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by borgia 12y ago
I would tend to agree with the author here. I can't see Bitcoin ever emerging as something legal and useful to the average person. >Bitcoin enthusiasts disagree, claiming illicit activity is practically non-existent. Instead, they p
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by borgia 12y ago
That looks very cool.
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by borgia 12y ago
>Great comment. Anyway I will never leave Europe for US/Canada/Australia[1]. I've visited some family in the latter and I feel that the advantages of these countries are not enough to make me live there. Exchanging peace o
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by borgia 12y ago
>If there is a killer app suited to the watch form factor, it hasn't made itself known yet, and it may not exist The only "killer" feature I could see a smartwatch offering is way down the line when smart cars are around i
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by borgia 12y ago
"Your phone is ruining your life"...so here's a gadget you can wear on your wrist that will connect to it and deliver you the same notifications your phone does, only on your wrist. No, phones aren't ruining people'
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by borgia 12y ago
> Should the US be surprised when China enacts similar legislation? I wouldn't be surprised to see Obama label such an act by China as an "act of war".
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by borgia 12y ago
>Combined with the existing surveillance dragnet, that's horrifying. The cruel creep of tyranny. "Cyber-terrorism" is the new bogeyman, or the new "terrorism" but instead of using a real catastrophe like 9/1
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by borgia 12y ago
I utterly loathe online social networks / social networking. They've become a showcase for society's worst and little more. Great for people who want to sell you something, or push a political ideology on you, or whore attent
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by borgia 12y ago
Regarding your question about French, I'm not too sure. There/their/they're would be la/leur/ils sont, so perhaps there's scope for the first two to become conflated, not so much the last. As far as I know
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by borgia 12y ago
I think you're confusing the TPP for the TTIP? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Partnership http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_Trade_and_Investm... Both appear to be utterly
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by borgia 12y ago
I'm of two minds about this. Periscope, and indeed any other publicly social media, is an opt-in service. By using it you're saying "I want attention | I want to draw attention to myself | I want to draw attention to somethin
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by borgia 12y ago
>Linguistic purity movements continue to strike me as largely pointless. It seems better that language evolve naturally -- as long as it remains effective as a communication medium, what is the issue? On the one hand I agree with you. Th
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by borgia 12y ago
>not sure why they keep doing this Because it gets them attention. Personally I find it irritating. /Buzz Killington
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by borgia 12y ago
There's many of those things I'm desperately hoping are simply April Fool's jokes.
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by borgia 12y ago
I've been wanting to get into nodejs but haven't touched javascript in years and have been put off by the hassle of having to go through it again tbh.
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by borgia 12y ago
I used Meteor a number of times a few years ago and was totally blown away by it. Utterly fantastic. Then went down the route of working in enterprise java for a few years and now, trying to get into full stack javascript based development,
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by borgia 12y ago
I've a tough time believing they're having difficulties recruiting. Nothing has come from the Snowden leaks. Half of America has been very effectively turned against the guy. The rest don't care. There's also no shortage
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by borgia 12y ago
>Analysts are just doing their job and one certainly can't blame them. Yes, you can blame them and you can blame them very easily. This is a ridiculous argument.
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by borgia 12y ago
>If readers were willing to pay for good journalism, they would receive some. This is it. Tech journalism is a cesspit of clickbait, hysteria and social justice nonsense because nobody is paying for it and this appeal to the lowest-commo
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by borgia 12y ago
>Until we can legislate that servers make at least $7.25/hr nationwide, no amount of technology is going to move us in that regard. Even with generous minimum wages, tip culture has crept into Western Europe pretty rapidly. It'
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by borgia 12y ago
>Tipping is expected no matter what in the US. There is no incentive to do better here either. It is expected, yes, but as a European with vast experience in customer service on both sides of the pond, even with expected tips the level o
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by borgia 12y ago
>I am from Denmark. 10 years ago tipping was only something you saw in movies. Today some places are trying it and they ask upfront "Do you want to leave a tip?". It seems so forced and wrong. It just makes the whole experience
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by borgia 12y ago
And the Mohammed simulator that involved goats made by someone on 4chan...
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by borgia 12y ago
I fundamentally disagree with this, and its implementation seems to be a significant attack on dual income, middle class families who are doing well for themselves. This doesn't hit the rich, it hits the middle earner and it hits them
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by borgia 12y ago
>They're already having to bury/censor threads concerning this case at reddit, her new company. They don't have to bury or censor them, they're just actively doing it and have been since the trial began. Anything re
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by borgia 12y ago
>I don't think Race or Gender matters and I would not want to work somewhere where it does. Unfortunately we work in an industry whereby the mainstream industry media very highly believes race and gender matter, and that the presenc
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by borgia 12y ago
>That article isn't trying to remain impartial at all. I have not seen one single article on this trial that hasn't been very heavily biased in favour of Ellen Pao. Not one. I'm not surprised this isn't the case yet a
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by borgia 12y ago
Was the sound flaky for anyone else? It was pretty erratic for me on Firefox on OSX
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by borgia 12y ago
>However, it's only recently that we have developed tools that make it possible for one person (e.g. Snowden) to undo billions of dollars of secrecy by leaking more documents that one could physically carry if they had been printed
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by borgia 12y ago
>Outside of the UK, the EU at least pretends to be outraged. And in a glaring act of hypocrisy, David Cameron came out yesterday to extoll how upset he was over the ruling that the lobbying letters Prince Charles sent government members

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