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by byecomputer 6y ago
Negotiating is above-board in its own right, which means you've got the right to say, "No, that price is too low," and walk away from the exchange. But, in a broad sense, I'd argue it becomes an issue when you say, &quot
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by byecomputer 6y ago
> An important distinction is that the hackers are not employees of the company who are underpaid or mistreated somehow. Nobody is forcing these people to look for bugs. > The people who are after bug bounties get a kick out of findin
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by byecomputer 6y ago
I read the article, what I'm saying is that it's a go-to argument for these companies because there's truth to it, and when taken at face-value it's really not that audacious to say, "people ought to recycle the con
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by byecomputer 6y ago
On the other hand, doing busywork is a pretty integral part of being in the military
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by byecomputer 6y ago
I was in the Quad Cities (Iowa/Illinois interface) in the spring and there was a bank robbery pretty much every other week. Turned out to be the same guy each time, but as an East-coaster who's not too familiar with the Midwest th
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by byecomputer 6y ago
I see your point, but ultimately it's down to you to see that your can ends up in the bin. I think these bottlers latch on to that argument because it's intuitive and pretty reasonable
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by byecomputer 6y ago
It's the law in China. Notes regarding 'probably' selective enforcement are certainly meaningful but at no point am I led to have existential doubts regarding what is and is not the law in China. I have a hunch that if we wal
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by byecomputer 6y ago
You can safely leave off the leading paragraph about how other people in the thread are not smart and you're in the right—that's the default motivational assumption that surrounds making comments online
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by byecomputer 6y ago
> in several provinces there has been a number of cases where folks got verbal warning for doing it. From that same article: || But police have also issued fines, confiscated thousands of dollars earned through online activity, seized ro
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by byecomputer 6y ago
To my knowledge, it's widely known of and therefore spoken of privately, but it isn't taught in schools (beyond an acknowledgement that there were protests) and information surrounding the massacre is suppressed on a top-down basi
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by byecomputer 6y ago
What do you want me to say? It's banned in China. It wasn't always banned in China, but as of April 2019 all versions of Wikipedia are verboten. Here's an article from a little over a month ago describing someone's arres
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by byecomputer 6y ago
Not exactly compelled to add the Chinese government into the mix on top of that. The state of privacy being internally dire already doesn't mean I'm obliged to be compromised and debased on an equal-opportunity, global basis.
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by byecomputer 6y ago
> lots of western apps remain accessible in China And lots of western apps aren't accessible in China. Such as Google, Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter. Furthermore, did you know TikTok itself is banned in mainland China? No kidding, th
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by byecomputer 6y ago
> killing peacefully protesting students, That said, there's a sharp cultural contrast between the responses to the Kent State massacre in the US and the Tienenman Square massacre in China. In the US, you can't say Kent State w
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by byecomputer 6y ago
Something tells me they don't mind if the bucket's overflowing so long as you're paying for the water. "Make 'em feel like _they're_ workin' _you_" is a tried-and-true sales tactic
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by byecomputer 6y ago
I remember the first time I was shown a SharePoint "This is what we use to keep track all purchase orders! It's GRRREEEAT!" Neat, so it's a big Excel spreadsheet we all use at the same time? I can get into—hang on, some
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by byecomputer 6y ago
Flipped to 641B
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by byecomputer 6y ago
This feels like the kind of anecdote I'd overhear my paint-covered neighbor Tom telling my dad when I was 10, and my dad would be making a racket over it, really bent over twice. I'd always be like, "what's so funny abou
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by byecomputer 6y ago
I think it's perfectly justified to call out manipulative content, especially if the manipulator is batting for your team. Either way, implying someone's a heretic because they reject the trough you eat from only makes it clear wh
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by byecomputer 6y ago
Eating at McDonald's and watching porn aren't that dissimilar: once I'm finished, I always want to leave as quickly as possible.
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by byecomputer 6y ago
Heads up, r/covid19 isn't r/Coronavirus, the latter being pretty vapid & sensational
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by byecomputer 6y ago
I feel like there's a certain je ne sais quoi to the comments Google employees write where I can just immediately sense them without even needing to check.
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by byecomputer 6y ago
I can't put my finger on what alternative you're alluding to here. Writing HTML/Markdown/whatever feels mostly the same whether I'm doing it in Nano or Notepad or VSCode, and I probably use all three of those on a d
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by byecomputer 6y ago
As far as I know, the virus de-limbing is something soap does naturally. It's intrinsic to soap and has nothing to do with added chemicals.
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Different stuff each other have seen, places we've been, things we've done. If they already share my opinion on everything, I could save a lot of time avoiding things I wouldn't like and probably learn about new things I woul
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by byecomputer 6y ago
Nobody's stopping you from learning to read legal documents. Regardless, I wouldn't call computer code any less impenetrable than the code of law--it'd just be more up your alley if it was the former.
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by byecomputer 6y ago
I still think the right to be seen before a judge is integral to the justice system. Automating it to the point where judges are simply rubber-stamping decisions ignores the gravity of legal proceedings and their effect on people's liv
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by byecomputer 6y ago
Soap is the way to go--apparently it just rips viruses apart limb-from-limb. Weird image to have when washing one's hands, but kind of also reinforces the utility of doing it.
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by byecomputer 6y ago
Perhaps in verbal conversation it makes sense to define it in place, but we're on the internet. Just highlight the word and search it. I wouldn't say that in most contexts, but considering the demographic here, a lot of conversati
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>"hypervector" is just a swanky term for very-high-dimensionality vectors, a la "hypersonic", "hypervisor", hyper-encabulator, etc. Or a la hypercube. Hyper- is an established prefix for describing n-dimensi

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