Kurtz79

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by Kurtz79 9y ago
"And most educated people continue using VPNs too. Normal people are becoming experts in encription, security..." As I'm not familiar with China or its (native) people, I have no grounds to refute the statement above, but is
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I think that when there is such a large conflict of interests, the best course of action would be ignoring opinion pieces on the parent company/owner altogether. If it's major news that you cannot avoid publishing, just report the
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I owned maybe the first or second model of the Touch, in the early days of the iPhone-era smartphones. At the time an iPhone did cost some 600€+ in Europe, while a Touch was 200€ or so. Considering that at the time mobile apps were much les
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It's hard to decouple decriminalization (which is not legalization) with simply investing in better treatment for addicts. If to get treatment they basically have to turn themselves in, and are liable to go to jail, I doubt many would
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A lot of AAA games use scripting languages for implementing game logic (notably Lua), even if the heavy lifting (graphics, physics, AI, etc...) is done with C++.
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Interesting, it seems like a company that had a very inflated valuation due to the dot-com bubble, was hit very hard when the bubble burst and it took almost 15 years for the stock price to get back to pre-bubble level...
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The problem is not with the policeman, it would be with the victim that would be unable to receive compensation, if the former defaults.
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You too. Luckily most people are able to read a comment from a random person on the Internet, classify it as a different opinion from theirs and go on with their lives.
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"1) the settlement should not cost the tax payers money" What would happen if the cop responsible for the act could not cover the settlement money ? The one affected by brutality would be doubly screwed. The Police as a whole shou
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Just like in HN and 90% of forums on the Internet? The only difference is that Reddit threads tend to be so huge that less popular comments get buried easily. I believe the issue has more to do with the subreddit structure and user moderati
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I also recommend it, and cannot see anything wrong in going to tech/networking meetups, it should be anything you are interested in and won't feel out of place attending.
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The few articles I read on the subject are actually quite clear that the current crisis is due to the increased control on prescriptions, and some talk about the side effects on people with actual needs: https://www.theguardian.c
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No one is forcing you to build a new house in South Miami. I imagine if you would like to do so, you would need to comply with the many requirements established by the local authorities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bu
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Probably as a joke, but it served them well, it's really a clever name IMHO. I think it all started as a few blog posts about the founder's experiments in creating his own meal replacement, and after he got crazy media attention h
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by Kurtz79 9y ago
"I think you're unfairly generalising. I certainly never expect fluent English from people who don't have English as their first language." That's definitely seems to be the attitude of the author, and that of many
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I find the attitude of people from English-speaking countries that the rest of the world should speak fluent English quite puzzling. It is understandable if you are a professional dealing with foreign companies, or if you are involved in th
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How about: "Weekend/class project where I managed to implement a form for submitting jobs and a search box, together with the backend. Planning to turn it into an actual website for submitting and searching remote jobs, which will
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"When was Ars Technica owned by Gawker?" Never. Parent is mistaking them for Gizmodo, or is just wrong.
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Wouldn't you be able to debug some of these issues using a packet sniffer ? http://www.networkcomputing.com/networking/wifi-troubleshoot...
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What is also amazing is that this star is very likely long dead, but we will only know in a few million years :)
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Well, they really are two different business models, not really two different models of capitalism. The title is a bit pompous, but the article does actually relate the policies of the two companies with a basic concept of capitalism (alloc
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"Most of them are either PhD candidates or in a profession that they love that just generally doesn't pay well, like Singer Songwriter." I don't think your definition of "poor" matches most other people's
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It might be me succumbing to stereotypes, but POSIX shell syntax feels something that grew organically, out of use and necessity, with basic guiding principles but no set guidelines or rules. Powershell feels like something designed by comm
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Latvian citizenship at 35.000€ with no residency requirements looks like a steal, considering that you would be allowed to live anywhere in the EU, if I'm not misinterpreting.
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+1 for Ubuntu on Windows. Really solved my main issue with Windows, the horrible console prompt.
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"Google has systematically given prominent placement to its own comparison shopping service: when a consumer enters a query into the Google search engine in relation to which Google's comparison shopping service wants to show resu
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"They're returning relevant information Customers are searching for." They were really not. For every search you assume you will be given the more popular matches, what they were doing was purposefully bypassing their own alg
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I think the line is drawn pretty clearly. The point is not that their service was in prominent position, but it was done so that it appeared as natural result of the search. It's somewhat like doing a search in a search engine and bein
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But in the case of a normal Visa, a certain amount of vetting is done beforehand, although you can still be denied entry. To get a J1 I had to deliver quite a few documents and go the local US embassy to do an interview there. An ESTA you c
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Yes, that was more or less my point. And also Uber (more than Lyft) it's by far the major player, it's entrenched in people's imagination as the representative of the very service it provides, and it just works. "Call an

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