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by dictum 13y ago
Does it make a difference either way?
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by dictum 13y ago
> This and other sources concur: the Amdocs billing stuff's like cancer. Once they're in your network, you can't get rid of them So I guess the possible Mossad connection is the only reason why SAP isn't buying Amdocs
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It would be trivial to imitate Mobile Safari's chrome with "actuallegitdomain.com" in the address bar instead of "actuallegitdomain.com.ooo.ag" or resorting to IDN tricks (since most browsers, and I think Mobile Saf
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by dictum 13y ago
You can disable CSS or use a user stylesheet to your liking. That's the amazing thing about HTML + CSS + JS, not available to PDF or any other format/medium in common use.
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by dictum 13y ago
There are three things at play here: 1. Narcissism is no longer frowned upon — even some people's hate for others' narcissism becomes a venue for their own narcissism 2. Social mores have relaxed in much of the world, so the bikin
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by dictum 13y ago
Okay, so we have names, addresses, phone numbers, gender... Are there any other data about which programmers should make no assumptions?
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by dictum 13y ago
Because every submission should have a pessimistic, cynical reply: I expect this to be used to its full potential by phishing sites. Aside from that: finally.
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by dictum 13y ago
I doubt they only store it for a month. Besides how cheap (in national security budget terms) it is to store everything indefinitely, the timespan of a month is just not enough time to gather enough intelligence, especially when you don&#x2
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by dictum 13y ago
That's how I feel about revenge porn/leaked nude photos and videos of non-underage people in general. There should be legal consequences for people who leak this content against the wish of the people depicted, but I feel the medi
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by dictum 13y ago
> in my nation (India) being gay is illegal Sorry for the flame material, but why is it that this is rarely mentioned in western news media (at least in the countries whose news I follow)? For those who, like me, didn't know that:
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by dictum 13y ago
You bring a point I hadn't thought of yet: aside from illegal downloading, you can't buy an ebook anonymously.
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by dictum 13y ago
>The fact that we couldn’t speak freely without the fear that our communications would be monitored by KGB is in part why we moved to the United States when I was a teenager. >Respect for your privacy is coded into our DNA It is not r
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by dictum 13y ago
I have many Pages/Keynote/Numbers documents from 2005-2008, and I remember wondering if they'd ever become unreadable with future technology. The date came sooner than expected.
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Exactly. A second facet of that is that Catherine seems to be arguing[0] that organizations with no hierarchy give the false impression of power for employees and society at large. Doesn't a similar situation happen with democracy: peo
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>In the wake of this, I’m starting to think all of the problems we’re seeing with Silicon Valley these days—the ineptitude at politics, the clumsiness with handling inequality in SF, the lack of gender and racial diversity in the industr
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by dictum 13y ago
Perhaps they're more confident that if they're betrayed by another party, they'll find a way to reverse or compensate for the consequences of whatever the other party did?
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by dictum 13y ago
Obligatory: http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~mvanier/hacking/rants/cars.html
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The problem with iniciatives like these is that they make it hard for me to know that someone is the kind of person who would write "faggot" and "gayQuery" unironically. When toxic or just obnoxious people are instructed
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by dictum 13y ago
It's good that people will use their freedom of speech to voice their dissatisfaction with what other people wrote. I just hope those who join this project don't eventually make it a them vs. us thing: "look at these disgusti
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by dictum 13y ago
> The correct thing would be to do is create a chemical that kills all unwanted stuff and leaves the wanted stuff unharmed I think you stumbled into the biotech equivalent of CSI picture enhancement[0] or unlimited data storage. [0]: ht
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by dictum 13y ago
(Puts on troll overcoat) Marco is someone who would say a coffee warming metal pebble is a requirement. Adjust your perspective accordingly.
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by dictum 13y ago
I can't find it now, but I remember seeing a picture around the time AAPL was rising fast (~2011-2012) that showed how much money you'd have if you had bought the equivalent amount of Apple stock that a given Mac cost when release
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by dictum 13y ago
Most of the malls I've seen are closer to postmodern architecture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodern_architecture
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Isn't that a bit reaching, though? Jealousy is a personal feeling, not a reaction based on societal and political frameworks. Anecdote: gay men in long-term relationships are jealous of their partners too, and their reactions to percei
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by dictum 13y ago
I wish the Algolia HN Search had a better coverage of older submissions and replies. Finding stuff that's older than 3 years is pretty hard on the new search.
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I don't know, I've personally seen both men and women be criticized for domineering attitudes in similar situations. Some men are less likely to criticize men for their domineering attitude for fear of starting a fight (some men d
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Can't speak for the person who called her "queen", but that's the problem with some words being gendered and others not. Most words in my mother tongue are gendered even if the thing they're referring to are objects
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by dictum 13y ago
Maybe "hijacker" isn't the right term. I'd just never stopped to think how a pirate, or anyone interested in stealing a plane for whatever reason, could take control of a plane and force the pilot to disable all systems
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The "I was born a woman but I really am a chinchilla inside" variety of Tumblr users in perpetual Poe's law mode aren't the average feminist, but the Twitter feminist circles I've seen (I don't know if Julie is
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