clubm8

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by clubm8 8y ago
>Work for startup for 1/3 the compensation, at least 50% more working hours, and options that have a 95% chance of being worth zero dollars at some point in the future. Google has good work/life balance?
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by clubm8 8y ago
> There will never be any shortage of interesting startups to work for in the future. You forgot to factor in the blatant age discrimination in most startups. OP could build a nice nest egg at Google, but have a severe lack of free time
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by clubm8 8y ago
> The practice, which violates company policy, is particularly pronounced in China, according to some of these people, because the number of sellers there is skyrocketing. As well, Amazon employees in China have relatively small salaries
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by clubm8 8y ago
This sounds interesting, does someone have a non-paywalled source?
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> I have a suspicion that at least part of the drive for Brexit comes from the determination of the British security services to preserve their last little island of unaccountable Empire That's a poor strategy then, since it's
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by clubm8 8y ago
> Genuine question: In what way does Microsoft benefit from people using Edge? It's a web browser. It's a rather neutral piece of technology. How can they make money out of it? Well for one thing, keeping people away from Googl
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by clubm8 8y ago
That law sounds good, but does Finland have the same issue as the US with regard to fraud protection? In case you're not familiar, US debit cards are tied to a bank account, but weirdly can be used without a PIN if they are run as a cr
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by clubm8 8y ago
Considering these cell-site simulators are often used at protests this seems like a recipe for disaster. What happens when another person is shot[1] at a protest and there's no way to call 911? [1] https://www.theguardian.co
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by clubm8 8y ago
>This isn't how it works in the United States at least. The police are allowed to lie to you, your lawyer, the media, anyone they want to, as long as they are not under oath. That seems like you're playing semantics. A contem
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by clubm8 8y ago
> They're requesting in writing that no analysis was done, because then when they get the equipment back and see that yup, analysis was done, they can then I assume sue for... Something? I'd assume if you're involved in a
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by clubm8 8y ago
> They've been doing this for several years at least (employees taking orders of people in line). I think since before the iPad was released. Wendy's used to do this around 91/92 (clipboard, not iPad) I think they ditched
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by clubm8 8y ago
> Google Maps's quality seems to be significantly dropping. They're missing most of the 300k addresses that have been renumbered in the past decade in Kitsap County (just across the water from Seattle), and when I go much outsi
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by clubm8 8y ago
>at this international student event, a guy goes up and says he's going to do a song from his home country, Taiwan. He doesn't get much farther before a Chinese student runs onstage, grabs the microphone away from him and yells
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by clubm8 8y ago
>This is not an academic question. How many dishonest Apple employes would it take to insert a secret back door into MacOS, iOS, or iCloud? Back in the day, not many: http://eeggs.com/tree/1136.html
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by clubm8 8y ago
I wonder how many "easter eggs" were planted by people on the NSA's payroll pre-2005? One of the lesser talked about things that was touched on in the Snowden docs is that the NSA sometimes has agents within companies similar
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by clubm8 8y ago
I mean, do you stop and harangue off duty police officers? Members of the military? Both are complicit in far worse IMHO.
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by clubm8 8y ago
Heh point taken. I'm no slave to civility by any means, but I am mindful that screaming at a couple off duty agents trying to shop, who I've had no prior interaction with, probably does not help my cause ;-)
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by clubm8 8y ago
Can it import Keepass DBs? I dread retyping all my passwords.
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by clubm8 8y ago
>* The best interaction I ever had with the TSA was when I came upon a pair openly wearing their uniforms around a grocery store, so I was able to call them fascist child molesters right to their faces.* I'm no fan of the TSA, but d
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by clubm8 8y ago
> my personal suspicion is that Satoshi is a group of individuals, making such an analysis almost impossible I agree. My bet is at least two: one theory heavy "ideas guy" and one more software engineering oriented programmer w
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by clubm8 8y ago
So dumb question: What does chip and signature accomplish? I assume that someone who installs a skimmer can still use the card data somewhere that does not have a chip terminal... it is my understanding that the vast majority of fraud in th
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by clubm8 8y ago
> Frustratingly, there are few mechanisms for banks to communicate with each other. “In the US, there is a web portal for banks to contact each other on these issues. Here, it’s just email, Blomfield adds. “Sometimes we are even told to
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by clubm8 8y ago
Increasingly it feels like we can only "think" anonymously, not speak. Technology like Tor allows me to surf the web untracked, which is good. There are chilling effects from mass surveilance that cause people not read about sensi
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by clubm8 8y ago
This assumes Satoshi discusses such things under a nym tied to his real name or IP. I have a suite of nyms I created over Tor, and exclusively use via Tor, which I use to discuss certain topics. It's hard to do a stylometric analysis w
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by clubm8 9y ago
90s: Some guy in another country wired his christmas lights to be controllable, along with a few other lights. He didn't get much traffic. A small group of gamers started turning them on and off and emailing him "DISCO". Late
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by clubm8 9y ago
No.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_Law_of_Headline...
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by clubm8 9y ago
Then what caused my childhood depression? Does AIM count as social media? ;)
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by clubm8 9y ago
Cool. I guess what I'm missing is why is there a need for the Tumbler service? If I understand correctly, you can spin up many bitcoin wallets. Wouldn't it be possible to create a bunch of Bitcoin wallets that would trade money am
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by clubm8 9y ago
>Walmart often has better prices on everyday items and I can have it immediately. But isn't the value in not having to travel to Walmart, select the item, wait in line, pay for the item, and transporting the item back to your home w
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by clubm8 9y ago
Maybe I'm biased, but I'm surprised this is considered new. I grew up in an American suburb. There was basically zero commons. Most places you go to socialize (eg: the mall) are privately owned.

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