BenjaminBlair

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by BenjaminBlair 8y ago
When you have the chance to fulfill your childhood wet dreams fantasy you go for it. Those fake claps, the huge bouquet, beautiful ladies...
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CoinGate and Surfshark smarten up cryptocurrency payments(businesstelegraph.co.uk)
2 points by BenjaminBlair 8y ago|0 comments
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by BenjaminBlair 8y ago
The problem extends outside IT field, as you mentioned factory workers. I think the main problem is that there's no coordinated effort to control inevitable shifts. Workers unions tried protecting workers rights but capitalism clearly
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Why Do You Need Secure Messaging – And How Do the Apps Stack Up?(surfshark.com)
2 points by BenjaminBlair 8y ago|1 comments
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by BenjaminBlair 8y ago
Seriously? With all the security breaches they had this year, Instagram too, do they really expect people to trust them with cryptocurrency? I have no idea how they thought this is a good idea.
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Three VPN Christmas deals revealed with an environment-friendly surprise(medium.com)
2 points by BenjaminBlair 8y ago|0 comments
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by BenjaminBlair 8y ago
It's sad to read how the workers respond "they are talking to us like we are robots". Commodified labor is what they are, ever since the Fordist model of capitalism people have been gradually reduced to salary numbers and I f
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VPN provider Surfshark team up with Surfrider foundation to help clean up oceans(surfshark.com)
2 points by BenjaminBlair 8y ago|0 comments
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by BenjaminBlair 8y ago
There's a good, though not well-known author Espen J. Aarseth. he analyses non-ergodic literature within the scope of computer technology, and how the latter enables the creation of texts that are not linear. An easy example would be a
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by BenjaminBlair 8y ago
If it was in the Pacific I'd say it's Cthulhu rising.
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by BenjaminBlair 8y ago
Sorry if that sounded promotional, but VPNs do in fact protect against MITM attacks. And the service I mentioned I found reliable so I felt like the information was relevant, but point taken for future notice :)
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by BenjaminBlair 8y ago
I find that very frustrating. When a person is looking for a job he or she is stressed out already, and when reading all those huge qualification criteria you sometimes really feel like a total loser, not knowing anything at all. It's
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by BenjaminBlair 8y ago
I've been reading more and more about business data protection, it looks like the VPN market might expand from B2C to B2B too. Hope some of you might find this helpful.
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Best VPN deals for business security(medium.com)
1 points by BenjaminBlair 8y ago|1 comments
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by BenjaminBlair 8y ago
Nice, I always admired Ursula for being strict on political views yet very sensible in her writings.
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by BenjaminBlair 8y ago
I wouldn't take it even for free after their last data leak scandal.
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Simplified guide to online data security(medium.com)
1 points by BenjaminBlair 8y ago|0 comments
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by BenjaminBlair 8y ago
Definitely, there are problems with online data gathering, security, and exploitation. Cambridge Analytica is just the tip of an iceberg, but a major example nevertheless. It revealed how the democratic process can be manipulated. By gather
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by BenjaminBlair 8y ago
I heard Python is very on the rise right now. Thank you for sharing, looks interesting if it won't be too hard for me. JavaScript person here.
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Symantec's in depth analysis of stuxnet [pdf](symantec.com)
1 points by BenjaminBlair 8y ago|0 comments
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by BenjaminBlair 8y ago
At some point, the purchasing power of consumers was important in order to produce more surplus value for the capitalists, but it looks like the tendency is not that strong these days. Apart from third world countries people, in fact, can b
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by BenjaminBlair 8y ago
I have watched Zuckerberg's testimony on the Capitol Hill and the distance between him and the senators was significant. He looked kind of calm, but I think I sensed some intrinsic distance. Facebook, being as huge as it is, I think it
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by BenjaminBlair 8y ago
Is there any information what have they been contaminated with? I remember last year some green-anarchists in Greece threatened to contaminate coca-cola 1l bottles, they have been removed from production in several marketplaces.
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by BenjaminBlair 8y ago
The demographic crisis has a lot to do with economics, Europeans choosing to have (if have at all) children later in life. And we need to acknowledge the fact that Merkel did accept a lot of immigrants fleeing from war in middle-east, no th
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by BenjaminBlair 8y ago
But isn't it a problem of integration? Globalization did happen and open borders were celebrated both culturally and economically. I understand that people care about their neighborhood, but I think it has a lot to do about safety. If
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by BenjaminBlair 8y ago
Addressing the far-right/far left for the mobilization of unheard voices is kind of like treating the symptom. What we have here is a failing economy based on the enormous banking sector, debt and trickle down economics. Most of it is
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by BenjaminBlair 8y ago
It's a bit terrifying how "alive" the crisis of 2008 still is. 10 years have passed and it doesn't look like the economy has recovered, not by a long shot. There are strong points in this article, I can't recall exa