation need manager and GM approval. Less than that consecutively is still technically at the manager's discretion, but at least on my team the culture has been "you've earned it, and there's never a good time from the business standpoint to take it so you might as well take it when you feel like". Granted I get the feeling that my team/org is much better culturally than most of the rest of the company.

Gunicorn 5 years ago

I was really disappointed that they didn't replace the horn with a gun in the logo.

It sounds to me like they're trying to discourage other CIA/NSA/TLA agents from running off to a place like Russia and writing their own tell-all, even if those books are benign.

“The United States’ ability to protect sensitive national security information depends on employees’ and contractors’ compliance with their non-disclosure agreements, including their pre-publication review obligations. This lawsuit demonstrates that the Department of Justice does not tolerate these breaches of the public’s trust. ..."

That sounds like a reasonable explanation. Granted, I would not be surprised if that was only a small fraction of the real reason, and the vast majority is like you said: "because we don't like him and we can."

There was a post on /r/legaladvice where someone's neighbor sold a plot of land, causing them to effectively be landlocked, but there was a road through OP's land connected to the seller's property with a locked gate to which the seller was demanding access. Basically everyone was telling OP not to allow the seller access, even once, as that would set a precedent.

Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/2o3g9g/neighbo... First update: https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/2ooy1x/update_... Final update: https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/4dci57/update_...

That reminds me of a bug I found during my first internship. The company had it's own niche social network centered around it's main product. On it, you were able to change your display name at any time, and if you added any spaces to the beginning or end of your username, you could hijack another users profile. That is, I could change my username to " snarfy", and if you clicked my display name to go to my profile, it would actually go to yours. A malicious user could use this to make inflammatory posts posing as a high profile user.

The bug was that the display name was first checked to see if it already existed before white space was stripped. Luckily this was fixed very quickly after it was found, as it existed in production.

Miles per Gallon 11 years ago

To me, this is the best argument for l/100km (or gal/100mi). I don't know of anyone who really thinks about how far they can go before they have to refuel. They just check the gas gauge and fill up when it's low. There's very few places, even in the US, without a nearby gas station so it's not really much of an issue. The arguments about multiplication vs. division also seem silly, especially since your math teacher lied about not always having a calculator.

That said, as an American I grew up with MPG so that's what's intuitive to me and I'm happy with it. Something like l/100km seems like it would be mostly useful when shopping for a car than actually getting around.

The User Is Drunk 11 years ago

* super-tiny buttons,

He includes a link to his website, which has a very tiny and fairly condense header bar but plenty of white space. Perhaps he should hire himself?