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by Fins 8y ago
What if the only (FB) or almost only (Google) purpose of the company is to do bad things?
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by Fins 8y ago
Weren't Limes and Birds of the world super disrespectful to pretty much every municipality onto which they dropped their POS tincans without permits? I mean, it should not even need a disclaimer that of course cutting brakes on those t
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by Fins 8y ago
Not to do anything to violate HN's rules, and you certainly are free to believe what you want, or what you need, but in this particular matter I will take an opinion of someone who doesn't even speak Russian, and does not care to
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by Fins 8y ago
Oh, you can believe anything you want, including, from your many posts, that Putin is a nice guy. I do read Russian, though, and can read Nekrasov's (not "some guy") twitter feed. HYe might as well be working for RT or Sputni
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by Fins 8y ago
As much as I like to pile on FB (and FB, like the rest of SV is full of hypocritical dicks), this does sound highly unlikely.
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by Fins 8y ago
No argument on the doxxing side, but I wasn't talking about Assange. We were talking about the "behind the scenes" movie, and the maker of the film might have been a Putin critic at some point, but is no more than a clown now
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by Fins 8y ago
That's... an interesting interpretation of Magnitsky's murder. (regardless of whether Browder himself was involved in any shady dealings). They, and supporting citations, also come from only one source, too.
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by Fins 8y ago
That's nice that the kids are standing up for something (that's unlikely to affect them, of course). But I would be far more impressed if they stood up against something closer to home, like personalized search results, dark patte
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by Fins 8y ago
Or we do not hear about low-profile ones. Being high profile (Navalny, Khodorkovsky) might be even an insurance policy to keep one at least alive.
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by Fins 8y ago
His anti-putin credentials have been questioned.
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by Fins 8y ago
Oh, that's for sure, it's just that pointing at this particular hit piece is not the most convincing argument. Otherwise, it's entirely correct that business climate in Russia is far from transparent.
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by Fins 8y ago
Using that piece of rather silly putin's propaganda as a source lowers your credibility greatly.
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by Fins 8y ago
It's not even remembering whatever non-standard terminology Linus came up with (although when I am feeling particularly curmudgeony I don't even want to know what push is, and why doing a commit isn't enough). It's a) ha
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by Fins 8y ago
But checkin had always did the same thing, be it in VSS or PVCS. Sure, there'd be varying capabilities, differences in tooling, but concepts were the same. Git wants to be different for the sake of being different (even if we assume fo
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by Fins 8y ago
Wouldn't it make sense that somebody committing armed robbery on a train quite possibly doesn't need no stinkin' permit to carry a gun.
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by Fins 8y ago
Usually, VCS commands makes some sense (i.e. commit commits), which isn't always the case with Git. THere are only two version control systems where I ever needed to use commands, rather than being able to do what I need in GUI -- SVN
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by Fins 8y ago
That. Or maybe some people have good taste /s Not that anything needs to be high brow, but I do find GP's comment that there's more high quality music now than ever before to be rather closed-minded to begin with. There may b
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by Fins 8y ago
If you like that kind of music. There's absolutely no way in hell you will ever convince me that Kanye, or Daft Punk, have any, even most remote, relation to music, or art in general. Never heard the other ones, so I am not going to c
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by Fins 8y ago
Git is certainly great technically. But one should not need to know graph theory to source control files. And I believe that any version control system that does not follow the convention (that probably predates Linus' existence on Ear
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by Fins 8y ago
Those would count themselves lucky /s Arguing musical taste is rather pointless anyway.
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by Fins 8y ago
That's rather questionable assertion. Many people would not consider anything that's made by a "DJ" to be music, let alone high-brow one. It also might be that you have only now discovered that there is something better
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by Fins 8y ago
Oh. Sorry, that wasn't impressive. For South Bay, maybe.
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by Fins 8y ago
Is that in SF? We're talking South Bay here. Ones I've visited in San Jose are were extremely underwhelming.
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by Fins 8y ago
No, seriously, Safeway is hard to miss. Now a good grocery store that has a decent selection of cheese and fancy sausage and good fresh bread and some obscure ice cream (so no, Whole Foods doesn't count, let alone that hipster paradise
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by Fins 8y ago
Sorry, no, this isn't what I am looking for. Sure, I know I can get your generic grocery store experience at Safeway, or Lucky, or Nob Hill, or overpay at Whole Foods (now that they are owned by Amazon I don't shop there anyway),
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by Fins 8y ago
People find something to do in in a middle of Nebraska, too, but it's pretty hard (well, probably easier in Nebraska). In 5 years I couldn't even find a decent grocery store there.
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by Fins 8y ago
SV might be the place to go for networking, if you want to do a startup or work in one of the FAANGs or FAANG wannabes, but the idea that SV is the only place where people know what they are doing is completely laughable self-congratulating
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Facebook Supported 'Sex Trafficking' Law FOSTA to Cozy Up to Republican Critics(reason.com)
15 points by Fins 8y ago|3 comments
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by Fins 8y ago
In post-Soviet memoirs, indeed. Of course Chertok would know who worked there. The general populace only heard rumours that possibly Guderian was teaching in a military academy and was convinced that of course Tu-4, Elbrus, the Bomb, rocket
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by Fins 8y ago
Umm, no, I think it is the other way around (it's not like it were a lifetime supply of underwear, although even that would have been pretty weird). There is definitely something wrong with a picture where several pairs of underwear ar

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