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by brenden2 6y ago
I prefer to do it in an open forum. I think he watches comments for "@dang" because I see people do it all the time with a follow-up from him.
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by brenden2 6y ago
Google's revenue for 2019 was $161 billion, so $5b amounts to about 3.1% of their revenue. https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GOOG/financials?p=GOOG
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by brenden2 6y ago
About time, but my guess is this won't go very far. Google can afford better legal counsel than the government itself. Still, this is a good step in the right direction, and the only way to push back on privacy violations is to make it
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by brenden2 6y ago
@dang why was the parent comment flagged? I read it before it was flagged, and it didn't seem inflammatory in any way. Can you please comment?
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by brenden2 6y ago
The police seemingly operate with impunity. If you accuse them, they will deny wrongdoing. Trying to gaslight people about their tactics seems like par for the course. The question is: who will police the police? They can't be trusted
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by brenden2 6y ago
For anyone who wants to keep an eye on what's going on, the subreddit /r/PublicFreakout is full of videos of police (and rioters) engaging in violence. I haven't found a better source yet. There's sometimes misattri
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by brenden2 6y ago
That's an interesting idea, but I think the police are too powerful for that to happen at this point.
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by brenden2 6y ago
There are multiple videos of cops aiming and firing directly at the face and head, sometimes only a few feet away. It's terrifying and disheartening.
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by brenden2 6y ago
Unfortunately the mainstream has portrayed "antifa" as some kind of covert organization acting inappropriately. They fail to point out that antifa is literally short for anti-fascist. In other words, unless you're pro-fascism
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by brenden2 6y ago
I keep hearing this from the mainstream, while at the same time politicians keep going on TV saying things that aren't true, or are misleading. I think the politicians are using tactics from the "how to stop riots" playbook,
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by brenden2 6y ago
My take: I don't think the government understands how must distrust there is for public institutions. The fact that they keep going on these pressers and lying to the public, only to be discredited after the fact, shows how tone deaf a
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by brenden2 6y ago
Location: New York City (NYC), NY Remote: Willing, but prefer in-person. Willing to relocate: For the right opportunity. Technologies: I've used most of the trendy tools at some point, check my GitHub profile (below). I've started
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by brenden2 6y ago
It's nearly always about the money.
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by brenden2 6y ago
This is correct, being a police officer doesn't even make the top 20 as far as dangerous jobs go[0]. [0]: https://www.ishn.com/articles/110496-most-dangerous-jobs-in-...
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by brenden2 6y ago
I've been turned down on several occasions for being "overqualified" or "too experienced". While I don't know the real reasons, I think in most cases there was a) the concern (from the employer) that I'd b
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by brenden2 6y ago
I feel like it's a good time for a revival of BitTorrent. There was a lot of excitement for it back in the day, and while it still exists it's definitely waned in popularity. Trying to do something like share a file with friends o
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by brenden2 6y ago
Well, my point was that most automobile collisions aren't 'accidents' in the true sense of the word, and most automobile related injuries (and deaths) occur when someone does something negligent. The vast majority of collisio
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by brenden2 6y ago
Presumably if you're speeding or driving while intoxicated, you're doing so intentionally. It's not as if someone is forcing you to drive too fast or too drunk. These things (especially speeding) dramatically increase the lik
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by brenden2 6y ago
Google has previously tried to neuter uBlock Origin, and they will probably do it again. Using Firefox is a good way to remove the power Google has over the web.
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by brenden2 6y ago
I wouldn't underestimate the power of grassroots movements. Telling your friends and family to install uBlock Origin and use Firefox instead of Chrome can work, because it worked before to usurp IE during the IE glory days.
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by brenden2 6y ago
It's better to block web fonts with uBlock Origin. It would be sweet if someone could add support for these fonts to Decentraleyes as well, which seems to be missing. Seems to be some debate about the merits of doing so, however: http
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by brenden2 6y ago
This sort of stuff is going to fall on deaf ears. So long as there's tons of money to be made, things won't change. Many of the elected officials are also shareholders in these tech companies, and they (like everyone else) want th
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by brenden2 6y ago
I agree, I think ads are a scourge on society and the source of a great number of problems we have today. The problem is that the incentives are very strong for selling ads, but I think it can be corrected through regulation or taxation. If
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by brenden2 6y ago
That's true, but a lot of people think the school you attend matters. For example, in the context of hiring, if you have 2 otherwise candidates but you can only choose one, most people would choose the person who went to Stanford over
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by brenden2 6y ago
Nah, my point is that everyone dies no matter what, and most people die of disease in one form or another. These headlines are sensationalist, especially since they miss the point that most of the deaths are from people who are already sick
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by brenden2 6y ago
Phoenix is the closest, and while it's not exactly a Rails clone, it provides most of what you need to get started. It's similar to Rails in that there's a CLI to generate code, and frameworks for unit testing, DB modeling, t
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by brenden2 6y ago
Maybe, but that's hasn't been my experience. The Erlang monitoring/debugging tools that you get out of the box are pretty good.
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by brenden2 6y ago
Go is a language that always felt painfully obtuse to me. It always seemed hard to do basic things. To be fair I've only used it begrudgingly and never on my own work. The only thing I ever enjoyed about Go was the fast compilation.
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by brenden2 6y ago
I've done a fair bit of both Ruby and Elixir. My impression is that Elixir leaves a lot of the legacy cruft behind, and it has a much smaller language feature set (which is IMO big bonus). The language is pretty easy to grasp quickly a
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by brenden2 6y ago
I'm not a genius, but I found the opposite to be true. Go and Python seem non-intuitive to me, whereas Elixir felt natural and easy to grok.

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