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borgia
12y ago
>Who cares about the info you post on Facebook? Aren't services like gmail a bigger threat? Expand it to Google services and the answer is definitely yes. Facebook takes the data you supply it with, but it also quietly takes things
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12y ago
>While Github is receiving a fair percentage of Baidu's traffic, though... Yeah that's my thinking on it. They're being handed traffic, or more correctly having it thrown at them maliciously, which they could in turn redir
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12y ago
Ah I see, thank you very much, this is exactly what I was looking for.
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12y ago
>The Pentagon is eager to certify SpaceX as a second launch provider, given mounting concerns in Congress about ULA's use of a Russian-built engine to power its Atlas 5 rocket. What's this about? Is there any substance to it? O
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12y ago
Isn't it interesting that it's seemingly only self-made millionaires/billionaires who are pledging the bulk of their self-made fortunes away? That despite them doing this, we're not seeing "old" money following
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12y ago
>Definitely going to read it, but for once I would like someone like that to have experience with programming before they start lecturing on what is "real" and the praising superiority of the physical experience. Not everything
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12y ago
Imagine the effect that would have on Australia.
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12y ago
That's a fairly neat attack, to be fair to them. I don't see why Github, upon receiving these requests, wouldn't just do the same back to China and absolutely hammer some of their resources in return?
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12y ago
Of course you're going to get fatigued if you're not used to standing for long periods of time. You're constantly engaging muscles that you let lie comfortably for most of the day when you get into the office and sit or slouc
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12y ago
Sounds like a great option. The desks that can rise/lower to standing/sitting positions are pretty damn expensive. Setting up an Ikea standing desk with a barstool so you can stand/sit when you want to sounds optimal and cost
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12y ago
When I lived in Dublin I cycled to commute. Never had any issues real issues except for oblivious people pulling out in front of me or similar. YMMV I suppose.
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12y ago
> Come on, it's a nice skill but not very practical by itself. Why focus on practical skills instead of more abstracted concepts? Teaching someone to think for themselves rather than dictating a set of "must have" skills f
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12y ago
If the conclusion of this is true, why aren't we seeing grand scale innovation and entrepreneurship from European countries that are most certainly very strong welfare states? Why instead are we seeing massive amounts of unemployment?
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12y ago
I don't trust Amazon from a privacy point of view so I'm certainly not going to be hosting private files on their servers. I like Dropbox because it does basically one thing and does it well. I don't need to edit docs, collab
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12y ago
>The internet is essentially a big propaganda machine and you can't till what is what unless you are keen and aware. Indeed. Governments including those in the Five Eyes, Russia, China, Israel and more have been shown to have massiv