Djvacto

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by Djvacto 8y ago
How do they get bank?
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by Djvacto 8y ago
So I see it mention that they were in trouble for deleting "potentiall incriminating" conversations. Are there any details or other articles that confirm the deleted messages were retrieved?
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by Djvacto 8y ago
That's true as well. I recently deactivated my (unused for years) facebook account, but this is definitely something else to think about.
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by Djvacto 8y ago
The problem is what they've learned is mostly to do with what icons (which they have no context for, never having used a computer or smartphone prior to this) they press to get certain results. And we teach them this over an audio call
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by Djvacto 8y ago
So, I use WhatsApp as my primary source of communication. Knowing facebook owned it always made me a little nervous, but given that it was end-to-end encrypted, I figured Facebook wasn't getting any more from me then they would from al
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by Djvacto 8y ago
Forgive what may be a not-fully-informed question/opinion, but isn't the issue that 3rd parties were able to see private information? Not public information? Like you send the same sequence of bytes that they do, but the differenc
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by Djvacto 8y ago
Yep. I made mine private by default, but it is basically just a way to send a friend money, that if you leave it public to other friends, is just a way to share jokes. Paying a roommate for utilities but setting the description to the tongu
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by Djvacto 9y ago
Just some quick napkin math: In 2015 the US Defense spending was estimated around $598 billion. [1] In 2014 we spent $12.7 million on the school lunch program. [2] By reducing the defense budget a little under 5%, we could triple the school
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by Djvacto 9y ago
This makes sense! How will you evaluate whether a game is worth adding? Example: I went to add King Arthur's Gold, which is a mostly dead game (usually about 4-6 servers with population at a time). However, for my use case all I truly
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by Djvacto 9y ago
So, I went in and tested it out, and it seems like certain games can't be added. Do you manually choose which games to support? If so, what do you do when a group/user wants to add a game that isn't in there? It seems like if
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by Djvacto 9y ago
I was about to ask what happens to the 1 leftover vote, since it's not enough to give to anyone. I now recall that sqrt(1) = 1. I did not recall that 2 minutes ago.
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by Djvacto 9y ago
So, would you mind helping me see if I understand quadratic voting correctly? Let's say there are 4 voters: A, B, C, D, voting on policies 1-10. Everyone gets a certain number of votes (say one per policy, so 10 total). Voter A only re
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by Djvacto 9y ago
But people don't need AR-15s for home defense. Muskets would be fine for home defense, and coincidentally were what was standard at the time the 2nd amendment was passed. People don't need anything more than a musket/shotgun
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by Djvacto 9y ago
I'm honestly not quite sure how to interpret this. To me the idea seems bonkers. Even if I didn't try to eat more plant than animal, it would seem bonkers. From what I've read, eating more meat is likely to increase the risk
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by Djvacto 9y ago
I can't imagine you're crossing multiple state lines in a short enough time that this is any more annoying than google maps navigation instructions. Things like that aren't universally liked or dis-liked, but I can see that f
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by Djvacto 9y ago
That's a solid point, but it's hard to balance the value of information being easily accessible, as well as making sure we don't have starving writers chained to desks at medium.com (or other websites') offices. I'v
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by Djvacto 9y ago
I didn't realize Medium had content behind an "account wall". I'd love to read the article (will probably sign up tomorrow) but kinda sad that this article is behind the wall, and will thus have more limited exposure.
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by Djvacto 9y ago
I think his tips were meant as an option. To be quite honest I'll be trying some of these, because it's not a huge amount of effort at all.
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by Djvacto 9y ago
I mean, I wouldn't say that unreported sexual assaults is "bullshit". That's serious stuff, and they didn't report it to the police.
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by Djvacto 9y ago
Do you have any reason to believe they don't? I'm struggling to find numbers about it, but either they do and there's no news about it, or they don't and not only should Uber be under speculation, so should they. How do
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by Djvacto 9y ago
This was a fascinating read, and obviously makes some concerning points. I don't think I ever thought about how rising C02 levels would affect plants, but it's interesting to see where this will go, as far as public knowledge and
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by Djvacto 9y ago
I really don't think this is the case. Check out the top comment from @grellas here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2208056 At the end, he mentions that general statements never apply to everybody, and unique situ
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by Djvacto 9y ago
I think the image is just meant to showcase that one sensor can be confused by edge cases. It's a good image that shows unintended interpretation of data. There are likely many other edges cases that are not as clear why a car will mis
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by Djvacto 9y ago
I think it's just because the article title tries to convey that this happened in the U.S. It seems like a word flow thing.
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by Djvacto 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical_death "Clinical death is the medical term for cessation of blood circulation and breathing[...] It occurs when the heart stops beating in a regular rhythm, a condition called
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by Djvacto 9y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong (I read the article, but am a little confused), but shouldn't the message of that article be "Take the lower pay, assuming that also corresponds with a higher level of [Job Satisfaction, Growth Potenti
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by Djvacto 9y ago
What I'm saying is, I doubt he thinks they couldn't vote in the '60s. I think he just used ~50 years ago earlier in his comment and then later on was mentioning some of the other struggles, like voting.
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by Djvacto 9y ago
http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/07/living/sixties-women-5-things/... I think ~50 years ago referred more to this type of thing, while stuff like voting rights was just included since it's relevant t