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by failuser 6y ago
There are no breaks on the exec comp train, only the end of the line. If the company is doing well the comp goes up, if it fails the comp goes up as a reward to compensate for the risk and attract talent. Until the company goes belly up.
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by failuser 6y ago
I wonder what Lucas Pope is up to. There have been no press since Return of the Obra Dinn.
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by failuser 6y ago
I wonder what the “strong” president would do there. Threaten to unleash a plague on Kentucky?
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by failuser 6y ago
Yandex and VK /s
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by failuser 6y ago
The sort of people that use Facebook in Russia know their way around a ban.
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by failuser 6y ago
They can issue the order, the question is how diligently would the order be fulfilled. Check file name? Check hash? Do a heuristic analysis a la antivirus? Filter network traffic for app signatures on to of this?
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by failuser 6y ago
You don’t get to 2T by paying more than you can.
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by failuser 6y ago
ISS has a leak and they had to isolate in the Russian module to trace the leak.
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by failuser 6y ago
Not all rules are legal. Apple can’t demand your firstborn as collateral. They have enough market share in the US to be under scrutiny.
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by failuser 6y ago
Soviet Union was never about equal outcome. It was proclaimed, but worked around in every way possible. Jews were limited in access to education, ex-nobility was limited in rights, the party members were given all kinds of preferential trea
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by failuser 6y ago
Owners of the Big Soviet Encyclopedia received replacement pages and were instructed to update their copies with scissors and glue to remove the article about Beria after he fell from power. Gives me the same vibes.
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by failuser 6y ago
No intentional user-facing arbitrary software installation vectors. Safari, WhatsApp or whatever you use will serve that role whether they were designed to or not.
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by failuser 6y ago
This can be put on a T-shirt and used as effective anti-American propaganda.
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by failuser 6y ago
It did exist, but KGB realized it was thread early on and prevented mass adoption. The access to ability to photocopy has highly restricted, but it did not prevent people from copying forbidden literature. https://ethw.org/O
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by failuser 6y ago
If I were a Soviet agent, I would have fed the machine disinformation. But who knows.
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by failuser 6y ago
They are usually fine. The inequality was way higher for most of the history and hungry peasants are no match for the army. We just remember the cases when the revolution won because it’s a good story. And the result was usually worse condi
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by failuser 6y ago
It comes from killing the offline retail (this is technological shift, so it might not be a good idea to stop it) and being both a marketplace and a player in that marketplace. Coupling with a highly profitable AWS so they can undercut the
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by failuser 6y ago
The facebook not forcing you to create account does not sound that good on a day when they force Oculus users to log in with one. Unless you live totally off the grid you are forced to interact with corporations and at every turn they have
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by failuser 6y ago
I hope he was sarcastic.
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by failuser 6y ago
I don’t think there are any questions left.
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by failuser 6y ago
People made non-insignificant amount of money driving around and looking for hailing hand. Maybe not in the US, but that worked in Russia.
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by failuser 6y ago
Are stressed out mice a better model for humans or a worse one?
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by failuser 6y ago
I'd say quatenions are a nicer way to represent rotations, but 4x4 matrix can describe any projective transformation in 3d.
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by failuser 6y ago
They probably skipped classes to build their new app’s prototype. I wouldn’t even say it’s worse, most coder won’t need linear algebra.
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by failuser 6y ago
<sarcasm> How do you know it’s not entirely genetic? </sarcasm> Reading HN would make one think education is irrelevant.
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by failuser 6y ago
«Earth orbits the Sun» is not a very meaningful or scientific statement. «Frame of reference tied to the Sun is closer to an inertial one than the one tied to Earth» is better, but try explaining it to random person on Facebook.
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by failuser 6y ago
It's not too late to start calling Li-ion batteries Goodenough batteries.
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by failuser 6y ago
They’ll never have the bargaining power to do that. No unions, no unique skills, no money. They have either to commute for 5 hours a day, share a room with 20 people or live in an RV.
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by failuser 6y ago
Once you start digging deep enough into problems to make a difference there is not enough hours in the day to be more than a dilettante in a more than a limited set of topics. One does need some general skills, some of those listed above, b
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by failuser 6y ago
At least in Russia law enforcement and organized crime are fully integrated. People join police instead of gangs if the want to get into extortion and racket. When clans clash, you can see rooms full of money in a colonel’s house that would

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