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by Xelbair 7y ago
>> in line with what a pattern of being motivated by a fear of being unprepared to defend the greater society from upheaval would look like. There were, and still are, plenty of horrible people, probably worst ones in the whole of his
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by Xelbair 7y ago
Or even international interventions like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27%C3%A... Where USA destabilized 3rd world government for profit of fruit company. USA was never a "good guy", t
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by Xelbair 7y ago
Depends on how they measure 4k and 60fps.. i mean their dongle can output that steadily even with 1fps and 800x600 stream.. I seriously see no point to stadia, at all. Main concern is an input lag - you either have a huge lag(150+ms is huge
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by Xelbair 7y ago
>If the CIA collected information in Mexico on the head of a drug cartel, does that automatically mean that he would not receive a fair trial? It means exactly that.
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by Xelbair 7y ago
Spying, by it very definition, is an illegal act. It might've been legal(i doubt it) to spy on foreign person on foreign soil inside (another) foreign embassy according to US law... but that doesn't matter at all when it comes to
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by Xelbair 7y ago
The scene i think is the most wasted was the death of Snoke. There are myriad ways to go forward in interesting directions(Kylo and Rey could go both dark jedi, gray jedi, swap sides(i think that it will come to that) or even go for a 3rd w
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by Xelbair 7y ago
it only misses hangouts messaging, if it had that it would be perfect. Still - the latest update to gmail was basically a downgrade from user perspective. It is slower, and looks the same and offers no new functionality.
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by Xelbair 7y ago
I usually write an implementation first, but when testing it i try to re-evaluate the requirements - i do not look at implementation at all. Test should handle all edge cases. And i do modify tests, because sometimes assumptions are wrong(o
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by Xelbair 7y ago
gmail is like that now. It either loads in matter of minutes, or it displays last seen cached view... and loads in matter of minutes.
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by Xelbair 7y ago
If i recall right in hunter-gatherer societies people were naturally divided into different sleeping schedules - some wake up at dawn, other at noon etc. The whole community was always at least partially awake. https://www.psycho
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by Xelbair 7y ago
The new movies are hit or miss. Rogue one was good, Episode 7 was okayish as a introduction to new arc and characters, Episode 8 was killed by playing it safe - it was such a wasted potential. We don't talk about Solo. That move does n
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by Xelbair 7y ago
You know why docker is being used instead of this approach? Because your automation is made by you, and for you, no one else can take it over if you leave. And even if they can take it over, they will have way higher salary - compared to th
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by Xelbair 7y ago
Counterpoint - rise of populism. It is popular, but useless. I do not have a better system, but i do not lie to myself that democracy is perfect.
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by Xelbair 7y ago
>> The kinds of questions that people ask when they're focused on learning something new, however, are DEFINITELY NOT what SO is intended to handle. It is why SO is actively hostile to people that try to use it to learn by asking
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by Xelbair 7y ago
SO answers are really good learning place. That is if you read the whole thread instead of copypasting the accepted answer. Usually, at least for .net, there are explanations not only how to do something, but why do it this way. I learned q
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by Xelbair 7y ago
>> I sometimes come across fully grayed out comments that I simply cannot imagine why anyone would ever downvote. I upvote these, but I'd very much like to know why they were downvoted in the first place. Did the author get their
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by Xelbair 7y ago
That is really good to way to handle such people - it is a win-win situation for everyone. 10x gets flexible work hours and, more importantly, interesting and varied projects. Team doesn't get annoyed by one odd guy, but they are still
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by Xelbair 7y ago
If only it worked that way. Under democracy you optimize for just a single metric - popularity. If leader is terrible and popular no garbage collection will occur. Rise of populism is inherently built into nature of democracy itself.
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by Xelbair 7y ago
>> The only problem is that the warring factions know this and will do everything they can to conceal the reality of the situation so that the people do not exercise the power that they have. And they have been very successful at it.
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by Xelbair 7y ago
Or absolutely ban censorship and content 'curation' that created walled gardens tailored to your superficial tastes. Only block content that is illegal, and do it on demand - so back to the days when the services like facebook wer
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by Xelbair 7y ago
>On a browser, it's drive-by, and your ability to track users is gone once they leave your site, especially with vendors like Mozilla and Apple implementing third-party cookie blockers by default and the ubiquity of adblock. There i
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by Xelbair 7y ago
It doesn't matter - there is always Management Engine in intel CPU's and equivalent in AMD and ARM.
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by Xelbair 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine I'll just leave this here.
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why would this matter?
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by Xelbair 7y ago
Seriously, new Gmail is absolutely horrible slow dogshit. And it is even worse in firefox than in chrome. It takes 30s to 1 min to load(!). It has cached last view, which loads fast.. then it goes unresponsive for bloody 30s to 1 min anyway
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by Xelbair 7y ago
>>> This is such blatant and obvious nonsense. You philosophize on basis of the assumption that central authorities ('government') by definition cannot be trusted, and we should therefore be wary of anything that reeks of
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by Xelbair 7y ago
>>> In America, we understand that there is absolutely nothing more dangerous than an entity that feels entitled to control what is true. It might make things easier, and it might actually produce better results so long as the enti
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by Xelbair 7y ago
You can present facts differently to manipulate opinion - even simple things like percentage vs percentile, or increases chances by vs to - and even if they lie, the correction won't be reach everyone who read the original article. Th
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by Xelbair 7y ago
If a company does business in Europe, they must comply with GDPR. It' doesn't matter where they are located. It won't even go to US court, but to EU one.
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by Xelbair 7y ago
It is illegal do to so under GDPR to be honest.

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