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It's easier for a company to maintain fewer versions of software that serve the same functional purpose.


Obviously, but neither GP or me are Microsoft incarnate.


Indoor smoking, 110F weather, and universally crappy, over-priced food.


Okay, so @arthulia and @hueving, is it "good restaurants" or "crappy, over-priced food"? Never been there, but could somewhat imagine either scenario. Actually I could imagine multiple possibilities for each:

"good restaurants": (1) lots of top-tier cooks go there because money and it's cheap because Vegas, or (2) lots of off-strip places with good chefs trying to make it big.

"crappy, overpriced food": (1) Wolfgang Puck etc, or (2) Even off-strip food is bad and expensive because they can't afford water.

So in reality which is it?


Both. There are a lot of chains and mid-grade restaurants where you will pay an arm and a leg for mediocre food.

However, there are also some of the best buffets in the world there (if you're into that). There are also some awesome high-end restaurants: https://www.tripsavvy.com/michelin-guide-rated-restaurants-l...

Because Vegas is a massive tourist destination where you are guaranteed to have a deep market of people eating out every day of the week, it attracts tons of restaurants so you do need to do a little research. Picking a random one will likely get you overpriced 'meh'.


There are lots of high-end restaurants, because every celebrity chef in America seems to open an outpost there. But if you're familiar with the originals, the Vegas versions tend to be overpriced tourist versions with limited menus. There are some great restaurants to be sure, but it's kind of a dice roll.

We've gone off the strip for sushi, Korean bbq, Thai, and Ethiopian and had good luck; I don't know enough about greater Las Vegas to judge it. But the strip is bad.


This is pretty brilliant. My biggest concern is that if my password for a site gets compromised, it gets a lot more complicated. Presumably I'd have to memorize a separate master password for retrieving the new password for that site.


They have a counter option that you can increment which allows you to generate a completely different password for the same site.


But once you did that it wouldn't be stateless anymore as you'd need to connect to their server every time to check on the state of that site's password. This makes it not that much different from traditional online managers where you have to connect to the site to retrieve the password.

There is still the benefit that the passwords can't be exposed by a compromise of the service. Presumably it doesn't store your master password anywhere, so all they'd get is the site and counter info.


You also have the option save this profile db locally, or store it yourself manually in a txt file if you really care. That's also necessary if a certain site has password restrictions.


True. You'd have to connect to their server or your own self-hosted LessPass to get your saved profile.


But then you have to remember the counter setting for that website. So it's almost the same problem; I could just add a 1 to the end of my master password for that website.


I've just installed it and haven't yet used it, but as far as I can tell from the docs, the counter is stored as part of the syncable profile for a site.

The profile is also used to store other site-specific attributes, like if it has some weird password rule that requires pure alphanumeric or a specific password length.


No, the counter would be saved by LessPass. Every time you look up the password for that site, it'll already know what the counter is set to for that site.

This blog post[0] shows how LessPass lets you change passwords per site, and get around tricky password requirements.

[0] https://blog.lesspass.com/lesspass-how-it-works-dde742dd18a4


Could you elaborate on what you did mean by 'diminished role of the state', and what you imagined?


It would seem some leaders are born this way.

I wonder how easily it can be passed to offspring (via nature or nurture).


Assuming this is the correct website, it appears to still be defaced:

http://www.capatrol.com/


Wow, that's crazy! You'd think that part of the ruling would include restoring the website to its former glory...


It's bizarre that the issue made it to court and the website still hasn't been fixed. That's a long time.


It is the correct site. The court record says "Mr. Fischbach first examined Nick Tsotsikyan, founder, owner, and Director of Operations of Security Specialists."

Nick Tsotsikyan is noted on the about page of the website you linked to.


Google officially dropped the "Don't be Evil" motto a while back and picked up Alphabet's "Do the Right Thing" motto, which seems a lot more subjective.


Alphabet code of conduct: https://abc.xyz/investor/other/code-of-conduct.html

"Employees of Alphabet and its subsidiaries and controlled affiliates (“Alphabet”) should do the right thing – follow the law, act honorably, and treat each other with respect."

"If you are employed by a subsidiary or controlled affiliate of Alphabet, please comply with your employer’s code of conduct."

Google code of conduct: https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct.html

"Don't be evil."


But wouldn't that technically apply to only those working at Google, not the other Alphabet companies? Not that it really matters, both are utterly without meaning. I was just using it to show how their corporate personality has changed over the years.


That's a really silly way of doing it then. Besides, "do the right thing" is more restrictive than just "don't be evil"


"Do the right thing" for whom? Making money is definitely doing the right thing... for Google's bottom line.


"Don't be evil" to whom? Making money is definitely not evil...for Google's bottom line.

This is a silly game. Proof by corporate motto.


That's Amazon's strategy, where half of the leadership principles contradict the other half so there is always a way you can spin something.


"Don't be evil" was never an official motto, just a small part of the code of conduct.


... also not dripping with nearly as much ironically smug techie narcissism.


What if I think the DSM-IV is junk, too?


Prepare for your sectioning...

Also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment


how have I never heard of this!


Must every appliance become "disposable"?


No - I'd really love it if they didn't become disposable. Sustainability, however, isn't why people have different expectations of batteries vs dryers. I didn't mean to imply a cheap, portable, but flimsy dryer would be a good thing.


Then maybe they should make the other things illegal instead of inconveniencing citizens who just want to take a shorter route home.


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