billy99k

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"Since various US red states have no longer been respecting the Constitution" Blue states have been trampling on the constitution for the past decade. Would you say they need to be part of this same group? Or is it only states tha
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My guess is they will get IP lists from all major VPN providers and block them at the ISP level.
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This technology has already been out for awhile.
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It's because he's a member of the Chinese communist party. China plays the long game and he's at the age typically asked to come back. Especially now that China wants to win the AI race. Any other reason given here is naive.
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It's better to phish them out of their email accounts and infiltrate their scam centers. Most scammers are greedy and in my experience, low IQ. They fall for even the most obvious phishing scams.
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Not in Liberal/Left leaning communities. They called for more censorship.
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Good luck.
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Why should there be fallout from supporting the current admin? Tech companies colluded with the government during the biden administration to censor American citizens. I never saw any outrage. Only memory holing and denial
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I made lots of money developing enterprise PHP over the years and there were always jobs available, even in a bad economy.
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I've been working remotely for 15 years (way before Covid). Working in an office like this just seems so confining. I had a project right before Covid where I had to go onsite for a few months and work in the same office as their devel
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Have they studied cities with the highest levels of air pollution to see if dementia is also at a considerably higher level?
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"There are very few situations where the private sector provides a better service for less money" The issue is when there is a monopoly. When you have a government monopoly of a specific industry, it's going to be poor. If th
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What's odd about this entire conversation is that many of the same people posting here: -Wanted sites like Parler and other social media sites completely censored -Want people fired at work for sharing inappropriate memes/content
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"Despite the magnitude of the breach, the attacker appears to have only “stolen” around 5 cents of ETH and 20 USD of a memecoin with a whopping 588 USD" This is done intentionally to stay off everyone's radar...before stealin
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It's very similar to self-driving cars. We have the technology, but nobody trusts them on the road. It's going to take a lot longer for businesses to trust only AI in an IT job, if it has the potential to delete files/ruin yo
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I love WireGuard and use it when I'm traveling. I bought a cheap Lenovo mini-pc, installed Debian, and use it as a dedicated VPN server.
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I had job mis-matches for years, and it helped me. I could do most of my work for almost all of my roles in half or less time. I Used the extra time to start successful businesses and now a successful consulting career.
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This happened to me after an acquisition. I was on my way to becoming a director before our company was acquired and they ended up firing my boss and keeping me in place, with no more room to grow (and stringing me along about starting a ne
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Or you get to stay employed. If you don't like it, start a company or become a contractor/consultant. I've only been contracting for the last decade. A company just gave me more work. It nearly doubled my income.
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It is irresponsible. It brings attention to an issue that has not yet been resolved, which will likely lead to users getting data stolen/scammed. Even the most security-aware companies have a process to fix vulnerabilities, which takes
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Was it a single post online? Or was there violence involved? Getting arressted for posting online is a much different situation and falls in line with "hate speech" laws Democrats have been trying to get passed in the US for awhil
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Are you sure it's not your skillset? What if I can complete it in 4 hours?
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All major news breaks hit Twitter first. If people want echo chambers, why have Bluesky and Mastadon failed? We could also mention Parler, but it was shutdown illegally by left-wing activists at Amazon.
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I left Bluesky almost immediately. When you search a topic on Twitter, you get a mix of multiple view points. When you search the same topic on Bluesky, you only get hard-left and sometimes crazy/conspiracy-based ones. This is a mix of
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"I could definitely have improved it significantly with 6 hours. But I don't believe anyone, applying for an e-commerce programming job at a major online retailer, would have done significantly better with 4 hours, this leads me t
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People are still using Django? I'm glad I got out of software development years ago. The community basically turned it into a fashion show and didn't care about functionality anymore. Anyone mentioning actual functionality/pe
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The less protection/controls something has, the more right-leaning it becomes. Any Internet forum that allows anything to be posted with little moderation is a good example of this. It only seems like websites/Social media is left
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"Predicts funding potential." This is like turning lead into gold. I don't really think it's possible. "They chase "the idea", burn cash, and 6 months later realize nobody gives a damn." Investors do
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These aren't mentioned because Kennedy is against all of them.
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I've been out of web dev for a few years now, but my issue with frameworks was always the ORMs. Simple CRUD apps always worked fine, but when I had to optimize SQL queries or create something more complex, I would end up having to add

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