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by claudius 13y ago
Which part of his behaviour in this email is unacceptable in particular? Let’s look at it: > Mauro, SHUT THE FUCK UP! Okay, so he tells Mauro to stop talking because he apparently thinks that what Mauro was saying is wrong. To make very
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by claudius 13y ago
You'd not take intelligence over ‘being pleasant’? I tend to enjoy the company of an intelligent asshole more than that of a ‘pleasant’ idiot any day.
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by claudius 13y ago
Regarding the last bit, I don’t quite see the point. If I had a wife and she ripped off the sink, put a plastic tub there and called it an improvement, because the metal in the sink could rust, I would be quite clear with her that I think t
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by claudius 13y ago
> The problem with cultural differences is that the effect of this might be not the intended one ‘Be liberal in what you accept and conservative in what you send’ has two clauses for a reason, namely that trying to gauge the effect of wh
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by claudius 13y ago
Sure, some answers are harsh, some are nicer, but as long as they get the job done, I don’t see a reason why one would want to complain about a ‘harsh’ answer – the world is not wrapped in friendly gift wrap and if you do something stupid,
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by claudius 13y ago
Reading Finnish out loud (with a somewhat German-y pronunciation) always manages to cheer me up.
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by claudius 13y ago
Is it correct to assume that both you and your non-failing friends put in considerable work outside the lectures? Or, depending on the exact subject, at least skim Wikipedia? If so, that is certainly an even better way to learn than by lect
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by claudius 13y ago
> They should be just mentoring the next generation of research professors and doing their research, since that is where most of their money comes from anyway. That’s exactly what universities are intended to do: Educate the future resea
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by claudius 13y ago
‘one’ is still an indefinite, rather than definite, article, and the USA are certainly one of the older, still-existing democracies (even though, of course, there are even older ones).
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by claudius 13y ago
What makes you think that hosting a server in one of the world’s oldest democracies, the country among the first to have a written constitution and a strong bill of rights, the land of the free, would not be a breach of privacy? Oh wait…
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by claudius 13y ago
If you need someone with qualification X, and n%, n != 50, of students attending university to earn qualification X are of gender A, yet you try to employ genders A and B equally, you will get fewer good people with qualification X than if
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by claudius 13y ago
Sure, why not? Birthday might not be absolutely relevant, but allows to judge your success at school/uni/education much more easily, nationality is relevant to decide whether they would have to go through trouble to get you employ
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by claudius 13y ago
The Wikipedia page on Chromium[0] gives some differences, though my remark was admittedly mostly based on the description of the chromium package in Debian[1], which at least claims ‘usage tracking’ (and the generally useless and backdoor
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by claudius 13y ago
That probably depends on your definition of ‘backdoors’. Some of the data Chrome sends to Google could easily be considered a breach of privacy (and the corresponding functionality hence supposedly doesn’t exist in Chromium).
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by claudius 13y ago
That worked rather, uh, well: http://www.economist.com/blogs/easternapproaches/2011/11/pol... On the other hand, it works relatively well if you only consider going to war against each other within Europ
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by claudius 13y ago
> The amount of land under cultivation in the Andes is still a fraction of what it once was. And yet I haven’t heard of famines in the past few years – which, given Europe’s history before ‘modern technology’ came along, should happen ev
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by claudius 13y ago
Most trade of European countries is internal to Europe, and the few relevant external trading partners are the US (no pirates in the Atlantic…apart from Iceland, maybe ;)), Russia, China and Japan. Of course the problem of pirates around So
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by claudius 13y ago
> i've never spied on anyone, tortured anyone, or killed anyone You voted for a government that spied, tortured and killed people for you. Note that it doesn’t matter whether you voted for the current president or not, neither does
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by claudius 13y ago
That is still the responsibility of the American people (and nobody else). If you want to be welcome abroad, behave appropriately.
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by claudius 13y ago
The rather bovine electorate of the UK prefers to leave the apparently over-regulating, wasteful and generally evil EU, which would then would make it far easier to impose restrictions on UK services. Given that the UK already contributes n
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by claudius 13y ago
Hopefully you’re going to take care of that yourself after the next election.
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by claudius 13y ago
> which might alienate some users forever. Said users will simply stick to 12.15, given that no other browser (apart from possibly the full-blown Mozilla Suite, which I didn’t test any further) provides a similar experience – including t
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by claudius 13y ago
I tend to be more lenient of malice than incompetence. If your goals don’t align with mine, fine, maybe we can still work something out. But if you are in the data-handling business (Facebook, Google etc. are) and you fail to handle data pr
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by claudius 13y ago
The wiki explicitly says (under “Is that the final word?”): > No. The Pidgin developers are generally open to, and would encourage integration with keyrings (KeyringSupport). and then goes on to state that this is difficult to do, since
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by claudius 13y ago
Even if Android let them make money, it is broken beyond repair with its funny idea to run everything in Java sandboxes, invent a new packaging format and releasing source code months after the actual release. No thank you.
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by claudius 13y ago
Curiously, I went back to Iceweasel from Chromium after the latter kept crashing reproducible on some sites – among them plus.google.com and many others with Flash. So far, I have no encountered Iceweasel to crash, and the dev tools are onl
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by claudius 13y ago
Pidgin is predominantly developed for Linux, where they would have to support Gnome, KDE and probably at least one other mechanism. Sure, that could be done, but it is a lot of work to do that sensibly on all platforms, and, more importantl
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by claudius 13y ago
You can disable storing passwords. If you don’t want to have to enter a ‘master password’ when Pidgin starts up, there is no way they can store the passwords more securely than plaintext. Get full disk encryption and be happy.
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by claudius 13y ago
It is easy to add this information in the search – in the particular example, adding ‘Java’ will likely mean that someone is not looking for specific strings from a tropical island or the local clothing types, but your ‘type 1’ strings. Eve
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by claudius 13y ago
That depends on who does the surveillance. Stopping to use American services is a simple start, and it is much easier to act against surveillance in your own country than it is to act against surveillance by the US. Of course, this only hel

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