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by borgia 11y ago
This seems like a lot of hand wringing. Taxi drivers give rides to, and deal with, people in various stages of inebriation every night of the year. In fact, collecting drinkers at night is likely the best money making time of any every day.
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by borgia 11y ago
>I know you probably think you're being a skeptical and intelligent speaker of uncomfortable truths. But you're a lot more like a climate change denier. You're going with your gut and not the facts. >You will probably n
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by borgia 11y ago
>One is that women simply aren't as good at programming as men are. The other is that there is a persistent and difficult cultural bias against women in this industry. What about option three: They've less of an interest in the
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by borgia 11y ago
>Do you have evidence for someone being branded sexist for merely not bending over backwards to prove that they aren't? Maybe not a specific person or event, but would the constant demand for "diversity reports" from tech
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by borgia 11y ago
Unfortunately, this is the kind of thing we can expect a lot more of in the coming months and perhaps years as the "tech media" continue to attack it from the fringes. You are damned if you do and damned if you don't. There
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by borgia 11y ago
>Then I discovered that "color revolutions" were not happening by chance and that it was a CIA "technology" to remove an unwanted leader from a target country. >Now I understand why they use censorship. You're
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by borgia 11y ago
>Why not have campaigns to not support products made by countries with oppressive governments. Nobody cares. It's over there , it's not something we need to worry about. It's not like the working conditions of those makin
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by borgia 11y ago
Interestingly, from traveling and having limited TV options in certain places, I've had broad exposure to RT. Is it more free than any US news channel? No, I don't think so. The US mainstream media - Fox, CNN, MSNBC, etc. - are mo
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by borgia 11y ago
It is and it isn't powerful. I was pretty impressed by how they attacked GitHub (not why ) and in doing so they showed the power of the tool. However, the requests it made could have easily been turned back against Chinese business
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by borgia 12y ago
>I also use a password manager, so all my passwords are randomly generated. Any recommendations? Key points being security and cross platform accessibility.
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by borgia 12y ago
Absolutely. The result of these policies leads to, from my experience anyway, trivial but very difficult to remember passwords that end up getting written down or reset every time the user attempts to log in to the service. That being said,
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by borgia 12y ago
>That was one of the problems we actually described in our blog post about the Thailand experience. It took as us while to actually find out rhythm (simple things like finding food, doing laundry, etc.) and that was taking a lot of our e
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by borgia 12y ago
>Full time work however is NOT allowed without a working permit. If you're being paid through an account back home and are working in a villa you've rented, it would be very hard for them to prove you're actually there wor
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by borgia 12y ago
A company in most states across the US and throughout the entirety of Europe could pay a full time staff member with the same skills and experience you have the same amount you want per week ($3k) to work full time for them with significant
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by borgia 12y ago
>Besides the tax benefits there are a lot of other things to like here. How does the tax work? It's part of US territory, so are you paying your income tax to the US as you usually would while earning in the US? Or are you resident
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by borgia 12y ago
Rapidly working my way through "Breakfast at Sotheby's" by Philip Hook[1]. Very enjoyable book. [1] http://www.amazon.com/Breakfast-Sothebys-A-Z-Art-World/dp/14...
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by borgia 12y ago
>Yet many comments here are saying that people should just upgrade while it might solve the problem for some, there are ones who can't upgrade machines at will. It's dumbfounding how people here are simply shrugging this off an
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by borgia 12y ago
Short article capturing many points on a topic that could easily span a book. ------------ The first is a world where artists abandon their craft because they are no longer able to make a living. This future definitely hurts the quality of
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by borgia 12y ago
Facebook is/was primarily a web app. That web app has a messenger in it. Why does Facebook need a standalone web app? WhatsApp's web app is fantastic and I use it heavily, but that's because WhatsApp didn't have a deskto
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by borgia 12y ago
>especially when the topic takes up 50% of my news feed nowadays. In an era when the "media" we consume is "free" (entirely supported by ad revenue driven by clicks), clickbait, bent sensationalist narratives and faux
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by borgia 12y ago
>Is it because you assumed it was a dad? Me too. :( Yeah, god we're such shitlords, aren't we? Time to go give myself some lashings at my home built shrine to Ellen Pao. Seriously though, this is entering the realm of stupidity
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by borgia 12y ago
True, fair point.
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by borgia 12y ago
>At a recent interview I mentioned I like tinkering with code on the side and was told I'd have to give that up and stop contributing to open source. I faced similar in my last company (not with Apple). Now find it very difficult to
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by borgia 12y ago
If staff are consistently having to work overtime to hit targets then there's either: - A problem with the staff - there's either not enough of them or they haven't the skills to do what is required or - A problem with the ma
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by borgia 12y ago
Enjoyable read overall, but his ending slunk into a somewhat currently beaten path of "success but at what cost?" regarding local culture. There have been many such articles springing up recently decrying the "damage" &q
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by borgia 12y ago
>As a non-native English speaker "No, Totally" doesn't sound natural at all to me I'm a native English speaker and "No, Totally" doesn't sound at all natural to me either.
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by borgia 12y ago
I've seen 5 Apple Watch related threads pop up on the front page of HN already today, including this one. What is going on?
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by borgia 12y ago
Automation en masse of low skilled labour is going to present an absolutely huge challenge to society. I cannot see how low-skilled jobs such as: - driving jobs (taxis, haulage, etc) - store work (stacking shelves, stock ordering, cashing o
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by borgia 12y ago
>On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. What is th
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by borgia 12y ago
Likewise. I am highly skeptical of these stories now. The "terrorist" threat seems to have died after falling out of favour as the public slowly came to realise there never was any major threat, and now suddenly "cyber terr

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