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by clubm8 8y ago
>Talk about overthinking it! This thread highlights the recurrent conflict that arises because my Myers-Briggs personality type is INFJ, but most programmers are not. Meyers-Briggs has a number of issues[1] and is frankly, unscientific.
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>I find it very obnoxious how the Netflix app for Apple TV autoplays previews of titles when you’re browsing and doesn’t let you disable that behaviour. As a result I rarely open Netflix except when I already know what I want to watch. I
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I've noticed a larger trend where notifications used to be notifications of something a human sent, but now it means "$SOCIALNETWORK wants your attention" For example if I don't tweet for a few days Twitter will give me
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Another perspectivemight be that selling a small amount of shares gives the founders the financial stability to weather any storms. Let's say they sell 2 mil worth. Small in the grand scheme of things, but invested wisely can cover foo
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Out of curiosity must you be a citizen to exercise this? For example in American our bill of rights applies to anyone on US soil. So if you're a tourist you have the same right to 4th amendment prohibitions on searches (once over the b
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I wonder if any nyms will suddenly stop posting and be outed as his? One thing I've though about recently is that on a long enough timeline if you use a handle, eventually you'll die. (I register new nyms occasionally for this rea
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This is iOS specific but putting my phone in airplane mode + do not disturb (to block pop ups from Signal) then putting on some instrumental music works wonders. I'm a fan of Tycho and Emancipator.
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Do you use a VPN OP? I assumed that was my issue.
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> With the spread of misinformation and rage using messaging apps that have literally resulted in people getting killed by mobs (see for example https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/07/18/technolog
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>You can't extrapolate that model to the USA, where there are more firearms than citizens I agree unarmed police may be a stretch, but countries like Switzerland (where every home has a gun) or Estonia (which has CCW laws similar to
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> The fact that the UK can have its officers not carry by default and armed officers only show up for the most extreme situations is a testament to how they are conducting their operations. They also don't enforce every little law w
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Yes, that's why I said it reminded me, not that it was the exact same topic.
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Also the parts of Millbrae that rival Park Slope in cost are not walkable to the subway (well technically walkable but quite a walk) vs the places I was looking at were a 5-10 min walk to the subway station. Trains in NYC come much more oft
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I did the research when interviewing for a job in NYC. What would cost ~3500 in SF was more like 1500-2000. NYC has much better transit - I could commute in from Park Slope to Manhattan and have a 1500 studio which would have been much much
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Take what I say with a grain of salt, I'm not a cryptographer. It's my understanding the onion routing (what went where) could be cracked since it uses public key. The data itself may be fine because it uses private key, but if yo
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IIRC that's one of the big things the NSA's data center was doing - storing Tor traffic with the assumption QC could break the public key crypto and either see where it was going/coming from or maybe even what was being sent
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>Nothing bad ever comes to companies as a consequence of these leaks, so what is their incentive to stop them? I could probably get away with murder, but for some reason I'm not out on the town strangling prostitutes. Why do compani
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>Killing dozens of people in secret without a proper trial. To be fair, they also executed some of them in public ;) https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/world/asia/china-cia-spie... >From the f
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Reminds me of this article from 2009 where a dead salmon "reacted" to ""a series of photographs depicting human individuals in social situations." https://www.wired.com/2009/09/fmrisalmon&#
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If you have a good long term strategy you shouldn't be worried about timing the market. I invest in a few ETFs, 80/20 stock to bond ratio, a mix of domestic USA / international. I probably won't make massive gains but in
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I think having a couple drinks or smoking a little weed can help you get the seeds of ideas. But I'm not talking about whipping out a laptop in the bar. More like telling yourself you're going to stop working for the night, have a
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Is anyone else a little tired of "X used to mine crypto" stories? Yes - if it has a CPU and access to the public internet, someone will hack it and make it mine "cypto". Let's stop pretending we aren't aware th
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I "laughed out loud" at the idea Facebook thinks having things revealed during discovery that are embarrassing is new or some uniquely targeted kind of bullying directed specifically at them. I think FB is so use to pumping money
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>Six4Three's CEO is possibly on iffy legal grounds taking a bunch of sealed docs overseas unnecessarily and then handing them over, though. Yeah, this is weird. I've taken confidential documents overseas, but they were either o
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Sounds flawed. What if I interact with someone a lot because they're a family member who shares dumb boomer memes and we argue? :)
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>I want to add that China is an amazing place everyone should visit at least once in their life and I hope the author does not let his fanatical political theories get in the way of what could be a life-expanding trip. Well, having to bu
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>Before we assume that this is "a high stakes game of geopolitical poker to divert from Mueller", as the author suggests, let's see exactly what a C-level executive of one of the world's largest tech companies alleged
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> Maybe the indigenous people knew about it Or the military.
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>Are there any satellite imaging surveys or aerial surveys 50+ years ago that can confirm the assertion that the cave entrance has been covered with snow 100% of the time before 50 years ago? You think people comb through satellite photo
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>Maybe they're hoping that's enough for the bulk of users (and maybe it is), but from what I've seen, if you want to do anything serious, you still have to use a third-party. Or is it that they hope people would rather get

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