furbyhater

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by furbyhater 4y ago
> it was strictly based on who was paid the most (below the managerial level) The "(below the managerial level)" part is the problem and the reason it is outrageous to people invested in a company but not in a position of power
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by furbyhater 4y ago
I think the ponzi-scheme is the lie of eternal growth with finite resources (real estate included) combined with the "trickle-down" narrative. It's a pyramid scheme in the sense that it will collapse by its sheer weight befor
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by furbyhater 4y ago
The problem is that they are both lobbied / paid for / bribed by the same companies / interest group, which seem to have more long-term commanding power over the evolution of US society than the elected president, so whoever
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by furbyhater 5y ago
The idea of a fork is that it is independent from what it was forked from, you pull what you like and leave aside negative changes, if the license allows this. At least that's the idea. Of course companies with huge manpower such as go
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by furbyhater 6y ago
Usually the students would run their programs on an emulator instead of the original hardware (this also means they don't need to be provided with a GBA each).
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by furbyhater 6y ago
Sublime Text is nice if you care about good engineering and performance.
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by furbyhater 6y ago
"We've disabled old TLS connections and insecure cipher-schemes, so websites which used to work will now display an error" doesn't really sound like an improvement for the user. I'd rather see a warning detailing th
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by furbyhater 6y ago
I don't agree with this: - static responsive add bug: Positive. Users will not get the bad version of Y. On the contrary, it's negative because the maintainers of X will update Y and introduce the bug to their users (I'm assu
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by furbyhater 6y ago
This discussion is about desktop OSes, not mobile.
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by furbyhater 6y ago
It has nothing to do with a lack of capability of the older machine. They just decided it wasn't worth the effort to support the model of wifi chipset present in the older models, effectively killing them off.
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by furbyhater 7y ago
The simple explanation is that poor countries usually have a much younger population than rich countries.
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by furbyhater 7y ago
Sorry to break it to you but we're well past the "scary because it might (theoretically in a far away future) work" phase. Today IP blocks are practised by all or at least most nations, and even western "democratic"
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by furbyhater 7y ago
You're charmingly naive if you think that the Turkish powers that be don't put out an equally staggering amount of propaganda/mass manipulation/willful distraction themselves, in addition to blocking access to the inform
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by furbyhater 7y ago
It's not that simple. Erdogan massively repressed his rivals, such as the parties representing the Kurdish part of the population and their sympathizers (HDP) and the whole Gülen movement, not to mention the young movement protesting i
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Apple doesn’t let AI based avatars app go live(medium.com)
2 points by furbyhater 8y ago|0 comments
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by furbyhater 10y ago
Took me less than one minute for drawing the line: - click on the fountain pen (stroke tool) - make a stroke on the canvas (click once for the origin, once for the end) - under Tool Options, click on "Stroke Path" and choose th
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by furbyhater 12y ago
It's different than most other foreign currencies in the sense that it's variance in value is MUCH higher than your usual currency. I would consider storing my personal fortune in CHF, JPY, USD, or even EUR but never in BTC.