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by d1zzy 8y ago
> Airplanes are not gliders. Actually... Wasn't there a famous case where the pilots managed to save a plane without engines by just gliding to an airport? Would such a thing even work on the MAX design? Ah yes, here it is: https:&
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by d1zzy 8y ago
> I'm so tired of people calling the regulation of hate speech and violent speech on private platforms "censorship." These people are more than free to express themselves in any public platform or their own platform. They
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by d1zzy 8y ago
And regarding the original post, Google/Facebook pay $200k/year to H1Bs too.
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by d1zzy 8y ago
> I'm apologetically opposed to foreign workers. The US has PLENTY of tech workers, ranging from help desk to the nerdiest graph theory scientists. This is nothing more than companies getting cheaper labor. Full stop. I find all the
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by d1zzy 8y ago
Did you try Citi cards? I've been using one for years and I think at most I had about 15 virtual account numbers on it (but I do try to keep things tidy generally).
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by d1zzy 8y ago
> 4. Yes paedophiles do spend a lot of time watching kids videos online. We can use unusual watch time patterns to spot this, and that's good - but really paedophilia has been a problem for 10,000 years and we as society need to fin
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by d1zzy 8y ago
Before everyone brings their torch and pitchfork, do we know how much harm is being done on open sharing platforms vs the value they bring to society? I see people quickly jumping on the "stop the internet open sharing platforms"
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by d1zzy 8y ago
I guess it depends on everyone, when I accepted that it's extremely likely there is nothing after death I didn't draw the conclusion that everything is pointless (I mean yes, it is if in order to get a purpose you need some kind o
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by d1zzy 8y ago
Same (but not from Canada, from a former communist Eastern European country where there's universal healthcare). And I was in a much higher on the income ladder in said country then here in the US (relative to the country median income
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by d1zzy 8y ago
My findings so far for legal FLAC sources are: bandcamp: if it's there this is the best solution, you get option of what format you want and you don't have to pay more just for lossless. Unlimited number of downloads. 7digital: te
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by d1zzy 8y ago
I generally agree with the reasons why we have arrived at what we have now but I'd like to point out that the alternatives do not seem _better_ necessarily, or at least not clearly so for most people. Current business model: provide &q
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by d1zzy 8y ago
The same is true for many great athletes, they are "running from something". It makes a lot of sense that at the very top of any human activity only those that have had the talent, a bit of luck and _very importantly_ sacrificed e
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by d1zzy 8y ago
I'm pretty sure I would. I derive a lot of satisfaction from the things I'm making in software and if it wasn't my job then I'd definitely do that as a hobby (as I did in the past, when my job at the time didn't inv
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by d1zzy 8y ago
It may be funny but it may be a way to support certain older games/applications that don't run well on Windows 10. For example in order to run Dracula 3 on Windows 10 one has to use the Wine implementation of Direct3D: https:&#x2
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by d1zzy 8y ago
I strongly disagree. One of the most obvious (among many) differences we noticed when moving to the US from Europe is the taste of chicken meat. It just tastes very bland and almost chemical. Years later we discovered that (organic, etc) ch
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by d1zzy 8y ago
Maybe more of us should apply the following before speaking up: * is it true? * is it necessary? * is it kind?
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by d1zzy 8y ago
Life is too short to make saving money the first priority on every decision. Drive whatever you can afford and makes happiest (and makes sense for the use case you have in mind for it, offroad, snow, racing, commute time, etc).
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by d1zzy 8y ago
You know, there are German cars that are priced competitively. When I went shopping for a new hatchback moving on from the 20 year old Hold Civic, I did look at Honda Civic, VW Golf and tons of other small hatchbacks and I ended up with the
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by d1zzy 8y ago
If, that concern (of large uneducated immigrants) is paired in the same sentence or paragraph (or at least article) with a suggestion of how to increase immigration of highly skilled/educated people. Because if it just stops at "w
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by d1zzy 8y ago
That is correct but it doesn't negate the statement about Apple just because others are also doing it.
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by d1zzy 8y ago
> So Apple is the one big technology player whose interests are most closely aligned with the consumer in terms of supporting data privacy. That's assuming that "the user" (whatever that means) is valuing their privacy mor
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by d1zzy 8y ago
No, actually trying to "compete" by PR and stifle competitors through public pressure and new laws doesn't seem like "healthy" competition to me, you are essentially attempting to change the rules of the game becaus
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by d1zzy 8y ago
Cars have been sending data back to manufacturers (which include location, odometer, etc) for a while now and there's almost no way to disable it nicely (destroying the radios voids warranty): http://www.bbc.com/autos&#
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by d1zzy 8y ago
There's a big difference between not being able to provide an exact estimate because of unforeseen events[1] and not providing an estimate that includes services that are being provided to pretty much everyone visiting the health care
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by d1zzy 8y ago
Depends, borrowing money to buy a car and needing to borrow money to buy a car are 2 distinct things. I recently got financing for a new car because they gave me thousands of dollars discount for doing so. Over the course of the loan, if I
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by d1zzy 8y ago
If you're looking for a "better" term you could try using "undocumented immigrants" as that's the term normally used in more liberal media.
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by d1zzy 8y ago
Wow, that mirrors so much of my computer learning experience. I grew up in Eastern Europe and my parents made a huge effort to buy me a local clone of ZX Spectrum when I was 10 years old after I was exposed to these computers (and computers
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by d1zzy 8y ago
I would say that it heavily depends on the current justices in the supreme court. With the current court composition I wouldn't say that both of those issues have equal risk of being revoked.
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by d1zzy 8y ago
Yes, but terminating your GC status is much more easier than relinquishing your citizenship. After all, the visa is designed for that (to be something that you hold on to while in the US and give up when not maintaining permanent residency
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by d1zzy 8y ago
Ask them. Just because someone is riding a nice bike and wearing athletic clothing doesn't mean they don't enjoy their hobby (on the contrary, my instinct would be to say they do enjoy it since they obviously spend so much money o

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