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Cozumel
9y ago
Here's just two examples as to why online anonymity is so critical, there's cases like this every single day. You might think, so what? You're free to keep on thinking that right up until you're the one going to jail for
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Cozumel
9y ago
They didn't start off homeless and presumably they've not been working for Uber all of their lives. If you're not earning enough then that should be enough of a red flag for you to stop right then and there. You don't ke
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Cozumel
9y ago
>'I’m an Uber and Lyft driver, I make less than minimum wage. My option is to sleep in my backseat, or to sleep on the street. Which would you prefer?”' I'm not a fan of Uber but these people are doing it to themselves, no
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Cozumel
9y ago
>'Twitter allows them' In part Twitter is successful because it allows bots. They make a huge percentage of their userbase. If they cracked down on them, they'd wipe out millions of 'users' and their value woul
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Cozumel
9y ago
This is a subject no-one dare broach without getting labelled 'racist' or a 'white supremacist' etc. People need to be free to pursue science free of political and social ideology. Are all people equal? No. Should all pe
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Cozumel
9y ago
>'A court heard that he had commissioned a paperweight made from the shattered bones of a second murdered rival' I was sympathising with him up until that point!
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9y ago
That level of technical incompetence is staggering! How does it happen? Is the software too large for the developers to have a handle on how to develop for it properly? Politics? People not caring and just putting in their 9-5? Why is it no
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Cozumel
9y ago
Well that explains this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14570149 Frankly it sounds like laziness though, it's not that difficult or onerous to read papers and follow citation trails!
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Cozumel
9y ago
What guarantee would there be that you don't backdoor the phones before handing them out? (not saying you would, but it's a potential attack vector)
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9y ago
https://www.cambus.net/decoding-youtube-http-error-500-messa...
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Cozumel
9y ago
Well if you didn't know this at the start then 1, you didn't do your homework and 2, you came up with it independently. Which means other will too. I wouldn't let it stop you, just because someone had an idea first doesn'
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Cozumel
9y ago
Rock climbing indoors is like camping in your living room, you're missing the entire point of it!
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Cozumel
9y ago
> I'm not sure what the people who are taken aback by it usually read -- or what did they expect to find here. They don't understand what they're reading, so instead of asking for an explanation, they attack the lowest han
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Cozumel
9y ago
They just don't have the technical ability their western counterparts do, obviously some do but finding them is a crapshoot. Also if you pay people too much they won't stay with you and that will be a much bigger issue when you ca
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Cozumel
9y ago
If you want to use a 'credit' card then that means your spending money you don't have, so you're spending the banks money, that's why you need a bank account, sort of simple but that's the idea. A 'debit&#
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Cozumel
9y ago
Unless it's data you absolutely don't have anywhere else and can't replace it, then personally I wouldn't bother. Let it be a lesson to your son. ALWAYS BACK UP YOUR DATA. It's a lesson that'll serve him well f
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9y ago
> 'I'm using a throwaway nick so my boss won't know I am asking here and using a friend's computer for the IP.' It doesn't matter that you've changed your name or IP address. It's what you'r
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9y ago
You need to remove yourself from that environment ASAP, find another job. If all jobs make you feel like this then the problems deeper, either find something YOU want to do, like making a chatbot that would really help in this situation or
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HHVM 3.20 is released
(hhvm.com)
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9y ago
> I answered that the modern web apps are very complex both on front-end and on back-end, and is hard to master both sides at same time. Instead of doing a little bit everything, one should be professional at one side and contribute the
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9y ago
I don't honestly see a use case for this at all, I'm sure it solves some problem for you else you wouldn't have created it but it just seems slightly ridiculous.
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9y ago
It's worth bearing in mind that these students were in a supposedly private Facebook group, it wasn't like they were publicly posting.
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9y ago
Whoever wrote that has zero idea of what the semantic web was/is.
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9y ago
It sounds pretty stupid, self-defeating and is conflating two different things, bug reports and support. Bug reports should be all that goes on Github, for people telling you that your code is broken you should be paying them, they're
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Cozumel
9y ago
Learning code should be the only way to make programming 'more accessible'. Black, white, yellow, red, gay, straight, whatever. None of that should matter. All that matters is that you can pull your weight.
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Cozumel
9y ago
Maybe you're looking at it a little wrong. Maybe some of your friend run a business and need some IT help, maybe they need a website? Try reframing it from their perspective, not what they can do for you (tell you if people are hiring)
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9y ago
It puts me in mind of the three minute degree[0] > Education can produce what the Village wants. > "A row of cabbages," Number 6 objects. > "Indeed," Number 2 agrees. "But knowledgeable cabbages [0] http:&#
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Cozumel
9y ago
I think this is more an indictment that people don't actually know how to use FB. YOU control what you want to see and who you interact with, spending to much time there? Take charge of your own life and click off. Seeing something you
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9y ago
So when is Rodney Gilstrap ( https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/the-year-in-pate... ) going to be investigated for corruption? It seems pretty clear, he passed the law that made it happen, the cases
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Brazilian Tribe Discovered Living as Their Ancestors Did 20,000 Years Ago
(outdoorrevival.com)
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Cozumel
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