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by bigwavedave 5y ago
For cases like that specifically, it's probable. But those are just like the scam emails where they say "hey, I know your password is ${OLD_PASSWORD}, I recently hacked your account on a popular 'adult recreation' site,
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
Those are likely simple robo scam calls. Robo dialers call an absurd amount of numbers on various schedules in something of a brute force social engineering scam. To keep their dialers from getting permanently blocked or reported easily, th
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
> Apple has announced they are only rolling this out to iPhones in the US. That makes it look like a legal requirement to me. I'm just some guy with a beard, I honestly don't know anything about anything- in my eyes, it looks l
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
> Then learn to socialize or get another job. I rarely rant on hn or espouse strong feelings, but you've made a couple of dismissive comments like this so I'm afraid I've lost my composure. Socializing isn't the probl
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
> "To avoid race conditions", indeed! Ha! True enough, "a good pun is its reword" ;).
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
> First degree murder is a little much (do you really think this is equivalent to taking a gun and shooting someone with pre-planning and full intention to kill them?), but certainly involuntary manslaughter fits. IAMN[even_close_to_bein
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
That makes plenty of sense, thank you for the explanation!
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
> Minimum wage is a ridiculous concept. Why make it illegal to accept wages below certain levels? The only thing it does is increase unemployment. I'm not very strong on economics so mine is likely a foolish perspective, but I alway
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
> Sort of. DMCA protects service providers against copyright infringement claims related to stuff uploaded to their services by third parties. So long as they adhere to DMCA requests, they’re not violating copyright law themselves. This
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
>> “Undank ist der Welten Lohn”. > I couldn't find a common translation or appearance of this saying's equivalent in English. Ungratefulness is the world's wage? I believe it means something akin to "nothing is
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
> It’s just “a spike” or “spike”. I imagine the OP meant "spikes" and either accidentally hit the 'd' instead of the 's' or simply fell victim to autocorrupt.
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
Yep, you hit the nail on the head. In All-Star Superman, Lex Luthor was described as "not the smartest man in the room, but the smartest man in every room." Originally, that's how I wanted to be described, but s/smart&#x
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
Exercising. I'd exercise to an unhealthy degree, eat an unholy amount of food each day (to "get my calories in"), and constantly take my measurements. The problem was that my mind didn't recognize any of the positive res
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
> [snip] I would guess a very small number ever use up their vacation time, an exceedingly difficult thing to do in any American job outside of tech (and maybe even for a lot of tech workers). It is? Maybe I've just been very lucky
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
Yeah, I've moved a couple of times and still have the phone number I got in the second state I lived in. The nice thing is that, for the most part, the only people calling me from that state's area code are robocallers who are spo
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
> In terms of discussions over beer, many companies successfully create taboos around comp. Larger cultures that are squeamish about talking about money, which includes many of those prevalent in the US, make that even easier for those c
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
> Wow, I wish I could just go on sick leave for 4 months because I was feeling depressed... Well... If you're indeed depressed, I wish for that too. However, if you're actually healthy and just making a snarky comment, then I h
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
This really resonates with me. When I was just starting out, I was assigned a mentor- a senior dev who refused to pair with me, who would ghost me for days at a time, always promising that "even though he was busy now, he'd get in
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
Funnily enough, in the TV show "Prison Break", the main character's brother's prison nickname is "Kitchen Sink" or "Sink". We're told that he got this nickname because if you get in a fight with
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
> That's because Microsoft got caught censoring the results, then they lied and claimed it was a "human error," which absolutely nobody believes. Oh, I don't know. If we can label "accidentally using the wrong sc
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
> The issues I see are: [snip] Working class shoppers. Sure, it’s elitist, but people like shopping alongside people in their own stratum. When I was very young, I liked talking to my dad about possible business ideas and how to make mil
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
> I don’t see how his words based on the article were anti Semitic. They were anti Israel. And I find that you and everyone here and at google are having a hard time distinguishing between the two. People are having a hard time distingui
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
> I haven't finished Atlantis or Universe yet. They're on my to-watch list. Ooh, I _really_ enjoyed SGU. Granted, it was the kind of show that I had to try watching once, give up on, then rewatch years later during to really ap
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
> Hmm, depends on the definition of speedrun. > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SasazfBr5_Y there are speedruns of Diablo 1 like this, and most people wouldn't consider this a fair speedrun because the maps gener
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
> You can if they fire you though... As far as I know, that's if you're fired without cause. Who do you think the state contacts to find out why you were let go? Be careful going down that route.
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
Having been garnished for an amount (thanks to fraud that went unnoticed for too long) that many would consider to be too small, I have to disagree with you.
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
> Gotcha. I mean even here in the United States, if someone won a court judgement for $300 there's probably no way that they could enforce it. If they're at the point where they've won the judgment, they've got a fair
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
I dunno, I think this is one case where outrage and rejection weren't too quick in coming. Let's say you're a software architect (dunno if you are or not). You hire four new software devs, two of them from Colorado State Univ
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
> How does only allowing yes or no answers increase nuance? I don't know. It says they're 30-second videos- I imagine it'll consist of people prefacing their answer with "yes" or "no" followed by 30 sec
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
> When you swap out somebody who does a decent job for another person who performs at about the same level it's not really that noticeable. >> Which interestingly is the same effect as swapping out somebody who does nothing fo

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