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by dx87 7y ago
Intel is a thankless job; if you keep people safe, nobody knows you are doing anything, but if something happens, you're the first to get blamed. Just because you're ignorant about what people working in various intelligence agen
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by dx87 7y ago
This must be the most HN thing ever. Picking a single thing out of an article and using it to criticize Americans.
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by dx87 7y ago
If it's disposable income, it doesn't matter if you put it in a pile and set it on fire, or choose to do home renovations. The fact that it's disposable means that it's left over after all of your necessities are taken
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by dx87 7y ago
That's like saying that "Gun Free" zones are the solution to preventing shootings. If the law is practically unenforceable, you need a different solution.
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by dx87 7y ago
Gabe Newell talked about this kind of stuff years ago. People are tired of big publishers promising the world pre-release, then putting out an unfinished product that is nowhere near the quality of what was advertised. Here's a snipp
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by dx87 7y ago
I'm suprised that he got 9 years in prison and was convicted of 2nd degree murder for this. What he was doing was definitely strange and ended up causing someone's death, but I haven't seen anyone from Tesla or Uber going to
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by dx87 7y ago
What could they do though? I thought courts in the USA ruled that an IP address can't be used to identify a person. It seems like the most they could do is ban the account, which they can do for any reason they want.
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by dx87 7y ago
Popular streamers get special treatment, no matter their gender. There was a streamer at E3 who was streaming from the public bathrooms, including a bunch of random people going to the bathroom on his stream (which is a crime in California
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by dx87 7y ago
Guessing it's related to people streaming on the Artifact section on Twitch. Basically, there was a popular streamer who would joke about how nobody was streaming the game, so people start streaming porn, Avengers: Endgame, etc, so th
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by dx87 7y ago
Yep, a company I worked at hired a tech writer that downloaded some cracked version of software that included ransomware on their first day of work because they said they didn't want to wait for the company to get them a legitimate cop
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by dx87 7y ago
I have one cousin who decided to be an electrician, and another that is doing elevator installation and repair. I was suprised how well they're paid, it's probably because we've got strong unions in the area. Neither did an
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by dx87 7y ago
They bring mine to the door, but half the time they reek so badly of cigarette smoke that I can't take the box inside because it'll stink up the house.
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by dx87 7y ago
I doubt twitch shooters would be playable. I've used steam's in home streaming, and platformers that require precise jumping accuracy are basically unplayable because even a fraction of a second hiccup in latency can get you kill
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by dx87 7y ago
From recent accounts of former employees, he's pretty hands off with the company nowadays, mainly playing Dota 2 in his office and occasionally coming out to see how everyone is doing. I was suprised to find out that he's one of
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by dx87 7y ago
I don't think it's racism, but I've seen people argue that since over 90% of China is a single ethnicity, there isn't a difference between refusing to do business with China, and refusing to do business with Chinese peop
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by dx87 7y ago
Just because you have a secret clearance, and the information is classified at the secret level, doesn't mean you're authorized to view it. You also need to have a "need to know", and considering that Manning wasn'
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by dx87 7y ago
It doesn't use it by default, but you can manually enable it. It's the only way I could watch twitch streams on a 1440p monitor at 60 FPS.
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by dx87 7y ago
Considering there's plenty of ideologues and partisans working at those private companies, I think it's pretty bad either way.
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by dx87 7y ago
Not really. Look at articles posted on this site whenever a device made in China is "accidentally" sending user information back to some server in China; people keep asking why the government isn't doing anything to warn cit
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by dx87 7y ago
A couple of years ago, Cloudflare refused to remove access to ISIS websites, and said it's not the job of ISPs or themselves to police content. https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/anonymous-opisis-cloudflare-refuse...
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by dx87 7y ago
I think I know the exact scene you're talking about in Bones, it was a super obvious advertisement. Car starts making beeping noises "Why's the car beeping?", "Oh, it's the new lane assist feature in my Toyota
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by dx87 7y ago
How about these tweets from Obama's campaign manager? https://twitter.com/cld276/status/975565844632821760 Both campaigns abused Facebook to get the personal information of people who never downloaded the off
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by dx87 7y ago
It might lower the average quality of female auditionees because you'd get females that aren't good enough to play in the orchestra, but told themselves that the only reason they weren't previously selected is because they&#x
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by dx87 7y ago
If you're frequently having things stolen, you don't live in a "very safe" neighborhood. I've lived in working class neighborhoods most of my life, and the only thing I've ever had stolen from me was a bike th
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by dx87 7y ago
No, that's not how their algorithm works. I can't find the link now, but a former employee said that their algorithm is designed to keep you engaged with the site, and that typically involves directing you to more and more extrem
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by dx87 7y ago
Someone brought up the same question on /r/showerthoughts on reddit, and one of the Pornhub employees said that there had been internal talks about it, especially after Youtube started demonetizing tons of channels, but they weren
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by dx87 7y ago
Until the their payment processors refuse to do business with them due to political pressure. I guess they could accept money orders or cryptocurrency, but services are centralized to the point that "just create your own website"
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by dx87 7y ago
Epic is paying boat loads of money so they don't have to compete, that's the issue. Their store is objectively worse than Steam in almost every way, they know they can't compete, so instead they're throwing money at the
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by dx87 7y ago
The devs could already get around the 30% cut by selling steam keys to the game on another site, bypassing Valve. Epic also doesn't care about the developers, most of their exclusivity deals boil down to "anyone but Steam",
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by dx87 7y ago
That's what I was thinking, it reminds me of the recent EU case where Google got fined for saying that if a phone manufacturer wanted to sell Android with Google integrations (Play Store, Search, etc.), they couldn't also sell And

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