drspacemonkey

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by drspacemonkey 9y ago
Instead of a data tax, I like the idea of mandatory data insurance, with payouts to users whose data is leaked/stolen. If your company has shitty security, or a history of leaks, your data insurance provider will charge out the ass. Th
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by drspacemonkey 9y ago
It was only recently that Windows got 4k Netflix, and that comes with a big bag of caveats. It's gotta be one of a handful of Nvidia GPUs, using a recent driver, only on monitors that support the right version of HDCP, and only through
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by drspacemonkey 9y ago
My understanding is based on my brief time doing college radio, so I may be wrong and welcome corrections. Basically, it means there doesn't need to be any formal agreement between the broadcaster and the IP owner. If you own a radio s
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by drspacemonkey 9y ago
Don't forget other countries. In Canada, there's no Hulu or any HBO online offering. There's a streaming service operated by Bell that has some HBO content, but they intentionally leave out the most popular shows in an attemp
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I think it was more that Troy Hunt is incredibly high-profile in the security arena. If he blogs that your site security sucks, some of his readers will prove it.
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by drspacemonkey 9y ago
That's effectively how Lego Friends came to be. LEGO wanted to expand their market to hit the same market segment as Barbie. After years of market research, focus-testing, and development, they released Friends. It quickly became the f
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by drspacemonkey 9y ago
That's pretty much what an open workspace means. Every open workspace should come with a free pair of noise-cancelling headphones.
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by drspacemonkey 9y ago
So ultimately, it's the same core issue as the 2008 housing collapse. When lenders don't have to give half a crap about the borrower's ability to repay a loan, they just keep issuing bigger and bigger loans.
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by drspacemonkey 9y ago
Once you take the exchange rate into account, I'm below the 2nd percentile for a senior dev. And I make a great salary for the Vancouver area. I knew I could double my salary south of the border, but that hurts.
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by drspacemonkey 9y ago
To my knowledge, it's because if somebody steals money off your debit card, they've stolen YOUR money. You gotta fight with the bank to get it back. But thanks to consumer protection laws, if somebody steals money off your credit
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by drspacemonkey 9y ago
I wonder if this might not be a viable revenue model for "premium" services. IE: service is "free", but we're gonna use your CPU cycles for our own benefit.
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by drspacemonkey 9y ago
At WalMart, yes. Also JC Penny, Victoria's Secret, K-Mart, and Starbucks have all used prison labor. There's also prison call centers, such as those used by American Airlines and Avis.
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by drspacemonkey 9y ago
> were you taking them alone? Yes. I had nobody to take them with, so alone was my only option. > weren't you scared of having a bad trip? Not really. I was aware it was a possibility, but I figured worst case scenario was death.
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by drspacemonkey 9y ago
It's anecdotal, but I can attest that it was a huge benefit to me. After suffering with crippling depression that lasted almost 4 years, I figured I'd give it a shot. I spent the afternoon wandering around a nearby park, feeding d
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by drspacemonkey 9y ago
You might wanna look into EmberCLI. It's not as trendy or popular as Vue or React (rendering speed is a big reason), but it might be what you're looking for.
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by drspacemonkey 9y ago
>Influence is largely the byproduct of the press attention That's not how it works with clerics in Saudi. They have official standing with the government, have their own police force with the authority to enforce morality laws (the
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by drspacemonkey 9y ago
It depends on how much political influence that specific preacher wielded. In Saudi, clerics wield a LOT of political influence. They're not just religious advisers, they get to set and interpret law based on their understanding of the
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by drspacemonkey 9y ago
Can confirm. VSCode's Go extension is really nice. I started using Atom for Go, but quickly switched over. The only thing I miss from Atom is the extension that shows inline test coverage.
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by drspacemonkey 9y ago
Seriously? That's almost 35% more than I'm making as a senior Rails dev in Vancouver...
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by drspacemonkey 9y ago
>And instead of trying to solve that problem (make a concerted effort to drive him to his friends every day, or give him a bike, or give him money for a taxi, or…) they punished him with Pavlov training. Or how about letting him do what
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by drspacemonkey 9y ago
It's incredibly reassuring that ACTUAL rocket scientists have the same problems as people learning how to play Kerbal Space Program. The part that made me laugh the most, however, was that Scott Manley had the top comment (when I looke
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by drspacemonkey 9y ago
I had a similar issue with my bank dealing with an identity theft problem I had a while back. Ultimately, I had to resort to sending them letters via certified mail.
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by drspacemonkey 9y ago
"Rod should have predicted the kind of response this tweet received" I was on the fence until I hit that part. The tacit admission that they're holding him responsible for what other people are saying on Twitter is all I need
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by drspacemonkey 9y ago
That's not quite what happened in Germany. After the Beer Hall Putsch, there was a 5 year period where the Nazis would get into violent street clashes with members of the communist party. Reacting to the Nazis with violence was tried
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by drspacemonkey 9y ago
Of course Google has that right. I question whether it will have the intended effect, though. Pretty sure isolating extremists tends to cause further extremism.
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by drspacemonkey 9y ago
>Asking questions like, "How do you seriously not know how to X?" and reporting them to management. Exactly. Between my freelancing and full-time experience, I've been involved with dozens of teams. Very few of them react
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by drspacemonkey 9y ago
I can't listen to it right now (I will later, because TAL is great), but did they do a blind taste test? I wish I could remember where I found it, but some curious foodies tried it and the pork rectum had a... let's call it "
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It is an urban legend. It takes FAR too much effort to mask the flavour to make it a cost-effective substitute. It's like the "McDonald's hamburger is really red meal worm" or "KFC is really genetically engineered b
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by drspacemonkey 9y ago
You're completely right - science can't dictate what should be , only what is . But part of the problem, as I see it, is that there are far too many people who dismiss any science that says things are different from the way they
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by drspacemonkey 9y ago
>The author appears to be stating that the solution to sexism is to have women marry the sexists and have their babies. I didn't get that interpretation at all . The way I understood it, he was saying that there are differences bet

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