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by badRNG 5y ago
BLUF: The fact that nuking Japan wasn't necessary isn't some Russian propaganda, it was a sentiment strong even among many of the top brass of the military and Truman administration. Not to start a whole debate on the utility of n
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It is interesting to see the tensions play out between managers/"entrepreneurs" and workers in threads like this. The idea that the establishment of a working week is government tyranny is obvious to one side and bizarre to t
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yikes
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Flutter on Windows(youtube.com)
1 points by badRNG 5y ago|0 comments
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He's Twitter's largest shareholder, holding 4x the number of shares held by Jack: https://www.ft.com/content/29b9c884-02d7-4d1c-a4ab-c862242fa...
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Either way he has consistently used heavy-handed tactics to silence the speech of those he disagrees with. From attempting to destroy the life of a whistle-blower [0] (seriously, take time to read this article) to cancelling the order of a
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My (terrible) experience as a new grad working for [Amazon](old.reddit.com)
7 points by badRNG 5y ago|1 comments
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Wow. This was written before Afghanistan and Ukraine? That is uncanny; this might as well could've been written in part about the Taliban insurgency.
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> Of course, the question is, where is that money coming from and whether anyone is bankrolling them, and if so, what their motives are. Wild speculation here, but if they are located in a country that is recently a lot less friendly wit
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‘No way to prevent this’, Says Only Development Community Where This Regularly Happens [0] https://itnext.io/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-developme...
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For the TL;DR types: >We are an American NGO based in Washington, D.C. that monitors human rights infringements by authoritarian regimes in Belarus, Russia and other post-Soviet states. Since our start in 2014, we have been in contact wi
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VPN provider bans BitTorrent after getting sued by film studios(bleepingcomputer.com)
21 points by badRNG 5y ago|12 comments
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> SheCodes which to me seems to prey on women trying to transition to a career in tech by teaching them web development (people specializing in web development is increasing quickly, and the field is becoming very inflated. Telling peopl
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That's...that's literally the point my comment made
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This shouldn't be confused with the retail locations currently pushing to unionize https://www.businessinsider.com/workers-first-union-push-at-...
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So where's the line? How much scientific evidence must we suppress to avoid offending reactionary sensibilities? The fact that climate change is human caused is deeply political in the US. Should the IPCC suppress this fact too to ca
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This presupposes that scientists are the reason that "not left-wing" people (in reality a small fraction of US conservatives) aren't listening to scientists. The fact that climate change is human caused is political in the st
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> Unfortunately these are not scientists. Are we really at the point where we are going to claim that the IPCC aren't scientists? This seems to be little more than reactionary backlash at a sound observation of the social impact of
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by badRNG 5y ago
With this text as explanation: > Briar was briefly removed from Google Play because we didn’t provide Google’s review team with a username and password for testing the app. We provided Google with a username and password for testing and
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Well, RT seems to be down here (states)
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If wars have either winners, losers, or ties, the Iraqis definitely were the "losers" of the invasion of Iraq by the US. This isn't intended to be a moral value judgement on the slaughter of the 1 million Iraqis in the proces
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I mean, is Iraq even a loss politically? The US thoroughly rolled the Iraqi military, killed over 1 million Iraqis, overthrew their government, and installed a new government in Iraq that still exists today. To say this is a "loss&quot
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by badRNG 5y ago
>When buying tests, customers were asked to tick a box agreeing to a 4,876 [word] privacy policy which links to a separate document outlining the research programme, The Sunday Times reported. Yikes.
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I can't help but feel like non-profits who name themselves after decentralized movements are often a grift. They count on people not knowing the difference and giving them money to support a cause they may or may not actually contribut
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by badRNG 5y ago
> when he showed hesitation, they got too impatient. This seems to be the common factor among scams, cons, and social engineering strategies. Rushing people will have them bypass protocol, training, and security practices. It's a un
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Linus Tech Tips “Pirating” OCCT – Answer from the Dev(old.reddit.com)
10 points by badRNG 5y ago|5 comments
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> Find a vulnerability for the government, get prosecuted. In fairness the government is, of course, not a monolith. There are multiple federal bug bounty programs out there [0] [1]. This is probably better stated as "find a vulnera
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He directly acknowledges that his piece doesn't address "more salient concerns with advertising," and I'd go as far as to say it doesn't address any of the biggest concerns. Insert some variation of "It Is Diff
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Therac-25(en.wikipedia.org)
6 points by badRNG 5y ago|0 comments
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I know it is sort of cliché, but believe me when I tell you that therapy and counseling can completely change your life. If you are like me, you may think it might make a small difference, or may make things somewhat more tolerable, but I t

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